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Sam Newsome
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Samuel Augustus Newsome was born on April 28, 1965 in Salibury, MD. He is the youngest of three boys. He began playing music at 12 years old when his family relocated to Hampton, VA. By the time he was 15 years old he began playing professionally around town with local R & B bands along with his high school classmate bassist James Genus. It was during high school that he became serious about studying jazz and began taking lessons after school with saxophonist Steve Wilson. It was Steve who introduced him to recordings of jazz legends such as Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Sonny Rollins. In 1983, after graduating high school, Sam received the Kool Jazz Festival scholarship to attend the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass
The Soundmakers Project, Susan Krebs & The Local Outfit, Robert Glasper
by Cheryl K.
During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music, The Soundmakers Project led by guitarist Marc van Vugt and vocalist Ineke Vandoorn; pianist Jen Allen; vocalist Susan Krebs and The Local Outfit; keyboardist Joe Alterman and DJ, bassist and producer Mocean Worker; pianist Robert Glasper; trumpeter Josh Lawrence; and guitarist Heather McKay. Playlist ...
Lucian Ban: Following Bartók's Trail Through the Transylvanian Villages
by Dean Nardi
It is hard to re-invent where jazz can go. Players can eschew all the conventional methods they want, but a wheel is still a wheel. This is a reason why pianist Lucian Ban's efforts to bring to light the Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist Bela Bartók's works as a field collector of folk music in 21st-century ...
Winter Jazzfest 2025: The Once and Future Music
by Adam Beaudoin
Winter JazzfestNew York, NYJanuary 9-15, 2025 Impressions of A Love Supreme We are standing in a line outside the venue, waiting in the January chill to listen to nearly two dozen musicians perform and pay tribute to John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, 60 years to the month after its release. People ...
Tubes
By Sam Newsome
Label: Unbroken Sounds
Released: 2024
Track listing: Dust; Strangled Duck; Grizzly Bear; Four Portraits; Blue Monk; Tubes & Keys; Helicopter Exit.
Take Five with Meg Okura
by AAJ Staff
Meet Meg Okura Hailed as “the queen of chamber jazz (All About Jazz)," Tokyo-native Meg Okura is a Grammy-nominated jazz composer and violinist based in New York, known for her music praised by The New York Times as “grandiloquent beauty that transitions easily from grooves to big cascades to buoyant swing." Ms. Okura leads her 10-piece ...
Take Five with Tap Dancer Petra Haller
by AAJ Staff
Meet Petra Haller Petra Haller, based in London, UK, is a respected figure in the fields of tap dance and music. Honored as a Rising Jazz Artist by Jazzwise Magazine and mentioned as one of Reader's Digest's “10 Female Jazz Musicians You need to Know" Haller has swiftly risen in prominence in the UK and beyond. ...
Exotic Ivories: Hard Bop Piano and World Beat Rhythms
by AAJ Staff
This article was first published at All About Jazz in January 2002. Jazz piano and world music rhythm make an enchanting pair. With the popularization of world beat music, jazz musicians nurtured on straight-ahead precepts have incorporated instruments and musical concepts from other cultures into their art. Some, like saxophonist Sam Newsome on last ...
Sam Newsome: Tubes
by Mike Jurkovic
Tubes, a riotous investigation into the sonic by outlaw soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome and provocateur bassist Max Johnson, burps to life with “Dust" and proceeds assuredly down its own peculiar byways and highways. It is a real treat. The track closes with Newsome's prepared horn pondering like a bluesman on his lone, lonely harp. It is ...
Esoteria
By Sam Newsome
Label: Rightbrain Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1 – Grit 6:31
2 – Pushing 5:17
3 – Pulses 8:59
4 – Rise 10:53
