Jazz Articles about Nicole Mitchell

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Nicole Mitchell's Sonic Projections: Emerald Hills

by John Sharpe
November 22, 2010

In some ways Chicago-based flautist Nicole Mitchell's Emerald Hills resembles an old style AACM record: there's an adventurous spirit, a diversity of approaches, and chops to burn. More recent reference points include Mitchell's own Xenogenesis Suite (Firehouse 12, 2008) but (largely) without the challenging vocals. Joining Mitchell in the quartet she calls Sonic Projections, are long time associate David Boykins on tenor saxophone, Craig Taborn on piano and Chad Taylor behind the traps. A lot of detail is ...

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Nicole Mitchell's Sonic Projections: Emerald Hills

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 22, 2010

Oltre a essere un documento insostituibile e una fondamentale fonte di riflessione sul jazz creativo a Chicago e sulla musica sperimentale afroamericana degli ultimi quarantacinque anni, il libro del trombonista George Lewis A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music ha anche il merito, sebbene indiretto, di avere ispirato alla flautista Nicole Mitchell - che del nuovo corso dell'AACM è presidente - la formazione di questo quartetto chiamato Sonic Projections. Con la Mitchell ci sono il pianista ...

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Nicole Mitchell: Renegades, Anaya, Collective Creativity

by Jeff Stockton
January 16, 2010

Nicple Mitchell's Black Earth Strings Renegades Delmark 2009 Indigo Trio Anaya Rogue Art 2009 Chicago Jazz Philharmonic Collective Creativity 3 Sixteen Records 2009

To call Nicole Mitchell the preeminent jazz flutist working in jazz today would be too limiting. Amid the ...

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Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings: Renegades

by Nic Jones
July 22, 2009

Here's where Nicole Mitchell's art comes together. Whereas her previous releases could have been marked by the perhaps inevitable signs of individuality coming into being, here the overall coherence of the music is extraordinary, aided in no small part by her choice of cohorts and their evidently strong commitment to group identity and singular music possessed of infinite variety and shades. In short, both Mitchell and the Black Earth Strings have come of age.

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Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings: Renegades

by John Barron
July 4, 2009

Flutist Nicole Mitchell has been earning much deserved praise as of late for her various Chicago-based projects. Mitchell was voted Jazz Flutist of the Year in 2008 by the Jazz Journalist Association and in 2006 the Chicago Tribune named her Chicagoan of the Year. On Renegades, Mitchell's second release for Delmark Records, the Co-President of the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) takes the listener on a fun, unpredictable ride with her boisterous Black Earth Strings ...

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Nicole Mitchell Indigo Trio: Anaya

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 8, 2009

La spiritualità nella musica è spesso fraintesa, talvolta abilmente celata dietro forme e confezioni consolidate, altre volte dichiarata prima ancora che praticata, chiaramente sofferente dello scollamento da un lessico funzionale condiviso: accade così - tanto per fare un esempio - che per alcuni Jan Garbarek con l'Hilliard Ensemble sia il massimo del misticismo, per altri una palla micidiale, così come ai tanti che vedono nelle pagine di Don Cherry un abbraccio di ecumenica energia spirituale si contrappongono quanti lo ritengono ...

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Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings: Renegades

by Troy Collins
May 30, 2009

Chicago-based flutist, composer and bandleader Nicole Mitchell has presented her impressive skills in a wide range of contexts, from the intimate Indigo Trio with bassist Harrison Bankhead and drummer Hamid Drake to her flagship band, the Black Earth Ensemble. The later has demonstrated a remarkable ability to move from the eclectic modern jazz of Black Unstoppable (Delmark, 2007), to the harrowing futurism of Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute to Octavia Butler (Firehouse 12, 2008). She has also contributed her enviable talents ...