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Saxophonist and composer Benjamin Boone's Origin Records album with US Poet Laureate Philip Levine, The Poetry of Jazz, was called “an album of unmistakable… historic importance” (UK Vibe), “a master class in the combining of different art forms…an essay in complementarity” (All About Jazz), and voted #3 “Best Album of 2018” in DownBeat Magazine’s 83rd annual Readers Poll. DownBeat noted, “despite the star turns [guests Branford Marsalis, Chris Potter, Greg Osby and Tom Harrell], Boone not only distinguishes himself with uncluttered, affecting orchestrations, but by passionately balancing intellect and emotion.” All About Jazz echoed, “these guest artists might be the attraction for the jazz listener, and Levine for the poetry fan, but that would miss the extraordinary music both written and performed by Boone.” The album was featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” a Staff Pick in The Paris Review, and on Amazon’s “Hot New Releases” list for months. He served as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Ireland (2022-23), Ghana (2017-18), and the Republic of Moldova (2005), and is a Professor of Music at California State University Fresno.
New Music from Bill Frisell, Melissa Aldana and Nicole McCabe
by Hobart Taylor
Bill Frisell comments on “Small Hands," Melissa Aldana evokes feelings in her new release Filin and saxophonist Nicole McCabe contemplates “Hues" via her Color Theory. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Anna Kolchina “So Many Stars" from Reach for Tomorrow (OA2) 00:08 Martial Solal/Dave Liebman “All the Things You Are" from Masters in Bordeaux (Sunnyside) 3:00 ...
Benjamin Boone: Dream Walking
by Don Ball
Integrating different cultural entities in music is always a difficult proposition; getting the right mix and balance so that one culture does not usurp others to make a new artistic product requires great skill and tact. The New Global Ensemble, made up of musicians from the U.S., Germany, Ghana, Mexico, and Ireland, pull from their respective ...
Dream Walking
Album: Dream Walking
By Benjamin Boone
Label: One World Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 3:43
Dream Walking
Label: One World Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Invocation;
Splashes and Waves;
Irish Incantation;
Global Interlude;
Variation On A Ghanaian Theme ;
The Parting Glass;
Convergence;
Friday Afternoon In Accra;
Exultation;
Dream Walking;
Exploration;
Realization.
Confluence: The Ireland Sessions
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: On the Banks of the Shannon; Confluence; Your Eyes Meeting Mine (feat. JaYne); Monkette; In the Twilight (feat.
JaYne); The Clash of the Ash; Another Round at Margaret’s; Stern Warning; She Moved Through the Fair (feat.
JaYne).
Benjamin Boone: Confluence: The Ireland Sessions
by Paul Rauch
Saxophonist/composer/educator Benjamin Boone is known as a project artist in the first degree. His collaboration with major modern poets has produced a foursome of albums on the Origin Records label, including two with US Poet Laureate, Philip Levine. His saxophone approach could be described as colorful melodicism, a quality accentuated by Boone's open ended compositions that ...
Ryuichi Sakamoto, The Ize Trio, Jack Wood, & Nichaud Fitzgibbon, Darius Jones, Tommy Smith and John Taylor
by Cheryl K.
During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music, two selections from two releases by the late Japanese pianist and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto; the Boston, MA-based collective The Ize Trio; vocalists Jack Wood & Nichaud Fitzgibbon; composer & alto saxophonist Darius Jones; and saxophonist Tommy Smith and pianist John Taylor. Playlist Ryuichi Sakamoto ...
On the Banks of the Shannon
Album: Confluence: The Ireland Sessions
By Benjamin Boone
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 04:40
Benjamin Boone, Bevan Manson, Julieta Eugenio, Ginetta's Vendetta, Music Soup Organ Trio and Miki Yamanaka
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Benjamin Boone, Bevan Manson, Julieta Eugenio, Ginetta's Vendetta, Music Soup Organ Trio and Miki Yamanaka, with birthday shoutouts to Emily Remler, Lovie Austin (Downhearted Blues), Marlena Shaw, Vi Redd, Margo Guryan, Catherine Russell, Kait Dunton and Jo Harrop, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See ...
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