Results for "David Murray"

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Tongues on Fire rehearsals

Featuring the music of David Murray
Duration: 6:10
September 8, 2010

3D Family introduces Tongues on Fire , a new musical project inspired by the revolutionary art of Emory Douglas, the brilliant draftsman and Minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party. Although his work was mainly associated at the time with the militancy side of the movement, it has evolved today to become a recognized and inspiring art around the world. The concept behind this project is to highlight the efficacy of the... visual, oratorical and musical arts as means of communicating ideas. Taking their inspiration from the works of Emory Douglas, Umar Bin Hassan and Abiodun Oyewole, the charismatic members of The Last Poets, have written 8 powerful poems reflecting in depth the past and todays cultural and political agenda. As he reflected on these verses, David Murray has composed 8 melodies that will be used as the core basis on which the music will be built on and performed by the different bands collaborating on the project such as Living Colour and The Roots for instance. The show will also include a screening of 180 art works of Emory Douglas which will be graphically mixed by the video editor, Doctor L accordingly to the mood of the performances on stage. This interaction between different forms of arts, inspired one from another, opens a new energetic vision of the legacy left by the African American activism by making visible the productivity of what has been created before. Tongues on Fire Tribute to the Black Panthers directed by David Murray, with : ?uestlove (Drums), Black Thought (MC), Ray Angry (Keyboards) and Felix Pastorius (Bass) from The Roots Corey Glover (Vocals) and Vernon Reid (Guitar) from Living Colour Abiodun Oyewole (Poet) and Umar Bin Hassan (Poet) from The Last Poets David Murray (Saxophone) + Doctor L (Video Engineer) Produced by 3D Family in association with Jill Newman productions for the participation of The Roots

Article: Interview

Bobby Zankel: Peaceful Jazz Warrior

by Victor L. Schermer
September 6, 2010

For many decades, Philadelphia has been home to a cadre of multi-generational jazz musicians who go on year-after-year composing, arranging and performing some of the best, highest level music to be heard anywhere. This tradition is exemplified in no better way than by alto saxophonist, composer and bandleader Bobby Zankel. Zankel apprenticed with legendary ...

Article: Live Review

Vision Festival 2010: Day 7, June 29, 2010

by John Sharpe
August 23, 2010

Prologue | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7Charles Gayle, William Parker, Muhammad Ali, Lafayette Gilchrist, Gerald Cleaver, Vladimir TarasovVision FestivalAbrons Arts CenterNew York City29 June 2010 For the last evening of the Fifteenth ...

Article: Album Review

Michael Gregory Jackson: Clarity

by Raul d'Gama Rose
August 12, 2010

Michael Gregory is the quintessential modern troubadour. He may not sing in a Romance language, but he turns his instruments of choice--guitar and voice--into a powerful language that enables him to recreate the sensuous, reverential and spiritual literature that, in turn, enormously enhances his songbook. Gregory turns on the charm on Clarity, a short, but memorable ...

Article: Interview

WartaJazz.com: An Indonesian Jazz Mission

by Ian Patterson
August 11, 2010

In his book The Miracle: The Epic Story of Asia's Quest for Wealth (HarperCollins, 2009), Michael Schuman writes, “In little more than a generation, Asia has emerged from centuries of stagnation to become the rising force of the global economy--a transformation so spectacular that some have called it a miracle." WartaJazz.com founders in 2001, ...

Article: Live Review

Norwegian Road Trip, Part 1: Kongsberg Jazz, July 7-8, 2010

by John Kelman
July 11, 2010

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 [Editors Note: From July 6 to July 26, 2010, All About Jazz Managing Editor John Kelman will travel throughout Norway to cover both the Kongsberg Jazz Festival (also participating in Silver City Sounds) and Molde ...

News: Performance / Tour

JC Stylles Jazz at Creole Restaurant & Supper Club in Harlem, NY on July 10th. 2010

July 2, 2010

Creole Restaurant and Supper Club is one of the hottest haunts in New York. With a list of performers that include Dave Valentin, James Spaulding, Cyrus Chestnut and David Murray just to name a few, Creole reigns supreme in the New York Jazz community. And let us not forget about their wonderfully scrumptious menu consisting of ...

Article: Profile

Fred Anderson: 1929-2010

by Kurt Gottschalk
June 26, 2010

There aren't many artists with so singular a vision as that of late Fred Anderson, who died June 24 at the age of 81. There are fewer to be certain if the list is restricted to members of that exalted and nebulous class called “masters." It's a word that, in jazz, gets thrown around a little ...

Article: Album Review

Erica Lindsay / Sumi Tonooka: Initiation

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
June 15, 2010

Long Ago Today (Artists Recording Collective, 2008), pianist Sumi Tonooka's previous release, generated two immediate reactions. First, it seemed astonishing that so singular, strong and distinctive a player could have been flying beneath the radar for so long. Second, the rhythm section--Tonooka, bassist Rufus Reid and drummer Bob Braye--played with an unusual empathy that held the ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Michael Gregory Jackson: Clarity

by Clifford Allen
June 8, 2010

Michael Gregory Jackson Clarity ESP-Disk 2010 (1976) In the musical climate of 2010, the fact that a diverse range of musical styles and approaches can be combined is something often taken for granted. Creative music has long recombined musics from various non-Western sources as well as jazz and Western art ...