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Experience University of the Streets March 4-6th
Come celebrate the richness and diversity of the University of the Streets' vibrant 42-year past by being a vital part of its bright future. Tickets are available for this three-day festival and fundraiser inviting all to EXPERIENCE UOTS. Proceeds will benefit the UOTS maintaining its 130 E 7th Street campus. Diverse performances and workshops by Barry ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Wingwalker
by Dan Bilawsky
The soprano saxophone often gets a raw deal. Many people see it as a relic from the early ages of jazz, a smooth jazz delivery method or a secondary axe that's only to be used when their alto saxophone, tenor saxophone or clarinet needs a break. While these attitudes are prevalent throughout a large portion of ...
Blue Soliloquy
By Sam Newsome
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2010
Track listing: Blues For Robert Johnson; Blue Mongolia; Blue Swagger; 24 Tones; Blue
Beijing; Mandela's Blue Mbira; Blue Safari; Throat-Singing Blues; Blue
Lacy Coleman; Blue Pulpit; Blue Doppler Effect; Blue Sunday; Blue
Bamboo; Blue Hum of the Holy Breath; Blue Monk.
Take Five with Meg Okura
by AAJ Staff
Meet Meg Okura:Hailed by The Guardian as “improvisational virtuosity," Meg Okura is “equally comfortable playing classical chamber music, rock and everything in between," (The New York Times). She is the founder and the leader of the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble, and has won numerous grants and awards as a composer.
The Jazz Session #170: Sam Newsome
Sam Newsome made a decision nearly 15 years ago to switch exclusively to the soprano saxophone. His most recent album, Blue Soliloquy (self-produced, 2009) is a solo exploration of that instrument. In this interview, Newsome talks about his pattern of intensive periods of study; the musical goals he had for the new record; and also about ...
Sam Newsome: Blue Soliloquy
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Sam Newsome's Blue Soliloquy is not just a recording of solo soprano saxophone pieces; it's an eloquent and daring discourse on the scope of possibilities that the instrument offers. As the CD title and song names suggest, the blues forms the foundation for everything Newsome writes and plays. He depends heavily on multiphonics but this complements, ...
Sam Newsome: Blue Soliloquy
by C. Michael Bailey
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
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
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
