Results for "Charles Lester Music"

Joel Futterman & Ike Levin: Enigma

by Rex Butters
August 30, 2006

This most recent collaboration between two spontaneous musicians, pianist Joel Futterman and reedman Ike Levin, finds them pushing the empathic envelope to discover new, blazing soundscapes in which to ply their art. Futterman, a reclusive genius with a rehearsal habit that stretches eight to ten hours a day, displays staggering technique with unending production of ideas. ...

First Ones

By Positive Knowledge

Label: Charles Lester Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Unexplained Reality/Events at the Edge; Message of the Stones; First Ones; Mystic Dialogues; SUMOTUWE (after Betty Carter); In the Center of Boom; Expression for Peace; Crises to Victory; Sea of Joy (for Dr. Elise Austin); Prayerful Devotion (for the Children and Elders).

Positive Knowledge: First Ones

by Rex Butters
October 19, 2005

Live and on record, Oluyemi and Ijeoma Thomas cover a lot of musical ground with their Positive Knowledge projects. First Ones continues that trend, featuring the powerful reed player and the fearless vocalized word magic of Ms. Thomas, along with long time collaborator Spirit on percussion. Ike Levin comes aboard on this edition, engaging Oluyemi in ...

Live In Chicago

Label: Charles Lester Music
Released: 2017

Another Day's Journey

By Positive Knowledge

Label: Charles Lester Music
Released: 1994