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Kinan Azmeh: Live in Berlin

Read "Live in Berlin" reviewed by Frank Housh


Clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh occupies a unique space in the musical world. He is grew up with Western classical music and trained at the Higher Institute of Music in Damascus as well as Juilliard, where he began his studies one week before the 9/11 attacks. His expansive and eclectic body of work includes compositions for orchestra, chamber music, opera, theater, dance, film, and most recently, scoring 30 episodes of the Syrian-Lebanese TV series, “Nazret Hob" ("Look of ...

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Josh Myers: Walls Red

Read "Walls Red" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


The debut recording, Walls Red, by Brooklyn bassist Josh Myers, affirms that while modern jazz covers a wide spectrum of influences, it's always a positive when young artists develop their own ideas. Like many striving in this challenging and diverse music environment, Myers' playing is panoptic: dabbling in nearly a dozen projects--mainstream, experimental and even Klezmer-rock, as well as regular gigs with notables such as drummer Gerald Cleaver. These influences become irrelevant because the recording resonates with Myers' ...


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