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Jason Moran: Artist in Residence

Read "Artist in Residence" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Abbiamo spesso parlato in queste pagine di Jason Moran, tra i pianisti più significativi della sua generazione, tanto più interessante in quanto si muove spesso in territori fortemente codificati. In Artist In Residence Moran ha riunito e “montato" alcuni estratti di tre commissioni ricevute nel 2005, rispettivamente dal Lincoln Center, dal Walker Art Center di Minneapolis ...

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Jason Moran: Artist in Residence

Read "Artist in Residence" reviewed by Joel Roberts


While most jazz artists, even the great ones, tend to stick to the tried and true, Jason Moran has risen to the upper echelon of the jazz world by constantly challenging his audience. Listeners never really know what to expect from the 31-year-old pianist except that it's going to be fresh, intellectually rigorous, exceedingly of-the-moment music ...

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Jason Moran: Artist in Residence

Read "Artist in Residence" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


Art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, and Jason Moran's Artist In Residence is no exception. An enigmatic traditionalist, Moran has produced releases that are as diverse as his reinterpretation the blues on Same Mother (Blue Note, 2005) or his conceptualization of the soundtrack of daily life on his debut, Soundtrack to Human ...

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Jason Moran: Artist in Residence

Read "Artist in Residence" reviewed by Paul Olson


Pianist/composer Jason Moran has never made the same album twice. While his Bandwagon group with bassist Tarus Mateen, drummer Nasheet Waits and, of late, guitarist Marvin Sewell, remains a constant presence on all but his 2002 solo record Modernistic, it's the only constant in a recorded career marked by a restless insistence on trying out new ...

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Jason Moran's Bandwagon Packs Kennedy Center

Read "Jason Moran's Bandwagon Packs Kennedy Center" reviewed by Franz A. Matzner


The year separating their debut at the Kennedy Center Jazz Club and last week's performance has been a good one for Jason Moran and his Bandwagon trio. The success of their album Live at the Village Vanguard secured Moran's standing as one of jazz's ascending stars, and the follow-up quartet release Same Mother has served to ...

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Jason Moran: Same Mother

Read "Same Mother" reviewed by Mark Sabbatini


Jason Moran is among a handful of modern pianists whose work often demands a listen as soon as it's released, since most other players will be trying to imitate it tomorrow. He doesn't quite meet those expectations on Same Mother, an album heavy on blues and soundtrack elements that represents his sixth project as a leader. ...

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Jason Moran: Same Mother

Read "Same Mother" reviewed by John Kelman


Contrary to popular opinion, the blues transcends structured musical form. Rather, it is a feeling that imbues, a deep and dark sense of despair that pervades. Regardless of the context, there was always something distinctly blue about the way Miles Davis approached every phrase. Similarly, while his music in no way relates to conventional blues form, ...

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Jason Moran: Same Mother

Read "Same Mother" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


Jason Moran and his Bandwagon (bassist Tarus Mateen, drummer Nasheet Waits, and newcomer guitarist Marvin Sewell) speak the blues in fine jazz form on their new adventure, Same Mother. The title comes from a comment Moran's wife made in a discussion about tap dancer Savion Glover which states “...that jazz movement and blues movement in dance ...

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Jason Moran: Same Mother

Read "Same Mother" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Jazz and blues have the same mother. They were the first recorded music styles that allowed black people to fully express themselves. And therein lies the heart of Jason Moran's latest album. Same Mother is a re-examination of the blues, not so much of its formal or harmonic elements, but rather its emotional and aesthetic constituents. ...

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Jason Moran: Same Mother

Read "Same Mother" reviewed by Jim Santella


Based on a film score that he wrote, Jason Moran introduces blues from the Deep South on Same Mother. The film, Five Short Breaths, depicts the raw outlook of life in a Mississippi prison during the 1940s. Thus, with his sixth Blue Note release, he's able to prove to the world once and for all that ...


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