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Armen Donelian: Consummate Musician
by R.J. DeLuke
Consistency of excellence is an extraordinary thing in music--particularly improvised music, where taking chances, however satisfying, can be risky. The daredevil on the tightrope might amaze onlookers. But he also might fall.61 year-old pianist Armen Donelian, a New York City native who now lives in upstate New York but who has traveled the globe ...
Cast the First Stone
By Billy Harper
Label: Plus Loin Music
Released: 2011
Track listing: Cast the First Stone; Peacemaker; Looking for the Light; The Seventh Day; Croquet Ballet; Think on Me; The Chief.
Satoko Fujii Min-Yoh Ensemble: Watershed
by Dave Wayne
Min-Yoh is the newest star in pianist Satoko Fujii's growing constellation of amazing improvising groups. While the presence of her partner in music and life, virtuoso trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, is a given, Fujii's musical interactions with a seemingly endless array of top-drawer improvisers from all over the world are almost as intimate. The pair gives the ...
Elio Villafranca And Arturo Stable To Release "Dos Y Mas"
Elio Villafranca and Arturo Stable, two Cuban-born maestros of jazz and world music, unveil Dos Y Mas, the debut recording of their exquisite new piano and percussion collaboration, which comes out on Motéma Music on January 10, 2012. Villafranca's virtuosic and multifaceted pianism engages Stable's poly-rhythmic percussion genius on ten original compositions that pay tribute to ...
The Cookers: Cast the First Stone
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quando il trombettista e arrangiatore David Weiss ha deciso di creare un sestetto formato da maestri del jazz anni Settanta si è dovuto confrontare con l'estetica del “Play-Hard-and-Mean-It". E' il manifesto di uno stile legato alla lezione dell'hard bop, ma aperto alle innovazioni modali e all'urgenza espressiva del decennio precedente. In quegli anni il pubblico era ...
Billy Harper and the UMO Big Band Finland - Capra Black
Featuring the music of Billy Harper
Duration: 9:02
Billy Harper Quintet to appear at Montgomery County Community College (Bluebell, PA) on October 15
Blue Bell, PA: Montgomery County Community College's Lively Arts Series will present the Billy Harper Quintet, Saturday, October 15, 2011 at 8PM at Science Center Theatre. Billy Harper is one of a generation of Coltrane-influenced tenor saxophonists who actually built upon the master's work, rather than simply copy it. His 1973 album Capra Black “remains one ...
The Cookers: Cast the First Stone
by Troy Collins
Cast the First Stone is the sophomore follow-up to Warriors (Jazz Legacy Productions, 2010), the debut recording of the all-star ensemble The Cookers, whose name was inspired by the 1965 Blue Note live album series Night of the Cookers. Lending credence to its namesake, this powerhouse septet swings mightily through a series of post-bop originals and ...
Roberto Magris Quintet: Morgan Rewind: A Tribute to Lee Morgan, Vol. 1
by Jack Bowers
For one who left us far too soon (he was shot to death at age 33), Edward Lee Morgan left quite an extensive legacy as a trumpeter, composer and recording artist. In paying tribute to Morgan, pianist Roberto Magris has a splendid idea. What he does not have, of course, is Lee Morgan or any of ...
The Jazz Session #265: Billy Harper
Saxophonist Billy Harper appears on Cast The First Stone, the latest CD from The Cookers. In this interview, part of The Jazz Sessions Cookers Mondays series, Harper talks about his involvement with the band; recounts the story of his first night in NYC in the late 1960s; and tells about how persistence paid off when it ...
