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Composer/Guitarist Joshua Stamper’s Trademark Blur Between Classical-Jazz-Experimental Textures In Latest Album 'Soma Schema'
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AMT Public Relations
Straddling the jazz, classical, and experimental worlds, acclaimed Philadelphia composer/performer Joshua Stamper celebrates his 12th release as a leader: soma schema. Featuring his jazz-adjacent sextet color as time, soma schema is an opus of compositions and audio-collages inspired by Olivier Messiaen’s time-stretching processes, chopped-and-screwed remix techniques, and the harmonic worlds of Bill Evans, Joaquín Rodrigo, and Wayne Shorter. The music is imbued with love for the wild and mysterious “soma” of the physical world and the complex “schema” of higher-order ...
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Nicholas Payton Balances Studio Work As Bandleader, Producer; "Textures," His 5th Album On Paytone Records, Set For Spring Release
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Grammy award-winning Nicholas Payton—one of the era’s definitive artists—has been quite busy this winter blowing with the all-star Monterey Jazz Festival on a nationwide tour, putting the finishing touches on Textures, his fifth release for his very own label, Payton Records, as well as producing and arranging Jane Monheit’s latest project, The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald. As a multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer, bandleader, producer, arranger, and essayist, the New Orleans-born and- bred Payton will debut his Afro-Caribbean Mixtape, a blazing new ...
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Bob Gluck & Aruan Ortiz: "Textures And Pulsations: CD Release Concert
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Robert Gluck
Pianists Bob Gluck and Aruán Ortiz will celebrate the release of “Textures and Pulsations," their new duet recording on Ictus Records at the Booklyn-based Shapeshifter Lab on Thursday, February 7. The 9pm show will feature improvisational works for two pianos, Moog Synthesizer, and digital processing. The duo's improvisations range across genres and musical forms, and feature poignantly etched live electronics, creating a colorful, virtuosic brew of subtly shifting textures, lyrical melodies, and great grooves. Dave Sumner (eMusic “Jazz Picks") writes: ...
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Tina Richerson Trio explores groundbreaking textures on new album
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Lauren Rogers
The outer limits of jazz is where saxophonist Tina Richerson resides, a world in which experimentalism becomes the unifying thread. On the latest album from the Tina Richerson Trio, Up Against the Rail!, traditional jazz is given a slap, flirting with dissonant or uneasy textures. In other words, it actually tosses jazz back into the groundbreaking sonic landscapes that once enabled it to light the world on fire. Up Against the Rail! is a visionary work, one that finds order ...
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Australian Pianist Barney McAll Rhythmic Textures at the Jazz Standard
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Michael Ricci
Rhythmic Textures Woven and Stretched With Passion. The Australian pianist Barney McAll has lived in New York for a dozen years, exploring a crossroads of jazz and funk and scoring music for film and television.
His profile as a bandleader, while still modest, has gradually gathered steam. At the Jazz Standard on Wednesday, he drew a crowd for both sets, making the evening a productive if imperfect showcase for his own contemporary designs.
Mr. McAll was celebrating the ...
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Igor Lumpert & Inner Textures at Ink Well
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All About Jazz
On Thursday, September 11, 2008, from 8-10:30 p.m. PLG Arts presents Igor Lumpert & Inner Textures: Igor Lumpert on tenor saxophone, Jason Palmer on trumpet, Chris Tordini on bass, and Rodney Green on drums as part of the continuing PLG Arts Jazz at the Inkwell series. “There is a quality to his playing and compositions that has absorbed the rich traditions of jazz music in this country but has also added something new and unidentifiable. “ Jane Ira Bloom, Saxophonist/composer/Grammy ...
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