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Jazz Bridge Presents Sumi Tonooka at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Media (PA) on March 16
For the last piano concert of this season, Jazz Bridge presents award-winning jazz artist Sumi Tonooka in a rare piano concert in the Philadelphia area at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 145 W. Rose Tree Road in Media, PA, on March 16, 2011. With her will be bassist Mike Boone and drummer Alan Nelson. Initiation, her most ...
Kit Downes Trio: Quiet Tiger
by Chris May
When it's time to follow up an album nominated for a major, mainstream award such as Britain's Mercury Prize, jazz artists face a conundrum. Having enjoyed a year or so of unprecedented publicity, and keen to keep it coming, the choice is between a carbon copy of the nominated album, designed to maintain the lucrative, but ...
Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya: Sotho Blue
by Dan McClenaghan
The pianist's name was Dollar Brand. He came out of a nascent South African jazz scene in 1959 with The Jazz Epistles, a group that included trumpeter Hugh Masekela. Though his profile has never reached Masekela-like heights--the trumpeter's fame shot sky high with a huge number one pop chart hit in 1968, “Grazin' in the Grass"--Dollar ...
Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya
by AAJ Italy Staff
Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni - Milano - 30.01.2011 E' sempre un piacere ascoltare la musica di Abdullah Ibrahim. Il suo jazz così gioioso e solare. Semplice, verrebbe da dire. Non fosse che questo termine viene spesso frainteso, e scambiato per banalità. Ma la semplicità della musica del pianista sudafricano non ammette fraintendimenti. E' delicatezza, pura ...
Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya: Sotho Blue
by Ian Patterson
Pianist Abdullah Ibrahim's Ekaya is more an expression of the South African's musical philosophy than a fixed combo; musicians have come and gone and his collaborators have changed completely since its inception in 1983. Ekaya is not about personalities, but about music born of South Africa and the Afro-American experience. Speaking of Ekaya, Ibrahim states, “Its ...
Winter Jazzfest, New York City, Day 1: January 7, 2011
by Gordon Marshall
Day 1 | Day 2 Winter JazzfestNew York, NYJanuary 7-8, 2011 What with the snow, the lines, the standing-room-only crowds, New York City's Winter Jazzfest can be a hectic, hectoring hell of force-feeding, a speed-read tasting menu of mad musical difference, as hard to digest in the instant ...
Bombella
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: 01. Green Kalahari; 02. Song 3or Sathima; 03. Mandela; 04. District Six (Trance Circle Dance); 05. Bombella;
07. Meditation / Joan Capetown Flower (Emerald Bay); 08. I Mean You / For Monk; 09. For Lawrence Brown
(Remembrance);
10. Excursions (Masters and Muses); 11. African River.
Javier Vercher: Wish You Were Here
by Enrique Turpin
Poco importa que Javier Vercher sea madrileño de nacimiento y valenciano de adopción. Defender un origen geográfico sólo tiene sentido si se está dispuesto a morir por él, y no creo que sea el caso del saxofonista, que bien pronto entendió que las fronteras que cabe preservar con la firmeza de las pasiones tienen que ver ...
Randy Weston: African Stories, African Rhythms
by Ian Patterson
In over 60 years as a leader, pianist Randy Weston has achieved an incredible amount. He has recorded nearly 50 albums and has been hailed in the process as the natural heir to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. Three times he has been voted Downbeat's composer of the year, and his compositions have been recorded by ...
Footprints: When You Dream
by Karl Ackermann
Saxophonist Joshua Kwassman and trumpeter Christoph Siegrist front this maiden effort from Footprints, a New York-based quintet that surpasses freshman potential and arrives entirely shaped in its own unique style. The sophistication of the compositions, and the maturity and innovation in the playing, all belie the fact that these are very young players. The two leaders ...
