Results for "Nick Dunston"

¡Golpe!, Josephine Davies & Ken Field

by Maurice Hogue
September 23, 2020

Threesomes! If that's your thing, go for it, but in jazz there's no doubt of the dominance of trios as a common format. Four outstanding trios highlight this edition of OMJ: Portugal's explorative duo ¡Golpe! adds the outstanding bassist Masa Kamaguchi for its excellent new release, Totem, while two others maintain what's working: Bill Frisell with ...

Nick Dunston: Atlantic Extraction: Live at Threes

by John Sharpe
September 6, 2020

Bassist Nick Dunston, an alumni of the groups of Vijay Iyer, Dave Douglas and Tyshawn Sorey, was responsible for one of the debuts of 2019, with Atlantic Extraction (Out Of Your Head Records). Taking that title as its name, the same quintet inaugurates OOYH Records digital only Untamed series which aims to release high-quality performances with ...

Dave Douglas: Engage

by Giuseppe Segala
August 31, 2020

Nella conduzione della propria etichetta indipendente Greenleaf Music, Dave Douglas ha sempre perseguito criteri di attenzione e rispetto verso lo scambio positivo tra esseri umani, ambiente, forme della convivenza. “Composizioni dedicate all'azione positiva": così il trombettista definisce questo lavoro in dodici brani, facendo riferimento ai mesi dell'anno e alle tonalità musicali della tradizione occidentale. Un CD ...

Beginning June 13, Streaming Live At The Village Vanguard

June 5, 2020

Streaming Live at the Village Vanguard Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons beginning June 13 On February 22, 2020 the Village Vanguard, the world’s oldest continuously operated jazz club, marked its 85th year in the basement at 178 7th Avenue South in New York City. On March 16th the club closed its doors indefinitely. On Saturday, June ...

Unfiltered: The Tyshawn Sorey Sextet at the Jazz Gallery

by Dave Kaufman
April 22, 2020

The Jazz Gallery in New York City is currently celebrating its 25th anniversary. It's a great room to listen to music and is also photographer friendly. The Gallery is known for paying homage to jazz greats but is perhaps best known for its commitment to supporting young musicians. It also provides a space for musical artists ...

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2019: Striking A Balance In Review, Part 1

by Henning Bolte
February 8, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 Every year the 'Best-of' game is underway again. But, “best of what?" is the immediate question. It's almost impossible for fishes of prey to hunt in a huge herring swarm, or for birds of prey to hunt in those huge budgerigar swarms. 'The best' is a choice from the ...

Engage

By Dave Douglas

Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: Showing Up; In It Together; How Are the Children?; One Sun, A Million Rays; Where Do We Go from Here; Sanctuary Cities; Everywhere But Here; Faith Alliance; Free Libraries; Whole Souls; Living Earth; Heart Science.

Midnight Apple

By Clemens Grassmann

Label: Grassmannmusic ©
Released: 2019
Track listing: Midnight Apple #1, ZigZag #2, On The Treadmill #3, Sphere #4, The Beat Zapps #5, Mystic #6

Steve Swell, Ziv Taubenfeld & Ivo Perelman

by Maurice Hogue
December 25, 2019

This episode carries on from the previous, playing music from a some of the important independent labels that keep creative music alive. ESP-Disk has been around, survived one crash in the 80s, and is still releasing great music. Son Of Local Colour is a 50-year-later follow up to English pianist Peter Lemer's original Local Colour album ...