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Ravi Coltrane: Spirit Fiction
by Troy Collins
The second son of John and Alice Coltrane, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane was born two years before his father's death in 1967. Despite his imposing lineage, Coltrane's steady rise to prominence in the jazz world has been anything but conspicuous; notable stints as a sideman with Steve Coleman, Elvin Jones and Wallace Roney in the mid-1990s eventually ...
Longwood Gardens' Wine and Jazz Festival: Kennett Square, PA, June 2, 2012
by Victor L. Schermer
Longwood Gardens' Wine and Jazz FestivalThe Meadows at Longwood GardensKennett Square, PAJune 2, 2012After a night of thunderstorms and tornado warnings, the weather cleared at Longwood Gardens, a horticultural conservancy spread over a wide swath of countryside in Kennett Square, Chester County, PA. The day turned out sunny and mild, perfect ...
Ravi Coltrane: Spirit Fiction
by Franz A. Matzner
Ravi Coltrane's Blue Note debut, Spirit Fiction, presents the saxophonist in a self-created environment of formal experimentation defined by multiple conceits and constraints.Coltrane's penchant for this type of thoughtful experimentation has been consistent over his career. With Spirit Fiction, however, he has taken the approach to a new level, deploying an array of recording ...
Avi Granite's Verse, Release Of "Snow Umbrellas," Featuring Avi Granite, Ralph Alessi, Jerry Devore, Owen Howard
A NEW VOICE IN JAZZ AVI GRANITE PRESENTS HIS LATEST RELEASE AS A LEADER SNOW UMBRELLAS BY AVI GRANITEʼS VERSE featuring Avi Granite Ralph Alessi Jerry DeVore Owen Howard AVAILABLE NOW ON ITUNES AND CD BABY RECORD RELEASE SHOW - MAY 17, 2012; 8 PM at 5C, New York City Canadian-born Avi Granite is a young ...
January 2012: Craig Ebner, Ravi Coltrane, Lucas Brown and Norman David
by RJ Johnson
Craig Ebner QuartetMoonstone Arts CenterJanuary 13, 2012Craig Ebner, a Philadelphia based guitarist best known for his work with organist Joey DeFrancesco, led his quartet through a brief yet powerful set at the Moonstone Arts Center in Center City Philadelphia. Now in its third year, the Moonstone Arts Center operates out ...
Grammy-Nominated Saxophonist Ravi Coltrane Kicks Off 2012 at the Annenberg Center
Philadelphia, PA—Touted as “amazing, deep, soulful, masterful" by Jazz Police, prodigious saxophonist Ravi Coltrane takes the stage with his quintet on January 14 at the Annenberg Center as a part of its Jazz Series. In a one-night-only treat just in time to kick that holiday hangover, jazz enthusiasts and newbies alike can delight in Coltrane's robust ...
Enesco Re-Imagined
By Ralph Alessi
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: 01. Aria Eb Scherzino; 02. Octet for Strings Opus 7; 03. Sonata No. 3 for violin and piano Opus 25; 04. Sonata No. 3 for violin and piano Opus 25; 05. Orchestral Suite No 1, Opus 9;
06. Piano Suite No. 1 Opus 3; 07. Symphony No. 4 Unfinished; 08. Ballade for violin & orchestra Opus 4a (bonus video track).
Wiry Strong
By Ralph Alessi
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Clown Painting; Station Wagon Trip; Pudgy; Medieval Genius; Halves and
Wholes; Racy Banter; A Dollar In Your Shoe; Humdrum; 20% of the 80%;
Sock Pupperter; Ira; Celebrity Golf Classic; Cobbs Hill; Bizarro-World
Moment; Wiry Strong.
Achille Succi: Nuances and Articulations
by Glenn Astarita
Saxophonist and bass clarinetist Achille Succi has recently been singled out as “one of the European musicians to keep an eye on in the next ten years" by (Bill Schoemaker in Giornale Della Musica (January 2010), while journalist Mario Gamba defines him as a “genius of Italian Jazz" in Alias (March 20th, 2010). Born ...
Trumpetman Ralph Alessi Fields Powerful Quintet for "Wiry Strong"
In the struggle to stay ahead and/or catch up in these difficult economic times, the distractions and out-and-out traumas of survival can take us away from the good things that come by us in spite of all. That in part happened to me in the last week or so. Ralph Alessi and This Against That's Wiry ...
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