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Jazz-Maalika
Label: SaptakJazz
Released: 2014
Track listing: Moroccan Dreams; Coltrane in Paradise; Myna Love Call; Hare Krishna; Lavender; Tikum Olam (Healing the World).
Leaving Knowledge, Wisdom And Brilliance / Chasing The Bird?
Label: Improvised Beings
Released: 2014
Track listing: Leaving Knowledge, Wisdom And Brilliance: CD 1: Three Is A Powerful
Figure;You Are Not Higher Than Angels Part 1; CD 2: You Are Not
Higher Than Angels Part 1; Four Is Equal To The Fingers Of Your Hand;
The Fatherlands (Niger); CD 3: You Are Not Higher Than Angels Part 2;
You Are Not Higher Than Angels Part 3; Five Is The Thumb; CD 4: The
Inner Outer Chord (Way Down In The Past); The Outer Inner Chord; What
Do We Know? - Who Are We - As Humans; Chasing the Bird? CD 5:
Instrumental Martial Arts Of Tomorrow: Himeru Dojo; Chudan Tsuki;
Seika Tanden; Ura; Aiki Kokyu; I Put It In A Dark Area Where I Can
Remember No More: Black Waves In A Delta Blues Home; Another Story
Calling Tonight; Giant Could Approach Stars; Magnus Fact In Act;
Shadows Colored Music; Feel The Outside World; Solisax; Forward
Thinking Thoughts (Luxbxl Dream); Keep Going Olone: CD 6: The Breath
Of Life: The Breath Of Life 1; The Breath Of Life 2; The Breath Of
Life 3; The Breath Of Life 4; CD 7: Old Lonesome Roads: We Can Turn
Invisible; I Can't Go No Farther Than That; Going Through The Storms;
CD 8: Worlds Of Worlds Of Worlds Of: To Change The Harmonic Structure
Of The World; Dead Years Ago, Million Years Ahead.
Sonny Simmons: Leaving Knowledge, Wisdom and Brilliance / Chasing the Bird?
by Eyal Hareuveni
American alto sax and English horn (Cor Anglais) player Sonny Simmons needs no introduction. Now 81 years old, Simmons was a key player in America's free jazz eruption in the 1960s. He released his first solo albums on ESP- Disk, the exponent label of free jazz and recorded or played with legendary musicians like Eric Dolphy, ...
The Cosmosamatics: Jazz-Maalika
by Ian Patterson
The Cosmosamatics--an ever-evolving ensemble co-led by multi-reedists Sonny Simmons and Michael Marcus--was founded in 2000, though the seeds were arguably planted many years earlier. Half a century ago, Simmons was cutting his teeth with multi-reedists Prince Lasha, Eric Dolphy and others of the so-called free jazz movement. Marcus made his name in the avant/free circles of ...
The Mark Masters Ensemble: Everything You Did: The Music of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen
by Jack Bowers
Another tribute album from leader / arranger Mark Masters whose splendid ensemble has previously paid homage to trumpeter Clifford Brown, saxophonist Lee Konitz, trombonist Jimmy Knepper and the Gershwin brothers (Porgy & Bess Redefined). This time around it's the music of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, better known by their collective name, Steely Dan. The album, ...
The Cosmosamatics: Jazz-Maalika
by Florence Wetzel
Since their founding in 2002, the Cosmosamatics have been one of the most exciting groups in jazz. Spearheaded by twin souls Sonny Simmons and Michael Marcus, the band has thus far released nine recordings and one live DVD. Part of the Cosmosamatics' strength lies in their openness to new sounds and players, and over the years ...
Lajos Dudas Trio: Live at Porgy & Bess
by Karl Ackermann
Vienna's Porgy & Bess Jazz Club is approaching its twentieth anniversary as an international--but intimate--venue for top jazz talent from Europe and beyond. It's the perfect setting for this live recording from the Lajos Dudas Trio. A Hungarian native living in Germany, clarinetist Dudas is teamed with long-time collaborator, guitarist Phillipp van Endert and bassist Leonard ...
Alexander Hawkins: Retaining The Sense of Discovery
by John Sharpe
One of the fastest-rising stars of the UK jazz scene, pianist Alexander Hawkins is remarkable in that he shines equally in both the further reaches of free improvisation and the creation of ingeniously crafted charts. Indeed, Hawkins' particular talent might be in bringing the two so close that it's hard to distinguish between them. At times ...
Vision Festival, Days 3-5: New York City, NY, June 13-15, 2012
by John Sharpe
Days 1-2 | Days 3-5 | Days 6-717th Annual Vision FestivalRouletteBrooklyn, NYJune 11-17, 2012Wednesday night at the Vision Festival was given over to the celebration of a lifetime of achievement by multi-instrumentalist, Joe McPhee, a deserving and popular choice. In presenting him with the envelope (presumably holding a check), ...
