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Damien Kingston

Damien Kingston is a jazz guitarist currently based in Hobart, Tasmania. Damien completed a Masters of Music at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2013, studying under Jesse van Ruller and Maarten van der Grinten. This was preceded by undergraduate studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and the University of Tasmania. He is currently teaching at the University of Tasmania.

Alice Coltrane, Kaze, Michael Attias & The Fully Celebrated Orchestra

by Maurice Hogue
March 26, 2024

Did you know 2024 has been designated as the Year Of Alice? Impulse Records and the John and Alice Coltrane Home are celebrating Alice this year through special events and new releases. The first album to appear is Alice Coltrane--The Carnegie Hall Concert with all unreleased tracks from a terrific band. This concert in 1971 was ...

Nick Fraser Quintet, Paula Shocron & Jörg Schippa

by Maurice Hogue
October 6, 2021

Toronto's noted drummer, Nick Fraser, kindly shared a preview track from If There Were No Opposites back in June as part of the 1200th show, and now the full album is ready to go, released by the much-respected Hat Hut label. Nick's got his usual crew of Tony Malaby, Rob Clutton and Andrew Downing, and the ...

Mankwe Ndosi, Marc Johnson & Damien Kingston

by Maurice Hogue
September 22, 2021

Mankwe Ndosi is not a singer (more like a true vocal artist!!!) that was familiar to me, but she certainly is now. Her recording Felt/Not Said is strikingly different. She's from Minneapolis, not that far from Chicago, the home of the AACM, and that's where Ndosi set out to incorporate AACM influences to her African roots ...

Tributary

By Damien Kingston

Label: Scratch Match Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Iron Pot; Lowercase; Three by Four; Shells; Tributary; Otago; Oyster Catchers.

Jaimie Branch, Nick Dunston, Malleus Trio, Quartet Next and More

by Maurice Hogue
October 16, 2019

Trumpeter Jaimie Branch brings her 'tude and much-praised talent to her follow-up recording to Fly or Die in Fly Or Die II--Bird Dog of Paradise. Her music is even more incendiary as she turns her attention to the current state of political and social unrest in America. Also making debuts this week are the Malleus Trio ...

Harris Eisenstadt, Whit Dickey, Gard Nilssen and More

by Maurice Hogue
August 28, 2019

A very eclectic show this time out: drummers are front and center: Joao Lencastre, Whit Dickey, Gard Nilssen, Harris Eisenstadt, Kahil El'Zabar from the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble and Germany's Max Andrzejewski. The latter and his band Hütte are tackling the music of rocker/composer Robert Wyatt. If that isn't off the wall, how about a combination of ...

Yellow Lights

By Damien Kingston

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Track listing: Periphery; Novus; Enter/Exit; Semidetached; Yellow Lights; Long Way Down; Dust.