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Jason Moran: From the Dancehall to the Battlefield

Read "From the Dancehall to the Battlefield" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Uscito il primo gennaio 2023 su Bandcamp, questo album di Jason Moran, per il suo concept, per la varietà e la ricchezza, per il modo in cui fonde radici storiche e modernità è probabilmente da considerare il disco dell'anno. Il suggestivo titolo From the Dancehall to the Battlefield sintetizza la storia del mitico musicista a cui è dedicato: James Reese Europe, compositore, arrangiatore e direttore d'orchestra nero, nato a Mobile, in Alabama, nel 1881, e trasferitosi prima a ...

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Jason Moran: Ten

Read "Jason Moran: Ten" reviewed by William Carey


Jason MoranTenBlue Note Records2010

Ten celebrates the ten year life of the Bandwagon, pianist Jason Moran's trio with bassist Tarus Mateen and drummer Nasheet Waits. The piano trio is a mainstay in the jazz tradition, and here the Bandwagon does a characteristically great job of being firmly in that tradition while also blazing a new trail.

“Blue Blocks" starts with a descending motif, planing chords in a gravitational freefall, the hint of ...

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Jason Moran: Ten

Read "Ten" reviewed by David Adler


Pianist Jason Moran offers Ten, to mark a decade with the Bandwagon, his trio with bassist Tarus Mateen and drummer Nasheet Waits, and it's an anniversary worth celebrating. But Ten is also Moran's first release since Artist In Residence (Blue Note, 2006), so it affords him the opportunity to include pieces from long-form commissioned works he's written since then. The loping, gospel-tinged “Blue Blocks" is from a multimedia suite inspired by the quilt makers of Gee's Bend, Alabama. “RFK in ...

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Jason Moran: Same Mother

Read "Same Mother" reviewed by Mark Sabbatini


Jason Moran is among a handful of modern pianists whose work often demands a listen as soon as it's released, since most other players will be trying to imitate it tomorrow. He doesn't quite meet those expectations on Same Mother, an album heavy on blues and soundtrack elements that represents his sixth project as a leader. Partially this is his emphasis on a classic down-home Texas feel, but there's also a sense of a highly tuned engine coasting at a ...

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Jason Moran: Same Mother

Read "Same Mother" reviewed by John Kelman


Contrary to popular opinion, the blues transcends structured musical form. Rather, it is a feeling that imbues, a deep and dark sense of despair that pervades. Regardless of the context, there was always something distinctly blue about the way Miles Davis approached every phrase. Similarly, while his music in no way relates to conventional blues form, Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko's work has a certain melancholy that gives it a distinctly blue feeling. All that just goes to show that, contrary ...

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Jason Moran: Same Mother

Read "Same Mother" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


Jason Moran and his Bandwagon (bassist Tarus Mateen, drummer Nasheet Waits, and newcomer guitarist Marvin Sewell) speak the blues in fine jazz form on their new adventure, Same Mother. The title comes from a comment Moran's wife made in a discussion about tap dancer Savion Glover which states “...that jazz movement and blues movement in dance both came from the same mother."

Though progressive, Moran's playing has always been grounded in the fertile roots of both idioms. Always ripe with ...

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Jason Moran: Same Mother

Read "Same Mother" reviewed by AAJ Staff


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, ...

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Jason Moran, Tarus Mateen and Nasheet Waits in Worcester, MA on November 9th

Jason Moran, Tarus Mateen and Nasheet Waits in Worcester, MA on November 9th

Source: Music Worcester, Inc.

Worcester, MA: Blue Note recording artist and composer Jason Moran will perform in Worcester, MA on Friday, November 9, 2012. Jazz Pianist and Composer Jason Moran was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2010. The Fellowship is a $500,000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more. Learn more at macfound.org/fellows. Jason Moran was named as the Kennedy Center's artistic adviser for jazz in November of 2011, only the second person ...

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Ten

Blue Note Records
2010

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Same Mother

Blue Note Records
2004

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