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Nicole McCabe, Herbie Nichols, John Hadfield, Layale Chaker & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
They say that three is the perfect number, and so we have decided to go “three-by-three," focusing on three musicians, Nicole McCabe, Herbie Nichols and John Hadfield by featuring three recent tracks associated with each one of them.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Dolphin Hyperspace (Nicole McCabe, Logan Kane feat. Louis Cole) “Baby Parakeet" What Is My Porpoise? (Dox) 0:16 Host talks 3:04 Nicole McCabe “Human Cycles" Mosaic ...
Continue ReadingNicole McCabe: Mosaic
by Chris May
Alto saxophonist Nicole McCabe's Mosaic is produced by guitarist Jeff Parker, among whose other plus points is his relationship with International Anthem (IA), the Chicago-based label which has brought us Makaya McCraven, Jaimie Branch, Irreversible Entanglements and Ruth Goller, among other artists of note. Parker has released two albums on the label and is heard on all three of McCraven's albums for them. It is worth keeping on the radar any musician linked with IA, because since the mid-2010s it ...
Continue ReadingNicole McCabe: Introducing Nicole McCabe
by Paul Rauch
If you were a young and talented jazz musician in Portland, Oregon, you would make yourself highly visible on the local scene to gain invaluable experience playing with the best the city had to offer. In addition to your more formal studies, you would extend your musical outreach from post-bop modernism to the avant-garde. Most importantly, you would constantly be rubbing musical shoulders with the elders who have mentored you to the point of having professional aspirations. This ...
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