Results for "Free"

Joost Lijbaart: Free

by Ian Patterson
December 10, 2020

As a student in the 1980s, Dutch drummer-percussionist Joost Lijbaart first dreamt of making a solo album, inspired by the examples of Tony Oxley, Pierre Favre, Art Blakey, Max Roach and Jack DeJohnette. A successful recording and touring career with Yuri Honing—and with his own groups—left little time for such a focused project. In 2014, Lijbaart ...

Nebula

Nebula is a young band from Groningen, The Netherlands, playing entirely improvised music. The quartet likes to dive into the alchemy of sounds and discover new possibilities within the realm of instant composing. The band got together whilst studying Jazz at the Prins Claus Conservatorium in Groningen, with the desire to improvise without any rules or restrictions. Letting go of the concepts and ideals they were taught enabled them to cultivate their own sound. Naturally, the focus of Nebula has always been live shows. The purpose of the band is to go into a new auditory universe, bringing their audiences with them. Describing their sound can be quite difficult because of the eclectic and ever-changing character of the music

Fred Tompkins

Born: May 26, 1943

Fred Tompkins was born in St. Louis in 1943. After high school he played tenor saxophone in and around his home town for several years before beginning the formal study of music at the St. Louis Insitute of Music, in 1964. By this time his strongest influences were jazz artists such as John Coltrane, Art Blakey, and the Jazz Messengers and the M.J.Q., and classical composers such as Paul Hindemith and Béla Bartók.

His earliest compositions, as originally recorded on the album, Compositions of Fred Tompkins, showed a natural tendency to combine those genres into his own style. Some of the pieces tended to exploit a dramatic contrast between genres, but soon the transitions became smoother and the styles more synthesized. The best of those early pieces and the best pieces from his subsequent and more fully developed album of 1975, Somesville, can now be heard on the compilation CD, FANFARE 8, The Early Works. [NOTE: The videos uploaded on AAJ represent Tompkins' free improv style of performance; to hear samples of his compositions, please visit the CD page on his website: http://www.tompkinsjazz.com/albums/]

Davy Knowles: Best of the Bootlegs 2017

by Doug Collette
February 24, 2018

Davy Knowles inaugurated a monthly series of live concert downloads during the course of 2017. As the title denotes, Best of the Bootlegs 2017 is purportedly the proverbial cream of that digital crop, and the approximately seventy-five minute CD fairly well depicts the live presentations of the Isle of Man native. The collection succeeds ...

Free

By Uri Gincel

Label: Unit Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: 1. If I Were a Bell 12:31; 2. Parpar 07:17; 3. Syeeda’s Song Flute 06:54; 4. July 06:35; 5. Tomer 06:24; 6. India 06:18; 7. Free 05:15; 8. Avre tu puerta cerrada 07:18.

Uri Gincel Trio: Free

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 25, 2013

Informazioni biografiche ridotte all'essenziale - di sé tiene a far sapere che è un pianista israeliano stabilitosi a Berlino nel 2009 -, Uri Gincel pare essere uno di quegli artisti che puntano poco sull'autore e molto sull'opera. E fa bene. Questo suo disco in trio ha un titolo solo all'apparenza programmatico: Free. All'ascolto poi si rivela ...

Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss Curate 3-CD Set for 50th anniversary of A&M Records

July 18, 2012

It’s an archetypal story of the modern record business – two guys with a dream running their nascent label out of a West Hollywood garage in the summer of 1962. The label quickly gains momentum and eventually becomes one of the most important record companies the world has ever seen. The two guys were Herb Alpert ...

Free: Free Forever

by Doug Collette
May 22, 2010

Free Free Forever Eagle Vision 2010 (2006) Free was one of the most distinctive bands to emerge from the British blues-rock boom of the late 1960s, albeit a one-hit wonder to the audience that enjoyed its biggest mainstream success, “All Right Now." The full-length version of that single appeared on ...

Free

By Marcus Miller

Label: Dreyfus Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: 01. Blast; 02. Funk Joint; 03. Free; 04. Strum; 05. Milky Way; 06. Pluck (Interlude); 07. When I Fall in Love; 08. Jean Pierre; 09. Higher Ground; 10. What Is Hip?

Marcus Miller: Free

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 30, 2008

Marcus Miller riporta prepotentemente il focus sullo strumento che lo ha fatto diventare famoso alla corte di re Miles Davis. Era il lontano 1981 e il suono del basso elettrico di Marcus era uno degli ingredienti più interessanti che segnarono il ritorno sulle scene del trombettista, dopo cinque anni abbondanti di esilio auto-imposto. Fu un legame ...