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Kidd Jordan: Freedom and Tradition
by Marc Medwin
“Oh yes, I lost compositions, all my music, my instruments... pretty much everything," smiles Kidd Jordan. He hasn't actually mentioned Hurricane Katrina by name, nor does his voice betray the bitterness he must still feel, even two-and-a-half years after the disaster that nearly cost him members of his family. There is gentleness in his delivery, but ...
Reviews of Kidd Jordan at Vision Festival XIII
Critics review the lifetime achievement celebration of Kidd Jordan in the New York Press, New York Sun and New York Times. The Vision Festival continues through Sunday night. About Kidd Jordan Edward Kidd Jordan's multi-faceted legacy is among of the most influential and enduring in the history of improvised music. An integral part of the seminal ...
Vision Festival XIII to Honor New Orleans Jazz Legend Kidd Jordan June 11th
On Wednesday, June 11th, Vision Festival XIII will present an entire night of music dedicated to this year's special honoree, New Orleans saxophonist and educator Edward “Kidd" Jordan. Five groups, four featuring Jordan himself, will pay tribute to a musical legacy that spans more than a half century. Advance tickets are available online or by phone ...
Kidd Jordan: Messin' with the Kidd
by Rex Butters
Like many local legends around the country, Kidd Jordan is an immensely talented musician who resisted the urge to move to New York or LA. Based in Baton Rouge/New Orleans, Jordan became a renowned jazz educator with a long tenure at Southern University. So renowned, that his teaching has been documented by 60 Minutes and acknowledged ...
Palm of Soul
By Kidd Jordan
Label: AUM Fidelity
Released: 2006
Track listing: Peppermint Falls; Forever; Living Peace; Unity Call; So Often; Resolution; Last of the Chicken Wings.
Kidd Jordan - Hamid Drake - William Parker: Palm of Soul
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tante volte si evidenzia come l'improvvisazione afroamericana sia fortemente ancorata a un approccio spirituale, prima ancora che emozionale, con il suono e con il volere fare musica assieme. Troppo spesso sbrigativamente identificata con gli aspetti più viscerali e “dionisiaci" della costruzione sonora collettiva, specialmente dopo che Coltrane ha aperto quella porta da cui sembra che “ogni ...
Kidd Jordan / Hamid Drake / William Parker: Palm Of Soul
by Nic Jones
A sense of ritual pervades this music, and these three masters show how potent a force it can be. The idea of evocation is a fraught one, however, especially when the result is more the evocation of others than the projection of a musical identity unique to the performer. At times here Kidd Jordan evokes the ...
Kidd Jordan / Hamid Drake / William Parker: Palm of Soul
by Troy Collins
Hurricane Katrina left tenor saxophonist Kidd Jordan homeless less than a month before this recording session. Undeterred, the New Orleans native kept a prearranged studio date with bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake. Regularly joined by tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson for powerhouse quartet gigs, Jordan, Parker and Drake had never recorded before as a trio. ...
Kidd Jordan/Joel Futterman/Alvin Fielder: Live at the Tampere Jazz Happening 2000
by Kurt Gottschalk
The digital revolution has been kind to some of jazz's unsung elders, and Edward “Kidd" Jordan is tops among them. Small labels around the world are capturing and digitizing players who might not otherwise be gracing stereos, much less playing festivals, away from their native soil. Jordan is the real deal, a fiery tenor ...
