Home » Search Center » Results: Sabir Mateen
Results for "Sabir Mateen"
Vision Festival 16 - June 9: An Evening of Special Projects
The special project nights embody the epitome of the festival and the most striking contrast with the pre packaged, off the shelf bloat fests. And the events are thoughtfully timed to allow for movement between performances in the Main Stage and the Downstairs Theater, where the evening begins with the final panel discussion looking to education ...
Vision Festival 16 Opening Night; Echoes of Ascension, Marion Brown and John Tchicai.
Having covered the Panel Discussion for Sunday the music needs its due. Where else but the Vision Festival, in the US at least, would you find a night given to two participants in that legendary extended fanfare the world knows as Ascension. One still works among us, John Tchicai, and the other left us since Vision ...
Wandering Visions: The 2011 Vision Festival
By Steve Dalachinsky “a paradise of flowers where peace might build her nest." —Percy Shelly For 16 years the Vision Festival has led a nomadic existence. Wandering from one venue to another, this brave band of Visionaries,which I am proud to be a part of, with the ever present, stalwart & persistent Patricia Nicholson Parker at ...
Darius Jones / Matthew Shipp: Cosmic Lieder
by John Sharpe
Duets with saxophonists loom large in pianist Matthew Shipp's discography. His first release featured one such with a young Rob Brown--Sonic Explorations (Cadence Jazz, 1988)--and there have been further outings over the years with other reed men, including Roscoe Mitchell, Ivo Perelman, Evan Parker and Sabir Mateen. To add to that impressive roster comes a worthy ...
URDLA XXX
By Sabir Mateen
Label: Rogue Art
Released: 2010
Track listing: The City of Lyon; Art Dance; Dakka Du Boo Yu!; Music Is Sound and Sound Is Music; Jimmy Lyons; Sekasso Blues; One for the Rev.--Rev. Frank Wright; More Than a Hammer and Nail; Blessing to You.
Steve Swell: Steve Swell's Slammin' The Infinite
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Using something that Walt Whitman said about prolific writing, trombonist Steve Swell posits that the more he creates--the more he writes and therefore performs--the more likely he is to produce something worthwhile. Although he does not mention it, this also suggests pushing the boundaries and being nonjudgmental about any of his work until he arrives at ...
William Parker: I Plan To Stay A Believer
by John Sharpe
From the first few bars of the title cut opening “I Plan To Stay A Believer," the riffing horns, infectiously funky beat and expressive soulful singing of Leena Conquest quickly establishes` this as one of bassist/composer William Parker's most accessible projects. This set has been a long time coming. The idea of a tribute to legendary ...
Fay Victor At The Local 269 in New York
by AAJ Staff
Fay VictorThe Local 269New York, NYSeptember 6, 2010 New York jazz and avant-garde/free vocalist Fay Victor performed two sets with a new jazz ensemble at The Local 269 on September 6, 2010. The Local 269 is a jazz and rock club/bar on East Houston Street, on New York's Lower East ...
Jazz em Agosto 2010
by Kurt Gottschalk
Jazz em AgostoLisbon, PortugalAugust 6-15, 2010 If music-making were as simple as putting things in a box, a review of Lisbon's 2010 Jazz em Agosto festival might go something like this: The duo of John Surman and Jack DeJohnette put as much as they could in the box, while Evan Parker's Electro- Acoustic ...
