Home » Search Center » Results: New Amsterdam Records

Results for "New Amsterdam Records"

Album

Words Project II

Label: New Amsterdam Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Paths; Such Fruit; No Theory; The Dream Keeper; Miss Teen USA; It Takes A Nail; Indecision; The Sea And The Man; The War Works Hard; Therapy; When Death Comes.

Album

The Words Project

By Sam Sadigursky

Label: New Amsterdam Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: After Paradise; Still Life; I'm Glad Your Sickness; Water, Aspirin, You; Love; In The Kitchen; Gardener And Flower Too; You're; Epitaph For A Pair Of Old Shoes; After Love.

245

Article: Album Review

Sam Sadigursky: Words Project II

Read "Words Project II" reviewed by Martin Gladu

by Martin Gladu
September 20, 2008

"On the dark and difficult path you have chosen, you sometimes lose your way." As if by premonition, the opening phrase from New York City-based reedman/composer Sam Sadigursky's Words Project II not only summarizes its leader's against-the-grain approach, but the album's less conclusive result than the initial The Words Project (New Amsterdam, 2007). In the first ...

236

Article: Album Review

Sam Sadigursky: The Words Project

Read "The Words Project" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
February 27, 2008

Ambition is good. It focuses the mind towards a distant goal, keeping it pointed in the correct direction. When artistic ambition is combined with the talent to fulfill the plan, something special is bound to happen. The Words Project is reedman Sam Sadigursky's leadership debut, and that he chose to mix words and music is ambition ...

400

Article: Extended Analysis

Sam Sadigursky: The Words Project

by Martin Gladu
August 27, 2007

Sam Sadigursky The Words Project New Amsterdam Records 2007 Musical settings of poetry remain rare in jazz. Pianist Ketil Björnstad's accessible readings of John Donne's metaphysical poems and bassist Steve Swallow's longtime affair with Robert Creeley have replenished the genre to a degree, but few artists have braved the near-stigmatized ...