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Henry Threadgill Zooid: This Brings Us To, Volume II
by Troy Collins
This Brings Us To, Volume II is the sequel to 2009's This Brings Us To, Volume I (Pi Recordings), Henry Threadgill's celebrated return to the studio after eight years. Culled from the same recording session, these complimentary releases are the renowned multi-instrumentalist's first commercially available recordings in almost a decade. Volume II finds the legendary AACM ...
Steve Coleman and Five Elements: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities
by AAJ Italy Staff
È dedicato al filosofo Raimondo Lullo quest'ultimo CD di Steve Coleman, che al jazz degli ultimi due decenni ha regalato le idee più fervide ed emozionanti. Anche qui la dimensione rituale è al centro di un mobilissimo percorso sonoro, volto a tradurre in termini musicali (i ritmi asimettrici) le corrispondenze fisiche e simboliche tra uomo e ...
Steve Coleman and Five Elements: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities
by Glenn Astarita
Celebrated and highly influential alto saxophonist Steve Coleman reenters the progressive jazz context with his cutting-edge Five Elements band. A purveyor of M-Base processes, which are centered upon a synchronous balance between structure and improvisation, Coleman's odd-metered metrics revert to kaleidoscopic sentiment on “Clouds."Trombonist Tim Albright launches the track with warmly stated choruses, underscored ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa / Bunky Green: Apex
by Mark F. Turner
Apex is an alto sax summit of huge proportions--a prodigious work of collaboration and stirring performances--boasting Rudresh Mahanthappa, one of today's rising stars, and Bunky Green, a lesser known master who has influenced innovators such as Greg Osby and Steve Coleman. Like another memorable 2010 release, Dual Identity (Clean Feed), which featured Mahanthappa and alto conceptualist ...
Steve Coleman and Five Elements: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities
by Troy Collins
As the founder of the M-Base movement, alto saxophonist Steve Coleman has been at the forefront of advances in jazz composition for 25 years. Culled from traditions with roots in the diverse music of the African Diaspora, M-Base's intricate fusion of syncopated rhythms and polyphonic harmonies has provided a vivacious, forward-thinking alternative to staid conventions for ...
Amir ElSaffar / Hafez Modirzadeh: Radif Suite
by Stuart Broomer
This is an illuminating meeting between musicians who share similar cultural background and creative directions. Trumpeter Amir ElSaffar is an Iraqi-American whose work has fused elements of jazz and the maqam music of Iraq. His CD-length suite from 2007, Two Rivers, was a triumph of synthesis and vision. Tenor saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh is an older Iranian-American ...
Henry Threadgill Zooid: This Brings Us To, Volume 1
by AAJ Italy Staff
Che Henry Threadgill sia uno dei più straordinari protagonisti della storia della musica afroamericana è un dato che si spera nessuno possa mai mettere in discussione: a colpire, oltre alla eccellente qualità delle sue composizioni, è certamente la capacità di lavorare su processi creativi di fortissimo spessore e personalità, del tutto incurante di mode o di ...
Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Vol. 1
by Russ Musto
Henry Threadgill's This Brings Us To, Vol. 1 marks the return of the iconoclastic saxophonist/flautist's Zooid ensemble, his primary public performance vehicle for the past decade. The quintet, although having undergone some significant changes since its previous disc, with bass guitarist Stomu Takeishi and multi-instrumentalist Elliot Humberto Kavee replacing cellist/trombonist Dana Leong and drummer Dafnis Prieto, ...
Travail, Transformation, and Flow
By Steve Lehman
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2009
Track listing: Echoes; Rudreshm; As Things Change (I Remain the Same); Dubs; Alloy;
Waves; No Neighborhood Rough Enough; Living In The World Today.
Cries From Tha Ghetto
By Corey Wilkes
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2009
Track listing: First Mind; Abstrakt #1; SICK JJ; Levitation; Rain; Cries From Tha Ghetto; Abstrakt #2; Visionary of an Abstrakt; Abstrakt #3; Villa Tiamo; Abstrakt #4; Chasin' LeRoy.
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