Results for "SoSaLa"

Musician

SoSaLa

Born: April 1, 1953

Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi was born to Iranian parents in Switzerland in 1953, but his family soon moved to Germany where he grew up in Hamburg. Early lessons on piano ended abruptly, after his teacher couldn’t stand his style of playing. From 1968-73 he played the drums at his home, causing neighbors to complain about his passionate banging. He also took flamenco lessons and jammed with friends on guitar, but none of this dabbling hinted at the future direction his life would take upon his discovery of the saxophone, culminating in the formation of his free jazz/world music group SoSaLa in NYC.

Album

1993

By SoSaLa

Label: DooBeeDoo Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Vor Geschlossener Tur (In Front Of A Closed Door); I’m Blind; Dadada Dadada Daaa; Vor Deiner Tur (In Front Of Your Door); So What; Omar Khayyam In New York; You Want To Be A Sex Star; Khodahafez (Good Bye).

Article: Album Review

SoSaLa: 1993

by Chris May
November 7, 2023

Saxophonist SoSaLa--born Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi to Iranian parents in Switzerland, brought up in Germany, martial arts student in Japan, and a New York City resident since 2008--is the sort of wild card we need more of in jazz. Not necessarily because of the actual music he makes, which has limited appeal, but because of the energy ...

Song of the Day

Vor Geschlossener Tur (In Front of a Closed Door)

October 1, 2023

Album: 1993
By SoSaLa
Label: DooBeeDoo Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 03:10

Video

Enough Is Enough

Featuring the music of SoSaLa
Duration: 8:06
September 15, 2023

This is a protest song composed and performed by SoSaLa who was a supporter of the "Justice For Jazz Artists Campaign" ran by New York's Musicians Union Chapter Local 802. Directed at the 7 big jazz clubs in New York in 2014 who are still refusing to pay till to this day into the retirement pension funds of the musicians performing at their clubs as they promised it to the Musicians Union a long time ago?! In exchange they have been keeping the waived sales tax money. In this track Dr. Cornel West is featured. I picked his voice up from a YouTube video which is 13 seconds long and added it into the track. His voice very powerful and passionate giving this track some extra punch and meaning. He’s shouting that jazz musicians play an important role in our society. The African rhythm performed by Senegalese Mar Gueye and Masamba Diop was taken from the “Nu Persian Flamenco” track.

Musician

Hubl Greiner

Hubl Greiner

is a musical cross-border crosser who willingly leans over the abyss and sometimes even further. In addition to MU 無, FRIENDS IN THE GARDEN , THE GUERILLA BOPS , FRAU.BACH , Sequoia Mønstars , HULU PROJECT (with Luigi Archetti) and THE DJ HOERSPIEL ENSEMBLE (with the writer Franz Dobler), he is known as the former head of the German cult band THE BLECH , as well as as a producer of countless acts and projects. He has made a name for himself beyond the borders of Germany as an unconventional, innovative and experimental musician, composer and producer.

News: Recording

Sosala 30 Years Ago: No-wave Improv With Powerful Messages

September 13, 2023

SoSaLa has released a retrospective recording which looks back to 1993; when music was made at a special time and with special musicians. For fans who are interested in SoSaLa’s interesting and accomplished music career, this retrospective album is a must. The music on this album comes from the No Wave and post-No Wave scenes in ...

Musician

Baba Don Eaton

For almost a quarter century, Baba Don Eaton Babatunde, a percussionist very much in demand, has performed with many Major American Dance Companies in the world’s greatest performing-arts venues.  His recording career is as equally varied as it vast; the jazz idiom, rhythm and blues, and most African derived percussion styles are represented in his discography.  He is a featured member of the esteemed last poets.  He has long been acknowledged as one of New York City’s master teachers of African Drumming and the rhythms of the Diaspora in the Americas.  Baba Don Eaton  Babatunde is presently on faculty at the Harlem school Of the Arts for over 25 years, teaching all ages from 4 years of age to adults.

Album

Nu World Trashed

By SoSaLa

Label: DooBeeDoo Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1. Welcome Nu World (5:34), 2. Enough Is Enough (5:18), 3. Mystical Full Moon Hymn for Ornette Coleman (feat. SoSaLa) (4:14), 4. Sad, Sad, Sad Sake (10:39), 5. Anybody Out There? (feat. SoSaLa) (6:54), 6. What’s What? (4:57), 7. My Shushtari (15:39), 8. Anybody Out There? (Lift Off) (feat. SoSaLa) (1:56), 9. Intro Music (8:06)

Article: Album Review

SoSaLa: Nu World Trash

by Glenn Astarita
April 18, 2012

SoSaLa is the brainchild of vocalist, saxophonist, music activist and native Iranian Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi, who fuses Persian influences with Western instrumentation amid indigenous platforms, summoning the Middle Eastern contingent. A well-travelled musician, Ladjevardi immerses his craft into quite a few projects and multifaceted ensemble-based frameworks. He resides in New York City, and as the story ...