Results for "Edwin Bayard"

Edwin Bayard

Understanding Reimagined

By James Gaiters

Label: Self-Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Ding Ding; Soul Man; Alfie's Theme; Chitlins Con Carne; Understanding; Congo Chant

Freedom Suite

Label: CFG Multimedia
Released: 2022
Track listing: Movement I; Movement II; Movement III; Interlude; Movement IV.

Trio Plays Mingus

By Dr. Mark Lomax, II

Label: CFG Multimedia
Released: 2022
Track listing: Better Get Hit In Your Soul; Eclipse; Black Bats and Poles; Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; Nostalgia In Times Square.

Four Brothers

By Tony Monaco

Label: Chicken Coup Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Four Brothers; You Can Count on Me; Mas Que Nada; Jan Jan; One For Everyone; Lush Life; Brothers-4; My Shining Hour; Four Brothers Too.

Mark Lomax, II and Edwin Bayard - Ogún Meji Duo: Freedom Suite

by Karl Ackermann
October 19, 2022

More than half a century after Sonny Rollins' civil rights statement Freedom Suite (Riverside, 1958), we have not advanced enough as a species to lay such sentiments to rest. The Ogún Meji Duo—drummer Mark Lomax, II and saxophonist Edwin Bayard—honor Rollins and the suite, with a new and different interpretation of his seminal work. This is ...

Bayard, Hulett, Lomax: Trio Plays Mingus

by Karl Ackermann
May 27, 2022

In the year that would have been Charles Mingus' one-hundredth birthday, there is no shortage of reissues, tribute albums, and previously unreleased sessions such as The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott's (Resonance Records, 2022). But for drummer & composer Mark Lomax, the musical legacy of Mingus has special meaning. His Trio Plays Mingus gives new life ...

#BLACKLIVESMATTER

Label: CFG Multimedia
Released: 2020
Track listing: Part 1: Amerikkka; Part 2: Stop Singin' and Start Swingin’; “Part 3: Black, Beautiful and Powerful.

Karl Ackermann’s Best Releases of 2020

by Karl Ackermann
December 9, 2020

2020 abridged: A staggering loss of lives and livelihoods. We had worldwide social unrest, wildfires, locust swarms of Biblical proportions, killer hornets, killer drones, kids in cages; an impeachment, an election, an attempted insurrection. Oh, and Poland accidentally invaded the Czech Republic. It was not exactly the Gilded Age. Yet, amid doom-scrolling, the creative music community ...

Mark Lomax Trio: Isis and Osiris

by Dave Wayne
April 11, 2015

Record collectors and DJs are fond of the term “spiritual jazz." Like most colloquialisms, its meaning is nebulous and vague; more emotional than factual, more indicative of a feeling that the music projects, as opposed to a distinct lineage or coterie of musicians. For many, the term refers to jazz that incorporates African and Middle Eastern ...