Texas saxophonist Danny Kamins heads to church. Musically speaking, that means the sacred sound of John Coltrane. But before he can fully enter that space, he must first run the gauntlet and undergo a kind of sonic purification. This process is reflected in both his discography and the opening moments of Pracownia Wschodnia / The Creamery. ...

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El Mantis-II

By El Mantis

Label: C.I.A. Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: El Espectaculo; For Wendell; Pharoah's Birds - part one; Pharoah's Birds part two; La Muixeranga; Por La Noche; Sin Alma.

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Danny Kamins / Vinny Golia / Garrett Wingfield: The Ojai Sessions

Read "The Ojai Sessions" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
January 4, 2023

Long before Bob Dorough sang about it in Schoolhouse Rock, and before the hip hop group De La Soul took up the anthem, three has always been a magic number. To the Buddhists it is the three jewels, for the Christians the Holy Trinity, the three core principles of Islam, and on and on. Maybe that ...

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The Ojai Sessions

By Vinny Golia

Label: Musical Eschatology
Released: 2022
Track listing: Part I; Part II; Part III; Part IV; Part V; Part VI; Part VII.

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Disruptor

By Danny Kamins

Label: Noise Pelican Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Opening; For Elliot; French Dip; Things That Don’t Resolve, But Become More Linear; Bee Chamber; Dexedrine Submarine.

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Danny Kamins: Disruptor

Read "Disruptor" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
December 8, 2021

Does saxophonist Danny Kamins's solo recording Disruptor act as an introduction to the various ensembles of which he is a member? Or do those group recordings prepare us for this solo outing? Kamins, a Houston resident and director of the jazz program at Rice University can be heard in the improvising trios CARL and Etched In ...