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Freedom Suite

Label: CFG Multimedia
Released: 2022
Track listing: Movement I; Movement II; Movement III; Interlude; Movement IV.

Trio Plays Mingus

By Dr. Mark Lomax, II

Label: CFG Multimedia
Released: 2022
Track listing: Better Get Hit In Your Soul; Eclipse; Black Bats and Poles; Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; Nostalgia In Times Square.

Karl Ackermann's Best Creative Music Albums Of 2022

by Karl Ackermann
December 15, 2022

For good, or bad, the “new normal" can finally be archived, and the club doors reopened to full rooms of unmasked patrons. 2022 marked an informal end to the Pandemic and a rebirth in live performing arts. Like similar periods in history, an unusual burst of creative energy followed isolation. Jazz was no exception; the resilience ...

Mark Lomax, II and Edwin Bayard - Ogún Meji Duo: Freedom Suite

by Karl Ackermann
October 19, 2022

More than half a century after Sonny Rollins' civil rights statement Freedom Suite (Riverside, 1958), we have not advanced enough as a species to lay such sentiments to rest. The Ogún Meji Duo—drummer Mark Lomax, II and saxophonist Edwin Bayard—honor Rollins and the suite, with a new and different interpretation of his seminal work. This is ...

Bayard, Hulett, Lomax: Trio Plays Mingus

by Karl Ackermann
May 27, 2022

In the year that would have been Charles Mingus' one-hundredth birthday, there is no shortage of reissues, tribute albums, and previously unreleased sessions such as The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott's (Resonance Records, 2022). But for drummer & composer Mark Lomax, the musical legacy of Mingus has special meaning. His Trio Plays Mingus gives new life ...

#BLACKLIVESMATTER

Label: CFG Multimedia
Released: 2020
Track listing: Part 1: Amerikkka; Part 2: Stop Singin' and Start Swingin’; “Part 3: Black, Beautiful and Powerful.

The Ogún Meji Duo featuring Dr. Mark Lomax, II and Edwin Bayard: #BLACKLIVESMATTER

by Karl Ackermann
June 5, 2020

The Ogún Meji Duo is drummer/composer/educator Dr. Mark Lomax, II and tenor saxophonist Edwin Bayard. The pair have worked together regularly in duo, trio, and quartet settings, and notably on Lomax' groundbreaking 12-CD digital box-set 400: An Afrikan Epic (CFG Multimedia, 2019). That collection recounts the four-hundred-year history of black people in America from 1619 Jamestown ...

400: An Afrikan Epic

May 10, 2020

Album: 400: An Afrikan Epic
By Dr. Mark Lomax, II
Label: CFG Multimedia
Released: 2019
Duration: 06:34

400: An Afrikan Epic

By Dr. Mark Lomax, II

Label: CFG Multimedia
Released: 2019
Track listing: Suite 1: Alkebulan: The Beginning of Us (Album 1: The First Ankhcestor) Ngoma Lungundu; Tiriba; Wolosodon; Gombé; Talking Drums; Casá; (Album 2: Song of the Dogon) Po Tolo; Amma; The Pale Fox; Blessing of the Agon; (Album 3: Dance of the Orishas) Obatalá; Ogún; Oshoshi; Elegguá; Oyá; Oshün; Yemayá; LEB; Nommo; (Album 4: The Coming) Jua: Sunshine; Matumwa: Bondage; Uponyaji Mababu; Sigui: The Festival of Renewal. Suite 2: Ma’afa: Great Tragedy: (Album 5: Ma’afa) Captured; Day 1; Day 45: Rebellion; Day 60; Day 90; (Album6: Up South) First Conversation; Second Conversation; (Album 7: Four Women) Portrait of Queen Nzinga; Portrait of Ida B. Wells; Portrait of Angela Davis; Portrait of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; (Album 8: Blues In August) Ma' Rainey; Fences; Gem of the Ocean; Joe Turner’s New Money; Blues in August; Suite 3: Afro-Futurism: The Return to Uhuru (Album 9: Tales of the Black Experience) Afrika; The Coast of Afrika; The Middle Passage; Slavery In The New World; Visions of Freedom; Emancipation; The Hunt; Transcendence; Rapture; (Album 10: Ankh & The Tree of Life) Ankh; The Tree of Life; (Album 11: Spirits of the Egungun) Spirits I; Spirits II; Spirits III; Spirits IV; (Album 12: Afrika United) Ma'at; Trust; United; Power.

Dr. Mark Lomax, II: 400: An Afrikan Epic

by Karl Ackermann
January 29, 2019

The origins of the continent's name are not clear, but in the language of most of its inhabitants, the spelling is Afrika. The colonizers from Portugal, Britain and France adulterated the spelling for uniformity to their own phonics beginning in the fifteenth century, as they launched the cultural marginalizing of tens of millions. Dr. Mark Lomax ...