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Shabaka, Satoko Fujii, John Nau and Catherine Sikora
by Hobart Taylor
New music from Shabaka, Satoko Fujii, John Patitucci as well as a meditation from soprano saxophonist Catherine Sikora. For jazz adjacent music we feature composers Julia Wolfe and Joseph Daley. Playlist Satoko Fujii Natsuki Tamura Ramon Lopez" Yama Kawa Umi" from Yama Kawa Umi (Not Two) 0:00 Sun Ra" Lights on a Satellite" from Lights On A Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (Resonance) 6:44 Host Speaks 11:31 Julia Wolfe “Dig Deep" from The String Quartets (Cantaloupe) 12:40 ...
Continue ReadingShabaka Hutchings: Musical Force of Nature
by Kristine England
Much of the creativity being showcased in the jazz world is happening in the UK, and at the center of that musical community is multi-instrumentalist Shabaka Hutchings. Born in London, he spent most of his childhood in his parents' native Barbados. The diversity of the people and cultures of those two locales helped shaped his musical identity. Picking up a clarinet at the age of nine, Hutchings would play along to his favorite hip-hop artists, including the Notorious ...
Continue ReadingMilton Nascimento / Esperanza Spalding: Milton + esperanza
by Chris May
Sometimes the semiology around an album can tell you more about it than any amount of words attempting to describe the music itself. And the semiology around Milton + esperanza is eloquent. It begins with the overlap with another summer 2024 release, Wayne Shorter's magical double-album Celebration Volume 1 (Blue Note), a previously unreleased recording of Shorter's Quartet in concert in 2014, with liner notes written by Shorter's wife Carolina. Now consider the overlap. Wayne Shorter recorded with ...
Continue ReadingNew Releases From Shabaka, Benji Kaplan, Brenda Earle Stokes, Jason Robinson And More
by Bob Osborne
On this show we feature all new releases from Shabaka, Benji Kaplan, Brenda Earle Stokes, Jason Robinson, Tania Giannouli, Irina Zubareva, John Kameel Farah & Nick Fraser, OVK3, Behn Gillece, Ivo Perelman & Tom Rainey, Matthew McDonald, The Claudio Scolari Project, The New Orleans Klezmer All Stars, Peter Daniel, Voodoo Drummer, and, Kojiro Umezaki & Hub New Music. Playlist Intro Theme 00:00 Shabaka “I'll Do Whatever You Want" from Perceive its Beauty, Acknowledge its Grace (impulse! Records) 00:25 ...
Continue ReadingShabaka Hutchings At Barbican Hall
by Chris May
Shabaka Hutchings Barbican HallPerceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its GraceLondon May 9, 2024 Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes ... London's Shabaka Hutchings has become best known for his incendiary open-the-gates work on tenor saxophone with Sons Of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming and the South African-based Shabaka & The Ancestors. But his April 2024 album, Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!), performed for the first time at the Barbican, marks the start of a ...
Continue ReadingShabaka Hutchings: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
by Chris May
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes ... Since signing with with Impulse! in 2018, Shabaka Hutchings has become best known for his incendiary work on tenor saxophone with Sons Of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming and Shabaka & The Ancestors. Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace marks the start of a gentler, more instrospective phase in his music making. The trigger came during the pandemic, when Hutchings fell in love with the Japanese shakuhachi flute. The quietly spoken instrument first edged itself ...
Continue ReadingShabaka: This Is The Moment To Make Patient Music
by Leo Sidran
Shabaka Hutchings grew up between the UK and Barbados. He started playing clarinet as a young boy in Barbados and eventually moved back to England to go to music school in the early 2000s.After college he began a period of working furiously on a kaleidoscopic range of projects and became an icon of the new sound of London jazz, which integrated African rhythms and modes, Caribbean and Middle eastern sounds and was largely danceable.Shabaka himself has ...
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