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UDEiGWE: Four Lemmas
by Andrew Hunter
Jazz is a beautifully broad church. Whoever you are, whatever you have to say, you are welcome to say it as long as you bring an open heart and an open mind. So when a math professor chooses to express his thoughts on identity through “an eight track concept suite structured as four lemmas [in math, supporting propositions that prepare the ground for larger ideas], each anchored in a mathematical idea used as a conceptual framework," well, why ...
Continue ReadingJaana Narsipur: The Re-Collection
by Pierre Giroux
There are few things more revealing than the songs we hold close from our formative years. Jaana Narsipur on The Re- Collection opens her musical scrapbook of Brit-pop and adult contemporary staples, reimagining them as living, breathing jazz narratives. The result is an album that feels deeply personal without tipping into self-indulgence. Pianist and music director Nicki Adams has taken Narsipur's intricate arrangements and expanded them into expressive jazz frameworks, leaving ample room for improvisation. Other first-rate ensemble members include ...
Continue ReadingBen Rosenblum: The Longest Way Round
by Jack Bowers
The Longest Way Round, New York City-based pianist, accordionist and composer Ben Rosenblum and his cutting-edge Nebula Project take listeners on a wild and exhilarating ride across musical boundaries, through multiple genres and around customary intersections to a destination that is as fresh and pleasing as it is creative and unique. While contemporary jazz remains the core element, this is music whose broad framework flows beyond the confines of normal depiction to encompass a harmonic and rhythmic panorama ...
Continue ReadingBen Rosenblum: The Longest Way Round
by Jack Bowers
On The Longest Way Round, New York City-based pianist and composer Ben Rosenblum and his cutting-edge Nebula Project take listeners on a wild and exhilarating ride across musical boundaries, through multiple genres and around customary interactions to a destination that is as fresh and pleasing as it is creative and unique. While contemporary jazz remains the core element, this is music whose broad framework flows beyond the confines of normal depiction to encompass a harmonic and rhythmic panorama ...
Continue ReadingMy Favourite Things
Wayne Tucker e il Questionario di Proust
by Paolo Peviani
Il tratto principale della mia musica Una miscela personale di stili, dal classico all'R&B. Inoltre suono una combinazione particolare di strumenti, tromba, violino, tastiera, e canto. La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me Versatilità e capacità di ascoltarsi e darsi a vicenda. Come musicista, il momento in cui sono stato più felice La pubblicazione del mio secondo album Wake Up and See Sun, col quale ho trovato il ...
Continue ReadingMiku Yonezawa, Wayne Tucker, Yumi Ito, Izo FitzRoy & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Welcome to an edition of Mondo Jazz under the sign of groove and high energy feelgood releases.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" Mondo Jazz Theme 0:00 Jakob Manz “Soul Tiger" Groove Connection (ACT) 0:16 Host talks 2:20 Leon Lee Dorsey “Bumpin' on Sunset" Cantaloupe Island (Jazz Avenue) 3:34 Host talks 8:39 Izo FitzRoy “Keep Your Light on Me" A Good Woman (Jalapeno) 9:58 Joel Harrison “One More Day" Joel ...
Continue ReadingBen Rosenblum Nebula Project: A Thousand Pebbles
by Jerome Wilson
Ben Rosenblum's Nebula Project is a group which incorporates sounds from all over the world. Gospel, Brazilian rhythms, European folk dances, and other kinds of music all mix freely with jazz in this exciting and unpredictable set. The horn players, trumpeter Wayne Tucker and reed players Jasper Dutz and Xavier Del Castillo, all do excellent work in realizing the leader's freewheeling concepts. “Bulgares" has Tucker's trumpet and Dutz's bass clarinet darting out in a whirling Bulgarian rhythm over ...
Continue ReadingTrumpeter/Composer Wayne Tucker to release new epic recording “Wake Up and See the Sun” (One Trick Dog Records)
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The new release from trumpeter/composer Wayne Tucker titled Wake Up and See the Sun (One Trick Dog Records – November 3rd, 2017) is the type of recording that is larger-than-life from blank staff paper to the masterful music that makes it to the final recording. Joined by some of the finest musicians in today’s music scene such as Jason Marshall, Sullivan Fortner, Yasushi Nakamura and Cyrille Aimee among others, Wayne Tucker just plain gets it. If you love live music ...
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Albatross
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Implicit Attitude
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Wayne Tucker
Location: New York City
Instrument: Trumpet
