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John Davis

Blachant

By Jackie "Bouvier" Copeland

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Blachant 1; Holla; Tomorrow Love; Ghosts of Our Past; Echo; Blachant 2; Anew Love Song; First Time Ever I Saw Your Face; Brown Baby; Blachant 3; Life Jazzin’; In Her Peace; Feel Like Going On.

Continuance

By Joey Alexander

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Blue; Why Don't We; Hear Me Now; I Can't Make You Love Me; Zealousy; Great Is Thy Faithfulness; Aliceanna.

Joey Alexander: I Just Happened To Start Early

by Leo Sidran
November 7, 2023

When Joey Alexander made his first appearance in the States nearly a decade ago, it seemed to send a kind of shockwave through the jazz world. He was 10 years old when Wynton Marsalis invited him to travel from his native Indonesia (he was born in Bali but moved to Jakarta to pursue his music) to ...

Joey Alexander: Continuance

by Neil Duggan
November 6, 2023

At some point, even a child prodigy grows up. Now 20 years old, Balinese pianist, Joey Alexander has come long way from the six- year-old exposed to Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and Bill Evans, the eight-year-old playing in front of Herbie Hancock and the ten-year-old winning improvisation competitions. It may be hard to believe but Continuance ...

The Awakening (Sounds For Sculpture)

By Christian Tamburr

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: The Awakening; Between Appointments; A Thought to Consider; Crack the Whip; Exotica Tropicalls; Hiding in the Light (Stainless Girl); Double Check: 9/11 Survivor; Day Dream; Jazz Dreams; Embracing Peace.

Christian Tamburr: The Awakening (Sounds For Sculpture)

by Dan Bilawsky
May 18, 2020

For vibraphonist Christian Tamburr, a walk through the Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey offered a world of sonic possibilities reflected in the bounties of natures and the wonders of Seward Johnson's craftsmanship. Creating physical splendor and a touch of the unexpected in statuary, Johnson, world-renowned for his bronze sculptures, aimed for his work to ...

Big in Japan, Part 2: Osaka & the Eri Yamamoto Connection

by Karl Ackermann
December 4, 2018

Part 1 | Part 2 In Part 1 of Big in Japan we looked at the early history of jazz music in that country--a history that dates back to the same time frame as the Jazz Age in the United States. The influence of American dance music was indisputable but it came to Japan ...

Zem Audu: Spirits

by Geannine Reid
July 2, 2017

Saxophonist Zem Audu was born in Nigeria and raised in England before pursuing his musical career in New York City. Along the way, Audu has developed a musical sound that blends his cultural influences to express a musical style that is an amalgamation of: Contemporary jazz, Nigerian Afrobeat, Caribbean rhythms and funk grooves. Audu's album Spirits, ...

Etienne Charles: San José Suite

by Nigel Campbell
December 2, 2016

Whenever Trinidadian jazz trumpeter and composer Etienne Charles releases an album, it is an event. In this case, it is his latest opus, the ten-part San José Suite--soon to be performed live in Trinidad and Tobago for the first time on November 20. [The album was released in the US in June 2016 and debuted live ...