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Ali Jackson
Award-winning musician, composer, arranger, educator, and percussionist Ali Jackson developed his talent at an early age. A virtuoso, Ali has contributed significant musical works as a composer and arranger and he holds the distinction of being the first percussionist to perform and create music across the entire spectrum of musical styles. He began playing drums at the age of two and piano by the age of five. As a child growing up in Detroit, Ali found himself immersed in serious study alongside his father, the great jazz bassist Ali Jackson Sr., who gave him an intense introduction to music, taking him on gigs where he began playing professionally at eight years old. Ali’s natural ability and passion for music bloomed and by the age of 11 his aptitude flourished as a result of a steady stream of lessons and mentoring from an all-star lineup of music legends, including Max Roach, Milt Hinton, Dr
Spring Sings
Label: Jazz&People
Released: 2024
Track listing: Spring Sings; 2K Blues; Bass intro to Sheikh Ali; Sheikh Ali; The Best Is Yet To Come; Sanction;
Omeration; How Deep Is The Ocean?; Shufflonzo, Fivin'.
Sean Ono Lennon, Simon Spiess, Debby Wang, Ben Lumsdaine & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
The gorgeous new album by Sean Ono Lennon, Asterisms (Tzadik), opens a set of electro-acoustic otherworldly beauty.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Sean Ono Lennon Acisalia" Asterisms (Tzadik) 0:16 Host talks 7:17 Simon Spiess Quiet Tree Grieving Was Yesterday" Euphorbia (Intakt) 8:44 Host talks ...
Yes! Trio: Spring Sings
by Mike Jurkovic
With over twenty albums as leaders between them and two previous trio recordings including the widely acclaimed Groove Du Jour (jazz&people, 2019) the Yes! Trio--drummer Ali Jackson, bassist Omer Avital, and pianist Aaron Goldberg--light it up bright on Spring Sings!. An old school trio session, Spring Sings! is a jumpy (in a non-anxiety ridden ...
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: The Music of Wayne Shorter
by Chris M. Slawecki
As a saxophonist, founding member of Weather Report and member of Miles Davis' second great acoustic quintet, it won't be hard to find Wayne Shorter's name in the pages of modern jazz history. But the massive The Music of Wayne Shorter highlights a sometimes-overlooked element of Shorter's musicianship: His ability to compose, which has contributed Footprints," ...
Innervisions, Improvisations and Other Jazz Fevers
by Chris M. Slawecki
Lili Añel Better Days Winding Way Records 2019 Singer-songwriter Lili Añel and Better Days sound cut straight out of the northeast US. It's more than the geographic location of Añel's birth (Spanish Harlem, El Barrio," in New York) or raised (South Bronx), and it's more than ...
2020 Winter JazzFest Marathons: A Survival Guide
by Ludovico Granvassu
Believe it or not, it is that time of the year again! The holidaze are barely over and a new edition of Winter JazzFest is upon us. Knowing a jazz marathon is the perfect antidote to the holiday shopping and social marathons, producer Brice Rosenbloom and his cohorts have put together a program of gargantuan proportions. ...
Groove du jour
By Ali Jackson
Label: Jazz&People
Released: 2019
Track listing: Escalier; C'est Clair; Dr. Jackle; I'll Be Seeing You; Muhammad's Market; Claqué; Tokyo Dream; Groove du Jour; Flow; Bed-Stuy.
2019 Detroit Jazz Festival
by C. Andrew Hovan
Detroit Jazz Festival Hart Plaza Detroit, Michigan August 30-September 2, 2019 According to the official count, the 40th edition of the largest free jazz festival in North America drew a record crowd numbering some 325,000. Boasting four stages as part of the festival footprint, there seemed to be a reduction in ...
Jazz Sur Son 31 2018
by Luke Seabright
October 5th marked the start of the 2018 edition of Jazz Sur Son 31 in jny:Toulouse and its neighbouring towns. If jazz is part of Toulouse's DNA, a good reminder of this comes from the legacy of one the city's most popular artists, the singer Claude Nougaro who immortalised his hometown in the ballad O Toulouse." ...