Jazz Articles about Tarus Mateen

Jason Moran: Same Mother

by AAJ Staff
February 2, 2005

Jazz and blues have the same mother. They were the first recorded music styles that allowed black people to fully express themselves. And therein lies the heart of Jason Moran's latest album. Same Mother is a re-examination of the blues, not so much of its formal or harmonic elements, but rather its emotional and aesthetic constituents. Moran, a Texan, says that this album represents “a really slow, deliberate, emotionally direct approach to things," a Texas approach.For Same Mother, ...

Jason Moran: Same Mother

by Jim Santella
January 25, 2005

Based on a film score that he wrote, Jason Moran introduces blues from the Deep South on Same Mother. The film, Five Short Breaths, depicts the raw outlook of life in a Mississippi prison during the 1940s. Thus, with his sixth Blue Note release, he's able to prove to the world once and for all that jazz and blues came “from the same mother."

The addition of guitarist Marvin Sewell to his stellar trio gives Moran's ensemble a ...