Results for "Ropeadope"

Dancing Together

By Rami Atassi

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2023
Track listing: Dancing Together; Yuma Soul; Warm Your Heart; Salty Sea; Garden Song; Great Plains; San Cristobal; Nasheed.

Captivity

By Caroline Davis

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2023
Track listing: [The Day Has Come]; Burned Believers [for Agnes and Huguette]; And Yet It Moves [for Galileo]; [The Malignity of Fate]; Synchronize My Body Where My Mind Had Always Been [for Jalil Muntaqim]; [Terrestrial Rebels]; A Way Back to Myself [for Keith LaMar]; The Promise I Made [for Joyce Ann Brown]; [I Won't Be Back, Mrs. Susan Burton]; Put It on a Poster [for Sandra Bland].

Rami Atassi: Dancing Together

by Gareth Thompson
September 25, 2023

The Chicago-based guitarist Rami Atassi went on a south American journey with his wife to explore Mexico and Colombia. Amid the daily background music, he heard different styles and rhythmic foundations than those he was used to and took percussion lessons locally. All this later began seeping into his solo work. A Syrian-American, Atassi ...

Jacques Schwarz-Bart: The Harlem Suite

by John Chacona
July 31, 2023

Tenor saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart has lived in jny: Paris, Senegal, and Switzerland as well as his native island of Guadeloupe, but his 18 years in jny: Harlem were crucial to his life and career. It was there that he found himself at an inflection point in the dynamic music scene of the late '90s, playing with ...

Duncan Eagles: Narrations

by Neil Duggan
June 8, 2023

Duncan Eagles, perhaps best known as the tenor saxophonist in Partikel, is also in high demand as a sideman to high fliers including Zara McFarlane, Shabaka Hutchings, Janek Gwizdala, Gary Husband and Ola Onabule. Recorded with minimal editing and featuring seven original compositions, Narrations, is his second album as leader, following on from Citizen (Ropeadope, 2019). ...

Adam Larson: Listen With Your Eyes

by Dan Bilawsky
March 10, 2023

Listen with your eyes. Open your ears and look. What tenor saxophonist Adam Larson has to offer here is something truly extraordinary. With horn in hand he takes us on a journey, an unforgettable trip through his wiring that's as daring as it is direct, as complex as it is approachable, and as dynamic as can ...

Lisa Marie Simmons: Notespeak 12

by Chris May
March 3, 2023

Poetry & Jazz has a checkered history. When combined, the two art forms are not so much a marriage made in heaven as an obstacle course. The biggest danger is that one of them is verbal and the other is non-verbal and at its best transcends words. The second danger is that the better the poetry ...

Sparkler

February 26, 2023

Album: Notespeak 12
By Lisa Marie Simmons
Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2023
Duration: 5:11

Speakers In The House

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2022
Track listing: Kongo Square; Rockin At The Mole House; HH 75; Over The Bar; Vaspurakan; Stoop; Actual Proof; Stop Watch.

The Guide

By Jake Leckie

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Guide; Patience; A Thing of Beauty; The Place Between; Tough Love; The Good Doctor: Adobe; The Gatekeeper