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Meg Okura: NPO Trio - Live at the Stone
by Troy Dostert
Recorded during her week-long residency at The Stone, New York, in 2016, on NPO Trio--Live at the Stone violinist Meg Okura and her colleagues, pianist Jean-Michel Pilc and soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome, produce a captivating hour-long set of music. Newsome and Pilc have performed with Okura's Pan-Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble, and the two worked together on ...
“Ima, You Don’t Look Jewish,” A Three-year Old Said To Her Mother.
On Mother’s Day, Meg Okura, who converted to Judaism four years ago, will release Ima Ima, featuring trumpeter Tom Harrell and guitarist Rez Abbasi. Ima Ima (mom in Hebrew and now in Japanese) will be her Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble's fourth album, showcasing extensive works composed since her pregnancy, for 10-piece chamber jazz ensemble. She ...
Noah Preminger-Frank Carlberg: Whispers And Cries
by Dan Bilawsky
A duo doing standards doesn't theoretically smack of originality in 2018, yet a number of present tense saxophone-piano pairings have demonstrated otherwise. Last fall, soprano maverick Sam Newsome and pianist Jean-Michel Pilc went down the rabbit hole with a good number of classics for Magic Circle (Self Produced, 2017)); around the same time, saxophone icon Dave ...
Magic Circle
By Sam Newsome
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Track listing: Autumn Leaves; In a Sentimental Mood; Giant Steps; In a Mellow Tone; Magic Circle; Misterioso; Auto-Schediasm; Out of Nowhere; Ask Me Now.
Sopranoville
By Sam Newsome
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Track listing: The Quiet Before the Storm; The Doppler Effect; Straight Horns of Plenty; Hiss and Kiss; Clicktopia, Pt. 1; Jagged Breath; Micro-Suite for Fifteen Sopranos: The Good, The Bad, And the Ugly; Straighthorn of the Bush; Giant Steps (For Three Sopranos); Two-Man Orchestra; Soprano-Ology for Seven Straight Horns; Sunrise; The Reed Straw Effect; The Morning After; Against the Grain; Against the Grain; Cicktopia, Pt. 2; Japanese Court Music; Cicktopia, Pt. 3; The Sopranosphere; The Funhouse Effect; Deadline (Soprano with Sympathetic Resonance); The Great Debate.
Sam Newsome and Jean-Michel Pilc: Magic Circle
by Hrayr Attarian
Intimate, innovative and captivating Magic Circle is an album of duets between soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome and pianist Jean-Michel Pilc. Although they perform primarily standards their interpretations are anything but conventional. Both musicians are known for their individual styles and singular approaches to improvisation and they showcase these superbly on the current disc.Pianist and ...
Sam Newsome: Sopranoville: New Works for the Prepared and Non-Prepared Saxophone
by Karl Ackermann
On his fifth solo soprano album, Sopranoville: New Works for the Prepared and Non-prepared Saxophone, Sam Newsome continues to explore and extend the utility of his instrument. This new release takes yet another new direction for Newsome whose previous solo outing The Straight Horn of Africa: A Path to Liberation/Art of the Soprano, Vol. 2 (Self-produced, ...
Dana Jessen: Carve
by Karl Ackermann
The bassoon rarely makes an appearance outside of the orchestral setting though it has found a place in jazz recordings dating back to Paul Whiteman and much later with Chick Corea. The instrument is considered one of the most difficult to play but its natural range and dynamics are far-reaching and versatile. Add in electronics and ...
Female Vocals 2017 II – Cheryl Fisher, Natalia M. King, Beata Pater, Ellen Andersson, Cecilia Persson
by C. Michael Bailey
The ladies just keep on coming... Cheryl Fisher Quietly There OA2 Records 2016 Vocalist Cheryl Fisher was once called, “Canada's best-kept secret." After five well-received recordings, Fisher weighs in with her sixth release, Quietly There on the Origin Arts AO2 imprint, using what could ...
Derek Brown: Beatbox Sax
by Dan McClenaghan
One man bands are something of a novelty: some guy with a half a dozen instruments (or more)--guitar, drums, harmonica--affixed to his body in various ways. Saxophonist Derek Brown blows the one man band route with just the saxophone on Beatbox Sax. The first reaction on spinning the disc, opening with Brown's original composition, ...
