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Ama Tu Sonrisa
By Antonio Hart
Label: Enja Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: For Amadou; Ama Tu Sonrisa; Distant Cousins; Wayne's Lament; Forward Motion; Have You Met Miss Jones; Somewhere; Peace, Love, and Light; Grover Washington, Jr.; El Professor. Running time- 52:23.
JADU
Label: Enja Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Stopover Sydney; Dumela Azania; Surfers
Abdullah Ibrahim with the NDR Big Band: Ekapa Ludumo
by C. Michael Bailey
Multicultural Bliss. Abdullah Ibrahim, aka Dollar Brand, born Adolph Johannes Brand, was born in Cape Town South Africa in 1934. He is credited with taking part in the first jazz recording session in South Africa, a date where he joined American pianist John Mohegan for Jazz in Africa. Since that time, Ibrahim has traveled widely, finally ...
Marty Ehrlich: Song
by David Adler
Reedsman Marty Ehrlich enlists pianist Uri Caine, bassist Michael Formanek, and drummer Billy Drummond for this lyrical, swinging, accessible set. After opening with Robin Holcomb’s melancholy “Waltz" (a feature for Ehrlich’s brilliant bass clarinet), the quartet embarks on a trilogy of Ehrlich-penned pieces. “The Price of the Ticket," inspired by James Baldwin, begins with a beautifully ...
Marty Ehrlich: Song
by David Adler
Reedsman Marty Ehrlich enlists pianist Uri Caine, bassist Michael Formanek, and drummer Billy Drummond for this lyrical, swinging, accessible set. After opening with Robin Holcomb's melancholy “Waltz" (a feature for Ehrlich's brilliant bass clarinet), the quartet embarks on a trilogy of Ehrlich-penned pieces. “The Price of the Ticket," inspired by James Baldwin, begins with a beautifully ...
Antonio Hart: Ama Tu Sonrisa
by AAJ Staff
Since we last heard from the young alto player Antonio Hart, it was with the well-received album “Here I Stand" he cut for the former Impulse label. That record was a declaration of Hart's commitment to embracing an organic unity of music and life, and as such was prefaced by a quote from Alvin Ailey that ...
Gail Thompson and the Jazz Africa All Nations Big Band: JADU
by Jack Bowers
Gail Thompson, a rising young star on the British Jazz scene, founded the Jazz Africa Project about a dozen years ago. From that initiative came the Jazz Africa All Nations Big Band, which has been delighting audiences all over Great Britain ever since. The ensemble gained further recognition at the 1995 Duisburg “Viva la Black!” Festival ...
The Maria Schneider Orchestra: Allegresse
by Jack Bowers
There are no liner notes in the booklet accompanying the latest release by the Maria Schneider Orchestra, but there are five candid close'ups of Schneider conducting, and another photograph on the front cover in which she is seen holding a white rose to her face. So exactly what is being promoted here? Leaving the rhetorical question ...
