Results for "Alex Harding"

Alex Harding

Dark Blue

By Alex Harding

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.

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).

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 ...

Vision Festival 2018

by John Sharpe
June 5, 2018

23rd Annual Vision Festival Roulette New York, NY May 23-28, 2018 Introduction The Vision Festival somewhat surprisingly but reassuringly stands proud as the longest-lived annually produced jazz festival in New York. While the central plank remains what the Festival terms avant jazz, it's interspersed with poetry, dance, art, and ...

Abdullah Ibrahim at the Michigan Theater

by C. Andrew Hovan
April 25, 2018

Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya Michigan Theater A Tribute to the Jazz Epistles Ann Arbor, Michigan April 13, 2018 Back in the fall of 2015, the University Musical Society had the rare opportunity to present the legendary South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim in one of his rare U.S. appearances. So when ...

38th Annual Detroit Jazz Festival

by C. Andrew Hovan
September 15, 2017

38th Annual Detroit Jazz Festival Hart Plaza Detroit, Michigan September 1-4, 2017 Those of us who have been following jazz music for a long time know that there are definite changes in the landscape these days that are having a major impact on the music scene. For starters, we recently have ...