Home » Search Center » Results: Rez Abbasi

Results for "Rez Abbasi"

Album

Continuous Beat

Label: Enja Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Introduction; Divided Attention; Major Major; Rivalry; Itexture; The Cure; Off Minor; Back Skin; Star Spangled Banner.

Article: Album Review

Il titolo del nuovo disco di Rez Abbasi, Continuous Beat, sembra fare riferimento a un work in progress, ad una serie di pulsazioni che traggono origine da palpiti antecedenti al disco stesso. Abbasi ha voluto completare e ampliare un progetto iniziato più di un anno fa con Paul Motian e non concretizzatosi a causa della morte ...

Article: Album Review

Nate Radley: The Big Eyes

Read "The Big Eyes" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 16, 2012

Guitarist Nate Radley has turned in some great sideman performances. On alto saxophonist Loren Stillman's Winter Fruits (Pirouet, 2009), he teamed with organist Gary Versace and drummer Ted Poor for one of that year's more unusual--and unusually fine--recordings; and in 2010, he joined another intrepid saxophonist, Marc Mommaas, on the modernistic Landmarc, a string-heavy set with ...

Article: Live Review

NYC Winter Jazzfest, Day 1: January 6, 2012

by Daniel Lehner
January 16, 2012

Day 1 | Day 22012 NYC Winter Jazzfest, Day 1New York, NYJanuary 6, 2012 No one could argue that jazz didn't have a tumultuous 2011. For the better, bassist/vocalist Esperanza Spalding's Grammy for Best New Artist marked the first time a jazz musician was awarded that honor, and veteran ...

158

Article: Interview

Rez Abbasi: Thoroughly Modern Marvel

by Lawrence Peryer
January 2, 2012

Guitarist Rez Abbasi is part of a generation of jazz musicians who came of age after the conservative backlash of the 1980s. He and his peers are making their mark on America's art form by contributing their rich and varied cultural backgrounds and with an embrace of popular culture that was heresy in some quarters for ...

Album

Suno Suno

By Rez Abbasi

Label: Enja Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Thanks for Giving; Onus on Us; Monuments (intro); Monuments; Nusrat; Overseas; Part of One.

160

Article: Album Review

Rez Abbasi's Invocation: Suno Suno

Read "Suno Suno" reviewed by Matt Marshall

by Matt Marshall
November 27, 2011

On the second recorded effort with his Invocation group after 2009's Things To Come (Sunnyside), Rez Abbasi opts for more of a rock/groove vibe to underpin the guitarist's modern jazz explorations with his fairly regular cohorts, saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa and pianist Vijay Iyer. Gone is Indian vocalist Kiran Ahluwalia, who sang on much of Things To ...

126

News: Recording

Rez Abbasi - Suno Suno (Enja, 2011)

November 9, 2011

Guitarist and composer Rez Abbasi has been developing a unique conception of the song form and improvisation that draws from a wide variety of influences, including Qawwali is a form of Sufi devotional music. Joining him on this album is a band consisting of: Rudresh Mahanthappa on alto saxophone, Vijay Iyer on piano, Johannes Weidenmuller on ...

News: Recording

Rez Abbasi's Invocation -- Suno Suno (2011)

November 4, 2011

There's a trance-like euphoria surrounding this emotional, at times indescribably spiritual endeavor. Rez Abbasi, leading a group that also includes Rudresh Mahanthappa and Vijay Iyer, found inspiration for Suno Suno from Pakistani Qawwali, a devotional Sufi music that was popularized in the West by singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. As with traditional gospel music, Qawwali is ...

183

Article: Album Review

Travis Sullivan: New Directions

Read "New Directions" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
June 8, 2011

Travis Sullivan's New Directions, his Posi-Tone debut, is a rewarding trip through a mix of strong, self-penned, tunes and an unusual combination of covers. The saxophonist leads his quartet with style, emphasizing musicality and emotional engagement over displays of technique, and creating a sparkly collection that emphatically establishes his talents as a composer as well as ...