Results for "Alex Harding"

Ugqozi

Label: Eastlawn Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: You Ain’t Gonna Know Me ‘Cos; Ithemba; Part Of A Whole; Lwandle’s Lullaby; Water No Get Enemy; Pata Pata; Jabulani Easter Joy.

The Paxton / Spangler Septet: Ugqozi

by Chris May
June 17, 2022

Ugqozi is a celebration of modern, urban African music, especially that from South Africa, with which co-leaders trombonist John “Tbone" Paxton and percussionist RJ Spangler have been in love for decades. It is also an affirmation of the vibrant Detroit scene of which the multi-generational Paxton / Spangler Septet is a part. Actually, ...

Alex Harding, Lucian Ban: Dark Blue

by Neri Pollastri
September 22, 2020

Duo estremamente longevo questo tra il pianista di origini rumene Lucian Ban e il sassofonista di Detroit Alex Harding, questo Dark Blue è il loro quarto album, ma esce a undici anni dal precedente. E la loro intesa è tangibile lungo tutto l'arco del programma, che include solo brani originali (sei di Harding e cinque di ...

Alex Harding

Be Known Ancient​/​Future​/​Music

By Ethnic Heritage Ensemble

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: N2 Deep (for Randy Weston, Jerry Gonzalez, Cecil Taylor); Freedom Jazz Dance; Little Sunflower (for Roy Hargrove); Be Known; Black is Back; Blew It (for Hamiet Bluiett); Wish I Knew (from the film 'Be Known'); Pharoah; Lost in myself (Live at the Loving Cup); Ntozake (for Ntozake Shange); Little Sunflower / Percussion (for Freddie Hubbard); Oof (Live at the Loving Cup).

Dark Blue

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Dark Blue; Tough Love; Chakra; Black Sea; Monkey See; Not That Kind of Blues; Esto; H.B; Lowcountry Blue; The Invisible Man; Hymn.

Vanessa Rubin: The Dream Is You: Vanessa Rubin Sings Tadd Dameron

by Jerome Wilson
May 13, 2019

Tadd Dameron is regarded as the great romantic of bebop-era jazz composers, a writer with a talent for creating smooth, memorable melodies that could evoke real emotion. Most of his works are known mainly as instrumentals but Vanessa Rubin has compiled lyrics written for some of his tunes, had new lyrics written for others and even ...

Alex Harding - Lucian Ban: Dark Blue

by Glenn Astarita
May 10, 2019

Lucian Ban (piano) and Alex Harding (woodwinds) have performed and recorded together for 20-years besides their prominent activities within global progressive jazz and improvisational circles. The universal language of jazz is conveyed here as Detroit-reared Harding and the Romanian born pianist gel to a variety of tempos amid solstice, reflective sentiment, off-centered blues balladry and bouncy ...

Poetry and Jazz: A Chronology

by Duncan Heining
October 14, 2018

My intention here is to offer a detailed but inevitably incomplete chronology of poetry and jazz. The focus is solely on the combination of the two art forms in performance, not on poetry about jazz or jazz musicians or poetry inspired by jazz but not performed to music. My definition of 'poetry' is fairly broad and ...

Detroit Jazz Festival 2018

by C. Andrew Hovan
September 19, 2018

Detroit Jazz Festival Downtown Detroit Detroit, Michigan August 31-September 3, 2018 Over the course of its 39 year history, the largest free jazz festival in North America has seen its shares of up and downs. It once swelled to a five-day event starting on the Thursday evening before Labor Day and ...