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Jose Davila

JOSE DAVILA trombonist and tubist Jose has defined himself as a major player in the New York Freelance music scene, actively engaged in the potpourri of musical life in NYC. A native from Puerto Rico and raised on the East Coast (Philadelphia, Connecticut and New York) he started to work and hone his craft on the New York scene in the mid 90’s. A multi-talented instrumentalist, composer and arranger he has shown ease in many genres of music spanning from his sideman hits with Jazz superstars (contemporary and traditional), Latin legends, and classical music forays in the halls of Lincoln Center

The Other One

By Henry Threadgill

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Movement I: Sections 1-2; Section 3; Sections 4-4A; Sections 5-6; Sections 6A-7A; Sections 8-8A; Sections 9-11; Section 11 (Trapset Interlude); Finale; Movement II; Movement III: Section 11A; Sections 12-12B; Section 12B (Violin Interlude); Section 13; Section 14; Section 15; Section 16; Section 17; Finale.

Jazzfest Berlin 2023

by Giuseppe Segala
November 14, 2023

Haus der Berliner Festspiele Quasimodo Jazz Club, A-Train Jazz Club, Berlino 2-5.11.2023 C'era più di un buon motivo per stimolare quest'anno la decisione di raggiungere il Jazzfest Berlin: primo tra tutti, la presenza di un grande protagonista come Henry Threadgill, che giunto sulla soglia degli ottant'anni, con alle spalle una ...

Ray Anderson Pocket Brass Band: Come In

by Vic Albani
November 2, 2023

Con tutto il rispetto per il quartetto di musicisti titolare di questa incisione, questo disco potrebbe essere velocemente destinato alla casella “bello anche se non fondamentale." Ma c'è una storia da raccontare che forse rende giustizia alla “necessità" di volerlo pubblicare e dargli un valore comunque non indifferente. L'11 marzo 2020 è una data ...

Henry Threadgill: The Other One

by Giuseppe Segala
October 30, 2023

Giunto sulla soglia delle ottanta primavere, Henry Threadgill non lascia sbiadire la propria splendida vitalità creativa. Lo ha fatto quest'anno sia con la pubblicazione dell'imperdibile autobiografiaEasily Slip into Another World, che con una nuova realizzazione discografica, The Other One. Pure questa imperdibile, si colloca tra i lavori che lo hanno visto impegnato esclusivamente come ...

Henry Threadgill: The Other One

by John Ephland
July 25, 2023

Listening to Henry Threadgill's music, the bobbing and weaving doesn't maintain a continuity but can jump from one strand to another, one scene to another, as in a dream. It is tonal and not, just as dreams are, perhaps, rhapsodic or unkempt, the story or plot being as tangible, fungible as a summer breeze.

Spoleto Festival USA 2023

by Perry Tannenbaum
July 22, 2023

Spoleto Festival USA Queen Street Playhouse, Sottile Theatre, TD Arena Charleston, SC May 26 to June 11, 2023 Respect for the elders in the jazz lineup of this year's Spoleto Festival USA jazz was gracefully counterbalanced by a hearty welcome to newer generations. It only felt fleetingly like the closing of ...

Henry Threadgill Ensemble: The Other One

by Troy Dostert
July 11, 2023

Now that Henry Threadgill has begun receiving the accolades he has long deserved--the Pulitzer Prize he won in 2016 for In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi Recordings, 2015) being just the most prominent example--it is impressive to find him still relentlessly stretching himself as a performer and composer. Since his first forays into ...

Mayhem At Large - The Last Baha'i Session - Jorge Sylvester Spontaneous Expressions

By Jorge Sylvester

Label: RedZen Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: CD1) FIRST SET: 1. By Starlight (Alto Saxophone solo) 4:50 2. Blue Abstract (Alto Saxophone solo) 10:55 3. Improvisation I (Alto Saxophone and Voice Duet) 8:02 4. Improvisation II (Alto Saxophone and French Horn Duet) 4:57 5. Improvisation III (Alto Saxophone and Tuba) 4:20 6.Improvisation IV (Alto Saxophone and Piano) 2:50 7. Improvisation V (Alto Saxophone and Electric guitar) 4:13 8. Sketch No.One (Octet) 11:54 (CD 2 ) SECOND SET: 1. Is Over (Alto Saxophone solo) 6:072. 2. You Needn't (Alto Saxophone solo) 3:51 3. Improvisation VI (Alto Saxophone and Trumpet) 1:18 4. Improvisation VII (Alto Saxophone and Drums) 4:11 5. Sketch No.Two (Octet) 15:24 https://jorgesylvestermusic.bandcamp.com/album/mayhem-at-large-the-last-bahai-session

Warriors of the Wonderful Sound: Soundpath

by Giuseppe Segala
May 31, 2021

Nel 2011 il sassofonista di Filadelfia Bobby Zankel, leader della big band The Warriors of the Wonderful Sound e promotore di laboratori di musica contemporanea, propose a Muhal Richard Abrams un lavoro compositivo che avrebbe dovuto essere affidato alla band, con la direzione dello stesso pianista. Operazioni di questo tipo erano già state realizzate da Zankel ...