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Delmark Records New Jazz and Blues Releases for the Fall!!
DELMARK RECORDS—New Releases for September and October 2010 Street Date September 21, 2010 Junior Wells & The Aces—Live in Boston 1966 (Delmark DE 809) This live recording takes us back to just a few months after the release of the legendary Hoodoo Man Blues (Delmark 612) album. Junior is accompanied by the Aces—Louis Myers, guitar; Dave ...
Chicago Underground Duo: Boca Negra
by Chris May
Drummer Chad Taylor's and cornetist Rob Mazurek's intention with Boca Negra is to present the listener with “an emotional experience that transcends the idea of genre or label." The principle of inclusiveness starts with the recording location, Sao Paulo in Brazil, and continues through to the album's packaging: the cover shot was taken on the shore ...
Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown: Varmint
by Troy Collins
Varmint is the sophomore follow up to Rolldown (482 Music, 2008), the self-titled debut of vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz's quintet. Inspired by the avant-garde innovations of such late 1960s Blue Note recording artists as Eric Dolphy, Andrew Hill, Bobby Hutcherson, Jackie McLean, and Grachan Moncur III, Adasiewicz continues to explore the tenuous divide between inside and outside ...
Philadelphia Music Project Announces 2009 Grant Awards
Support from the Philadelphia Music Project brings 118 Events to the Philadelphia region Nineteen local music organizations receive almost $1.2 million in funding Philadelphia, PA -- The Philadelphia Music Project (PMP), a program of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, has awarded $1,179,675 to 19 local music organizations in support of 118 concerts and residency ...
We Are All From Somewhere Else
Label: Thrill Jockey
Released: 2007
Track listing: Sting Ray and the Beginning of Time: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (Psycho-Tropic Electric Eel Dream), Part 4; Black Sun; Cosmic Tomes For Sleep Walking Lovers: Part 1, Part 2; Part 3; Part 4 (Fifteen Ways Towards a Finite Universe); Part 5.
Exploding Star Orchestra: We Are from Somewhere Else
by AAJ Italy Staff
Per potere vivere davvero su una stella che esplode, bisogna esplorarla a fondo e negli ultimi anni Rob Mazurek lo sta facendo con una curiosità e un'energia creativa davvero singolari, infilando il suono acuminato della propria cornetta nelle fessure tra i mondi e aprendone i meccanismi in un'esplosione di colori e suoni davvero straordinaria. Così, dopo ...
Exploding Star Orchestra: We Are All From Somewhere Else
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
This record bristles with the hubris of an artist who ignores conventional notions of prevailing styles, blithely imposes his own aesthetic vision, and achieves a rousing artistic success in the end. That artist is Chicago-turned-São Paulo cornetist Rob Mazurek, who composed and conducted this performance.This record also bristles with the sound of electric eels. ...
We Are All From Somewhere Else
Label: Thrill Jockey
Released: 2006
Track listing: Sting Ray And The Beginning of Time: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (Psycho-Tropic Electric Eel Dream), Part 4; Black Sun; Cosmic Tomes For Sleep Walking Lovers: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (Fifteen Ways Towards A Finite Universe), Part 5.
Exploding Star Orchestra: We Are All From Somewhere Else
by Troy Collins
Working from a commission by the Chicago Cultural Center and the Jazz Institute to assemble a group representing Chicago's contemporary avant-garde, cornetist/composer Rob Mazurek's newest venture, the Exploding Star Orchestra, has long since eclipsed its provisional origins. Conceptualized and composed between Brazil, France and the States, We Are All From Somewhere Else is as ambitious in ...
