Results for "E.J. Strickland"

The Lights Are Always On

May 19, 2022

Album: The Lights Are Always On
By Lynne Arriale
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 3:23

The Way We Are Created

By Gabriel Vicéns

Label: Inner Circle Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: The Way We Are Created; It Doesn't Matter; Caribeño Pensador; The Upcoming; A City Of Many Mysteries; Fuera de mi Cuerpo; To the Unknown; Retorno; The Mystery of S.T.

Solace

By Dave Mullen

Label: Mullsoul Music Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: The Grind; Shanna Shuffle; For Michael; Satin Doll; Mane Tronk; Kinda Green; Like Rahsaan.

Gabriel Vicéns: The Way We Are Created

by Mark Sullivan
November 11, 2021

Puerto Rican jazz guitarist & composer Gabriel Vicéns has been living in New York City since 2016 but, for this album, he chose to explore traditional Puerto Rican music (Bomba and Plena—music and dance styles born from African slavery and Caribbean influences) blended with his own compositional style. He was also exposed to Cuban Changüí, and ...

Logan Richardson: To Boldly Go Where No Jazz Has Gone Before

by Chris May
March 8, 2021

In a 2016 interview, Kansas City-born alto saxophonist Logan Richardson said: “Jazz will constantly change because there's constantly a new us, new times. There will always be a fight from the conformists--but they don't represent where the tradition is coming from." Richardson was talking not long after the release of his adventurous Blue Note album, Shift, ...

Gabriel Vicéns: A Growing Voice In Jazz

by R.J. DeLuke
January 26, 2021

Guitarist Gabriel Vicéns from Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, has only been on the New York City scene for about five years. But his rich tone and engaging style have gained him a reputation--still growing--as a remarkable voice and an artist with something valid to say. He's not a guitar shredder, though he has plenty of ...

What We Do Now

By Taka Nawashiro

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: No Turkey; Without a Soul(feat. Milena Casado Fauquet); Song For Orange; Alone Together; Don't Know Anymore(feat. Judette Elliston).

Alice Coltrane: In the Spirit

by Kurt Gottschalk
May 24, 2020

From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in December 2002. Alice Coltrane walked out onstage, joining an ensemble led by her son Ravi on a recent and historic night at Joe's Pub. The bassist Darryl Hall played an immediately recognizable four-note line and the group (also featuring drummer E.J. ...

E.J. Strickland

Enoch Jamal "E.J." Strickland is the world-class, world-traveled drummer, composer, educator, and artist you've heard on over 60 albums in the last 10-plus years. The Miami native grew up in a creative household, where his dad was a percussionist in the Ft. Lauderdale Orchestra; his twin brother Marcus played the saxophone.

Like so many talented artists before him, E.J. chose the New School to further his jazz education, a course of study that would introduce him to greater technical ability, but really, to the meat of any jazz program: teachers and peers.

E.J. quickly graduated into New York's gigging jazz scene, playing early on with Russell Malone and Ravi Coltrane.

Chimes of Freedom

By Lynne Arriale

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child; Journey; The Dreamers; 3 Million Steps; Hope; The Whole Truth; Lady Liberty; Reunion; Chimes of Freedom; American Tune.