Results for "Nubya Garcia"

Wildflower: Season 2

by Karl Ackermann
February 25, 2020

On paper, the UK trios Wildflower and Ill Considered bear an obvious resemblance. Each features the outstanding reed player Idris Rahman and bassist Leon Brichard, and both groups are groove-oriented progressive jazz. Wildflower is the slightly more melody-driven and the less raw of the two bands, with intricate improvisations interwoven throughout. Season 2 sees Rahman altering ...

Gil Scott-Heron / Makaya McCraven: We're New Again

by Karl Ackermann
February 21, 2020

"All the dreams you show up in are not your own." With those words to an interviewer at The New Yorker, Gil Scott-Heron tried to explain a degree of detachment from I'm New Here (XL Recordings, 2011), his “comeback" and the final studio album before his death that year. The project was initiated by the head ...

Camilla George: Warrior Charge

by Chris May
February 13, 2020

In 2017, alto saxophonist and composer Camilla George's band was the support act for a Dee Dee Bridgewater gig at the London Jazz Festival. After George had finished her set, Bridgewater, who had been listening in the wings, came onstage, took the mike, and announced: “The world is safe because we have Camilla." Others in Cadogan ...

Nubya Garcia

London-based saxophonist and composer, Nubya Garcia, is one of the leading forces behind the resurgence of jazz-influenced sounds in the UK. Raised in a creative environment built by a set of Caribbean parents, her brand of afro-tinged Jazz has made her a key component in a string of new and established groups: from work with MOBO Award-winning drummer, Moses Boyd, legendary Jungle producer and toaster, Congo Natty, through to her own works as part of six-piece, Maisha, and the Nérija septet. Nubya fearlessly threw herself head first into this 5ive project, her debut recording, with a clear vision of what she wanted and was meticulous in her pursuit of her sound

Joe Armon-Jones al Monk di Roma

by Serena Antinucci
February 5, 2020

Joe Armon-Jones Monk Roma 31.1.2020 “Mi chiedi cosa sia una famiglia. Penso che la famiglia sia una comunità. Uno spazio dove non devi comprimere te stesso, dove non devi fingere o esibirti. Puoi mostrarti completamente, puoi essere vulnerabile. Ti presenti come sei, senza giudizio, senza derisione, senza paura o violenza. Non siamo ...

Gary Bartz: Musica per espandere la propria mente

by Paolo Marra
December 16, 2019

Ci sono personaggi del jazz capaci di rappresentare un periodo storico ben preciso rievocandone in ogni loro performance le idee, le passioni e la filosofia del pensiero espresso. Uno di questi è il sassofonista statunitense Gary Bartz. Dopo aver fatto parte dei Jazz Messangers di Art Blakey e aver collaborato con il pianista McCoy Tyner nel ...

Karl Ackermann’s Best Releases of 2019

by Karl Ackermann
December 15, 2019

2019 was the year when one couldn't turn an ear without hearing a release that featured either Kris Davis or Matthew Shipp. Between the two pianist/composer/improvisers, listeners have been treated to more than a dozen recordings, each noteworthy. Then there is Satoko Fujii. On the heels of her 2018, twelve-album birthday celebration, the pianist issued another ...

Yazz Ahmed: Polyhymnia

by Chris May
December 15, 2019

The British-Bahraini trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer Yazz Ahmed went clear in 2017 with La Saboteuse (Naim). The album is an otherworldly mix of jazz, electronics and Arabic folk music which carries traces of Miles Davis' In A Silent Way (Columbia, 1969) and Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970) and Jon Hassell's Dream Theory In Malaya: Fourth World Volume ...

2019 Jazz & Wine of Peace Festival

by Luciano Rossetti
December 15, 2019

The Jazz & Wine of Peace festival is held in Cormons, Italy and various other locations in the surrounding Collio Friulano region and nearby Slovenia. The 2019 festival ran from October 19 to October 27 and featured Diane Reeves, Bill Frisell, Dave Holland, and John McLaughlin as well as Binker Golding, Frode Haltli, Theon Cross and ...

Tommaso Cappellato: Spiritual Jazz, Club Culture, Harry Whitaker e molte cose ancora

by Angelo Leonardi
December 9, 2019

Batterista, produttore e compositore, Tommaso Cappellato è tra i pochi musicisti italiani in piena sintonia con le ultime tendenze del jazz, dove contenuti e spirito di questa musica si legano ad afrobeat, soul, hip-hop, house, elettronica e vari generi della Club Culture. Una scena musicale che ha il suo fulcro a Londra e pubblica le sue ...