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J.D. Allen: Shine!
by Wilbur MacKenzie
Shine! is the second Sunnyside release by saxophonist JD Allen and his trio with bassist Gregg August and drummer Rudy Royston. A Detroit native, Allen has been based in New York for quite a few years now, working with bassist Ron Carter, saxophonist David Murray, trumpeter Lester Bowie and drummers Jack DeJohnette and Cindy Blackman.
J.D. Allen Trio: Shine
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The unfettered joy of listening to J.D. Allen's Shine comes from being reunited with the blues and spiritualism of modern Afro-American saxophone music. This kind of feeling and emotion all but died with John Coltrane. Arguably only a handful of players such as Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp and, perhaps, Dewey Redman kept those flames alive. And ...
J. D. Allen Trio: Shine
by Mark Corroto
It's impossible to be an impostor at the gambit in which J.D. Allen's trio is participating. His jukebox length compositions either hit or have the possibility to miss badly. Luckily, he has released a second trio album of all bull's-eyes. Shine! follows the pattern established on I AM I AM (Sunnyside, 2008). ...
I AM I AM
By JD Allen
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: I AM--I AM; The North Star; Hajile; Titus; Louisada; id; The Cross + the Crescent Sickle; Othello; Ezekiel; Pagan.
I AM I AM
By JD Allen
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: I AM--I AM; The North Star; Hajile; Titus; Louisada; id; The Cross + The Crescent Sickle; Othello; Ezekiel; Pagan.
JD Allen Trio: I AM I AM
by Mark F. Turner
Playing from the heart, creating and improvising from within, jazz music's mantra continues to espouse that “honesty is the best policy." This is heard and felt when listening to saxophonist J.D. Allen's I Am I Am. In an insightful and inspirational interview, the artist gives light to what makes his music forthcoming and real. ...
Saxophonist JD Allen Interviewed at AAJ
Volant solos, melodic tapestries, mournful cadences, orphic rhythms. JD Allen's extraordinary I AM-I AM (Sunnyside, 2008) sculpts an aural monument to transformation, a musical testament to the power of the mind to overcome itself through introspective endeavor. Each of its ten compositions roils with the intensity and exposition of a soul wrestling with its two halves, ...
JD Allen: Notes of Change
by Franz A. Matzner
Volant solos, melodic tapestries, mournful cadences, orphic rhythms. J.D. Allen's extraordinary I AM-I AM (Sunnyside, 2008) sculpts an aural monument to transformation, a musical testament to the power of the mind to overcome itself through introspective endeavor. Each of its ten compositions roils with the intensity and exposition of a soul wrestling with its two halves, ...
JD Allen Trio: I AM I AM
by Laurel Gross
JD Allen can be a powerhouse, hard-driving tenor, but he is also capable of great subtlety and versatility. All three qualities are amply in evidence on I AM I AM, and were also front and center in a performance of his piano-less trio in March, 2008 at New York's Jazz Standard to mark the release of ...
JD Allen Trio: I AM I AM
by Mark Corroto
Face it, if you play the tenor saxophone you're going to have to deal with the legacy of John Coltrane's sound. You can hear it in the playing of Branford Marsalis, Pharoah Sanders, and even Sonny Rollins. It is believed that Rollins was so influenced by Trane, that his style was forever changed in the 1960s. ...
