Results for "Hugh Ragin"

Futurist Song Forms, vol. 2

By Hugh Ragin

Label: Kreating SounD
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1. five & time 11:43 2. Shangles 2:29 3. Entropy B 2:33 4. Deferential Trap 5:06 5. Degrees of Nothing 8:05 6. 2Minds 14:57 7. flurry, flow, fade 8:56

Four Phase

By Hugh Ragin

Label: Kreating SounD
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1. Ease On In 12:50 2. Frizzle 6:07 3. March 2021 16:51 4. One Drop 4:42 5. Some Scovilles 8:32 6. Casual Loose Fit 15:30

Occurrency

By Hugh Ragin

Label: Rightbrain Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1. Tainted 3:20 2. The Intrapersonal 5:09 3. Swinging Questions 6:48 4. Runnin’ 13:56 5. Bleatings & Bamboo Sticks 6:41

Entanglements

By Hugh Ragin

Label: Rightbrain Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1. Dust Off 9:04 2. Expensive 8:11 3. I-25 Deletion 22:29

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

By David Sanford

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 ...

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

Vilnius Jazz 2019

by Ian Patterson
November 15, 2019

Vilnius Jazz 2019 Russian Drama Theatre 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 ...