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Hasaan Ibn Ali

Born: May 6, 1931

Mal Waldron: His Journey Across 12 Albums

by Carl Medsker
February 20, 2026

Mal Waldron's life story is compelling, and to mark his 2025 centenary, this article aims to introduce his work to those less familiar with it by tracing his journey across 12 distinctive recordings.  Max Roach once singled him out, along with Thelonious Monk, Herbie Nichols, Hasaan Ibn Ali and Randy Weston, as uniquely original ...

JoVia Armstrong, Adam Birnbaum and Vincent Hsu

by Jerome Wilson
February 28, 2024

This particular show is a bit on the quiet side, but it still features several varied jazz performers including JoVia Armstrong, Ralph Towner, Vincent Hsu, Dave Brubeck, and Adam Birnbaum. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) ...

Reaching For The Stars: Solos/Duos/Trios

By Hasaan Ibn Ali

Label: Omnivore Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Almost Like Me; Dinka Street; Pay Not Play Not (take 1); Viceroy; Off My Back Jack; Per Aspera Ad Astra; Stella By Starlight; Embraceable You; Body And Soul; After You’ve Gone (long version); The End of a Love Affair.

Hasaan Ibn Ali: Reaching For The Stars: Solos/Duos/Trios

by Doug Collette
November 17, 2023

Since its inception in 2010, Omnivore Recordings has applied a most stringent set of standards to its archival efforts devoted to the disparate likes of Merle Haggard, Maynard Ferguson and the Posies (and no less so in the occasional preparation and release of new content such as Americana master Peter Case). The label has ...

MetJazz 2023

by Neri Pollastri
March 20, 2023

Metastasio Jazz 2023 Prato Vari luoghi 11.2--11.3.2023 Dedicato all'intreccio tra tradizione e innovazione che da sempre caratterizza jazz e musica improvvisata, MetJazz 2023 s'è aperto il pomeriggio di sabato 11 febbraio, alla scuola di musica Giuseppe Verdi di Prato, con uno degli appuntamenti off, ovvero con una conferenza del direttore artistico ...

Cristiano Calcagnile Anokhi: Inversi

by Neri Pollastri
February 13, 2023

Avevamo visto dal vivo il trio Anokhi, praticamente al suo esordio, al Pinocchio Jazz di Firenze (clicca qui per leggerne la recensione) pochi mesi prima della registrazione di questo disco e ne eravamo rimasti molto impressionati. L'ascolto di Inversi conferma quell'impressione, permettendo di apprezzare più a fondo i dettagli della musica prodotta dalla formazione.

Pandelis Karayorgis Trio: The Hasaan, Hope & Monk Project

by Mark Corroto
December 20, 2022

Thelonious Monk is quoted as saying, “the piano ain't got no wrong notes." He most certainly said this in response to the criticism of his approach to both composing and performance. In what sounds blasphemous today, critics and other musicians in the early days of bebop flat out said he couldn't play. Perhaps the lesson here ...

Hasaan Ibn Ali: Requiem (And Praise) For A Heavyweight Pianist

by Victor L. Schermer
March 29, 2022

"The new release of Hasaan's Retrospect In Retirement Of Delay: The Solo Recordings (Omnivore Recordings, 2021), which features him in privately recorded performances from 1962 to 1965, reveals his profundity, his overwhelming power, his mighty virtuosity. It does more than put him on the map of jazz history—it expands the map to include the vast expanse ...

Retrospect in Retirement of Delay: The Solo Recordings

By Hasaan Ibn Ali

Label: Omnivore Recordings
Released: 2021
Track listing: CD 1: Falling In Love With Love; Atlantic Ones (Originally known as “Blue Is”); Yesterdays; Cherokee; Body And Soul; Off Minor; Off My Back Jack; They Say It’s Wonderful; On Green Dolphin Street; How Deep Is The Ocean; Arabic Song. CD 2: True Train (Part I); True Train (Part 2); Lover; Sweet And Lovely; Mean To Me; After You’ve Gone; It Could Happen To You; Untitled Ballad; Extemporaneous Prose-Poem; Bésame Mucho.