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Omar Sosa: Bringing The World To The World
by AAJ Staff
Pianist/composer Omar Sosa was born in Cuba in the first decade of Fidel Castro's rule over the island, and grew up listening to forbidden American jazz with his music school friends in secret, the radio discretely turned low, though eventually the rules changed and the music was broadcast in Cuba, too. After Cuba and a short ...
Dave Bass: Gone
by Bruce Lindsay
Gone, as pianist and composer Dave Bass reflects in his notes to this fine album, has many meanings: for the Beat Generation, it was a state of mind, but it can also suggest physical absence. Bass himself was gone for 20 years--out of the music business, following a wrist fracture in the mid-1980s. He studied law, ...
Dave Bass: Gone
by Edward Blanco
California Deputy Attorney General, Dave Bass, is a legal eagle who has, once again, immersed himself in the musical passion that was his first love, soaring mightily on the impressive Gone. An attorney by profession and a pianist by design, Bass once supported himself as a musician, early on in his life, where he worked both ...
Dave Bass Quartet Featuring Ernie Watts, Babatunde Lea, Mary Stallings, and Gary Brown Release "Gone"
David Bass on Gone The word Gone has several meanings for me... There's the 20-plus years I was away from the music scene, then there's the feeling when your lover leaves and your heart breaks... alone and empty, and finally, the beatnik/hipster notion of an irrevocably cool person. I have returned to music and am proud ...
David Bass: Gone
by Karl Ackermann
If Dave Bass ever decides to give up his day job as a Deputy Attorney General, he can validate that decision based on the quality of Gone. Bass returns to jazz after more than twenty years, but his priors include stints with Bobby McFerrin, global percussionist Babatunde Lea, and interpretive jazz vocalist Jackie Ryan. His Gone ...
Babatunde Lea Quintet tributes Leon Thomas at Catalina Bar & Grill
by Dee Dee McNeil
Babatunde Lea QuintetTribute to Leon Thomas Catalina Bar & Grill Hollywood, California March 10, 2010 Four musicians quietly walked onto the Catalina Bar & Grill stage greeted by enthusiastic applause. But where was the bandleader? From the dressing room, Babatunde Lea sang to the packed room, with ...
Visionary Percussionist Babatunde Lea's "Umbo Weti" - A Musical Tribute to Leon Thomas
Visionary Drummer/Percussionist Babatunde Lea Releases UMBO WETI - A Musical Tribute to Legendary Jazz Vocalist & Songwriter Leon Thomas Percussion virtuoso Babatunde Lea first envisioned a tribute to legendary jazz vocalist and composer Leon Thomas shortly after the singer passed in 1999. The efforts reach fruition on Lea's latest release for the Motma label, UMBO WETI. ...
Suite Unseen: Summoner of the Ghost
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: 1. Suite Unseen: Ancestral Stroll;
2. Motivation;
3. On the T.L.;
4. A Song For Ani;
5. The Bay Area's Afro-Latin Funky Love Shuffle;
6. Invocation;
7. Inconspicuous;
8. Suite Unseen: The Unseen;
9. Fire and Rain;
10. Suite Unseen: Spirit of the 'Wood';
11. Chants from Home;
12. Suite Unseen: From Home;
13. Maeeah's Big Adventure;
14. Suite Unseen: Summoner of the Ghost.
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