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Raffi Garabedian
Raffi Garabedian is a tenor saxophonist and composer living in Oakland, California. A dedicated improvisationalist, Garabedian utilizes spontaneous composition to create sonic atmospheres in which different perspectives on rhythmic, harmonic, and melodic progression can take shape. Garabedian’s compositional work remains strongly informed by his relationship with improvisation, a relationship which expresses itself in unique ways. His second record, Melodies in Silence, was marked in part by the remote nature of its recording, which opened new avenues in terms of production and processing. A record in part of grief and loneliness, Melodies in Silence allowed Garabedian to deepen and broaden the possibilities for composition and playing communal music when alone. On 2024’s The Crazy Dog, Garabedian began writing for voice—which he treated as a part of the horn section—in part of a cross-generational effort to bring his own, his father’s, and his grandmother’s voices into one piece of art. The result is what Downbeat calls a “deeply personal and musically inventive” work, full of “complex, contrapuntal ambitions.”
The Crazy Dog
Label: Clandestine
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Armenian Question; A Mother's Letter; Escape to Erzurum; The Closet Playwright; Three Gold Liras; Ten Acres; First Trip to Fresno);
March 17, 1927; March 18, 2020; Contrapuntal Bewilderment.
Technicolor Ghost Parade
Label: Jealous Butcher Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Technicolor Ghost Parade; A Courting; Lion’s Heart; Well Blazed; Oumou; Skip To A Stop;
Looking Outside To See In; Thursday Night Dinner; Bonfire Eclipse; Sharptooth; Unheard.
SticklerPhonics: Technicolor Ghost Parade
by Mark Corroto
For drummer, composer, and bandleader Scott Amendola it ain't nothing but a party. From his early days with guitarist Charlie Hunter's ensembles and their later collaboration with T.J. Kirk which covered the music of Thelonious Monk, James Brown, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Amendola has been an entertaining and maybe more important immersive musician. He seeks out ...
Raffi Garabedian: The Crazy Dog
by Hrayr Attarian
Bay area composer and saxophonist Raffi Garabedian is the descendent of survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. These life defining events have had a major impact on family lore and on cultural expressions primarily in the form of literature. Garabedian draws inspiration from these oral and written stories to craft the cohesive eight part suite ...
Graham Haynes, Triad, Raffi Garabedian, Chief Keegan & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
The New York residency of Graham Haynes at FourOneOne offers an opportunity to look back at his seminal album The Griot's Footsteps and at his recent collaboration with Brandon Ross. Before that, a playlist rich in remarkable new releases! Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng ...
Noah Garabedian: The Power of Patience
by John Chacona
Patience might be not the first word that you'd expect to find on the job description for a professional jazz musician, but it has been crucial to the career of bassist Noah Garabedian's career. Growing up in Berkeley, a hothouse of young jazz talent, Garabedian never intended to become a working musician. “I definitely ...
