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Jon Irabagon Releases Concord Jazz Debut - The Observer
The new release from 2008 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition winner Jon Irabagon, The Observer, hits stores this week (CD & digital) via Concord Jazz Records. Irabagon has assembled a dream-team of musicians, including the stellar rhythm section of pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Rufus Reid and drummer {Victor Lewis}}, alongside veteran producer Don Sickler and legendary ...
Jon Irabagon: The Observer
by Troy Collins
Best known as the volatile saxophonist in bassist Moppa Elliott's self proclaimed terrorist be-bop band Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Jon Irabagon has only just begun his career as a solo artist. His bristling duet with drummer Mike Pride, I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues (Loyal Label, 2009) was preceded by Outright! (Innova, 2008), ...
Jon Irabagon Set to Release Concord Jazz Debut
On October 20th, Concord Jazz will release The Observer, saxophonist and composer Jon Irabagon’s newest recording as a leader, Concord debut and follow up to his first album as leader, Outright!, released last year by Innova. Winning the 2008 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition has afforded Irabagon the opportunity to assemble a dream-team of musicians, including ...
October 2009
by AAJ Staff
Gordon GrdinaBar 4Brooklyn, NY September 7, 2009There were other things in the music Gordon Grdina played at Bar 4, bits of McLaughlin, Santana, Sharrock, but for the first few minutes of his trio's Sep. 7th set it was hard to hear anything other than how together they were. From the ...
Jon Irabagon
by AAJ Italy Staff
01. John Zorn - The Classic Guide to Strategy (Tzadik - 1996). Insieme a For Alto di Anthony Braxton un classico che ha ridefinito la ricerca timbrica degli strumenti ad ancia. 02. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst (Merge Records - 2008). Il poeta della sua generazione. Il messaggio è profondo e la musica è orecchiabile. 03. ...
Jon Irabagon: Confluence
by AAJ Italy Staff
arebbe passata molto probabilmente inosservata questa incisione, risalente a quasi cinque anni orsono, perché propone un jazz sì moderno e impeccabilmente suonato, ma tutto sommato simile a molti altri prodotti sfornati dalle nuove generazioni di preparatissimi musicisti che sembrano suonare, immancabilmente, la stessa musica. Sarebbe passata inosservata se non fosse per la presenza del sassofonista Jon ...
Jon Irabagon: Jon Irabagon's Outright!
by AAJ Italy Staff
Appuntatevi sul taccuino il nome di questo giovanotto, e seguite con attenzione, molta attenzione, le sue mosse perché avrete la possibilità di imbattervi ogni volta in qualcosa di sorprendente. Come in questo Jon Irabagon's Outright! Basterebbe, da sola, la versione di un superclassico boppistico come “Groovin' High" a far drizzare le orecchie anche all'ascoltatore più distratto. ...
Making Avant-Garde Jazz in a Mostly Killing Climate
The record business is a sinkhole no matter which way you turn. But in this troubled economy, Moppa Elliott chose an especially tough path: playing in an avant-garde bop band named Mostly Other People Do the Killing, and starting his own tiny jazz label, Hot Cup. Elliott, 30, a bassist/composer born in Factoryville, says, “Look, we're ...
Outright!
By Jon Irabagon
Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: Anchors (By Design); Quorum Call; Groovin' High; That Was Then; Outright! Theme; Charles Barkley; Oddjob.
Jon Irabagon: Outright!
by Eyal Hareuveni
Jon Irabagon is one of the most promising and versatile sax players in New York. Last year he was described, in the humoristic liner notes of Moppa Elliot's terrorist bebop quartet Mostly Other People Do the Killing's Shamokin (Hot Cup, 2007), as “somehow seemingly melding Najee and Zorn," his sax playing recalling “Johnny Hodges, Booker Ervin ...
