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News: Interview

POW! Darius Jones

January 31, 2010

The Brooklyn jazz scene has been a boon to New York, fostering a defiantly local culture that the city's biggest clubs (Blue Note, Vanguard, etc) sometimes lack. In Greenwich Village, you see top jazz stars deliver polished performances; at Brooklyn events like the New Languages Festival, you see scruffy young musicians experimenting, developing, emerging. Yet there's ...

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News: Event

Three Nights of Darius Jones @ Roulette!

January 21, 2010

PointofDeparture.org's Ed Hazell writes, “alto saxophonist Darius Jones delivers one of the most impressive debuts in recent memory, displaying a remarkably well-developed concept and individual sound. Jones has a big, fleshy, lived-in tone, with a vibrato that owes as much to Johnny Hodges as it does to Albert Ayler. It's defiant, vulnerable, proud, and weary; there ...

Album

Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing)

By Darius Jones

Label: AUM Fidelity
Released: 2009
Track listing: Roosevelt; Cry Out; We Are Unicorns; Meekness; Salty; Chasing The Ghost; Big Train Rollin'; Forgive Me; Chaych.

Album

Man'ish Boy

By Darius Jones

Label: AUM Fidelity
Released: 2009
Track listing: 1. Roosevelt - 01:14; 2. Cry Out - 07:03; 3. We Are Unicorns - 04:04; 4. Meekness - 05:32; 5. Salty - 02:51; 6. Chasing the Ghost - 09:44; 7. Big Train Rollin' - 05:28; 8. Forgive Me - 05:48; 9. Chaych - 10:15.

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Article: Album Review

Darius Jones: Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing)

Read "Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing)" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
December 9, 2009

Matthew Shipp once opined that Darius Jones arrived on the scene fully formed, and that is not far from the truth. His first appearance of note was at the 2008 Vision Festival, as part of trumpeter Lewis Barnes' Hampton Roads, confirming that Virginia native Jones was indeed the real McCoy. This debut recording with his own ...

Article: Album Review

Darius Jones: Man'ish Boy

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 9, 2009

Nel suo primo CD da leader Darius Jones, contraltista e compositore trasferitosi da Richmond a New York nel 2005, si rivela uno strumentista notevolissimo. Non sono certo gli impianti tematici e strutturali a costituire l'aspetto innovativo e rilevante di Man'ish Boy, inciso in studio nell'aprile 2009: si tratta infatti di nuclei melodico-ritmici semplici e insistiti, ideali ...

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Article: Live From New York

November 2009

by AAJ Staff
November 8, 2009

Muhal Richard Abrams and Fred AndersonCommunity Church of New YorkNew York, NY October 16, 2009Muhal Richard Abrams and Fred Anderson are not quite of the same island. The same Chicago archipelago, sure, but Anderson has more hovered around than been an active member of the Association for the Advancement of ...

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Article: Album Review

Joe Morris: Fine Objects

Read "Fine Objects" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
October 22, 2009

Guitarist Joe Morris continues his 2002 experimentation with the double-bass. On Fine Objects, he leads a trio of saxophone, bass, and drums through two of his own compositions, a couple of trio improvisations, and other compositions by Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Larry Clinton and Petr Cancura. Morris chose two former students from the New ...

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News: Radio

The Jazz Session #97: Darius Jones

October 18, 2009

Virginia-born saxophonist Darius Jones wants to tell his story, and hes chosen as his vehicle his new album, Manish Boy (AUM Fidelity, 2009). This is an album born of economic poverty and emotional wealth. Joining Jones are multi-instrumentalist Cooper-Moore and drummer Rakalam Bob Moses. This powerful and beautiful album is an important statement by a voice ...

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Article: Album Review

Darius Jones: Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing)

Read "Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing)" reviewed by A. Henkin

by A. Henkin
October 14, 2009

Darius Jones sounds like it could be the name of an itinerant preacher or maybe a character in a Flannery O'Connor short story. Neither is actually that much of a stretch after hearing the alto saxophonist's debut as a leader, Man'ish Boy. Throughout run the concurrent threads of celebration and foreboding that exist in the rural ...