Results for "Obasi Akoto"

Obasi Akoto

Obasi Akoto is a veteran double bass player, composer and educator. He is best known for his work with Elvin Jones and Jazz Machine and piano titan Cyrus Chestnut. Obasi has an extensive performance history which includes performances and/or recordings with some of the greatest jazz artists in the world. His notable collaborations include: Warren Wolf, Sean Jones, Tim Green, Aaron Goldberg, Larnell Lewis, Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Barron, Stefon Harris, Mulgrew Miller, James Carter, Joe Lovano, Abbey Lincoln, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kathleen Battle, Benny Green, Jacky Terrason, Eddie Henderson, Wycliffe Gordon, Wes “Warm Daddy” Anderson, Miguel Zenon, Avishai Cohen, Lester Bowie, John Hicks, Steve Turre, Lewis Nash, Jimmy Green, George Colligan, Jon Gordon, Herlin Riley, Anat Cohen, Regina Carter, Greg Tardy, Houston Person, Marcus Printup, Joel Ross and Terreon Gully

Snap Happy

By Greg Murphy

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2025
Track listing: On Green Dolphin Street; Twelve More Bars to Go; Humpty Dumpty; Geneva; I Fall in Love Too Easily; Snap Happy; Equality; Proximity; The Shadow of Lo; Pannonica; Monk’s Mood; All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm.

Greg Murphy: Snap Happy

by Jack Bowers
July 7, 2025

A powerful and perceptive reading of Bronislau Kaper's “On Green Dolphin Street" sets the compass on Snap Happy, a splendid recording by pianist Greg Murphy's trio (and sometimes quartet) which is the New York-based artist's eighth album as leader of his own groups. To begin where the rubber meets the road, Murphy is ...

Simon Moullier at Takoma Station Tavern

by Robert Bellafiore
October 9, 2024

Simon Moullier Takoma Station Tavern Washington, DC October 5, 2024 Vibraphonist Simon Moullier was honest with his uncertainty about what was about to happen: “I met these musicians for the first time two hours ago." But the audience at Takoma Station witnessing his Washington, DC debut had nothing to worry about. ...

Pan Africa

By Derrick Gardner

Label: Impact Jazz
Released: 2023
Track listing: Djemba Kan; Appointment in Ghana; 10,000 Ships; The Sixth Village; Highlife Suite; Blues for the Diaspora; Vicente; The Afro Mestizo; NKRUMAH ‘da RULAH; Assin Manso …. The Last Bath.

You Remind Me

By Greg Murphy

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2024
Track listing: After Dark; The Cure; Nights Over Egypt ; You Remind Me; Nancy; Shrimp Fried Rice; Mr. Day; Mornin’; Takeoff; Simone; Night Flight; A Night To Remember

Derrick Gardner & The Jazz Prophets: Pan Africa

by Mike Jurkovic
January 30, 2023

A big man with a big plan and a boisterous sextet at his back, trumpeter Derrick Gardner and his razor-fine Jazz Prophets unapologetically and unflinchingly blow the walls down with Pan Africa. Hyperbole? Not really. Just let Gardner and company free on Jackie McLean's hopscotching “Appointment In Ghana" (from Jackie's Bag, his first for ...