Results for "Nathaniel Cross"

Nathaniel Cross

Once dubbed "the Quincy Jones of Catford" by Rolling Stone magazine, South London's Nathaniel Cross has been a prominent force behind the scenes for several years now as an arranger and trombone player.

When The Dust Settles

By Yahael Camara-Onono

Label: New Soil
Released: 2023
Track listing: For Aziz; Anka Tulon; A Prayer For Our Parents; Bé Mankan; Red Oil/Beyond Kingdom Come; When The Dust Settles; There’s Nothing Left For Us Here; Suley’s Ablution; Golo Kan; Seasons Of Baraka.

Balimaya Project at Barbican Centre

by Chris May
October 20, 2023

Balimaya Project Barbican Centre, Main Hall When The Dust Settles London October 17, 2023 Founded in 2019 by London-based djembe player Yahael Camara Onono, the eighteen-piece Balimaya Project is an all-male ensemble dedicated to celebrating its members' African musical heritages, which it approaches as evolving, future-facing entities. The band blends ...

Balimaya Project: When The Dust Settles

by Chris May
August 12, 2023

Formed in 2019 by London-based drummer and percussionist Yahael Camara Onono, the sixteen-piece Balimaya Project blends traditional West African Mandé music with modal jazz and other sounds out of modern Black London. The ensemble's closest comparator, albeit at some remove, is the veteran Senegalese band Orchestra Baobab who, in the 1980s, were hugely popular at home ...

Forward Thinker

By Nimbus Sextet

Label: Acid Jazz
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1. High Time 2. Forward Thinker 3. Woodview (Interlude) 4. Another Place 5. Search For Solace 6. From The Shadows 7. To The Light

Legacy

Label: Banger Factory
Released: 2022
Track listing: Caravan; Remedy; Commanders Call; Honesty; The Ted Williams Villanelle; Papa Fox; Door Of Breath; Guided By The Light; Echoes Of Palmares.

Kinetika Bloco: Legacy

by Chris May
April 3, 2022

Legacy features some of the London jazz scene's leading players, among them tenor saxophonist Nubya Garcia, trumpeters Claude Deppa, Mark Kavuma and Sheila Maurice-Grey, trombonist Nathaniel Cross and tubaist Theon Cross. As you would anticipate, there is much great jazz to be heard on the album, and along the way it bears witness ...

Beyond Afrobeat: Kokoroko's World of Black Music

by Peter Jones
March 19, 2022

London-based octet Kokoroko has been led by trumpeter-vocalist Sheila Maurice-Grey since she formed it in 2014 with percussionist Onome Edgeworth. The band's original idea was to update Afrobeat for a 21st century audience, inspired by the likes of Ebo Taylor, Tony Allen, and Fela Kuti. It was the extraordinary public reaction to their first release--a single ...

The Description Is Not The Described

By Nathaniel Cross

Label: First Word Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Goodbye For Now; Charge It To The Game; Light In The Darkness; Who Looks Inside, Awakes.

Ill Considered - Reconsidered

by Karl Ackermann
November 9, 2021

London Calling, AgainAround 2010, the South London jazz scene began breaking with tradition for an alternative union of music rooted in global cultures. It represented a fundamental change in the way young Londoners related to music; the rhythms were infused with hip hop, spiritual jazz, dubstep, funk, groove, reggae, and future soul in various combinations. In ...