Results for "Sun Ra"

Article: Live Review

Fonterossa Day #7

by Neri Pollastri
May 3, 2023

Fonterossa Day #7 Teatro Sant'Andrea Pisa 16.4.2023 Settima edizione della rassegna dedicata da Pisa Jazz ai musicisti che ruotano attorno all'etichetta indipendente Fonterossa, creatura di Silvia Bolognesi, come sempre tenutasi nella suggestiva cornice del Teatro Sant'Andrea, chiesetta sconsacrata nel centro della città toscana ai bordi del Lungarno. La ...

Article: Book Review

L'autobiografia di Henry Threadgill in primo piano

by Angelo Leonardi
April 28, 2023

Easily Slip into Another World Henry Threadgill, Brent Hayes Edwards 402 pagine ISBN: # 9781524749071 Knopf 2023 D'imminente pubblicazione, l'autobiografia di Henry Threadgill è destinata a lasciare il segno entro il mondo del jazz, nella cultura statunitense e nella musica contemporanea in generale. È un testo ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Pianists and More Pianists

by Jerome Wilson
April 19, 2023

This episode features pianists from many corners of the jazz world as soloists and bandleaders. The players heard include Vijay Iyer, Jaki Byard, Duke Ellington, Lafayette Gilchrist, and Martin Bejerano. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) ...

Article: Live Review

Big Ears Festival 2023

by Mark Sullivan
April 17, 2023

Big Ears Festival Knoxville, Tennesse March 30-April 2, 2023 The second full edition after the pandemic found the Big Ears Festival still growing in attendance. Organizers responded by increasing the number of venues, including new ones like the Knoxville Civic Auditorium and ones that had not been used for some time, ...

Article: Journey into Jazz

Record Store Day 2023 Jazz Releases

by Kyle Simpler
April 13, 2023

Record Store Day, which started in 2007, is a biannual event designed to promote independent record stores. Every Record Store Day drop features limited-edition vinyl releases in practically every genre of music. The releases, however, are offered on a limited basis, and they are available for one time only. As a result, collectors often wait in ...

Article: Album Review

Christian McBride: Prime

by Cary Tenenbaum
April 3, 2023

Prime's opening track, “Head Bedlam," opens with a cacophony of horns playing in a style reminiscent of Sun Ra's Arkestra. This transforms into a quiet, cool riff with bass and drums leading the way, shifting the music into a more accessible groove before returning to the aptly titled bedlam in the track's closing seconds.

Article: Album Review

Fire! Orchestra: Echoes

by Chris May
March 31, 2023

The story of supersized jazz orchestras is not pretty. The scene was set by the bleaching deracination of Paul Whiteman and the elephantine bombast of Stan Kenton, bandleaders whose craving for approval by the music establishment fatally compromised their art. Good taste came later with leaders such as Carla Bley and London's Keith Tippett, who proved ...

Article: Live Review

Brilliant Corners 2023

by Ian Patterson
March 25, 2023

Brilliant Corners Black Box Belfast, N. Ireland 2-11 March, 2023 One of the highlights of Belfast's music calendar, Brilliant Corners' eleventh annual shindig served up thirteen concerts over nine days. As ever, the main venue was Black Box, where audiences were treated to the best of Irish, British, European and North ...

Article: Liner Notes

Sun Ra at Inter-Media Arts, 1991

by Howard Mandel
March 25, 2023

On April 10, 1991, the night of this concert at Inter-Media Art Center in Huntington, Long Island, Sun Ra was near the apogee of his earthly transit. Having led his transformative iterations of his Arkestra around the globe for an unlikely if not unimaginable four decades, the visionary composer, keyboardist, conceptualist and cosmologist was, even though ...

Article: Album Review

Chris Potter: Got The Keys To The Kingdom: Live At The Village Vanguard

Read "Got The Keys To The Kingdom: Live At The Village Vanguard" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
March 24, 2023

The title references an old gospel song, but for Chris Potter the keys in question could be those to the Village Vanguard. This is the saxophonist's third live recording from jazz's most storied club, not counting those with Paul Motian. For musicians and fans alike, this is hallowed turf. But it's not just about playing at ...