Results for "Danny Thompson"

Danny Thompson

Born: April 4, 1939

At The Showcase (Live In Chicago, 1976-1977)

By Sun Ra

Label: Jazz Detective
Released: 2024
Track listing: CD1: New Beginning; View From Another Dimension; Synthesis Approach; Ankhnaton; Rose Room; Moonship Journey; Velvet. CD2: Calling Planet Earth & The Shadow World; Theme of the Stargazers; Space is the Place; Ebah Speaks in Cosmic Tongue; Greetings from the 21st Century.

Awen Ensemble: Cadair Idris

by Chris May
April 14, 2024

Here in Britain, jazz and folk music intersections have a long history. Putting aside the US-centric fusions of the trad bands of the 1950s, as exemplified by the Chris Barber Band's blend of New Orleans jazz and Depression-era folksongs, the movement really kicked off in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Husband and wife team John ...

The Jazz Detective Strikes Again

by Mark Corroto
March 28, 2024

Producer Zev Feldman, like Joe DiMaggio, has done it again. In May of 1941, DiMaggio began a major league baseball hitting streak. People followed his exploits game after game and hit after hit. DiMaggio's amazing record of 56 consecutive games still stands to this day. Same can be said of Feldman. His detective work, finding rare ...

Lanquidity (2 x CD Edition)

By Sun Ra

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Lanquidity; Where Pathways Meet; That's How I Feel; Twin Stars Of Thence; There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of).

Gary Husband: The Gemini Dimension

by Mike Jacobs
August 23, 2022

Even if forced to count just one of the two musical associations he's most noted for--a 35-year long relationship playing with the late Allan Holdsworth, and a 15-year long (and counting) stint in John McLaughlin's 4th Dimension--Gary Husband would still easily make many people's musician watchlist. But with both to his credit, (each on a different ...

Sun Ra: Ten Great AfroFuturist Albums

by Chris May
February 22, 2022

With one hundred and twenty five albums to his name, not including reissues, any attempt to compile a Sun Ra Top Ten is a pretty ludicrous endeavour. There is simply too much great music from which to choose and way too much to put to one side. So the honour roll which follows should be regarded ...

Sun Ra: Lanquidity (2 x CD Edition)

by Chris May
February 2, 2022

When it comes to Sun Ra, the elephant in the room--or perhaps the intergalactic space frigate orbiting your sound system--is how many musicians in the band were bombed out on acid during a typical recording session? By all accounts, Ra ran a tight spaceship and drugs, mind expanding or numbing, were strictly off limits. Then again, ...

The Blue Notes and the Brotherhood of Breath - Marching to a Different Drum

by Duncan Heining
October 27, 2016

Early one August morning in 1964, seven people crossed the border by train passing from South Africa into Mozambique. It was an unusual group of people--five black men, one white man and one white woman. Any “mixing of the races" was, of course, immediately suspicious in apartheid South Africa. The six men--Louis Moholo, Chris McGregor, Dudu ...

WOMAD 2016

by Martin Longley
August 15, 2016

WOMAD 2016 Charlton Park Malmesbury England July 28-31, 2016 In 2015, half of the WOMAD festival's long weekend suffered a deluge of rain, the strength of its music having to do battle with a general spiritual soddenness. This year's edition thankfully featured uniformly pleasant conditions, with ...