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Dave Burrell

Born: September 10, 1940

Distinguished composer-pianist Dave Burrell is a performing artist of singular stature on the international contemporary music scene. His dynamic compositions, with blues and gospel roots recall the tradition of Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson and Duke Ellington. After majoring in music at the University of Hawaii, he enrolled at Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1961. After graduating with degrees in composition/arranging and performance in 1965, he moved to New York City, where he quickly established himself as one of the most innovative and original pianists, collaborating with the emerging leaders in contemporary jazz. Burrell’s Jazz Opera Windward Passages, written in collaboration with Swedish-born poet/lyricist Monika Larsson, blends opera voices with world class jazz soloists, a 21-piece jazz opera orchestra, dancers and chorus

Trichotomy

By Ivo Perelman

Label: Mahakala Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: "Part One"; "Part Two".

Quartet To At Judson Hall, Revisited

By Noah Howard

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2023
Track listing: Henry's Street; Apotheosis; Apotheosis Extension I; And About Love; This Place Called Earth; Hommage To Coltrane.

Harlem Rhapsody

By Dave Burrell

Label: Parco Della Musica
Released: 2023
Track listing: Red Summer March; How Little We Know; Paradox Of Freedom; My Melancholy Baby; Harlem Rhapsody; Dancing With Monika.

Bobby Zankel: The Inside Story of 'A Change of Destiny'

by Victor L. Schermer
September 21, 2023

Saxophonist, bandleader, composer and arranger Bobby Zankel has been making jazz in many ways with diverse cohorts for over a half-century. He has found his own way to create music that is both advanced and very listenable at the same time. He is loved and revered by the many musicians who have performed with him and ...

Vision Festival 2023

by Luciano Rossetti
August 3, 2023

Tobia Bondesan: Frenesia Creativa

by Libero Farnè
June 26, 2023

Lo devo all'amico Vladimiro Pelliciardi se anni orsono ho conosciuto l'esistenza del collettivo BlueRing Improvisers e se, nel primo anno del Covid, ho avuto l'occasione di incontrare a Bologna i giovani Tobia Bondesan e Giuseppe Sardina. Pelliciardi è un personaggio poliedrico, vulcanico, dalle iniziative imprevedibili: nell'arco di oltre un quarantennio ingegnere, sassofonista, insegnante, trakker su percorsi ...

La Rassegna Mixité al PARC di Firenze

by Neri Pollastri
June 16, 2023

Mixité P.A.R.C. ex Scuderie Granducali, Piazzale delle Cascine Firenze Aprile-Maggio 2023 Dopo le belle proposte ascoltate nel mese di dicembre 2022, Toscana Produzione Musica (centro di produzione musicale presieduto da Paolo Zampini con la direzione artistica di Maurizio Busìa e Francesco Mariotti) ha ripreso le attività su Firenze con la ...

Dave Burrell: Harlem Rhapsody

by Mark Corroto
June 11, 2023

It would be an error to characterize pianist Dave Burrell as a witness to history. Avant-garde jazz history that is. The octogenarian was heard in the 1960s groups of Marion Brown, Pharoah Sanders, Noah Howard, Archie Shepp, Sonny Sharrock, Sunny Murray, and Grachan Moncur III, while also exchanging ideas in New York with Albert Ayler, Sam ...

Noah Howard: Quartet To At Judson Hall, Revisited

by Mark Corroto
June 5, 2023

Saxophonist Noah Howard is a musician deserving wider recognition. Born in New Orleans in 1943, like many black musicians he began playing music in the church. After a stint in the army, he settled on the West Coast where the avant-garde was progressing outside the purview of New York, which at the time was considered the ...