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Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse: Cries From Tha Ghetto
by Troy Collins
Trumpet player Corey Wilkes was just 24 when saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell recruited him to join the Art Ensemble of Chicago in 2003, four years after Lester Bowie's passing. Since then he has demonstrated remarkable technical and creative ability, serving as a sideman in James Carter's Quintet, Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra ...
JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards - Join Us!
Mark your calendar! 13th Annual JJA Jazz Awards June 16, 2009 3:00-6:00pm at The Jazz Standard 116 E. 27th Street New York, NY Join us at the JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards as we... Announce our 2009 award winners (see nominees below) Honor winners and nominees ...
30th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland
by Matt Marshall
30th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio April 23-May 3, 2009 Now in its 30th year, the Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland has always prided itself as much on its educational offerings as its concerts. The festival's Web site touts it as “the largest educational jazz festival in the country." This emphasis on ...
Nicole Mitchell/ Indigo Trio: Anaya
by John Sharpe
The Indigo Trio's sophomore outing on the classy French Rogue Art imprint delivers the record fans of Nicole Mitchell the flutist have been waiting for. Mitchell the composer and arranger has been to the fore of late on Black Unstoppable (Delmark, 2007) and most notably Xenogenesis Suite (Firehouse 12, 2008), but with instrumentation stripped to the ...
February 2009
by AAJ Staff
Jeff “Tain" WattsJeff “Tain" WattsWinter JazzfestLe Poisson RougeNew York City January 10, 2009The big draw of Winter Jazzfest was drummer Jeff “Tain" Watts' midnight set at Le Poisson Rouge Jan. 10th in honor of Max Roach's birthday, with Terence Blanchard (trumpet), Branford Marsalis (tenor and soprano ...
Dave Douglas' Fetish Busting Greenleaf Digital Music Experience
by Mark Corroto
The assignment was simple enough. I was to listen online to trumpet and cornet player Dave Douglas' recordings Quintet: Live at the Jazz Standard and Keystone Live at the Jazz Standard at GreenleafMusic.com, and write about them. So why hadn't I touched the play button nearly three weeks after receiving the music? Sure, sometimes ...
Black Unstoppable
Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: 01. Cause and Effect;
02. Black Unstoppable;
03. February;
04. Love Has No Boundaries;
05. Sun Cycles;
06. The Creator Has Other Plans for Me;
07. Life Wants you to Love;
08. Navigator;
09. Thanking the Universe.
Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute to Octavia Butler
Label: Firehouse 12 Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Wonder; Transition A; Smell of Fear; Sequence Shadows; Oankali; Adrenalin; Transition C; Before and After; Dawn of a New Life.
Flutist Nicole Mitchell's Sonic Projections at the Stone
Creative flutist Nicole Mitchell will celebrate the New Year with new musical projects at the Stone, on Jan 2 and 3, including saxophonist David Boykin, pianist Vijay Ayer, guitarist Mary Halvorson and drummer Chad Taylor On January 2, 2009, at 10pm, Nicole Mitchell will present her Sonic Projections I, with tenor saxophonist David Boykin, ...
Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble: Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute to Octavia Butler
by Kurt Gottschalk
The words ‘flute’ and ‘vocals’ on the back of a jazz record can suggest something fairly specific, something that is, well, fine for those who like it. But the combination needn’t necessitate an easy listen and if anyone in recent memory was likely to break the mold, it was Chicago’s Nicole Mitchell.
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