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Retrospect in Retirement of Delay: The Solo Recordings

by Doug Collette
Solo musical performances are a rare and unusual experience unto themselves for both artist and audience. Whether song-oriented or in improvisational mode, the creator offers the work from a stance of vulnerability in the hope of connecting with the observers in such a way that the intimacy of the moment(s) provides insight into the minds and ...
Hasaan Ibn Ali: Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album

by Doug Collette
It has been years since the woefully unsung pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali recorded Metaphysics and, while its circuitous route to release is worth more than a little note, that story seems to have taken precedence over insight into and observation of the music itself. In keeping with its customarily astute archival approach, the Omnivore curating team ...
Hasaan Ibn Ali: Metaphysics

Abstractionism in music is just over 100 years old. Largely a reaction to the inner torment of chaotic events that the artist can't process, abstractionism dates to the summer of 1908 and the jilting of Arnold Schoenberg. Back then, his wife, Mathilde, left him in Vienna and spent several months with a young Austrian painter. The ...
Hasaan Ibn Ali: Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album

by Karl Ackermann
The hard bop, Philadelphia pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali had a short, troubled life. On what was believed his only recording, The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan (Atlantic, 1965), the drummer placed Ali's full image front and center, his name in a larger font on the LP cover. Within the Philadelphia jazz community, he was ...
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