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Other Minds Festival 2021
by Roy Strassman
The Other Minds organization is the musical brain child of Charles Amirkhanian, who himself is a musician in addition to composer—and since 1993, also a producer. Other Minds is devoted to bringing both experimental and avant-garde music to a wider audience. What they often present falls most closely into the modern experimental (classical) music and free ...
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah at Yoshi's
by Roy Strassman
Christian Scott aTunde AdjuahYoshi's Oakland, CA October 7, 2021 The Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah flying saucer landed on Thursday night at Yoshi's in Oakland, and what an eclectic crew emerged! Though they were anything but alien, every musician was a monster--trumpet, flute, piano, bass, and three different drummers forming the percussion ...
Carla Bley's Lost Chords at Yoshi's
by Roy Strassman
Carla Bley Yoshi's Oakland, CA September 14, 2005 Last night I slid into Yoshi's a few minutes late and the band was called “out . With seemingly a stellar cast of musicians I was dismayed when the music began with what sounded like a hoaky, low-key bossa nova. ...
New Orleans Jazz Piano and Chicago Blues
by Roy Strassman
Henry Butler and Alvin “Youngblood" Hart Jazz Alley Seattle, WA November 28, 2000Last night Henry Butler and Alvin Youngblood Hart landed and took off again for a regrettably short three-day stint at Dimitrious' Jazz Alley through Thursday. The relatively light Tuesday night turnout was in total contradiction to the level of ...
Contemporary Jazz, Slightly Offstream
by Roy Strassman
Michael Wolff & Impure Thoughts Jazz Alley Seattle, WA November 7, 2000Michael Wolff and Impure Thoughts blew into town accompanying the incoming weather front with a hard-driving rainstorm of its own—one of trance-like percussion and bass grooves and heavy winds blowin' in over the reeds and piano strings. The light “voter ...
Contemporary Afro-Cuban Jazz—Irakere
by Roy Strassman
Irakere Jazz Alley Seattle, WA October 31, 2000 Last night Irakere, the cutting-edge Havana based group which pioneered both the fusion of classical Cuban music and jazz and the melding of the culture's traditional instruments with electric ones, opened for a week's stint at Seattle's Jazz Alley. Absent their ...
Pat Martino Trio at Jazz Alley
by Roy Strassman
Pat Martino Trio Jazz Alley Seattle, WA October 31, 2000Amidst good tidings, packed house and festive d'cor, replete with onstage Christmas tree, the Three Jazzmen journeyed to the West, Seattle's Jazz Alley, thereby annunciating the holy rebirth of jazz guitar-organ funk. The jazzmen in question are none other ...
Steve Turre's Sanctified Shells Band
by Roy Strassman
Steve Turre Yoshi's at Jack London Square Oakland, CA Neither rain nor sleet nor lines around the block will deter the true jazz junkie from his due deliverance, and so it was last night at Yoshi's. Expecting to see an empty house, I was surprised to enter a bulging room ...
