Results for "Sun Ra"

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Idle Hands, Jacek Kochan and Moses Boyd

by Bob Osborne
March 26, 2020

This week we feature three albums. Producer Marc Free enlists the able assistance of a few trusted Idle Hands for the next release in a visionary series of demand building records on Posi-tone. Highlighted by the handiwork of a carefully curated group of label artists, an engagingly entertaining album features front line performances from ...

Article: Under the Radar

The Archive of Contemporary Music

by Karl Ackermann
March 24, 2020

In Lower Manhattan, sits a musical gold mine. It's the motherlode of recorded music though the small, brightly colored sign above a grey steel door provides only a cryptic clue. The dusty window display of rare 78 RPM records, broken into erratic pie charts serves as a vestige of the past and a cautionary tale about ...

Article: Live From Philadelphia

Bruce Hornsby and yMusic at the Merriam Theater

by Geno Thackara
March 14, 2020

Bruce Hornsby and yMusic The Merriam Theater Philadelphia, PAMarch 4, 2020 “It's, what, our fourth show? We should have it together by now," Bruce Hornsby laughed during one between-song lull while a couple of his cohorts quickly tuned up. The joke was that he'd forgotten the planned order of songs to ...

Article: Live Review

Metastasio Jazz 2020

by Neri Pollastri
March 6, 2020

Metastasio Jazz 2020 Varie sedi Prato 29.1-27.2.20 Metastasio Jazz ha quest'anno tagliato il traguardo delle venticinque edizioni e, nonostante il budget certo non da capogiro, ha ancora una volta proposto agli appassionati e al pubblico del teatro pratese un programma di tutto rispetto, che affiancava virtuosamente omaggi alla storia del ...

Article: Under the Radar

Tales of The Mystic Order of the Jazz Obsessed - Jazz Societies, Part II

by Karl Ackermann
January 30, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 Jazz Societies, Part 1 briefly traced the preservation and interpretation of jazz from the oral history of its West African roots through academic and cultural institutions. The article included an overview of jazz societies and foundations that further the fostering of jazz education. The organizations vary in scope, size ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Playing Catch Up With 2019

by Jerome Wilson
January 16, 2020

There always seems to be a constant flow of worthwhile new music coming out, so much that it is to be impossible to cover it all within its calendar year. Here are seven notable releases from the last few months of 2019. Gebhard Ullmann mikroPULS Intuition 2019 The ...

Article: Interview

Adam Rudolph: Ragmala and Prototypical Music

by Franz A. Matzner
January 10, 2020

Adam Rudolph has been seeking to push the boundaries of musical creativity for decades, developing a unique concept of composition, ensemble interaction, and conducting. As many writers have commented, his music resists critical commentary due to its prototypical nature. Said another way, Rudolph's music doesn't sound like anything else, and its antecedents are so varied that ...

Article: Year in Review

2019: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 2, 2020

The year 2019 was robust in many ways. International Jazz Day brought its biggest stage to Australia. An important but long-shuttered jazz mecca was revived in a coast-to-coast move. ECM Records celebrated a golden year. The music and its makers figured prominently on the big screen. The National Endowment for the Arts welcomed four new NEA ...

Album

Monorails & Satellites: Works For Solo Piano Vols. 1, 2, 3

By Sun Ra

Label: Cosmic Myth Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Space Towers; Cognition; Skylight; The Alter Destiny; Easy Street; Blue Differentials; Monorails and Satellites; The Galaxy Way; Astro Vision; The Ninth Eye; Solar Boats; Perspective Prisms of Is; Colundronius; Soundscapes; The Eternal Tomorrow; Today Is Not Yesterday; World Island Festival; The Changing Wind; Don't Blame Me; Gone With The Wind; How Am I To Know; Yesterdays.

Album

Pathways To Unknown Worlds

By Sun Ra

Label: Modern Harmonic
Released: 2019
Track listing: Pathways to Unknown Worlds; Extension Out; Cosmo-Media; View from a Mountain Top; Intrinsic Energies; Of Mythic Worlds.