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This is the house that Ornette Coleman built some 60 years ago. Guitarist Dom Minasi and his like-minded colleagues, vocalist Nora McCarthy and saxophonist Ras Moshe, show that the free jazz tradition is very much alive as we approach the third decade of the new millennium. Minasi has for the past 20 years, progressed further into ...
read moreWayne Escoffery & Tenor Traditions
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March 31, 2018
To assist with his investigation into tenor traditions, saxophonist Wayne Escoffery formed a full-thrust front line with Marcus Strickland and George Garzone, surely one of the most vibrant teams possible around current NYC clubland. The quintet was completed by bassist Yasushi ...
When Werner X. Uehlinger, the founder of Hat Hut Records, was asked about a statement on why he liked Argentinian pianist Paula Shocron's music, the answer was clear, short and succinct: The quality of surprise." Uehlinger discovered Shocron's music through her work with the SLD Trio and he liked their debut Anfitrión so much that the ...
read moreOrnette Coleman once said that sound has no parents. But that doesn't mean we can't be its children. On that point, jazz has always been something of a parental force, connecting progenies of representation across geographic and cultural borders. Its relationship to struggle has, however, at times been overshadowed by debate. On the one hand, jazz ...
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“The Red Hook Jazz Festival exists contentedly on the margins, like its namesake neighborhood and much of the music on its
bill…The mood in the audience was neighborly, with a higher ratio of small children to youngish adults than I’ve seen at any
musical event not expressly pitched as a kids’ show.” —Nate Chinen, New York ...
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By John Pietaro
I was heartily saddened by the sudden unexpected phone call: downtown’s unsung hero of Free Jazz, Will Connell, Jr., was hospitalized and non-responsive. Immediately the jazz and new music community rallied and the outpouring of love for Will was apparent. We’d all been preparing for his big moment at the front of the stage, ...
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Continued from Part 2
I began studying the guitar when I was seven years old. I hated my teacher and I didn't practice much, but when I changed teachers' and I went to Joe Geneli, I regained a love for the guitar that I first had when I was four years old when I ...
Ras Moshe is not a name most people are familiar with. If you listen to straight ahead jazz you probably wouldn't know Ras. Now if you go to some of the 'downtown' performances in New York City and Brooklyn you probably have seen him play. I heard him ten years ago playing Tenor Sax at the ...
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On Wednesday, February 26, the many dear friends and associates of the
late Roy Sinclair Campbell Jr. will gather at Roulette through the
efforts of Arts for Art.
The performance begins at 6:45.
A Slide Show featuring The Music of Roy Campbell
6:45PM - 7:00PM
Valerie Morris, Roy Campbell's sister, will recall his remarkable
life.
7:00PM - 7:15PM
An Opening Song and Prayer will be ...
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Italian poet Erika Dagnino runs a transatlantic- bilingual career. In Europe she works with avant-garde and free jazz musicians as Italian violinist stefano Pastor}] and English saxophonist {{George Haslam. In the States she recorded with avant-garde composer and pianist Chris Brown and leads her own New-York based free jazz quartet comprised of reed player Ras Moshe, ...
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