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Dance Music
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: The Renewal; Mysterious Ways; Dance Music; A Smile Awaits; Asking Answers; The House of the Brotherhood of the Black Heads; The Holy Innocent; A Beautiful Life; Truth; Depende.
Jim Ridl: Blue Corn Enchilada Dreams
by Victor L. Schermer
Jim Ridl Blue Corn Enchilada Dreams Jim Ridl Records2011Jim Ridl is one of our most creative and versatile jazz pianists, an acknowledged master often called upon by his peers for their recordings and live performances. Whether he works along with saxophonists Dave Liebman and Charles Pillow, or flugelhornist ...
Anthony Branker & Ascent: Dance Music
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dieci brani arrangiati da Anthony Branker compongono la scaletta dell'ottimo Dance Music, album che già dal titolo lascia intendere ciò che si andrà ad ascoltare, anche se la musica che contiene non è proprio tutta da ballare, anzi. Ma andiamo con ordine, mettendo subito l'asterisco vicino al nome della vocalist Kadri Voorand, la quale, con il ...
Ascent
Album: Blessings
By Anthony Branker
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2009
Duration: 6:40
The House of the Brotherhood of the Black Heads
Album: Dance Music
By Anthony Branker
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2011
Duration: 7:41
Anthony Branker: Jazz Dialogics
by Victor L. Schermer
Anthony Branker is a musician for all seasons. He began his career as a trumpeter, including a stint with the Spirit of Life Ensemble, which honored its African-American and Afro-Caribbean roots during a multi-year tenure as the Monday night band at the legendary Sweet Basil club in New York City. Over time, Branker developed an increasing ...
Anthony Branker & Word Play: Princeton, NJ, April 3, 2011
by Victor L. Schermer
Anthony Branker & Word PlayPaul Robeson Center for the ArtsSolley AuditoriumPrinceton, NJApril 3, 2011 Trumpeter Anthony Branker's Princeton, New Jersey concert--sponsored by The Princeton Council for the Arts, funded by Wachovia-Wells Fargo Bank, Bloomberg and other sources--was a musical gem set on the laconic, early spring day of ...
Anthony Branker and Ascent, "Dance Music" a Treat for the Ears
Anthony Branker's ensemble Ascent serves as a vehicle for his jazz writing and arranging. At the time of his new recording Dance Music (Origin 82579) it consisted of seven instrumentalist and a vocalist. What they do is modern jazz that has roots in the music McCoy Tyner and related players were doing in the early '70s, ...
Anthony Branker & Ascent: Dance Music
by Karl Ackermann
Anthony Branker continues to experiment with the standards of large group musical tradition on Dance Music. Leading a revised version of his Ascent ensemble, the composer/musical director takes a different approach than the Latin influences on Blessings (Origin Records, 2009). Only on the last of ten tracks, “Depende," is there a composition in that vein, but ...
Anthony Branker & Ascent: Dance Music
by Edward Blanco
Dr. Anthony Branker holds an endowed jazz chair, and is currently director of the Program in Jazz Studies at Princeton University. A composer and musical director, Branker established the jazz collective, Anthony Branker & Ascent in 2004, featuring an A-list of players--among them, saxophonists Tia Fuller and Ralph Bowen fronting a light ensemble, with vocalist Kadri ...
