Results for "Hugh Ragin"

Hugh Ragin

A strikingly gifted post-bop trumpeter, Ragin's work as performer and composer was held in high esteem by his fellow musicians throughout the 80s and 90s. It was only at the end of the 90s, however, that word began to spread to a wider audience. Hugh Ragin, inspiring teacher, creative composer and trumpet virtuoso, has been named "a trumpeter with very few peers in terms of imagination or technical command" by jazz biographer Francis Davis in his notes for the "Live At The Knitting Factory" recording with Roscoe Mitchell. Ragin has also collaborated with musicians such as David Murray, Anthony Braxton, Dizzy Gillespie, Spencer Barefield, Fred Wesley, Leo Smith, Sun Ra, Maynard Ferguson, D.D

The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris

By Art Ensemble Of Chicago

Label: Rogue Art
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD 1: Leola; Introduction to Cards; Cards; Improvisation One; Ritual "Great Black Music"; Kumpa / Stormy Weather; New Coming; Jigiba / I Feel Like Dancing; Bulawayo Korokokoko. CD 2: We Are on the Edge; Variations and Sketches from the Bamboo Terrace; I Greet you with Open Arms; Funky AECO; Improvisation Two.

David Sanford Big Band feat. Hugh Ragin: A Prayer for Lester Bowie

by Angelo Leonardi
February 1, 2022

La variopinta composizione di Hugh Ragin dedicata a Lester Bowie dà il titolo al nuovo album di David Sanford ma non ne esaurisce gli intenti. Il premiato compositore, bandleader e didatta di Pittsburgh aggiunge infatti sette suoi nuovi brani, confermando fantasiosa padronanza del disegno orchestrale in equilibrio tra linguaggio contemporaneo e tradizione. I ...

A Prayer for Lester Bowie

Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Full Immersion; Subtraf; Woman in Shadows; Popit; A Prayer For Lester Bowie; Dizzy Atmosphere; Soldier and the CEO; V-Reel.

A Conversation with Amiri Baraka

by Lazaro Vega
July 16, 2021

From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in November 1999. All About Jazz: I'm just really happy to see that in the last year or so you've become a much more public figure outside of academia through the recording with Hugh Ragin, Afternoon in Harlem on Justin-time, that When ...

Vilnius Jazz 2019

by Ian Patterson
November 15, 2019

Vilnius Jazz 2019 Russian Drama Theatre jny:Vilnius, Lithuania October 16-20, 2019 Is a jazz festival primarily about entertainment, or is it meant to challenge the expectations of its audience? Does programming risk mean financial suicide? What responsibility does a festival have to promote young, emerging talent? What place do women ...

Wadada Leo Smith: Rosa Parks: Pure Love. An Oratorio of Seven Songs

by Giuseppe Segala
October 28, 2019

Un lavoro ambizioso, profondo e impegnativo, questo Rosa Parks: Pure Love. An Oratorio of Seven Songs di Wadada Leo Smith, dove il musicista affronta nuovamente con passione un capitolo della vicenda nero-americana per la dignità e i Diritti Civili negli Stati Uniti. Ricordiamo lo splendido lavoro, riunito in un cofanetto di quattro CD pubblicato nel 2012 ...

The Art Ensemble of Chicago: We Are on the Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration

by Giuseppe Segala
August 12, 2019

Quanta storia. Nel 1969 Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman e il più riluttante Malachi Favors, spinti dalla lungimiranza avventurosa di Lester Bowie, si trasferirono a Parigi, accolti dalla comunità degli artisti e degli appassionati con grande attenzione. Tra questi, c'era il batterista e promotore parigino Claude Delcloo, particolarmente attivo e in contatto fin dal 1968 con l'AACM ...

The Art Ensemble of Chicago: We Are On The Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration

by Karl Ackermann
May 8, 2019

Bassist Malachi Favors, trumpeter Lester Bowie and saxophonist Joseph Jarman have all passed on, leaving the Art Ensemble of Chicago's remaining original members, saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell and drummer Famoudou Don Moye, to rebuild. We Are on the Edge is a double-CD package; it is a fifty-year celebration of the group, and a dedication to the departed ...

The Art Ensemble of Chicago: We Are On The Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration

by Mark Corroto
April 25, 2019

Seventy plus recordings and fifty years since the inception of The Art Ensemble Of Chicago. I mean the Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble, its original name. Born of Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), the band sojourned to Paris and soon changed its name to The Art Ensemble Of Chicago to reflect the corroborative ...