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April Jazz 2015
by Ian Patterson
April Jazz 2015 National Concert Hall Dublin April 10-12, 2015 April Jazz is the latest addition to Dublin's thriving jazz/improvised music scene. The weekend festival is part of the National Concert Hall's Perspectives program, a series of monthly concerts that spans modern bluegrass and fiddle soundscapes, alt country and ...
The Bad Plus Performs The Ornette Coleman Masterpiece Science Fiction, National Concert Hall, Dublin, 12 April
As part of the extraordinary weekend of music that is April Jazz, The Bad Plus with very special guests will perform Ornette Coleman’s classic album Science Fiction (Columbia, 1972) in the National Concert Hall, Dublin, Sunday, 12 April, 8pm. Ornette Coleman’s 1972 album Science Fiction, “a stunningly inventive and appropriately alien-sounding blast of manic energy...it's overflowing ...
Save the Date - Aprile 2015
by Luca Canini
Addio inverno, addio salette umide e fredde, addio sciarpette e giacconi. Archiviato Bergamo Jazz (e archiviata dopo quattro anni la più che positiva direzione artistica di Enrico Rava), con l'affacciarsi della primavera fioccano festival e rassegne. Piazze, teatri, giardini e palchi all'aperto: da qui a settembre ci sarà solo l'imbarazzo della scelta. A noi di Save ...
Sam Newsome: The Straight Horn of Africa: A Path to Liberation
by Karl Ackermann
Sam Newsome's The Straight Horn of Africa: A Path to Liberation (subtitled “Art of the Soprano, Vol. 2") is--despite the chronology--the fourth solo outing by the alto/tenor-turned-soprano saxophonist. The self-produced Monk Abstractions (2007) and Blue Soliloquy (2009) were highly regarded entries that preceded The Art of the Soprano, Vol. 1 (2012). The latter album saw Newsome ...
The Straight Horn of Africa: A Path to Liberation
By Sam Newsome
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Track listing: Echoes From Mt. Kilamanjaro; The Straight Horn Of Africa; Explorations
Of An African Horn, Part 1; The Obama Song: The Man From Kenya;
Ethiopian Jews; Explorations Of An African Horn: Part 2; The Snake
Charmer Of Tangier; Microtonal Nubian Horn: Part 1; Good Golly Miss
Mali; African Conundrum; Sounds Of Somalia; When The Drum Speaks;
Microtonal Nubian Horn: Part 2; Dark Continent Dialogues; African
Nomads; Microtonal Nubian Horn: Part 3; Nightfal On The Owani Desert;
The Day In The Life Of A Hunter Gatherer; Microtonal Nubian Horn: Part
4; Highlife.
Dan McClenaghan's Best Releases of 2014
by Dan McClenaghan
It's that time to wrap it up and make some choices on the top jazz releases of the year. Here are my picks for the best of 2014, in no particular order, with the exception of the first listing, pianist Paul Bley's disc, which stands out. I do love piano jazz. Paul BleyPlay ...
Sam Newsome: The Straight Horn of Africa: A Path to Liberation
by Dan McClenaghan
Sam Newsome played tenor saxophone in trumpeter Terence Blanchard's group back in the early 90s, but he put away the tenor late a few years later and left his soprano saxophone out on the table. The plan was to explore the possibilities of “the straight horn." Then Gerry Teekan, producer and founder of Criss Cross Records, ...
Afro Horn at Zinc Bar
by Tomas Pena
Francisco Mora-Catlett and Afro Horn Zinc Bar Greenwich Village, NY January 8, 2014 There was a moment during Afro-Horn's performance at the Zinc Bar where the lines between reality and fiction became a blur. It occurred when Sam Newsome, an imposing figure of a man and a consummate reed player, appeared ...
Four by Six
By Gregg August
Label: Iacuessa Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. Affirmation - 6:15:
02. For Calle Picota - 6:52;
03. For Max - 6:09;
04. Bandolim - 9:04;
05. Strange Street - 7:02;
06. A Ballad For MV - 5:34;
07. Relative Obscurity - 7:16;
08. For Miles - 7:39.
Jaleel Shaw: Philly Soul
by George Colligan
[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth ] Jaleel Shaw has been one of my favorite young alto players for about a decade. We first played together with the Charles Mingus Band, and we kept in touch over the years. I've worked a few times in his ...
