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Jean-Paul Bourelly: Black Lives - From Generation to Generation
by Vic Albani
Doppio CD o doppio vinile prodotto in HI-Res e con packaging di lusso dalla Jammin'colorS, agenzia per artisti jazz, world, funk, alternativi, hip-hop, electro e sperimentali nonché etichetta indipendente. Il lavoro che ha pubblicato in tanta pompa magna è un ampio collage di musica nera realizzato da 25 musicisti africani, caraibici e afroamericani guidati dalla visione creativa di Stefany Calembert (compagna del bassista jazz Reggie Washington) e produttrice estemporanea dell'etichetta belga. A tutti è stato chiesto di comporre ...
read moreThe Headhunters: Speakers In The House
by Doug Collette
Herbie Hancock's Headhunters (Columbia, 1973) remains one of the seminal works of the jazz fusion era. The group's heavy emphasis on rhythm not only separated it from its guitar-oriented peers of the era, the Mahavishnu Orchestra and the middle-period Return to Forever, but also from Weather Report: grooves became increasingly more prominent as that band evolved, but never to the depth of Hancock and company's all-encompassing funk. That solid foundation is more than enough distinction for the first ...
read moreThe Headhunters: Speakers In The House
by Chris May
Although it appears to have been self-released in limited numbers in 2019, this Ropeadope release of Speakers In The House is effectively the Headhunters's first album since Platinum (Owl) in 2011. The band continues to be led and produced by its two Herbie Hancock-era members, percussionist Bill Summers and drummer Mike Clark, who together have kept the outfit intermittently active since Hancock moved on to other things in the mid 1970s. Summers played on the band's debut, ...
read moreVarious Artists: Black Lives - From Generation to Generation
by Glenn Astarita
Indeed, African Americans are the architects of several musical formations, hearkening back to Scott Joplin's development of 'ragged' rhythms i.e., Ragtime, along with blues, funk, jazz, and other genres, often evolving into various tangents and offshoots. And on this comprehensively entertaining set produced by Belgian Stefany Calembert with assistance from her husband and acclaimed bassist Reggie Washington, they righteously bestow Black Music as a “source of moral truth and potent weapon against racism." Numerous stars such as saxophonist ...
read moreJacques Schwarz-Bart: Sone Ka-la 2: Odyssey
by Dan McClenaghan
The French-Jewish-Guadeloupean saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart--a background and name like that has world music written all over it--presented his Sone Ka-La (Emarcy) in 2007, after stints with D'Angelo's Voodoo touring band, Roy Hargrove's Crisol and Rh Factor, Erykah Badu, Meshell Ndegeocello, all influences that helped him craft a hybridization of Afro-Caribbean rhythms and melodies inspired by Gwoka traditions of his native island of Guadeloupe. Gwoka is a music born on the western Atlantic Island in response, in part, to the miseries ...
read moreReggie Washington: Freedom
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'ascolto di Freedom è un viaggio in quella galassia musicale dai contorni sfumati che ha come nocciolo duro il cosiddetto funky jazz, se volessimo a tutti i costi appiccicare un etichetta, ma che grazie alla personalità, alla caratura, alla fantasia dei musicisti coinvolti si apre a contaminazioni e risvolti stilistici ben più articolati. I protagonisti rispondono al nome di Reggie Washington, bassista dal prestigioso passato e dal fulgido presente, Jeff Lee Johnson, chitarra appassionata, intrisa di blues e di rock, ...
read moreReggie Washington: A Lot of Love, Live! (My Trios)
by AAJ Italy Staff
A Lot of Love, Live! testimonia due differenti esibizioni live in quel di Bruxelles di due inediti trii del bassista Reggie Washington. Nella registrazione del marzo 2006 troviamo il 'trio americano' con Ravi Coltrane al sax tenore e Gene Lake alla batteria, in quella datata ottobre 2005 sono invece gli europei Erwin Vann e Stephane Galland ad affiancare l’eclettico bassista già membro di formazioni blasonate quali i Five Elements di Steve Coleman ed il quartetto di Oliver Lake Ad un ...
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