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Elliot Mason

Elliot Mason (Trombone), born in England. He began trumpet lessons with his father at age four. At age seven, struck with an overwhelming curiosity in his father’s trombone, young Mason soon switched his focus from the trumpet. As an eleven-year-old, Mr. Mason was already performing as a trombonist in dance halls, theaters, clubs, and pubs, covering all styles of music but concentrating primarily on jazz and improvisation. At fifteen, he won the national Daily Telegraph Young Jazz Soloist (under 25) Award and was featured at John Dankworth’s Wavendon Jazz School. Entering alternate age categories the next year, Elliot and his brother Brad, as the Mason brothers, won the national competition a second time and by age sixteen, Mr

The Democracy! Suite

By JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS

Label: Blue Engine Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Be Present; Sloganize, Patronize, Realize, Revolutionize (Black Lives Matter); Ballot Box Bounce; That Dance That We Do; Deeper Than Dreams; Out Amongst the People (For J Bat); It Come 'Round 'Gin; Tjat's When All Will See.

The Democracy Now! Suite

By WYNTON MARSALIS

Label: Blue Engine Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Be present; Sloganize, Patronize, Realize, Revolutionize (Black Lives Matter); Ballot Box Bounce; The Dance We Do (That You Love Too); Deeper Than Dreams; Out Amongst tjhe People (for J Bat); It Come 'Round 'Gin; That's When All Will See

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis: The Democracy! Suite

By PAUL RAUCH

There is an interesting generational divide in perception when it comes to the music of Wynton Marsalis. While many hail his work at Lincoln Center as elevating jazz to its rightful place among the fine arts, others lament the separation from his iconic quartet and quintet work in the 1980's as some sort of jazz treason. ...

Sofijazz

By SOFIJA KNEZEVIC

Label: Archival Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: 1. Superhero 2. Te Gosto 3. Lies of Handsome Men 4. Happy Talk 5. You're Everything 6. Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most 7. Criticize 8. Outside 9. Batida Diferente 10. Clover 11. Bluez 12. Kisa Pada 13. Sejdefu

Before, Now & After

By ELLIOT MASON

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: Before, Now & After; Caravan; Vulnerable; Passion Dance; And Then There Were <3; Resolution; In A Sentimental Mood; Let Me Ask You Something.

Lakecia Benjamin in Conversation

By NICK DAVIES

Welcome to the first installment of The Crazeology Radio Show on All About Jazz where I play a mix of new and old tunes with a focus on progressive jazz as well as songs with a beat. This week's show includes an interview with saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin where we discuss her new album Rise (Ropeadope),

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Chick Corea at the Kimmel Center

By VICTOR L. SCHERMER

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Chick Corea The Music of Thelonious Monk Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Academy of Music Philadelphia, PA April 8, 2018 In the words of Robin Kelley, Thelonious Monk's definitive biographer, Monk was “An ...

February 2018: The Necks, Vienna Art Orchestra, Elliot Mason

By PATRICK BURNETTE

After a January of unusual episodes, the boys are back in the groove for February. Episode 133 features a wide spread of entries, from Juli Wood's tribute to Finnish folk music Synkka Metsa to the Vienna Art Orchestra's energetic homage Duke Ellington's Sound of Love. Alex Sipiagin's Returning also gets a thorough look-in, along ...

Elliot Mason & Cre8tion: Before, Now & After

By DAN BILAWSKY

Jazz has no shortage of albums dealing with the past-present-future continuum--quite the opposite, in fact--but few carry as personal a tone as trombonist Elliot Mason's debut leader date. While speaking to broad concepts in dealing with the music's history and the notion of time taking form as one giant through line, Mason also inserts family ties ...