Results for "Teodross Avery"

Article: Year in Review

Popular Tracks: 2019

by Michael Ricci
January 1, 2020

All About Jazz tracks how often a featured song is heard, and the following represent the most popular in 2019. If you missed them the first time around, give them a listen now, and enjoy! After the Rain Teodross Avery After the Rain: A Night for Coltrane

Album

After the Rain: A Night for Coltrane

By Teodross Avery

Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2019
Track listing: Blues Minor; Bakai; Afro Blue; After the Rain; Africa; Pursuance.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Impressions of Coltrane

by Bob Osborne
September 24, 2019

To mark reaching the 350th edition of World of Jazz a show focusing on the music of John Coltrane with music from the man and also interpretations of his compositions by other jazz artists.... Playlist John Coltrane “Billie's Bounce" from The Prestige Recordings (Prestige) 00:00 Khan Jamal “Blues for P.C." from Impressions of Coltrane (Steeplechase) 10:44 ...

News: Recording

A John Coltrane Birthday Salute by Saxophonist Teodross Avery

September 23, 2019

In honor of John Coltrane's birthday, Teodross Avery shares an alternate take of Coltrane's “Africa". Another version appears on After the Rain: A Night for Coltrane, released on Tompkins Square in May (2019). The title track (listen here) is the #1 “Top Listened" track of 2019 on All About Jazz. The CD and LP both sold ...

Song of the Day

After the Rain

September 23, 2019

Album: After the Rain: A Night for Coltrane
By Teodross Avery
Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2019
Duration: 04:31

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Joshua Redman & Chick Corea

by Joe Dimino
August 5, 2019

From the New York City veteran jazz guitar cat Will Sellenraad, we begin a new episode with the cut Allegorical off his new 2019 CD Greene Street Volume 1. From there, we hear the rich sound of Joshua Redman and Dublin-born violinist Gregory Harrington. As the show carries one, we hear from Maynard Ferguson and feature ...

Video

Teodross Avery Plays the Music of John Coltrane at SF JAZZ

Featuring the music of Teodross Avery
Duration: 60:00
June 3, 2019

Dr. Teodross Avery played SF Jazz with his quartet in 2017, one year before the same group recorded 'After the Rain : A Night for Coltrane' live at The Sound Room in Oakland, CA. The album, just out on Tompkins Square featuring liner notes by Ben Ratliff, has received international acclaim. The title track is the #1 most listened-to track on All About Jazz Year-to-Date. "The album conveys a feeling of urgent communion and soulful expedition" -Nate Chinen, WBGO "Expansive takes on classics such as "Africa" and "Pursuance" while beautifully sounding most like himself" -Chris Barton, LA Times “It’s a privilege to hear someone dig so deep into Coltrane” –All About Jazz (4.5/5 stars) “The energy and ambience is that of a smoky early ’60s night at the Village Vanguard” – MOJO (4/5 stars) “The album pays fitting tribute to a giant” –Downbeat “The most remarkable aspect of Avery’s tribute to Coltrane is just how present, alive and deeply personal it feels” –All Music (4/5 stars)

News: Recording

Teodross Avery's 'After The Rain: A Night For Coltrane' (Tompkins Square) Out Now

May 10, 2019

In the beginning there was John Coltrane. Growing up in a family that listened to a vast and global array of music, Teodross Avery experienced an epiphany at 13 when he first heard Trane’s epochal harmonic steeplechase Giant Steps. Taking up the tenor saxophone, he emerged in the mid-1990s as one of the most powerful young ...

Article: Album Review

Mark de Clive-Lowe: Heritage

by Tyran Grillo
January 15, 2019

On Heritage, pianist/composer/producer Mark de Clive-Lowe sows two rhythmic seeds for every melodic plant reaped from an autobiographical crop. The half-Japanese, half-New Zealander's spiritual kinship with Japan runs deep. His blending of electronics and sampling elicits a precision that only enhances the freer passages, and provides a fitting platform for his copilots Josh Johnson (alto sax ...

Album

My Generation

By Teodross Avery

Label: GRP Records
Released: 1996