Results for "Margaux Simmons"

Margaux Simmons

On the Road con Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids

by Gioele Pagliaccia
May 14, 2021

La prima volta che vidi Idris Ackamoor fu al Centro Stabile di Cultura una domenica nel novembre 2018. Gli organizzatori di questo storico locale a San Vito di Leguzzano, un piccolo paese a mezz'ora da Vicenza circondato da fonderie e campi di grano, mi avevano chiesto se potevo prestare la mia Ludwig al batterista dei Pyramids, ...

Shaman!

By Idris Ackamoor

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Act 1: Shaman; Tango Of Love; Act 2: Eternity; When Will I See You Again?; Act 3: Salvation; Theme For Cecil; Act 4: Virgin; The Last Slave Ship; Dogon Mysteries.

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids: Shaman!

by Chris May
July 24, 2020

California-based tenor saxophonist and composer Idris Ackamoor, who has one foot in magical realism and the other in the politicised school of spiritual-jazz, relaunched his 1970s band the Pyramids in 2015. A year later, the group released the acclaimed We Be All Africans, which was followed in 2018 by the equally noteworthy An Angel Fell (both ...

Idris Ackamoor: An Afro-Futurist Odyssey

by Chris May
June 3, 2020

In summer 2020, Idris Ackamoor will release Shaman! on Britain's Strut label. It is his third album with the post-2015 incarnation of his 1970s band, The Pyramids. It reunites Ackamoor with flautist Margaux Simmons, with whom he had co-founded The Pyramids in 1972. Ackamoor's route to Afro-Futurist jazz began in the US in ...