Results for "Allen Won"

Allen Won

Ho'ihi

By Noel Okimoto

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Cachorra; Up Syndrome; Braying; Karing Karing (for Gabe Baltazar); Patina Ballerina (for the cymbalsmiths); Lethologica; Longest Day; Wayne-ing Days (for Wayne Shorter); Cachorro; Nine and a Half; Under the Bottom; Opuscule for Rowan.

Espirito - A Brazilian Fantasy Steve & Lori Rose Adorno

By Steve Adorno

Label: Onroda MusicWorks
Released: 2025
Track listing: Sad Sad Sister Sister; Sergio’s Samba; Ordinary Scene; Samba Corazon; Positano Love; Never Too Far; So Many Stars; DeJa-Vu; Bossa Boogaloo; Tears On Your Pillow; Starlight Star Bright

Noel Okimoto: Ho'ihi

by Jack Bowers
March 13, 2025

Honolulu-born Noel Okimoto has been playing drums professionally since he was eleven years old. He has learned over the years to supervise the drum kit with equanimity and deference, a standard that Okimoto's octet endorses when approaching the music on his second album as a leader, Ho'ihi (ho-ee-hee), a Hawaiian phrase that translates roughly into “treat ...

Jazz Quanta April – Five Women I: Lina Orfanos, Wendy Pedersen, Joyce Moreno, Letizia Gambi, and Mala Waldron

by C. Michael Bailey
April 2, 2016

April Showers Bring May Flowers and it's raining.... Women singers...yes it is. Lina Orfanos Essentially Ella Babinis Productions 2016 Ella Fitzgerald is HOT, HOT HOT!. And if Jane Monheit's The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald (Emerald City Records, 2016) was just the beginning, then Lina Orfanos' Essentially ...

Take Five With Billy Carrion Jr.

by AAJ Staff
March 6, 2014

Meet Billy Carrion Jr: I've been around music since I was in my mother's womb. My dad-- singer, Billy Carrion Sr. --would play sounds of Batacumbele through headphones over my mom's belly. My first saxophone experience came at nine. After being taught to read and write, I started my musical journey. At 16, I was ...

The Jewel in the Lotus

By Allen Won

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2005
Track listing: Intro-Earth; Water; Fire; Heart; Village; Thoughts; Spirit; Love And Compassion.

Allen Won: The Jewel in the Lotus

by Stephen Latessa
June 28, 2005

A slight headache came on as I started to read the liner notes to The Jewel In The Lotus by Allen Won. In the notes, Won explains that the music is “based on the Tibetan chakra system in which there are set points of 'whirling' energy always in motion within the body. He goes on to ...