Results for "Marilyn Mazur"

Joey DeFrancesco: From Musical Prodigy to Jazz Icon

by Victor L. Schermer
May 29, 2019

Joey DeFrancesco is a true master of the jazz organ, the one others look up to as the standard bearer, as was his inspirational hero, Jimmy Smith. Arguably, he could be dubbed the Mozart of the jazz organ, since like Mozart, he seemed to have been born with all the music already in him. By four, ...

Julia Perminova: The Way to Her Star

by Jane Kozhevnikova
July 18, 2022

Originally born in the United States, jazz has become a language that people speak all over the world. For Julia Perminova, a pianist and composer from the Siberian city of Tyumen, now living in Basel, Switzerland, jazz is a native language. Although her music talent was natural, her hard work and true passion have made her ...

The Gil Evans Orchestra: Live At Fabrik

by Ian Patterson
May 27, 2022

By the time Gil Evans led the Gil Evans Orchestra at the Hamburg Jazz Festival in 1986, it had been holding down the Monday night slot at Sweet Basil for the previous three years. The majority of the GEO's regular musicians were with him for this performance at Fabrik, a 19th century machine-parts factory converted into ...

Jon Raskin: The Long Table

by Hrayr Attarian
October 20, 2021

Intrepid improviser and saxophonist Jon Raskin has kept busy during the covid-19 pandemic by releasing, for the first time, several of his past recordings. Of the many exciting albums he put out in 2021 on his own Temescal label, The Long Table stands out for a few reasons. As superb as the rest of his catalogue, ...

Gustav Lundgren: Live At Fasching

by Chris May
February 18, 2021

If the Norway's Eivind Aarset is one side of Scandinavian fretboard virtuosity, Sweden's Gustav Lundgren is the other. Aarset works with experimentalists such as Jon Hassell and Jan Bang. Lundgren is more straight-ahead, evoking Jack Wilkins and Pat Metheny. Both guitarists, however, are lyrical players. If you enjoy the linear melodism of Lundgren's Live At Fasching, ...

Give the Drummer (More Than) Some! Part 3

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 6, 2020

More music featuring projects lead by drummers. Drums for civil rights, solos and duos, and poetry drumming. Happy listening! PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Terri Lyne Carrington “If Not Now (feat. Maimouna Youssef)" Waiting Game (Motema) 0:16 Host talks 5:42 Max Roach “Driva' Man" We ...

Marilyn Mazur

Born: January 18, 1955

Marilyn Mazur was born in New York in 1955. She has beenliving in Denmark since age six. As a child and teenager sheplayed classical piano and danced ballet.

She started her musical career as a dancer with CreativeDance Theatre in 1971. As composer/pianist she formedher first band Zirenes in 1973. From 1975 she worked aspercussionist, drummer and singer with various groups, andbecame known on the danish musicscene as the colorfulpercussionist/composer of the group Six Winds withdrummer Alex Riel and as the leader of the all-women-musictheatre-group Primi Band.

Marilyn Mazur is educated at the Royal Danish Academy ofMusic, but is largely autodidact on her instruments, inspiredby music from all over the world. She received the BenWebster Award in 1983, and the same year started a jazzquartet with saxophonist Uffe Markussen. She continued todevelope her very personal forms of musicalcommunication with various - mostly european - artists.

Shamania

By Marilyn Mazur

Label: RareNoiseRecords
Released: 2019
Track listing: New Secret; Rytmeritual; CHAAS; Old Melody; Fragments; Crawl Out & Shine; Behind Clouds; Time Ritual; Shabalasa; Heartshaped Moon; Surrealistic Adventure; Momamajobas 1; Talk for 2; Momamajobas 2; Kalimbaprimis; Space Entry Dance.

Maluba Orchestra

By Fredrik Lundin

Label: Stunt Records/Sundance Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: 1. Circling Back (Lundin) 2. Vibe (Mazur) 3. Marcology part I-III (Bai) 4. Night Travel (Lundin) 5. Maluba Birds (Mazur) 6. Presto Hymne (Mazur) 7. Windy Wish (Mazur) 8. Maluba Fanfare (Mazur). __ 9. Hattifnat (Bai) 10. All’s Well that Ends Well (Lundin, Bach)

At A Korean Jazz Picnic, No Need To Know The Music

by Arthur R George
October 4, 2019

That jazz appeals to younger audiences, is fun, and not so serious, is more than a mere notion, materializing in, of all places, South Korea. The Jarasum Jazz Festival created there by promoter In Jae Jin has become one of the largest in Asia by hosting a multi-day event which features camping, western and Korean performers, ...