Results for "Sun Ra"

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Article: Live Review

Detroit Jazz Festival: Detroit, MI September 2-5, 2011

by Matt Marshall
September 12, 2011

32nd Annual Detroit Jazz FestivalDetroit, MISeptember 2-5, 2011 In its 32nd year, the Detroit Jazz Festival decided to drop “International" from its name, only to turn around and proclaim “We Bring You the World." An interesting distinction, but the festival's scope was covered, nonetheless. The celebration brought to Detroit not only artists and ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Re:konstruKt: New Music Online from Istanbul

by Gian Paolo Galasi
September 1, 2011

The online independent label re:konstruKt was founded in 2008 by Umut Çağlar, an Istanbul-based guitarist and leader of the konstruKt quartet. The label was formed few months after the band's first rehearsals. Its initial purpose was to document the evolution of the Istanbul experimental scene.Çağlar's development as a musician is a good example of ...

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Article: Interview

Patrick Brennan: Rhythms of Passion

by Ludwig vanTrikt
August 23, 2011

Since moving to New York City in 1975, one-time bassist/painter Patrick Brennan has crafted a musical path that is open in its candor and indebtedness to all facets of black music. Much like trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, the alto saxophonist brews a thicket of his own distinct musical language that “unlike much contemporaneous vanguard music is ...

Article: Album Review

Sun Ra: The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Box Set + College Tour Volume One

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 25, 2011

Dall'avvento del CD i dischi ESP di Sun Ra hanno subito un destino ristampatorio piuttosto frenetico, tra edizioni più o meno autorizzate e più o meno implementate. A mettere, forse, la parola definitiva a questo susseguirsi di tentazioni e delusioni per gli appassionati del musicista di Saturno [che, si sa, sono tra i più voraci e ...

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Article: Interview

Jeff Lofton: Jazz to the People

by Josep Pedro
July 11, 2011

Born in Germany and raised in South Carolina, Jeff Lofton's trumpet sound has become a striking force in Austin's music scene since moved there about four years ago. Friendly and bright in his reasoning, Lofton has proved to be a versatile, mature musician overtly combining straight-ahead jazz with fusion. His appealing, laidback character and soulful playing ...

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News: Recording

Sun Ra - The Paris Tapes, 1971 (Art Yard, 2010)

July 10, 2011

Since the end of the re-issue series of Sun Ra recordings by Evidence Records, many groups have picked up the mantle and continued to release material, some legally and some a bit less so. The British label Art Yard (along with Atavistic) do a wonderful job releasing material in a fine manner, with excellent sound quality ...

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Article: Live Review

TD Toronto Jazz Festival, Days 4-10: June 27-July 3, 2011

by Alain Londes
July 9, 2011

TD Toronto Jazz Festival 2011Toronto, CanadaJune 24-July 3, 2011 Monday, June 27, 2011On Monday evening, fans had a few hard choices to make among the headliners. At Koerner Hall, award-winning Dee Dee Bridgewater paid tribute to Lady Day, Billie Holiday. Meanwhile at the Enwave Theatre, Kurt Elling ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Sebastian Rochford & Pamelia Kurstin: Ouch Evil Slow Hop

by Chris May
June 17, 2011

Sebastian Rochford & Pamelia KurstinOuch Evil Slow HopSlow Foot Records2011 For eighty years, the Theremin has hovered on the fringes of music like a freak show exhibit at a carnival. Since its invention by Leon Theremin in 1928, it has been used mainly for novelty and, occasionally ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Vibrations of the Day konstruKt a Full Moon

by Jerry D'Souza
June 17, 2011

Free jazz from Turkey is more than a catchphrase when it comes to konstruKt. It is an ideal, an approach, a symbiosis of creativity and sound that evolves and blooms. The group brings an incredible level of energy and process into its music in lucid and inventive formations. konstuKt with Marshall Allen, Hüseyin ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Konstrukt & Their Mighty Fine Guests

by Mark Corroto
June 12, 2011

Freedom is sweeping the globe. Maybe not in terms of political discourse, business or education, but maybe more importantly, musically. In places like Beirut and Istanbul, the free jazz scene is very much alive. The band konstruKt, made up of guitarist Umut Çağlar, saxophonist Korhan Futaci, drummer Korhan Argüden and percussionist Özün Usta has been garnering ...