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Logan Richardson

Born and, raised in Kansas City, Missouri, Logan Richardson was mentored by some of the finest figures in the history of improvised music, including Jay McShann, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, and Queen Bey, in addition to having artists such as Max Roach, Shirley Scott, Jimmy Heath, Clark Terry, Kenny Burrell, Marcus Belgrave, Richard Davis as artists in residence between the ages of 15 to 19 years old. At 19 years old he moved to Boston, Massachusetts to study at the Berklee College of Music, and after one year Logan left Boston to move to New York to complete his studies at The New School University on a full scholarship
AfroFuturism

Label: WAX Industry / Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2021
Track listing: Say My Name; The Birth Of Us; Awaken; Sunrays; For Alto; Light; Trap; Grandma; Farewell Goodbye; Black Wall Street; Photocopy; Round Up; According To You; Praise Song.
Szczecin Jazz: Europe's First Hybrid Festival Off 2021

It is a strange feeling to write a piece about a jazz festival while the first band is on stage. I can hear Belmondo Quintet enchant their in-person audience from where I'm sitting, backstage in the production office of the Szczecin Opera Theater, where Europe's first international jazz festival of 2021 has just kicked off. From ...
Logan Richardson: AfroFuturism

In a 2016 interview, Kansas City-born alto saxophonist Logan Richardson said: Jazz will constantly change because there's constantly a new us, new times. There will always be a fight from the conformists--but they don't represent where the tradition is coming from." Richardson was talking not long after the release of his adventurous Blue Note album, Shift. ...
Saxophone Colossi: An Alternative Top Ten Banging Albums

Miles Davis once said you could tell the history of jazz in four words: Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker. You might want to add John Coltrane, you might even want to add Davis. But however you cut it, saxophones and trumpets have been the flag bearers of the music. Trumpets got things rolling and saxophones came into ...
Jammin' With KC

Label: Agora Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Burnt Ends; Burnt Ends Welcome to Kansas City; Sketches of Missouri; Donna Lee; Chiefs
Kingdom; Dog's Ducks;
Once in Omaha; Confirmation; Burnt Ends Key.
Sylwester Ostrowski: Jammin' With KC

Sylwester Ostrowski traveled from his native Poland to jny: Kansas City in February 2020 to participate in a centennial celebration of Charlie Parker's life and music. During the visit, Ostrowski visited Parker's childhood home, his grave, and other historical landmarks. He also sat in with some of Kansas City's finest jazz musicians at several local venues. ...
Sylwester Ostrowski & Jazz Forum Talents Release New Album Jammin’ With KC

Sylwester Ostrowski and Jazz Forum Talents' new album Jammin With KC featuring Bobby Watson, Logan Richardson and Keyon Harrold is available today under the recording label Agora. Fans can enjoy the music on YouTube and Spotify. Jamming with KC is a postcard from jny: Kansas City. This momentous album results from the Polish Jazz musicians' expedition ...
Michelangelo Scandroglio e Simone Quatrana a Empoli Jazz 2020

Michelangelo Scandroglio Quintetto e Simone Quatrana Piano Solo Empoli Jazz 2020 Empoli Giardino del Torrione di S. Brigida 6.8.2020 Empoli Jazz ha pervicacemente resistito alle misure restrittive post-pandemia e--pur con posti ridotti e minori date--non ha abdicato alla sua edizione 2020, che presentava in chiusura un doppio concerto, che aveva ...
Michelangelo Scandroglio: In the Eyes of the Whale

Tra i non pochi nuovi talenti che la penisola sforna nel campo del jazz, un posto di rilievo spetta al ventiquattrenne contrabbassista toscano Michelangelo Scandroglio, qui alla prima prova da leader alla testa di una formazione internazionale a struttura variabile composta da giovani talenti. Il programma del disco prevede sette composizioni originali, tutte a ...