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BAN BAM: Music Talking
by Ian Patterson
BAN BAM The Complex jny:Dublin, Ireland November 25, 2017 BAN BAM is a new, one-day festival by Improvised Music Company--an initiative to address the gender imbalance in jazz/improvised music. A related All About Jazz article covered the conversations by industry professionals around the gender issue that took place in the ...
Jersey
Label: Relative Pitch Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Ripped From The Headlines; The Knowing Of Sums; Firefly Night; Pistol Grip; Barn
Door Open; The Edge Of Truth; Clashes With Ice; After All; Scapegoat; Mirrorless;
Storms A Brewin'; Speedbag Swivel; Tassels On The Day.
Hrayr Attarian's Best Releases of 2016
by Hrayr Attarian
Many other writers have submitted superb Best of/End of year lists, so another similar one would be redundant. As women instrumentalists in jazz have been historically underrepresented to great degree and remain a minority even today, below is a list with a feminist bent. These 12 exquisite albums are either by women or prominently feature women. ...
Catherine Sikora: Jersey
by Hrayr Attarian
Saxophonist Catherine Sikora makes a bold and singular statement with her solo album Jersey. Each of the 13 tracks is both a fully realized and poignant stand-alone monologue as well as an essential link in an intimate and deeply personal artistic expression. A serene, logical progression of notes transforms the calm “The Knowing of ...
Enrique Haneine: Instants Of Time
by Hrayr Attarian
New York based multi-instrumentalist Enrique Haneine dazzled the music world with superb pianism on the 2005 collaborative release At the End of the Day (Foxhaven, 2005). Ten years later, he leads his sextet on the gripping and spirited Instants Of Time this time from the drummer seat. Haneine is a native of Mexico of ...
New Cities
Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2015
Track listing: The Contract; Bière La Gazelle; 5 Ans D'Effort; Teriyaa; Specialists in Some Styles; Slip Coach (for Chet); New Cities; Old Countries
The Kora Band: New Cities
by Roger Farbey
Pianist Andrew Oliver formed The Kora Band in 2008 following a tour in West Africa and a chance meeting with a kora player, leading him to track down Kane Mathis, whom he recruited and whose presence naturally gave birth to the group's name and its idiosyncratic sound. Mathis is one of the foremost kora players in ...
Han-earl Park: Anomic Aphasia
by John Eyles
The music on Han-earl Park's third CD for Slam, Anomic Aphasia, derives from two similar but significantly different Park projects. The first is Eris 136199, an improvising trio consisting of guitarists Park and Nick Didkovsky (leader of Doctor Nerve) plus saxophonist Catherine Sikora. Described by Park as “the noisy, unruly complexity of the ensemble Eris 136199" ...
Stanley Jason Zappa's Epic Gig Trek
by Chris Rich
During the second week of June, saxophonist Stanley Jason Zappa undertook a fairly demanding performance trek with two colleagues, saxophonist Catherine Sikora and percussionist Nick Skrowaczewski. It began in the Okanagan wine region of southwestern British Columbia and concluded at the Casse Tete Festival at the inland city of Prince George, around 500 miles ...
A Stanley Zappa Trio Tours British Columbia From June 11th To The 15th
"A performance of contemporary improvised music in three unique settings with three emerging masters of the craft." Stanley Jason Zappa has put together a mini tour of remote inland communities in the vast province of British Columbia, Canada. Adventurous music undertakes a real adventure beginning on June 11th in Okanagan Wine Country and ending up in ...
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