Jazz Articles about Nicole Mitchell

About Nicole Mitchell

Radio & Podcasts

Nicole Mitchell, Lina Allemano, Laubrock / Rainey & Parker / Barket / Irabagon

by Maurice Hogue
September 9, 2024

After a few shows shortened in length, I had to go back to the old three-hour joint to get all of this terrific music happening. Highlights: the Chicago Afrofuturism of Nicole Mitchell meets the Malian kora legend Ballake Sissoko on Bamako Chicago Sound System; multi-instrumentalist William Parker, drummer Andrew Barker and saxophonist Jon Irabagon cook up their own multi-cultural stew on their new Bakunawa, while musical and life partners saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and drummer Tom Rainey present the magical Brink. ...

Live Review

European Jazz Conference 2023

by Ian Patterson
September 26, 2023

European Jazz Conference Palais du Pharo Marseille, France September 14-17, 2023 The smell of the sea and the warm caress of sunshine were like welcoming arms as the southern Mediterranean city of Marseille played host to the 9th edition of the European Jazz Conference. Founded by Greeks in c. 600 BC, Marseille is the oldest city in France and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe. For four days, a record ...

Album Review

Art Ensemble Of Chicago: The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris

Read "The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
July 23, 2023

Having first come to international prominence in Paris at the end of the '60s, it seems fitting for the Rogue Art imprint to celebrate the Art Ensemble Of Chicago's progression into their sixth decade in the same city. This double CD documents the performance of an extended AEC at the Sons d'hiver Festival in February 2019. Only reedman & composer Roscoe Mitchell and drummer Famoudou Don Moye survive from the original quintet but, rather than accept this as a limitation, ...

Liner Notes

Nicole Mitchell and Michel Edelin: The Ethiopian Princess Meets the Tantric Priest

by Howard Mandel
July 3, 2023

Nicole Mitchell and Michel Edelin are two of the most creative flutists in music of any sort today, brilliant improvisers with highly developed sensitivities to sound who share a passion for collaborating in real time. Yet their personal approaches to playing one of the oldest instruments in the world represent two far ends of an esthetic spectrum. “We have exactly the same musical interests and influences," Mitchell has said, “but we come to the music from such different directions!"

Album Review

Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra: Lightning Dreamers

Read "Lightning Dreamers" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
March 4, 2023

The similarities between Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra and Sun Ra's Arkestra are numerous. Both leaders travel the spaceways via the technologies available in their time, applied through dynamic rhythm and pulse. For Ra, his sound began when he was an apprentice in Fletcher Henderson's band in the 1940s, and Mazurek's 1990s work revolved around Isotope 217 and the various Chicago Underground (and later São Paulo Underground) ensembles. Both bandleaders were composers of their time, nonetheless they always create music ...

Radio & Podcasts

New Releases Plus A Celebration Of Grammy winners (A Good Year For Women And For Jazz)

by Mary Foster Conklin
February 27, 2023

This broadcast includes new releases from Eric Hoffman & Ken Hatfield, Hey Rim Jeon, Leap Day Trio and Eric Goletz, plus birthday shoutouts to Jessica Jones, Elsa Nilsson, Carmen Sandim, Nicole Mitchell, Shirley Crabbe and Roberta Flack, with a nod to the Grammy winners (overall a good year for women and Jazz). Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live and online. Purchase their music so they can continue to distract, comfort, provoke and ...

Radio & Podcasts

Nicole Mitchell + Some Johnny Hodges 45s

by David Brown
February 21, 2023

This week, our featured artist will be creative flutist, composer and educator Nicole Mitchell whose music we will explore in a variety of contexts. Our featured recording will be an old 1952 box of 45s titled “Johnny Hodges and his Alto Sax" that I picked up this week plus recent releases from Avram Fefer, Ben Wolf, Kenny Barron and others. Travel the Jazz Continuum! Playlist Thelonious Monk “Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club-Complete (Columbia) 01:00 Nicole ...