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WeFreeStrings: Love In The Form Of Sacred Outrage

Read "Love In The Form Of Sacred Outrage" reviewed by Mark Corroto


History does repeat itself, violist Melanie Dyer draws from the same well of inspiration as Max Roach's We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (Candid, 1961). Maybe better put, history reveals Martin Luther King's arc of the moral universe has only bent a few degrees in the past sixty years. With Love In The Form Of Sacred Outrage, the ensemble WeFreeStrings follows up their debut Fulfillment (self released, 2018). Dyer, a classically trained violist, found inspiration in the music ...

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Sirone's Last American Recording: Oluyemi Thomas, Sirone and Michael Wimberly's "Beneath Tones Floor"

Sirone's Last American Recording: Oluyemi Thomas, Sirone and Michael Wimberly's "Beneath Tones Floor"

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards

Bassist Sirone's recent passing was a sad event. He has been a mainstay of avant bass playing in the free jazz field since he first came to notice in the '60s. Beneath Tones Floor (No Business CD 20) finds him in good form and in excellent company on what is believed to be his last recording in the USA. It's a fully three-way trio session with the loquacious Oluyemi Thomas on bass clarinet, soprano, musette, etc., and Michael Wimberly on ...

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Oluyemi Thomas, Sirone and Michael Wimberly - Beneath Tones Floor (No Business, 2010)

Oluyemi Thomas, Sirone and Michael Wimberly - Beneath Tones Floor (No Business, 2010)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland

Combining the beauty of art, poetry and music this beautiful package (available as compact disc or LP) makes for a fitting send off for the great bassist Sirone who passed away not long after this recording was completed. Along with Sirone's deep and resonant bass, the musicians in this collective performance include Oluyemi Thomas on bass clarinet, flute, soprano, musette and percussion (he also composed the music) and Michael Wimberly on drums and percussion. Like the meditative poem that is ...

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Film Screening and Performance by Reggie Workman, James Spaulding, Roy Campbell, Michael Wimberly +special Guests at the Schomburg Center

Film Screening and Performance by Reggie Workman, James Spaulding, Roy Campbell, Michael Wimberly +special Guests at the Schomburg Center

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

A Special Evening at the Schomburg Center in Harlem: “REVOLUTION: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible, What It's All About" A Film of a Talk by Bob Avakian Film Screening and Performances by Reggie Workman, James Spaulding, Roy Campbell, Michael Wimberly + Def poet Staceyann Chin and comic Aladdin. June 12, Tuesday, 7-9:30pm Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard & 135th St., Harlem Tickets $15 at www.revolutionbooksnyc.org or call 212-691-3345 Chuck D, Herb Boyd (Amsterdam ...

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