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Tomeka Reid Quartet
By Tomeka Reid
Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2015
Track listing: 17 West; Etoile; Billy Bang's Bounce; Improv #1; Glass Light; Woodlawn; Super Nova;
The Lone Wait; Samo Swing; Improv #2.
Tomeka Reid: Tomeka Reid Quartet
by Hrayr Attarian
As an accomplished composer and improviser, cellist Tomeka Reid, is an integral part of Chicago's creative music scene. In addition to being an educator, Reid is a versatile and tireless performer both in her hometown and beyond. Moreover her unique style graces the works of such luminaries as flutist Nicole Mitchell, multireed player Anthony Braxton as ...
Hrayr Attarian's Best Releases of 2015
by Hrayr Attarian
The year 2015 was truly an exciting one for jazz as it saw many superb releases. If I had, however, the proverbial gun to the head to just choose just one it would be Rudresh Mahanthappa's Bird Calls (ACT, 2015). Nevertheless, the cream of the crop of the year is listed below in five triads. The ...
Troy Collins' Best Releases of 2015
by Troy Collins
2015 was an eventful year for jazz and creative improvised music. A decade and a half into the new century found rising young artists revisiting, reevaluating and reinterpreting standards from the jazz canon in surprisingly creative ways. Many of the albums listed below are conceptual efforts dedicated to the advancements of revered masters, ranging from pre-war ...
Dave McDonnell Group: The Dragon & the Griffin
by Stefano Merighi
Chicagoano ma attivo a Cincinnati, Dave McDonnell è sassofonista jazz, insegnante di musica e tecnologia, inventore di software, protagonista in diversi gruppi tra cui Herculaneum. Il gruppo in questione coinvolge nomi ben noti della attuale scena di Chicago, tra cui Joshua Abrams e Frank Rosaly, poderosa sezione ritmica che in questo caso garantisce solidità a una ...
Hyde Park Jazz Festival 2014
by Mark Corroto
Hyde Park Jazz Festival Chicago, IL September 28-29, 2014The good folks at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival have a problem. Now in it's eight edition, the two day affair has attracted throngs of intelligent jazz listeners and too many 'must see' jazz acts. This year's festival held September 28-29 featured 40 ...
Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble: Intergalactic Beings
by John Sharpe
Intergalactic Beings forms the second chapter in flutist Nicole Mitchell's science fiction derived discographical strand. Like the first, Xenogenesis Suite (Firehouse 12, 2008), it showcases Mitchell the composer, again drawing her inspiration from the Afrofuturist novels of Octavia Butler, in which survivors of nuclear holocaust are plucked from earth by aliens who believe that interbreeding is ...
Erb/Lonberg-Holm/Jackson/Reid: Duope
by Giuseppe Segala
Fred Lonberg-Holm e Christoph Erb avevano già registrato in duo nel 2011 per l'interessante etichetta svizzera Veto Records/Exchange, gestita dallo stesso Erb, il CD Screw and Straw: ora la formula che abbinava violoncello e clarinetto basso (in quel caso anche sax tenore) viene semplicemente raddoppiata, con l'inserimento di Keefe Jackson ai clarinetti basso e contrabbasso, e ...
Silvia Bolognesi - Almond Tree: Il Mandorlo
by Neri Pollastri
Il quartetto Almond Tree di Silvia Bolognesi era apparso come una delle formazioni italiane più interessanti già quando, nel 2012, avevamo avuto occasione di vederlo dal vivo. L'uscita del suo primo CD, registrato pochi mesi dopo ed edito da Fonterossa--l'etichetta della stessa Bolognesi--conferma quell'impressione. La musica del gruppo mostra con chiarezza la mano ...
Denis Fournier / Nicole Mitchell: Watershed
by John Sharpe
Flautist Nicole Mitchell has found a supportive outlet in the Paris-based Rogue Art imprint, with her past outings including Anaya (2009), Emerald Hills (2010), The Ethiopian Princess Meets The Tantric Priest (2012) and Arc Of O (2012), and she is the most well-known name on Watershed. However she sits second in the billing below French percussionist ...
