Results for "David Binney"

Jazz Honors The Beatles

by AAJ Staff
April 13, 2023

All About Jazz is honoring The Fab Four in the year of the 60th anniversary of the release of their first album (Please Please Me). This collective tribute was originally published in September 2009--as a living document, we'll add more quotes & stories over time (see how-to in comments section). We also compiled a companion playlist ...

Mark Lockett: Swings & Roundabouts

by Jack Bowers
April 10, 2023

The “free jazz" movement has come a long way since its introduction mid-20th century by pathfinders like Tadd Dameron, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Eric Dolphy, Archie Shepp, Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, Muhal Richard Abrams, Andrew Cyrille, Lester Bowie and their kin. The music, which favors free expression in lieu of customary chordal, rhythmic and harmonic precepts, ...

Lost Tribe: Vevasis

by Mike Jacobs
April 9, 2023

Vince Mendoza/Metropole Orkest: Olympians

by Jack Bowers
April 4, 2023

Eight-time Grammy-winning composer/arranger Vince Mendoza, born and raised in Norwalk, CT, has enjoyed great success overseas--in Europe, to be more precise--since releasing an album with Germany's WDR Big Band in 1994. The following year, Mendoza began collaborating with the Dutch Metropole Orkest and in 1998 was named its principal guest conductor. Olympians is Mendoza's third recording ...

David Binney: Barefooted Town

by Josef Woodard
February 1, 2023

Continuing Saga of the Strong Seeker I remember distinctly during the 2007 Montreal Jazz Festival, sifting through and measuring up the usual blur of stimuli, seeking out the prizes among prizes in the program. In one corner, there was Wayne Shorter, in the finest of his performance I'd ever heard—playing up his suits as composer and ...

Suspenso

By Linhares

Label: Carimbo Porta-jazz
Released: 2022
Track listing: Marcha Lenta; Intempérie; Isolation 4; Oxigénio; Lamento; Jogo de Sombras; Sentimental Illness; Dança Macabra; Suspended

What Does it Mean to be Free?

By Anthony Fung

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: What Does it Mean to be Free?; El Paso; Defiance; Flashpoint (Revisited); Dreamer's Interlude; Sonny's Blues; ROOTS; Let Us Not Forget to be Kind; Sightseeing.

Shine Thru

By Dan Schnelle

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Unknown Territory; Spaceman Spiff; 2nd Orbit; Thin Skinned; Shine Thru; The People's Republic; Nosh Dukish; Vistas; New Changes; Unknown Outro.

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2022

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 29, 2022

The depth and range of the music that jazz players have put on record in 2022 are so big that summarizing this “year in jazz" by selecting only ten albums feels akin to taking the photo of a breath-taking landscape with an ultra-low resolution camera... Ten years from now, how is one supposed to understand how ...

Music from Quique Ramirez and Michel Stekelenburg, plus Sonar and Nik Bartsch

by Len Davis
October 2, 2022

New music from the Netherlands with Trio Onoda, drummer Quique Ramirez with special guest David Binney, minimalist sounds from Sonar featuring David Torn, and Nik Bartsch from Awase. Jing Chi, Protocol and Allan Holdsworth.Playlist Michel Stekelenburg “Consecotalephobia" from Trio Onoda (Zennez) 00:00 Quique Ramirez “The Microtiming Man" from Through The Darkness (Self Produced) 07:16 ...