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Vijay Iyer / Mike ladd: Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project
by Mark Corroto
It's been nearly 70 years since the film The Best Years Of Our Lives won seven Academy Awards, including one for Best Picture (1946). The story revolved around three returning WWII veterans and their difficulties adjusting to civilian life. While those veterans came back to the economic powerhouse that was the United States, today's returning soldiers ...
Matt Mitchell: Fiction
by Mark Corroto
Pianist Matt Mitchell's debut solo recording, Fiction, is actually a duo recording. And while it is a performance of fifteen compositions, the music was originally conceived of as etudes, or short pieces--exercises to improve the pianist's ability to incorporate improvisation into composed music.Mitchell is quite the in-demand sideman. He can be heard in Tim ...
Jonathan Finlayson: Moment and the Message
by Mark Corroto
The final scene from the 1998 cult classic movie, The Big Lebowski, has the cowboy narrator telling the audience: “Then, I happen to know that there's a little Lebowski on the way. I guess that's the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin' itself, down through the generations, westward the wagons, across the sands a ...
Jonathan Finlayson & Sicilian Defense: Moment & The Message
by Glenn Astarita
Trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson communicates a vibrantly rhythmic platform on Moment & The Message. His resume includes work with alto saxophone luminaries Steve Coleman and Steve Lehman; the album opener “Circus" is stylistically framed on pioneering woodwind legend Henry Threadgill's geometrically patterned compositions. But Finlayson rests on his own laurels with this debut solo effort. The set ...
Jonathan Finlayson: Moment and the Message
by Mark F. Turner
For those who've been watching the rise of trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson in recent years, his long awaited debut, Moment & The Message, not only displays his insightful playing and individualism but also some imposing composing skills. A prodigy who impressed pioneer saxophonist Steve Coleman when he performed in high school, Finlayson later moved to New York, ...
Steve Coleman and Five Elements: Functional Arrhythmias
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nella sua ultima fatica discografica Steve Coleman si presenta con una versione aggiornata degli storici Five Elements (prima apparizione nel lontano 1981) recuperando due veterani come il bassista elettrico Anthony Todd ed il batterista Sean Rickman e completando la formazione con due musicisti giovani ma già ampiamente apprezzati come il trombettista Jonathan Finlayson e il chitarrista ...
Jonathan Finlayson & Sicilian Defense: Moment & the Message
by AAJ Italy Staff
Correva l'anno duemila quando l'allora diciottenne Jonathan Finlayson - californiano di nascita, newyorchese d'adozione - fu reclutato da Steve Coleman. Da quel giorno la dedizione al signor M-Base è stata pressoché totale: tredici lunghi anni di concerti, viaggi, prove, dischi. Un'eternità considerando il proverbiale rigore del sassofonista di Chicago. Uno che ha la nomea di maestro ...
Steve Coleman and Five Elements: Functional Arrhythmias
by Mark F. Turner
Ever the thinker, saxophonist Steve Coleman now delves into the connection between human biology and music with Functional Arrhythmias, perhaps his most accessible release in recent memory. With a vast discography that has covered everything from unadulterated funk in 1988's Sine Die (Pegasus) to advanced concepts in 2011's The Mancy of Sound (Pi), his curiosity and ...
From Junk Bonds to Jazz: Pi Recordings' Yulun Wang
Yulun Wang thinks of himself as a guy who can solve complex problems. He did it frequently during his nearly two-decade career in investment banking. After working as a quantitative analyst at Security Pacific National Bank, he shifted to municipal bond re-financings at Dillon, Reed & Co. But once the Internet bubble burst, Wang—who was, by ...
Dialect Fluorescent
By Steve Lehman
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2012
Track listing: Allocentric (Intro); Allocentric; Moment's Notice; Foster Brothers; Jeannine; Alloy; Pure Imagination; Fumba Rebel; Mr. E.
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