Jazz Articles about Salim Washington

Salim Washington: Harlem Homecoming

by Florence Wetzel
February 23, 2007

Harlem Homecoming is a breath of fresh air, a powerful musical statement that will surely give hope to those who bemoan the future of jazz. These ten original songs were mostly composed by Washington and executed by the formidable Harlem Arts Ensemble; the CD is a heady mix of first-rate musicianship with positive intention and emotional warmth. The ensemble, comprised of fourteen uniformly excellent musicians--including Kuumba Frank Lacy (trombone, flugelhorn), as well as Washington's wife, Melanie Dyer (viola), and their ...

Salim Washington: Harlem Homecoming

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 11, 2007

Nato a Memphis, cresciuto in una famiglia impegnata attivamente nelle celebrazioni musicali della chiesa pentecostale, a proprio agio tanto in orchestre ispirate a Sun Ra che nelle gospel o rhythm & blues band , il sassofonista e compositore Salim Washington riversa in questo secondo lavoro da leader tutte le molteplici influenze che hanno caratterizzate il suo percorso musicale .L' Harlem Arts Ensemble che si ascolta in Harlem Homecoming è una formazione rodata da più di sette anni di ...

Carl Grubbs: Brother Soul

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 29, 2006

Non è un nome notissimo, quello di Carl Grubbs - che forse qualcuno ricorderà nella prima formazione dello straordinario sestetto di Julius Hemphill o le più recenti incisioni con Odean Pope - ma giunto ormai oltre la soglia dei sessant'anni, il sassofonista della Pennsylvania è certamente artista di solida esperienza e buona personalità. In questa incisione per la CIMP, registrata nel giugno del 2005, lo troviamo alla testa di un quartetto “pianoless" in compagnia di Salim Washington - che al ...

Salim Washington Harlem Arts Ensemble: Harlem Homecoming

by Nic Jones
December 25, 2006

Harlem Homecoming is a celebration of what this music ought to be all about. It's also some kind of antidote to all the technically proficient but ultimately clinical modern mainstream stuff, and its uninhibited joyfulness brings a smile to the face and a fire to the heart.

For evidence of this, look no further than the title track. The section work is of the order which would have had Mingus shouting his exhortations, and Melanie Dyer's viola extends the modest ...

Has Katrina Failed to Blow the Wool from over our Eyes? Why I Disagree with the New Jazz Orthodoxy

by AAJ Staff
November 9, 2005

By Salim Washington The recent disaster in the Gulf region is not only historic, but mythical; it provides a window into our political, economic and social life and also our ideas and fantasies about who and how we are. Not surprisingly, in a nation which is infamously self-congratulatory and completely sentimental about its own history, this disaster and its consequent reactions are framed in a narrative that chooses to emphasize individual heroic efforts over systemic racism and ...