Results for "Sam Newsome"

Sam Newsome: Blue Soliloquy

by C. Michael Bailey
February 25, 2010

The soprano saxophone is one mean mistress; temperamental, demanding, and unforgiving. Few have mastered her, with Sidney Bechet, John Coltrane, and Steve Lacy coming to mind. Saxophonist Sam Newsome,late of the Terence Blanchard Quintet, has stepped up to provide his Das Wohltemperierte Klavier of the instrument in Soliloquy--Solo Works for Soprano Saxophone. Strongly recalling Bobby Watson's ...

September 2009

by AAJ Staff
September 12, 2009

Jenny ScheinmanLe Poisson RougeNew York City August 4, 2009The chameleon-like but ever electric Nels Cline seemed at first to be an unusual partner for violinist Jenny Scheinman, but if anything the guitarist knows how to make things work and he pushed the quartet (with bassist Matt Penman and drummer Jim ...

The Jazz Romeo of 46th Street

by Sam Newsome
August 18, 2009

The New York City jazz scene in the 1980s experienced an influx of young musicians from all over the world, looking to get a slice of “The Big Apple." Among them was an adventurous 22-year-old saxophonist and flutist from Italy named Roberto Romeo who--after selling most of his belongings--came to New York for what he thought ...

In a Sentimental Mood

Featuring the music of Sam Newsome
Duration: 6:33
July 28, 2009

Sam Newsome: To Play or Not to Play the Soprano

by Sam Newsome
July 25, 2009

When I think about the radical move I made 14 years ago, switching from the tenor to the soprano saxophone, I sometimes ask myself: “What in the hell were you thinking?" Even though in hindsight I look back on my decision with amazement and disbelief, I'm happy to say that it's one I've never regretted. Becoming ...

The Gregg August Large Ensemble Commissioned Series at Jazz Gallery April 10 and 11

April 9, 2009

Two nights, April 10 & 11, 2009 -- sets at 9:00 & 10:30 pm The Jazz Gallery is proud to announce the fourth event of our Large Ensemble Commissions Series: two evenings with the brilliant bassist, composer and bandleader Gregg August, who will lead the Gregg August Large Ensemble in the premiere of a newly commissioned ...

The Romanian-American Jazz Suite

By Sam Newsome

Label: Jazzaway
Released: 2008
Track listing: Transylvanian Dance; Carol; Danube Stroll; Home; Prelude; Golinda; Bucharest, Part One; Bucharest, Part Two; Where Is Home?.

Sam Newsome & Lucian Ban: The Romanian-American Jazz Suite at the Jazz Standard, NYC

by Budd Kopman
July 22, 2008

Sam Newsome & Lucian Ban--The Romanian-American Jazz Suite at the Jazz StandardThe Jazz StandardNew York City, New YorkJuly 1, 2008 The genesis of The Romanian-American Jazz Suite goes back to 2004 when pianist Lucian Ban, whose roots are Romanian and American soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome received the CEC Artslink Award, ...

Sam Newsome & Lucian Ban: The Romanian-American Jazz Suite

by Budd Kopman
July 22, 2008

The Romanian-American Jazz Suite, by soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome and pianist Lucian Ban, is another very good example of how the jazz aesthetic of personal expression be applied to other music (here Romanian folk music and Christmas carols) and, in essence, subsume it. The project has its genesis in an award given by CEC Artslink to ...

Sam Newsome & Lucian Ban: The Romanian-American Jazz Suite

by Terrell Kent Holmes
July 16, 2008

Sam Newsome and Lucian Ban took a handful of Romanian folk songs and gave them jazz arrangements, then combined them with some original songs inspired by Romanian culture to produce The Romanian-American Jazz Suite, an excellent balance of the modern and the traditional, rendered artfully by a first-rate band. “Transylvanian Dance" isn't what ...