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Article: Album Review

Harris Eisenstadt: Golden State II

Read "Golden State II" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
April 28, 2015

Drummer Harris Eisenstadt's Golden State--the avant-chamber group that he formed while he was in residence at the California Institute of the Arts in 2012--is a meeting of minds and instincts. In its initial form, with bassoonist Sara Schoenbeck, bassist Mark Dresser, and flutist Nicole Mitchell, this ensemble created music that was smart and offbeat. Logic and ...

News: Festival

The New Frequencies Festival: February 4–7 At Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, San Francisco

January 29, 2015

An adventurous underground music festival, New Frequencies Fest: Jazz@YBCA will present exclusive performances and one-time-only events from trans-generational and revolutionary artists, composers and trailblazer musicians whose work blends a variety of influences, genres, traditions, and styles. Jazz@YBCA is part of a two year artist’s residency featuring Myra Melford,the award-winning pianist, composer, Guggenheim Fellow and 2013 Doris ...

Album

Intergalactic Beings

By Nicole Mitchell

Label: Fpe Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Phases of Subduction; Cycle of Metamorphosis; The Ooli Moves; Dripping Matter; Negotiating Identity; Web of Hope; Fields of Possibility; Resisting Entanglement; The Inevitables.

Album

The Secret Escapades of Velvet Anderson

By Nicole Mitchell

Label: Rogue Art
Released: 2014
Track listing: Bright City; Secret Assignment; Discovery of the Jewel; For the Cause; Scaling the Underground; Anderson's Plan; Running the Rooftops; The Labyrinth of Capture; The Heroic Rescue.

Album

Engraved In The Wind

By Nicole Mitchell

Label: Rogue Art
Released: 2014
Track listing: Blue Mountain; Dadwee; Forest Family; Cave of Forgotten Spring; Six Wings; Beehive; Making of Rose Quartz; Pratagraha: Virtue of Freedom from Attachment; Desert Choir; Boiling River; Song of Suchness; High Light at the Waterfall; Glacier Wall; Agoru III; Engraved in the Wind; Fireflies and Mischief on Dada B's Porch.

Article: Year in Review

John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2014

by John Sharpe
December 25, 2014

Here are eleven new releases, reviewed at All About Jazz, which stood out from those I heard this year, in no special order. Nicole Mitchell The Secret Escapades of Velvet Anderson (Rogue Art Records) Sonic Projections must be flautist Nicole Mitchell's hardest blowing band. On their second outing she ...

Article: Album Review

Nicole Mitchell's Sonic Projections: The Secret Escapades of Velvet Anderson

Read "The Secret Escapades of Velvet Anderson" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
November 4, 2014

Sonic Projections must be flautist Nicole Mitchell's hardest blowing band. For their second outing after Emerald Hills (Rogue Art, 2010) she draws inspiration from another hard blowing source in Chicago legend Fred Anderson. Not only a mentor to many young musicians in the Windy City, the saxophonist also ran the renowned Velvet Lounge tavern. That required ...

Article: Live Review

Hyde Park Jazz Festival 2014

by Mark Corroto
October 8, 2014

Hyde Park Jazz Festival Chicago, IL September 28-29, 2014The good folks at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival have a problem. Now in it's eight edition, the two day affair has attracted throngs of intelligent jazz listeners and too many 'must see' jazz acts. This year's festival held September 28-29 featured 40 ...

Article: Lyrics

I nuovi orchestratori - 2: Kyle Saulnier - Rob Mazurek

by Angelo Leonardi
October 6, 2014

Parliamo ancora di orchestre e arrangiatori [per leggere la prima puntata di questo approfondimento -clicca qui. Tralasciando per il momento di considerare i contributi più innovativi della scena europea (tra cui spiccano la Vienna Art Orchestra e l'Italian Instabile Orchestra) dopo la stagione del Free la ricerca d'avanguardia statunitense non si è fermata. Purtroppo ...

Article: Live Review

Punkt Festival 2014

by Henning Bolte
October 3, 2014

Punkt Festival Kristiansand, Norway September, 4-6, 2014 Kristiansand, home of the Annual Punkt Festival for the past decade, is a municipality situated on the southernmost point of Norway at the Skagerrag strait. It has a population of 86,000 (the greater urban area, 155,000) and is the county capital of Vest- Agder.