Results for "Jay Hoggard"

Jay Hoggard

Born: September 31, 1954

Vibraphonist, Composer Jay Hoggard’s music has touched the hearts and souls of listeners around Planet Earth for 40 years. Jay Hoggard has long ranked with the greatest vibraphone innovators. Jay’s music is positive, spiritual, uplifting, and happy. He masterfully draws on traditional and contemporary musical vocabulary to develop new directions for the vibraphone. Jay seamlessly blends jazz and gospel roots with African marimba rhythms. His performance repertoire represents the three B’s of the jazz tradition (Blues, Bop, Ballads) with original innovations. Born in Washington, DC, Jay Hoggard was raised in Mt

Derrick Gardner, Logan Richardson & Barry Harris

by Joe Dimino
April 18, 2021

We start with a track off of big band director's Derrick Gardner 2020 album Still I Rise. We add some Kansas City spice with Charlie Parker and stellar saxophonist Logan Richardson with music from his Afrofuturism (Whirlwind Recordings, 2021) release. We also take a look at the new work from Matt Moran, Adam Shulman and Grant ...

The Creative Musicians Improvisers Forum: New Haven's AACM

by Daniel Barbiero
July 8, 2019

The late 1960s through the 1970s and '80s were difficult years for jazz and jazz-derived improvised music, but they were also years that saw musicians—by necessity—respond to these difficulties with creative solutions. With first the rise and then the commercial dominance during those years of rock music and the corresponding eclipse of jazz, creative musicians in ...

I Am Free

Featuring the music of Jay Hoggard
Duration: 9:09
June 11, 2019

Giacomo Gates: G8S

by Nicholas F. Mondello
November 11, 2018

2018 worldwide news reports have detailed all sorts of technologically-assisted archaeological finds. In the US, a previously unreleased John Coltrane album and other musical discoveries have popped up. And--whaddya know?--here is an unreleased and enhanced set of tracks from the Hipster to the Hip, Giacomo Gates. And it is a helluva find, you dig?

A Walk Thru The Colorful Forest

July 19, 2018

Album: Harlem Hieroglyphs
By Jay Hoggard
Label: JHVM Recordings
Released: 2016
Duration: 7:18

Harlem Hieroglyphs

By Jay Hoggard

Label: JHVM Recordings
Released: 2016
Track listing: 1. If I Were a Bell 2. Harlem Jazzbirds Swingin' and Swayin' 3. Let Me Make It Clear 4. I Am Free 5. Everything Must Change 6. Piety and Redemption 7. A Walk Through the Colorful Forest 8. Sonic Hieroglyphics 9. I'm Gonna Show You That I Love You 10. On a Wing and a Prayer 11. Airegin 12. I Live Because I Breathe 13. Disposable Consumption, Pt. 1 14. Sunlight Thru Pine and Mahogany 15. Mystical Cycles of Skin, Wood, and Metal 16. My Love 17. Pleasant Memories 18. Disposable Consumption, Pt. 2

Harlem Hieroglyphs - A Jazz, Blues, And Ballads Concert With The Jay Hoggard Quartet On Saturday, November 19 At Fieldston School Student-Faculty Lounge (Bronx, NY)

October 28, 2016

Jay Hoggard and his quartet will perform ballads, bop, and blues, and music that blends jazz and gospel roots with African Marimba rhythms on Saturday, November 19 at 8:00pm at Fieldston School Student-Faculty Lounge, 3901 Fieldston Road in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. Music for the concert, written by Hoggard, is on his newest two-disk ...

Taylor Ho Bynum: Enter the PlusTet

by Troy Collins
October 23, 2016

Taylor Ho Bynum continues to delve into the endless possibilities of large ensemble writing on Enter the PlusTet, the debut of his newest band of the same name. Following in the footsteps of Navigation, his ambitious multi-format sextet and septet recording (Firehouse 12, 2012), this lean set finds the vanguard cornetist more than doubling the size ...

Chris Dingman: The Subliminal and the Sublime

by Dave Wayne
October 4, 2015

Search the word “subliminal" and you get the following: “below the threshold of sensation or consciousness; perceived by or affecting someone's mind without their being aware of it." Do the same for “sublime" and you have to be sure you include the word “definition" or else you get the website for the popular ska- metal band. ...