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Jonah Parzen-Johnson: I Try To Remember Where I Come From
by Karl Ackermann
Chicago native and Brooklyn resident Jonah Parzen-Johnson has strong links to the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), having studied with that organization's Mwata Bowden. Parzen-Johnson--a co-leader of the Afro-beat ensemble, Zongo Junction--plays the baritone saxophone and analog synthesizers in each of his lofi solo outings, to date. His new album I Try To ...
Remember When Things Were Better Tomorrow
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Label: Primary Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: I Keep Thinking Sit Down; If You Can't Sleep, Just Shut Your Eyes; Never Stop Counting; Eyes Like Paddles; I Wrote A Story About You, Without You; Stay There, I'll Come To You; On the Way Home.
Jonah Parzen-Johnson: Remember When Things Were Better Tomorrow
by Dave Wayne
In the hands (and minds) of certain artists, self-imposed limitations can actually become fertile ground for creative work- arounds, new strategies, new ways of seeing and hearing things. Multi-instrumentalist Jonah Parzen-Johnson is one such artist. Parzen-Johnson plays baritone saxophone and analog synthesizer simultaneously and spontaneously. No overdubs or studio trickery. As you might imagine, his music ...
Jonah Parzen-Johnson: Remember When Things Were Better Tomorrow
by Dan Bilawsky
Hymn-like melodies, oscillating and quivering sounds, and a mixture of solemnity and adventurousness all inform the solo work of saxophonist Jonah Parzen-Johnson. On Remember When Things Were Better Tomorrow, Parzen-Johnson is all by his lonesome with his baritone saxophone and analog synthesizer, creating what could rightly be described as trance spirituals for the modern epoch or, ...
Jonah Parzen-Johnson: Remember When Things Were Better Tomorrow
by Karl Ackermann
The young baritone saxophonist Jonah Parzen-Johnson, a Chicago native and Brooklyn resident, has an enviable musical pedigree. With music degrees from NYU and Manhattan School of Music, he also studied under Mwata Bowden, of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and a member of the eclectic (but long defunct) 8 Bold Souls. Remember ...
Strange Solo Sounds: SK Kakraba and Jonah Parzen-Johnson
by Jakob Baekgaard
Sounds are all around us. Some of them are so familiar that we barely recognize them. Music is a special kind of sound. It puts us in touch with the world or provides an escape from it. Sometimes, music is even able to conjure a world of sound that is hard to imagine. It can be ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Introducing Jonah Parzen-Johnson
This week, let's get acquainted via video with saxophonist Jonah Parzen-Johnson, who will be in St. Louis to play at 8:00 p.m. this coming Tuesday, June 16 at Foam, 3359 Jefferson Ave. The $5 admission charge also includes sets from New Music Circle's Jeremy Kannapell and another opening act TBA. A Chicago native now residing in ...
Steve Newcomb Orchestra: Caterpillar Chronicles
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Track listing: 1. Three to Get Ready
2. Remnants I
3. Song for Ava
4. Remnants II
5. Caterpillar Chronicles - Findings
6. Caterpillar Chronicles - Drones
7. Caterpillar Chronicles - Stationary, Quiet and Well Lit
8. Caterpillar Chronicles - A Little at a Time
9. Caterpillar Chronicles - Final Breath
10. Caterpillar Chronicles - After, Later
11. Remnants III
