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National Endowment for the Arts Announces the 2010 NEA Jazz Masters
Nation's highest honor in jazz is bestowed on eight living legends Washington, DC - The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) today announced the recipients of the 2010 NEA Jazz Masters Award -- the nation's highest honor in this distinctly American music. The eight recipients will each receive a $25,000 grant award and be publicly honored ...
Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings
by Clifford Allen
Anthony BraxtonThe Complete Arista RecordingsMosaic2008 Few artists in the realm of improvised music can claim as important or varied a series of recordings as reedman-composer Anthony Braxton did during his contract to Arista Records in the 1970s. With the financial backing provided by what was then an upstart ...
Vision Towards Essence
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3.
Muhal Richard Abrams: Vision Towards Essence
by Martin Longley
This is a live solo piano set from 1998's Guelph Jazz Festival, in Canada. Chicagoan-cum-New York pianist Muhal Richard Abrams performs the album's title piece, which is around an hour long and is divided into three parts. Ultimately, there are only the tiniest breaks in this improvisation and these demarcations only exist for listening convenience. Once ...
Vision Towards Essence
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2007
Track listing: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3
Streaming
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2007
Track listing: 01. Scrape - 10:02;
02. Bound - 11:02;
03. Dramaturns - 18:27;
04. Soundhear - 16:36;
05. Streaming - 17:34.
Muhal Richard Abrams: The Advancement of Creative Music
by AAJ Staff
By Ted Panken At a certain point in the mid-1960s--the exact date escapes him--pianist/composer Muhal Richard Abrams, a lifelong resident of the South Side of Chicago, visited New York for the first time on a gig with saxophonist Eddie Harris at Harlem's Club Barron. “New York suited my energy, Abrams recalled. “Of course. ...
Muhal Richard Abrams - George Lewis - Roscoe Mitchell: Streaming
by AAJ Italy Staff
Penso che il modo migliore - o perlomeno quello che al tempo stesso consente di godere della musica con la massima apertura e non cadere in possibili cliché d'ascolto - per accostarsi alla musica del trio formato da Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis e Roscoe Mitchell sia quello di metabolizzare in modo molto sincero le diverse ...
Streaming
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2006
Track listing: Scrape: Bound; Dramaturns; Soundhear; Steaming.
Muhal Richard Abrams / George Lewis / Roscoe Mitchell: Streaming
by Mark Corroto
To paraphrase Jack Nicholson from the 1997 film As Good As It Gets, this recording “...makes me want to be a better listener. Impeccably recorded, Streaming brings together (once again) three AACM giants for an hour of open (their word) improvisation. Like Stephen Hawkins has done with casual conversation, artists Muhal Richard Abrams, George ...
