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Marc Mommaas/Nikolaj Hess: Balance
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Any kind of duet, whether jazz, classical or rock, presents its own particular set of challenges. It's paramount that the playrs involved come equipped with some kind of simpatico, or build it up quickly. Tenor player Marc Mommaas and pianist Nikolaj Hess tackle this task on Balance. “Funny Bones Jones begins slowly, then ...
Marc Mommaas: Balance
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Marc Mommaas with Nikolaj Hess Balance Sunnyside Records 2006 In classical music, people distinguish between “program music, which is “about something, and “absolute music, which is not. Someone has probably worked out what would be meant by a jazz version of “absolute music : I suspect it would ...
Marc Mommaas: On the Fringes of Jazz and Beyond
by Jochem van Dijk
When Marc Mommaas graduated as a Communications Major from his hometown university in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, he rewarded himself with a trip to New York and took his tenor saxophone with him. He hung around for a few months, and knew that his life had changed forever: “While I was doing nice enough in Holland, I ...
Global Motion
By Marc Mommaas
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: One Way Only, Maktub, Intuition, 3458, Something Else, Revision, African FBI, Copenhagen Suite,
parts 1-3
Marc Mommaas: Global Motion
by Joshua Weiner
A note to ECM label head Manfred Eicher: I've got a new artist for your stable. His name is Marc Mommaas, a Dutch tenor saxophonist living in NYC, and he's just released a fine album on Sunnyside, Global Motion. The album features the Global Motion Trio, including pianist Nikolaj Hess and bassist John Hebert, ...
Rez Abbasi: Reziliently Brilliant
by Phil DiPietro
At 36, Rez Abbasi is the latest accomplished and proven musician with a few solo releases and a few sideman appearances in his discography to choose the independent jazz route. Born in Pakistan, raised in the USA since the age of three, and having gone east from west internationally as well as domestically, Abbasi is known ...
