Results for "Black Art Jazz Collective"
Black Art Jazz Collective: Ascension

On Ascension, the Black Art Jazz Collective, a like-minded sextet co-founded in 2012 by trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and saxophonist Wayne Escoffery to salute the artistry of their mentors and musical heroes while moving the idiom forward into the twenty-first century, is unbending in its allegiance to the straight-ahead canon espoused by the architects of modern jazz. ...
Armor of Pride

Label: Black Art Jazz Collective, Armor of Pride (High Note Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Miller Time; Armor of Pride; Awuraa Amma; The Spin Doctor; And There She Was, Lovely As Ever; Pretty; When Will We Learn; Black Art.
Sco in Baton Rouge, Okazaki vs. Monk, Sax-less Trane covers & more

This week we fired up the locals for the super John Scofield Baton Rouge concert on October 4th; did a Miles Okazaki/Thelonious Monk compare & contrasts with two of Monk's most challenging compositions; played sax-less Trane covers from guitarist Simone Manunza & Jessica Williams solo at the 88s; and spun some 21st century jazz that caught ...
Il meglio del 2016 secondo Maurizio Zerbo

il 2016 non è stato particolarmente felice per chi ama il jazz, non mi è stato facile stilare questa lista di 12 CD da consigliare. Particolarmente degni di nota il nuovo album di Dino e Franco Piana e soprattutto l'omaggio di Brian Lynch allo sfortunato trombettista Woody Shaw. Da amare e consigliare anche le ristampe Blue ...
Black Art Jazz Collective - Presented By The Side Door Jazz Club

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Double Consciousness; Awaiting Change; Essence Of Beauty; Salvador Da Bahia;
Going Somewhere; No Small Change; Devil Eyes; The Shadower.
Black Art Jazz Collective: Black Art Jazz Collective - Presented By The Side Door Jazz Club

Il nome del gruppo rispecchia paradigmaticamente gli intenti di questo CD. Tra omaggi a politici e jazzisti, le otto tracce proposte celebrano in chiave modern mainstream la composita cultura afroamericana del Novecento. Orientati sul versante postboppistico, gli assoli brillano per fluidità di fraseggio e tecnica sopraffina, riscattando ampiamente la rigidità del canone. Si impongono esposizioni avvincenti ...
Black Art Jazz Collective: Black Art Jazz Collective - Presented By The Side Door Jazz Club

Formed by a cross-section of contemporary jazz's leading voices, the Black Art Jazz Collective has a simple goal as political as it is salutary: create a platform for artists of the same generation to collaborate musically and promote the recognition of African- American cultural and political figures.Comprised of Wayne Escoffery (tenor sax),Jeremy Pelt (trumpet), ...
Black Art Jazz Collective: Black Art Jazz Collective - Presented By The Side Door Jazz Club

The Black Art Jazz Collective was founded in 2013 by saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and drummer Johnathan Blake, with bassist Dwayne Burno added shortly thereafter, and further expanded by trombonist James Burton (III) and pianist Xavier Davis. The group's first performance was Dizzy's Club Coca Cola in April, 2013. Sadly, Burno died in December ...