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Conversations with the Unseen
By Soweto Kinch
Label: Dune
Released: 2005
Track listing: Intro, Doxology, Conversations With The Unseen, Elision, Spokes And Pedals,
Intermission - Split Decision, Snakehips, Mungo's Adventure, The Flame-Thrower,
Equiano's Tears, Good Nyooz, Outro
Denys Baptiste: Let Freedom Ring!
by John Kelman
With jazz becoming such a broad landscape that labels are increasingly difficult to apply, it's difficult, if not impossible, to identify specific new movements like the ones that appeared in the middle decades of the 20th Century. While there have been all kinds of innovations to be sure, there hasn't been anything quite so sweeping as ...
Denys Baptiste: Let Freedom Ring!
by Paul Olson
London tenor saxophonist Denys Baptiste aims for the sun and stars with his four-part, large-ensemble suite Let Freedom Ring! What is striking is just how wildly, and wonderfully, his ambitions are realized by the final product. The piece was commissioned by the Cheltenham International Jazz Festival to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's ...
Soweto Kinch: Conversations with the Unseen
by AAJ Staff
Shortly after he released the RH Factor last year, trumpeter Roy Hargrove said, “They had me figured for a jazz guy. But I have roots in hip-hop and R&B. This album is just the opening of a door." On Dec. 7th at the Jazz Gallery, British alto player/rapper Soweto Kinch opened that door a little wider. ...
Soweto Kinch: Soweto Kinch: Conversations With The Unseen
by Mark Sabbatini
The journey from disdain to serious respect takes about twenty seconds. It just requires two minutes to get there.Soweto Kinch opens Conversations With The Unseen with a hip-hop “welcome to the session" rap that might trick new listeners (guilty) into thinking a bunch of self-hyping doo-wop lies ahead. But the alto saxophonist literally blows ...
Conversations With The Unseen
By Soweto Kinch
Label: Dune
Released: 2004
Track listing: Intro, Doxology, Conversations With The Unseen, Elision, Spokes And Pedals,
Intermission - Split Decision, Snakehips, Mungo's Adventure, The Flame-Thrower,
Equiano's Tears, Good Nyooz, Outro.
Soweto Kinch: Conversations With The Unseen
By Soweto Kinch
Label: Dune
Released: 2004
Track listing: Intro, Doxology, Conversations With The Unseen, Elision, Spokes And Pedals,
Intermission - Split
Decision, Snakehips, Mungo's Adventure, The Flame-Thrower, Equiano's Tears, Good
Nyooz, Outro
The Jazz Jamaica All Stars: Massive
by Jack Bowers
If one were to award points for boldness and thinking outside the box, the Jazz Jamaica All Stars would rank high by any measure. The All Stars, a large ensemble of (mostly) Brits, several with Caribbean or African roots, led by Jamaican bassist Gary Crosby (whose core group, the 10-piece Jazz Jamaica, has released two earlier ...
Jazz Jamaica All Stars: Massive
by Norman Weinstein
Jazz artists experimenting with Jamaican pop musical forms are nothing new, but this U.K. musical group does so with an imaginative freshness and an instrumental virtuosity that is groundbreaking. Led by bassist Gary Crosby, this ten piece band, augmented by a happy band of additional studio musicians, offers a completely beguiling synthesis of ska and jazz, ...
