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Starmelodics

Label: Nuscope Recordings
Released: 2009
Track listing: Starmelodics; Fifteen Languages; Vancouver; Birdz; Flac; Sigma; Qualtinger; Seattle; Myth.
Clean Feed Records: Eat the Plate

by Mark Corroto
Clean Feed records, founded in 2001, has been the most prolific and adventurous label for jazz this new century. Based in Lisbon, Portugal their offerings have included many of jazz's old guard including reed players Evan Parker, Paul Dunmall, Charles Gayle, Vinny Golia and Anthony Braxton and trumpeters Dennis Gonzalez and Herb Robertson, along with current ...
Paul Giallorenzo: Get In To Go Out

by Mark Corroto
Pianist Paul Giallorenzo locates the jazz he makes with his quintet somewhere in the early 1960s, when post-bop was getting ready to explode into free jazz and its pioneers were rooted in swing, but thinking outward thoughts. Eric Dolphy's Out To Lunch (Blue Note, 1964), Ornette Coleman's Tomorrow Is The Question (Contemporary, 1959), and Andrew Hill's ...
Drummer/Composer Harris Eisenstadt Interviewed at AAJ

Over the past decade, drummer, bandleader and composer Harris Eisenstadt has been a force in improvised music, active in both Los Angeles and New York (where he now resides). It's a testament to his creativity and energy that his ensembles have run the gamut from free-bop in the vein of post-Blue Note small groups, to orchestral ...
Harris Eisenstadt: From Mbalax to Canada Day

by Clifford Allen
Over the past decade, drummer, bandleader and composer Harris Eisenstadt has been a force in improvised music, active in both Los Angeles and New York (where he now resides). It's a testament to his creativity and energy that his ensembles have run the gamut from free-bop in the vein of post-Blue Note small groups, to orchestral ...
Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day

by Clifford Allen
Drummer and composer Harris Eisenstadt has, at age 33, a rather lengthy discography and one that's incredibly diverse for a drummer who could have stuck to cutting teeth as an able sideman in contemporary improvisation. As a leader, his story is even more expansive, running the gamut from Senegalese Mbalax to free-bop. Canada Day is a ...
Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day

by Troy Collins
A consummate example of the traveling musician, Canadian-born composer/percussionist Harris Eisenstadt's journeys have taken him from a long-term residency on the West Coast (with frequent trips to Chicago) to multiple trips abroad to study drumming in West Africa before relocating to New York. The majority of Eisenstadt's releases have been documents of singular projects; ad-hoc ensembles ...
Alexander Hawkins Ensemble at the Vortex, London

by John Sharpe
Alexander Hawkins Ensemble The Vortex London, England August 10, 2009 If you can judge a person by the company he keeps, then pianist Alexander Hawkins must be someone to watch given his musical associations, both actual and virtual. The packed house at the Vortex certainly thought so, confounding Hawkins' ...
2009 JJA Jazz Awards Set for Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 3 to 6 P.M.

The Jazz Journalists Association's 13th Annual Jazz Awards Honoring excellence in music-making, presentation, production, jazz journalism and A Team" activism and advocacy Nominations released, Winners to be Announced at Jazz Standard 116 E. 27th St., New York City Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 3 to 6 p.m. In a year notable ...
Taylor Ho Bynum and Harris Eisenstadt in London: A Second Anglo/American Convergence

by John Sharpe
Convergence Quartet The Vortex London, U.K. April 27, 2009 Last sighted on these shores in the autumn of 2006, the success of the Convergence Quartet 's inaugural meeting has now borne the fruit of a further tour for cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, drummer Harris Eisenstadt, and the up-and-coming English pairing ...