Results for "EJ Strickland"

Time Traveler

By Nnenna Freelon

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: I Say a Little Prayer; Marvin Medley; Just You; Betcha By Golly Wow; Time in a Bottle; You Make Me Feel Brand New; Moon River; Time After Time; Come Rain or Come Shine; Time Traveler; Time Traveler (Reprise).

2021 Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland

by John Chacona
September 21, 2021

Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland Cain Park September 11-12, 2021 Witnessing the moment-by-moment interaction between musicians is one of the sublime pleasures of attending a jazz concert. There were plenty of opportunities to do just that during the Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland, but for me the sweetest such encounter didn't occur onstage. It happened between ...

E.J. Strickland

For over 16 years drummer, composer, and bandleader E.J. Strickland has toured, performed, & recorded with The Ravi Coltrane Quartet, The Marcus Strickland Quartet & Trio, The Russell Malone Quartet, & countless other world renown artists. He currently leads his own bands The E.J. Strickland Quintet & The E.J. Strickland Project. His playing has been described as emitting “fields of cumulative energy, clouds of feather-touch and heavy-handed syncopations, latent with power like an oncoming storm” (Thomas Conrad, Downbeat Magazine). He attended high school at New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida and then The New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music for his college years

EJ Strickland: The Undying Spirit

by Angelo Leonardi
September 17, 2015

A sei anni da In This Day (Strick Muzik, 2009), suo debutto in veste di leader, E.J. Strickland ritorna in sala d'incisione con un organico quasi identico, ma senza ospiti, confermando i suoi partner abituali: il fratello gemello Marcus, il pianista Luis Perdomo e il sassofonista contralto Jaleel Shaw. L'unico cambiamento è la sostituzione del bassista ...

Manuel Valera Trio: Live at Firehouse 12

by Edward Blanco
May 22, 2015

Leader of the Latin jazz-styled group New Cuban Express, New York-based, Cuban-born pianist Manuel Valera, unveils his 10th album as leader and his first recording in a live setting with the untypically non-Latin Live at Firehouse 12, his first trio format release in six years. This, very excellent trio features jazz luminaries Hans Glawischnig on bass ...

EJ Strickland: The Undying Spirit

by C. Michael Bailey
April 8, 2015

Drummer Enoch Jamal Strickland belongs to a technically brilliant and forward-thinking group of young musicians that include multi-reedist Sharel Cassity, vocalist/trombonist Natalie Cressman, and violinist/vocalist Nora Germaine. These musicians prove that youth is not wasted on the young. Strickland, New School-educated, is a veteran of The Ravi Coltrane Quartet, The Marcus Strickland Quartet and Trio, and ...

Manuel Valera Trio: Live at Firehouse 12

by C. Michael Bailey
March 22, 2015

Cuban pianist Manuel Valera readily extends the jazz language of his predecessors Bebo and Chucho Valdes. He is comfortable leading all band formats from septets (In Motion (Criss Cross, 2014) to solo performance (Self Portrait (Self Produced, 2014). Valera may presently be found fronting an exceptional trio performing Live at Firehouse 12. Orchestral ...

Ian Sims And Divergent Paths: Conundrum

by Dan Bilawsky
February 11, 2015

The title of saxophonist Ian Sims' debut recording is a bit of a misnomer, for his music isn't trying, confusing, or difficult to unravel. This is certainly modern jazz, but it's not modern jazz of the confounding and disorienting variety. For his first album, the Baltimore-based tenor man put together a quintet of ...

Gerard D'Angelo: Who's Kidding Who?

by DanMichael Reyes
March 17, 2014

The old adage about those who can do and those who can't teach doesn't fit nicely into any music tradition. If this fallacy were to hold true, then it would be best for music history books to write off Joseph Haydn for taking on pupils--Beethoven being one of the more famous ones. That old idiom penned ...

Jaleel Shaw: Philly Soul

by George Colligan
December 17, 2013

[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth ] Jaleel Shaw has been one of my favorite young alto players for about a decade. We first played together with the Charles Mingus Band, and we kept in touch over the years. I've worked a few times in his ...