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The Sun Ra Arkestra at Cafe Oto, London
by John Sharpe
Sun Ra Arkestra Cafe Oto London, England 14 April 2010 A fantastic atmosphere enveloped Dalston's Cafe Oto with whoops and shouts of affirmation greeting every inflection and chant as the Sun Ra Arkestra launched into “Interplanetary Music," with vocal interjections erupting from all corners of the bandstand. With their ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Sun Ra
All About Jazz is celebrating Sun Ra's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Sun RaEclectic, outrageous, sometimes mystifying but always imbued with a powerful jazz consciousness, the music of Sun Ra has withstood its skeptics and detractors for nearly three generations. And well it should... more ...
Ryan McGuire: Metal Reasoning
by Gordon Marshall
Bassist Ryan McGuire, a master of classical composition, uses this skill as a strategist in the metal underground. His band Ehnahre is quite unlike any other in that field, baffling committed rock fans with its advanced theory and unstructured time signatures. In another way, he throws off jazz and improvisation aficionados with his part ...
The State of Organ Jazz 2010 (Part 2): Stanton Moore and Organissimo
by C. Michael Bailey
The State of Organ Jazz 2010, Part I: Wayne Escoffery, Dan Pratt and Matthew Kaminski dealt with some very fine organ-based jazz, that, for the most part, colored within the lines. This second installment focuses on the organ, guitar and drums trio and is devoted to two artists who definitely got their nuclear funk on: drummer ...
Reptet: Chicken or Beef?
by Elliott Simon
Remember in the high school band room, how the horn section would goof around like they were part of Parliament Funkadelic or James Brown or the Mothers of Invention? The super cool Mothers, with Napoleon Murphy Brock on sax, flute and vocals. And then the drums, all of them, would join in. Think if that horn ...
Mike Reed's People, Places & Things: Stories and Negotiations
by Troy Collins
Stories and Negotiations is the final chapter in Chicago-based drummer Mike Reed's People, Places & Things trilogy. Debuting with 2008's Proliferation (482 Music), Reed founded this piano-less quartet to investigate an often overlooked period of Chicago's jazz history--the mid-1950s to early 1960s--when the city's after-hours jam session culture flirted with avant-garde collectivism, eventually giving birth to ...
2010 Portland Jazz Festival
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
The Portland Jazz Festival is now in its 7th year under the artistic direction of Bill Royston. And at this point, it's pretty safe to say that this is a festival that has earned it's due as one of the most creative festivals that has not only survived the current economic downturn but has done so ...
Mass. Gov. Patrick Donates Collection to Berklee
By Globe Staff Governor Deval Patrick and his family are donating the scores, photographs, recordings, and personal materials of his father, Pat Patrick, an influential baritone saxophone player who shared the stage with many jazz greats of the 20th century, to Berklee College of Music, the school announced today. Pat Patrick, who died of leukemia in ...
The Opposite: Interwined
by Eyal Hareuveni
This Swedish sextet was initiated by Malmö-based French keyboardist Loïc Dequidt and drummer Peter Nilsson--the latter one of the leaders of the Malmö-based Kopasetic Label's musicians collective, which investigates improvisational interplay through a democratic, collective group approach based on a dynamic rhythmic concepts that lean on Indian, African and Cuban traditions. Their instincts proved right since ...
Monkadelphia: All Monk, All the Time
by Victor L. Schermer
Over the past several years, there has been a revival and reconsideration of the music of Thelonious Monk. No one embodies this trend better than Monkadelphia, a group of Philadelphia-based jazz musicians who play his music exclusively--a difficult challenge which they embrace with vitality, panache, and sophistication. With Chris Farr on saxophone, Tony Miceli on vibes, ...
