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Michael Marcus: Zetrons and Soulifications
by Jeff Stockton
The Cosmosamatics Zetrons Not Two 2006 Michael Marcus Trio Soulifications Black Saint 2006 Against all odds and likely thanks to the good taste of European jazz fans (these live tracks are taken from performances in Krakow, Amsterdam and Vienna), veteran altoist Sonny ...
Michael Marcus Takes the Iron Horse to the Blue Note
by Rex Butters
Widely traveled multi-reedist Michael Marcus speaks with the same exhuberance and enthusiasm he demonstrates blowing next to Bay Area master Sonny Simmons in the Cosmosamatics and fronting the powerhouse Michael Marcus Trio, which he leads into the Blue Note this month. “After the Cosmosamatics tour, I took the train to Milan to mix the new Michael ...
ithem
Label: Ayler Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Ithem (live)/ Under the Wire/ Secret Oceans/ Here At!
Michael Marcus Trio: Ithem
by AAJ Staff
Recorded in '93 but only recently released, this encapsulated treat has the trio of Michael Marcus on alto sax and bass clarinet, William Parker on bass, and Denis Charles on drums performing three live tunes at the Old Knitting Factory in New York City, as well as two studio tracks. The live tunes, “Ithem," “Under the ...
Michael Marcus: ithem
by Kurt Gottschalk
It's dizzying to think about the number of unreleased recordings that must exist in this town. Tapes rolling at the sound board and, controversially, microphones in the audience, are how the history of the music is preserved and, every once in a while, returned to the public. They're little time machines taking us back to when ...
A Fireside Chat with Michael Marcus
by AAJ Staff
I like originals. The way Dolphy mimicked bird sounds, the way Coltrane turned chaos into serenity, Tapscott reaching into the folds of a grand piano and plucking strings like a harp, and sheer instrumental vocabulary of Golia, make listening to this music in this age easier. I like Michael Marcus. He's an original. Jaki Byard liked ...
Interview with Michael Marcus
by Vittorio Lo Conte
We meet Michael Marcus during his recent tour in March through Europe. We talk, among many subjects, about his new band, the Cosmosanatics, and about his new recording sessions. All About Jazz: It is a couple of years that you work with the Cosmosamatics. With Sonny Simmons is a longer story. May you tell us about ...
Sunwheels
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Released: 2001
Track listing: Eternal All; The Zenith; Pinball; Golden Memory; Sunwheels; Moonvoices; Midtown Sojourn; Psychic Circles; Celestial Origins; We Are, Now.
Michael Marcus: Sunwheels
by Jim Santella
From the soul. His 8th album as a leader offers more proof that saxophonist Michael Marcus digs down deep every time out. As adventurous as his biggest musical inspiration, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Marcus creates tone poems that swing. He wrote each piece for this album; some are tributes. Swinging and applying muscular saxophone energy, the leader ...
