Jazz Articles about Roy Campbell

Roy Campbell: Songs & Themes & Akhenaten Suite

by Marc Medwin
June 8, 2008

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Trumpeter Roy Campbell is presented here in two starkly different contexts yet his playing greatly enhances both. His work on Spring Heel Jack's Songs & Themes is meditatively translucent, subtle timbral shifts placing each note ...

Roy Campbell: Akhenaten Suite

by Lyn Horton
May 9, 2008

Any relationship to ethnicity or artistry that an individual advocates predisposes how that individual might be viewed from the outside, yet strength of self-perception cancels out the superficiality of any invisibly barbed labeling. Music becomes a means to translate self-perception into a language which not only transcends social divides but also can relate the story of origin.

For the 2007 Vision Festival, trumpeter Roy Campbell was commissioned to write “Akhenaten Suite," in which he paid tribute to his heritage using ...

Roy Campbell: Akhenaten Suite

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 21, 2008

Esercizi di egittologia sonora militante. Impossibile seguire l'astronave di Sun Ra fino alle mitiche fonti del Nilo, lassù nelle galassie, ma non c'è dubbio che Roy Campbell, da anni alla testa del Pyramid Trio, sia tra i musicisti più accreditati a rendere omaggio alla fascinazione di quella antica civiltà. Commissionata da Arts for Art e registrata al Vision Festival del 2007, questa Akhenaten Suite vede il trombettista newyorkese affiancato dal violino di Billy Bang, dal vibrafono di Brian Carrott, dal ...

Roy Campbell: Akhenaten Suite

by John Sharpe
March 5, 2008

"You might say jazz came from the sun priests of Egypt opined Sun Ra, and while trumpeter Roy Campbell might not be so forthright, he has long been inspired by the nation alongside the Nile. One of Campbell's most enduring ensembles is the Pyramid Trio. In some ways this suite follows the trajectory delineated by that combo, with a swinging world music lilt allied to taut free-bop and incisive outside elements. Not that there is anything daunting about this well ...

Roy Campbell: Akhenaten Suite

by Mark Corroto
March 4, 2008

Trumpeter Roy Campbell's music has always traveled the globe and been inspired by world music, be it Afro-Cuban, Asian, Jamaican, West African, the blues or free music. But while he plays with these various influences, Campbell is always firmly planted in the jazz tradition. For Akhenaten Suite, he travels not only the world but back in time. Dedicated to the Egyptian pharoah of the 18th dynasty--husband of Nefertiti, and perhaps father of Tutankhamun--the music was written in the fashion of ...

Whit Dickey: Sacred Ground

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 12, 2007

Negli ultimi anni il batterista Whit Dickey sta lavorando proficuamente con lo stesso nucleo di musicisti: in particolare il sodalizio con Joe Morris, al contrabbasso, ma anche all'occorrenza alla chitarra come nel precedente In A Heartbeat è costruito su un concetto di tempo in cui le fratture segnano le criticità degli accenti. Ma anche la front-line, con Roy Campbell alla tromba e Rob Brown al contralto, è da urlo e si nutre del continuo scambio dialettico tra due concezioni solistiche ...

Roy Campbell 101: From Where He Came

by Jason Byrne - Red Cat Publicity
June 10, 2005

We're just about midway through 2005 and NYC-based trumpeter Roy Campbell has already toured Europe with The Nu Band; performed at the Tel Aviv Jazz Festival with his Pyramid Trio, featuring his musical brother, bassist William Parker; and toured Europe yet again with guitarist Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity Band. Plus, he's played a host of gigs on his own turf and has presented jazz workshops for elementary school students with his group Tazz. “Tazz is Roy's nickname, bestowed upon him ...