Results for "Nicole Mitchell"

Nicole Mitchell + Some Johnny Hodges 45s

by David Brown
February 21, 2023

This week, our featured artist will be creative flutist, composer and educator Nicole Mitchell whose music we will explore in a variety of contexts. Our featured recording will be an old 1952 box of 45s titled “Johnny Hodges and his Alto Sax" that I picked up this week plus recent releases from Avram Fefer, Ben Wolf, ...

Art Ensemble Of Chicago: The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris

by Giuseppe Segala
February 6, 2023

Parigi è città fatale per l'Art Ensemble of Chicago: nel 1969 fu traguardo del prodigio artistico e umano preparato negli anni precedenti da Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors e Joseph Jarman, che avevano incrociato le proprie esperienze dapprima al Wilson Junior College di Chicago, nel 1961, poi nel lavoro con la Experimental Band di Muhal Richard Abrams, ...

The Antidote Suite

By JoVia Armstrong

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Breathe; Meditations on Oya (Mμ); Beautifully Black; Zebra; Shades and Shapes.

Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM

by Angelo Leonardi
December 2, 2022

Sound Experiments—The Music of the AACM Paul Steinbeck 272 Pagine ISBN: # 978-0-226-820095 The University of Chicago Press 2022 Fondata a Chicago nel 1965 su impulso di Muhal Richard Abrams, l'AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) è giunta alla quarta generazione di musicisti e resta l'organizzazione ...

Fabbrica Europa 2022: due duetti all'insegna del contrasto

by Neri Pollastri
November 23, 2022

Camille Bertault e David Helbock / Nicole Mitchell e Ballaké Sissoko Firenze Fabbrica Europa 2022 Giardino Istituto Agrario 6-7.9.2022 I primi due concerti della sezione musicale del festival fiorentino Fabbrica Europa 2022 hanno visto di scena interessanti progetti, entrambi in duo, basati sull'idea di far incontrare e interagire personalità musicali ...

Xhosa Cole: Ibeji

by Karl Ackermann
November 13, 2022

Few places on the global jazz scene are enjoying the enthusiastic resurgence of the genre more than the UK. Names that are becoming more familiar—Binker Golding, Nubya Garcia, Idris Rahman, Shabaka Hutchings and others—have triggered something of a youth movement. Emerging in that group is yet another top-notch saxophonist, Xhosa Cole. Cole's sophomore release, Ibeji is ...

Jazz em Agosto 2022

by Stefano Merighi
August 16, 2022

Jazz em Agosto Fondazione Gulbenkian -Varie sedi Lisbona, Portogallo 30.7-7.8.2022 L'ultima edizione di Jazz em Agosto conferma il fiuto infallibile della direzione artistica per ciò che profuma di nuovo nelle musiche contemporanee afferenti al jazz. Vi sono larghi mezzi qui, che permettono di invitare appositamente artisti non necessariamente in ...

Vision Festival 2022

by Luciano Rossetti
July 28, 2022

Phil Freeman Talks Jazz in the 21st Century

by Tyran Grillo
July 26, 2022

If music journalism had an award for honesty, it would belong firmly on the shelf of Phil Freeman alongside his latest book, Ugly Beauty. And if I had a choice about the design of said award, I might opt for a gold-plated boxing glove to symbolize the gut punches his words deliver. Not because his approach ...

Vinny Golia / Bernard Santacruz / Cristiano Calcagnile: To Live and Breathe…

by Mark Corroto
July 8, 2022

None of the three musicians heard on To Live and Breathe... had ever performed together before this set of live music recorded in Piacenza, Italy, on Sunday, February 5, 2017. Would they gel? Could they come together in the land of free improvised music? The most recognizable name here is American multi—instrumentalist Vinny Golia with a ...