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Craig Harris
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Craig S. Harris is an American jazz trombonist, who started working with {{m: Sun Ra = 10507}} in 1976. He also has worked with {{m: Abdullah Ibrahim = 7858}}, {{m: David Murray = 9702}}, {{m: Lester Bowie = 5209}}, {{m: Cecil Taylor = 4823}}, {{m: Sam Rivers = 10719}}, {{m: Muhal Richard Abrams = 3246}}, and {{m: Charlie Haden = 7320}}. He has recorded since 1983 as leader for India Navigation, Soul Note and JMT. For the latter he recorded with two groups. The Tailgater's Tales was a quintet with clarinetist {{m: Don Byron = 3807}}, trumpeter {{m: Eddie Allen = 3358}}, {{m: Anthony Cox = 5958}} on double bass, and {{m: Pheeroan akLaff = 3304}} on drums. His large ensemble Cold Sweat was a tribute to the music of {{m: James Brown = 11786}}.
Sun Ra: Live at the left Bank, Lights on a Satellite
by Stefano Merighi
La seconda metà degli anni Settanta vede l'Arkestra di Sun Ra già in un momento di bilanci. Vent'anni di attività, una parabola virtuosa che congiunge inizi avventurosi, incompresi, a sviluppi ricchissimi di idee, che oltrepassano sia il post-swing degli esordi che il free radicale, per planare in quello stile composito e stratificato, totalmente personale, ...
Lights on a Satellite: Live At The left Bank
By Sun Ra
Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Band Intro/Thunder of Dreams; Tapestry From an Asteroid; Somewhere Over the Rainbow;
A Pleasant Place in Space; Space Travelin' Blues; Yeah Man; Big John's Special; Lights on a
Satellite; Lady Bird/Half Nelson; Cocktails for Two; Watusi; They Plan to Leave; Images in a
Mirror; We Travel the Spaceways; Left Bank Blues; 'Round Midnight.
Out of the Roma Villages of Turkey, Clarinet Reigns Beyond Its Traditions
by Arthur R George
The clarinet, foundational for jazz from Sidney Bechet unto Eric Dolphy, remains in strong use in the indigenous Roma music of the eastern Mediterranean. Elsewhere in the world clarinet generally has been moved aside by saxophone's bigger sound. But in the Balkans, Greece, and Turkey, clarinet provides jazz shadings to traditional music, speaks a range of ...
Jazz from the Black Saint Label (1975 - 1989)
by Russell Perry
Ironically, the record label that most consistently offered an outlet for the American jazz avant-garde in the 1980s was the Italian Black Saint / Soul Note imprint. On All About Jazz, Jeff Stockton wrote, ..."from 1984 to 1989 Black Saint won the Down Beat critics poll for “Best Label" and “Best Producer" and established itself as ...
David Murray And Class Struggle at The Village Vanguard
by Mike Jurkovic
David Murray and Class Struggle The Village Vanguard New York, NY June 22, 2018 Upon taking the Vanguard stage, Murray broke the night wide open with a hard, slippery solo that had his sextet Class Struggle--featuring the saxophonist's son guitarist Mingus Murray, brotherly rhythm section of bassist Rashaan Carter and drummer ...
The Cry of Jay Rodriguez
by Michael Blake
On an unseasonably warm February evening I set out from Brooklyn to catch the multi-instrumentalist Jay Rodriguez's band at Le Poisson Rouge. While walking from the West 4th Street subway station to the venue on Bleecker Street I recalled taking this exact route over 30 years ago to play a jam session in the ...
Never Alone: Reflections on the 2018 Winter Jazzfest
by Tyran Grillo
Ornette Coleman once said that sound has no parents. But that doesn't mean we can't be its children. On that point, jazz has always been something of a parental force, connecting progenies of representation across geographic and cultural borders. Its relationship to struggle has, however, at times been overshadowed by debate. On the one hand, jazz ...
Joe Daley Tuba Trio al Teatro Manzoni di Milano
by Paolo Peviani
Joe Daley Tuba Trio Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni Milano 22.01.2017 Ancora una volta, la rassegna Aperitivo in Concerto ha proposto un inizio di giornata intrigante ed impegnativo. In questa occasione con il concerto del Joe Daley Tuba Trio. In verità non un trio, ma un quintetto. Sul palco, ...
Abullah Ibrahim at SFJAZZ
by Harry S. Pariser
Abdullah Ibrahim SFJAZZ San Francisco, CA April 29-30, 2016 At 81, pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, is still going strong, something he proved during a remarkable tour-de-force performance which spanned four nights at SFJAZZ in San Francisco. For the first two evenings (Thursday and Friday), Ibrahim appeared in the company of ...
