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Christian McBride: The Movement Revisited
by Chris May
The spring 2020 release of The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait Of Four Icons is the latest chapter in Christian McBride's inspirational salute to the African American civil rights movement and to four of its heroes: Dr. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali. Embracing big band jazz, small group jazz, gospel, funk ...
Kamasi Washington at the NorVa
by Mark Robbins
Kamasi Washington credits his father, jazz saxophonist Ricky Washington, with his success in the music world. The two stood side by side on the stage of The NorVa in Norfolk, Va fronting the rest of Kamasi's band. Washington came to the forefront with the masterful 2015 album The Epic a combination of R&B, hip-hop, classical and ...
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Kamasi Washington
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At the age of 13 Kamasi Washington decided to begin a life long quest of the many wonders to be found in music. He made this decision one night when after a rehearsal at his home his father left his soprano saxophone lying on the piano and left Kamasi with an uncontrollable curiosity of all the beauty he’d just heard come from it. So he took father’s horn, and even though he didn’t know anything about the saxophone, in fact he’d never even touched a saxophone, and played Wayne Shorter’s “Sleeping Dancer Sleep On”, his favorite song at the time. Kamasi was shocked he had been playing drums, piano, and clarinet for years but he’d never played the saxophone. Yet he was somehow able to play a song from his heart and in that received an early glimpse of the euphoria that music can bring. And at that moment he knew that music was his life’s quest and the saxophone was his voice.
Phil Ranelin: Phil Ranelin Collected 2003-2019
by Vincenzo Roggero
Il trombonista Phil Ranelin—classe 1939—rientra a buon diritto nella lunga schiera di unsung heroes, musicisti ai margini della notorietà che da sempre costellano le vicende della musica afroamericana e ne determinano spesso pagine significative. Specialista del trombone a coulisse, Ranelin ha inizialmente prestato i suoi servigi come session man per la prestigiosa Motown per ...
Ruslan Sirota: A Journey Away
by Mackenzie Horne
Ruslan Sirota would bristle against the classification of “pianist," “multi-instrumentalist," or “composer." He is, of course, all of these things... which is precisely the point. Raised on the songs of the Soviet and nurtured by the fusion alumni of the 1960s, Sirota has thus far navigated his professional career with an acute sense of sound, unencumbered ...
2019: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The year 2019 was robust in many ways. International Jazz Day brought its biggest stage to Australia. An important but long-shuttered jazz mecca was revived in a coast-to-coast move. ECM Records celebrated a golden year. The music and its makers figured prominently on the big screen. The National Endowment for the Arts welcomed four new NEA ...
Empyrean Tones
Label: Common Good Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Black Messiah Project (feat. Randal Fisher)
Apollo (feat. Phil Ranelin & Seb Zillner)
Empyrean Tones (feat. Keyon harrold)
Titans (feat. Kamasi Washington, Tim Felton & Seb Zillner)
Cosmos: Fire 2
Cosmos: Fire 3 (feat. Phil Ranelin & Tim Felton)
Discipline (feat. Tim Felton)
Incoming (feat. Tim Felton)
Kai Alcé Interpretations
Label: Not On Label
Released: 2019
Track listing: Askim; On My Way To Harlem;
Listeners' Favorites
by Marc Cohn
It's that time, times two. A show with a number 5 at the end. So here's a slug of recent listener favorites from Gifts and Messages shows 391 to 400. As always, we had too much music to deal with and that's a good thing. So, my selections from your favorites try to achieve some variety ...
Ryan Porter: Force For Good
by Chris May
The Los Angeles jazz scene clustered around the community of session musicians known as the West Coast Get Down (WCGD), and its most prominent member (and now ex-session musician), Kamasi Washington, is a US equivalent of London's underground jazz scene. Both exist in parallel universes to the jazz establishment, both are culturally inclusive though peopled mainly ...
