Results for "Michael TA Thompson"

Michael TA Thompson

William Parker's Pocketwatch at Loove Annex

by Fran Kursztejn
May 8, 2026

William Parker's Pocketwatch Loove Annex  AFA ResidencyNew York City April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2026 Before beginning his final set of the night, William Parker took a moment to explain the name of his 'Pocketwatch ensemble, a rotating group of polyphonic masters that have met every Wednesday of April at Greenpoint's Loove Annex. ...

Wanderlust

By Andrea Wolper

Label: Moonflower Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Light Out of Darknes; Dog Day Afternoon; Sobe e Desce; Still Life; The Music is the Magic; The Nature of Life; Been to Canaan; Nevermore; Eventide; I Burn For You; Cisluna; The Winter of Our Content.

Andrea Wolper: Wanderlust

by Jerome Wilson
June 2, 2024

Andrea Wolper is an active jazz singer, composer, and educator but this album is her first recording since 2011. On it, she reestablishes herself as a creative vocalist and arranger who can excel in many different styles. She also benefits from the support of excellent musicians such as reed player Jeff Lederer and violinist Charles Burnham. ...

Light Out of Darkness

April 12, 2024

Album: Wanderlust
By Andrea Wolper
Label: Moonflower Music
Released: 2024
Duration: 5:18

Tilting Curvaceous

By Patrick Brennan

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2023
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Patrick Brennan: Tilting Curvaceous

by John Sharpe
July 26, 2023

In spite of being active on the NYC scene since the mid-'70s, alto saxophonist and composer patrick brennan (he prefers his name spelled entirely in lowercase letters) has a relatively sparse discography, to which tilting curvaceous constitutes a splendid addition. It constitutes the seventh release by his S0nic 0penings band since Introducing S0UP (Deep Dish, 1981), ...

Patrick Brennan Sonic Openings: Tilting Curvaceous

by Karl Ackermann
May 23, 2023

The quintet project Tilting Curvaceous is saxophonist/composer Patrick Brennan's sixth leader/co-leader date since the late 1990s. His duo recording Terraphonia (Creative Sources Recordings, 2019) with guitarist Abdul Moimême demonstrated a strong affinity for free improvisation within unconventional settings and uncommon concepts. Brennan is joined by trumpeter and flugelhorn player Brian Groder. The native New Yorker has ...

Patrick Brennan and sOnic Opening: Tilting Curvaceous

by Howard Mandel
March 16, 2023

Tilting Curvaceous is all-of-a-piece, s0nic 0penings' instigator and extraordinary alto saxophonist Patrick Brennan informs us, emerging from a single “meta-groove interface," to be heard whole. That may come naturally to fans of creative improvisation since the breakthroughs of Ornette Coleman, say, and new constructions by composers including Cecil Taylor, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Henry Threadgill ...

Vision Festival 19: Honoring Amiri Baraka The Legacy Thru Panels & Poetry

June 1, 2014

Since the first Vision Festival, in 1996, Amiri Baraka has been an important presence at Vision. But way before the Vision Festival he was a champion of the music, with his seminal books on Jazz, ‘Blues People’ and ‘Black Music’. For many of the other artists and audiences who have participated each year, Baraka has been ...