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David Friesen: This Light Has No Darkness, Volume 1

Read "This Light Has No Darkness, Volume 1" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
February 14, 2024

In 2020, David Friesen, an American jazz artist with Ukrainian roots, released his masterpiece, Testimony (Origin Records). The set was an orchestral, spiritual soundscape featuring Friesen's jazz quartet and the National Academic Symphonic Band of Ukraine. Recorded in Kyiv, in December of 2018--about three years before Russia invaded Ukraine--the music was a majestic testament to Friesen's ...

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Motivation

February 6, 2024

Album: This Light Has No Darkness, Volume 1
By David Friesen
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 06:37

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Thousands of Ways

By Susan Reed

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Flying My Kite; Fresco; Seine Pantomime; Ribbons in the Wind; Desert Flower; Cat Got Your Tongue; Summer Nights; Erlkönig; Thousands of Ways; Hope.

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Flying My Kite

October 4, 2022

Album: Thousands of Ways
By Susan Reed
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 03:55

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Ricky Ford: From Across the Sea

by R.J. DeLuke
August 22, 2022

Ricky Ford is a badass tenor saxophonist. Many will recall his fierce and strong playing on his Muse releases in the '80s. Others may be aware that he was a stalwart member of big bands like the Duke Ellington Orchestra under the leadership of Mercer Ellington and with Charles Mingus and later the Mingus Dynasty band. ...

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Day Of Rest

By David Friesen

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Backward Glance; Day Dream; Goal In Mind; Green Hills Slowly Passing By; Remembering The Moment; Day Of Rest; Distant Shores; Everything We Are; In The Moment; Lovely Lady; Meaningful; Mindful Of Your Tears; My Dance; My Dog Ellie; Place Of Point; Shining Star; Song For Tristan; Time Never Ends; Unfolding; Going Forth.

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Passage

By David Friesen

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: In the Place of Calling; Acceptance; Yielding; Obedience; Transition; Belief; Understanding; Challenged; Victory; Direction; Thankfulness; Temptation/Overcoming; Forward; Voyage; Awareness; Struggle; Stillness; Family; Looking Past; Journey; Faith; Commitment; Perseverance; Resolution; Prayer.

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Backward Glance

November 20, 2021

Album: Day Of Rest
By David Friesen
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 02:18

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David Friesen & Bob Ravenscroft: Passage

Read "Passage" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
April 25, 2021

After decades of recording in small ensemble formats, bassist David Friesen offered up Testimony (Origin Records) in 2020, an outing which found him backed by his quartet and the National Academic Symphonic Band of Ukraine on his best and most ambitious recording. He followed that up in 2021 by going back to the—for him— familiar territory ...