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This July 4th Weekend, Celebrate Your Right to Free Jazz
The Independence Day weekend may be synonymous with American music, but in Chicago that doesn't necessarily mean marches by John Philip Sousa (glorious though they are). Free jazz, hard-core bebop, American popular song--that's how Chicago marks the 4th of July holiday weekend. Among the highlights: What's billed as an Independence Day Celebration will feature Chicago flutist ...
Black Earth Ensemble New Sci-Fi Inspired CD
Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble celebrates Sci-fi Inspired CD New CD release, Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute to Octavia Butler is followed with a Multi-Arts Performance and Exhibition. Featuring Margaret Morris (solo dance), Krista Franklin (visual art) and Floyd Webb (experimental video). On Thursday, June 19 at 7:30pm at Columbia College's Music Hall (1014 S. Michigan), Nicole ...
Nicole Mitchell: Black Unstoppable
by Nic Jones
Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble Black Unstoppable Delmark 2007 This DVD is representative of lighter, airier aspects of flautist Nicole Mitchell's music, and the seven- piece Black Earth Ensemble puts a whole new spin on the notion through skillful deployment. The music is never forced and always the product of ...
Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble: Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute to Octavia Butler
by John Sharpe
Expectations must have been confounded in the premiere of flutist Nicole Mitchell's Xenogenesis Suite at the 2007 Vision Festival. Presented here in a crisply recorded version from the Firehouse 12 studio the previous day, the suite is a far cry from her previous Festival appearance with a freewheeling trio in 2005, and very different again from ...
Nicole Mitchell's Xenogenesis Suite Released Today on Firehouse 12 Records
NEW HAVEN, CT -- Firehouse 12 Records is proud to announce the April 29th release of Chicago-based flutist/composer Nicole Mitchell's Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute to Octavia Butler (FH12-04-01-006), the new studio recording of her extended composition of the same name. The piece, realized by her longstanding group, Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble, was commissioned by Chamber ...
Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble: Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute To Octavia Butler
by Nic Jones
There's both a buzz and an independence about flautist Nicole Mitchell. Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute To Octavia Butler is her second disc for a label other than her own and it marks the arrival of a singular talent for whom the future holds much promise. That said there's a pervasive anxiety in this music that can ...
Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble: Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute to Octavia Butler
by Troy Collins
The most important jazz flutist of her generation, Nicole Mitchell reveals another facet of her diverse musical persona on Xenogenesis Suite. Inspired by the work of Hugo award winning Afro-Futurist science fiction author Octavia Butler (1947-2006), Mitchell transposes Butler's words into an abstract sonic travelogue. Breathlessly vivacious and boldly creative, it is Mitchell's most experimental and ...
Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble: Black Unstoppable
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ce l'ha fatta a farsi faticosamente largo tra le definizioni di comodo/curiosità che hanno accompagnato i primi anni della sua carriera, Nicole Mitchell. Flautista, prima donna a presiedere l'AACM, la musicista di Chicago vede ora sempre più riconosciute le sue qualità di artista totale, e consapevole, impegnata a costruire delle narrazioni il cui significato va ben ...
Nicole Mitchell: Black Unstoppable
by Jerry D'Souza
Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble Black Unstoppable Delmark 2008 Nicole Mitchell is probably best known for her work in jazz, but she recently has explored classical and African music as well as rhythm & blues and soul. She puts it all together impressively, letting the music speak loud ...
Black Unstoppable
Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Cause and Effect; Black Unstoppable; February; Love Has No Boundaries; Sun Cycles; The Creator Has Other Plans for Me; Life Wants You to Love; Navigator; Thanking the Universe.
