Jazz Articles about Donald Malloy

Chris Massey’s Nue Jazz Project: Vibranium

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 27, 2011

Il Nue Jazz Project diretto dal drummer Chris Massey trova un grande punto di forza nelle tensioni provocate dal versatile pianista Evgeny Lebedev, e rilascia fascino grazie agli intrecci melodici che Donald Malloy alla tromba e Benjamin Drazen al sax alto e soprano sanno produrre in una serie di rincorse e dialoghi fitti come nebbia. Vibranium ben traduce queste peculiarità, in un'incisione fatta di sette passaggi densi e stratificati, dove si può ammirare una band che non bada a risparmiare ...

Donald Malloy: Spirituality

by C. Michael Bailey
July 10, 2009

Jazz's most searing spiritual statement is not John Coltrane's A Love Supreme (1964, Impulse!); it was his recording, “Alabama," released a year earlier on Live at Birdland (1963, Impulse!). Written in the wake of the Ku Klux Klan's bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham on September 15, 1963, “Alabama" was an improvisation on rage, sorrow, and loss in the cotton-humid climes of the pre-Civil Rights Act Deep South.

Nina Simone addressed the church bombing with much different ...