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The Jazz Session #245: Anthony Brown
Anthony Browns Asian American Orchestra uses instruments from around the world to put a unique spin on two Coltrane classics on their new album, India & Africa (Water Baby Records, 2010). In this interview, Brown gives an overview of the Asian-American jazz movement and its origins in Bay-area protests; discusses the challenges and opportunities of using ...
Bobby Watson and UMKC Jazz Orchestra / UNT One O'Clock Lab Band / Kurt Rosenwinkel
by Jack Bowers
Bobby Watson / UMKC Concert Jazz OrchestraThe Gates BBQ SuiteLafiya Music2010 When alto saxophonist Bobby Watson returned in 2001 to his native Kansas City area to assume the position as director of Jazz Studies at the University of Missouri--Kansas City, he mentioned to Ollie Gates, proprietor of ...
Jazz International
by Nick Catalano
More and more recordings from offshore jazz musicians keep arriving in my mailbox each month and they are beginning to outnumber domestic releases. This is an obvious sign of the exponential growth of internationalism in the music and a signal to American jazz critics that their reviewing responsibility must include ample coverage of this phenomenon.
"India & Africa": Coltrane Tribute by Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra
For the last dozen years, percussionist-composer Anthony Brown's innovative Asian American Orchestra has reinvented classics of American music by composers Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, and George Gershwin from a Pacific Rim perspective by mixing instruments of European and American vintage with those of various Asian cultures. Now, with the September 28 release of India ...
Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra at "Ten": New CD + Yoshi's Show
Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra will celebrate their ten-year history with the release of a new commemorative CD entitled “Ten" on Tuesday, August 26, and with a performance at Yoshi's San Francisco on Thursday, September 11. The Yoshi's event, which inaugurates the innovative orchestra's annual home season, takes as its theme “Bridging Japantown and the Fillmore." ...
