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Take Five With Tim Richards
by AAJ Staff
Meet Tim Richards: Tim's first encounter with a piano was at the age of eight, in a dentist's waiting room. After classical piano lessons he taught himself jazz and blues from the age of 14, after seeing Thelonious Monk on TV.Since forming the long-lived modern jazz quartet Spirit Level in Bristol in ...
Jamaaladeen Tacuma: For the Love of Ornette
by Dan McClenaghan
This is almost too good to be true: an “almost" Ornette Coleman album, blowing in out of the blue. Coleman isn't the leader on the set, but he's here, sounding as strong and true as ever. Bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma joined the alto saxophonist/free jazz pioneer's electric Prime Time Group in the mid-'70s, contributing to ...
Part 17 - Dele Sosimi: Identity
by Chris May
Dele SosimiIdentityHelico Records2007 Keyboard player and singer Dele Sosimi, a member of Fela Kuti's Egypt 80 from 1979-86 and Femi Kuti's Positive Force from 1986-94, returned to London, where he was born in 1963, in 1995. A decade and a half later, he leads three bands in ...
Part 16 - Dele Sosimi: Turbulent Times
by Chris May
Dele SosimiTurbulent TimesEko Star2002 Whatever you may think of musicals, and most people either love them or hate them, the New York and London productions of Fela! are to be welcomed. Both have been distinguished as much by their house bands as by their leading actors and ...
The Silent Truth
By Tony Kofi
Label: Specific Jazz
Released: 2008
Track listing: Giants; Dante; Cicada; First Breath; If I Spoke My Mind; Oont; Unremoved; Inner Truth; Disharmony; Bishop's Move.
Tony Kofi Quartet: The Silent Truth
by Chris May
Saxophonist Tony Kofi is that increasingly rare thing on the British jazz scene, a player who didn't spend three years “learning" the music at an academic institution, but who discovered it, and developed his gift for it, mostly on the bandstand. True, Kofi did once spend a year at Berklee College of Music on a full ...
Meeting Ground
By Byron Wallen
Label: Twilight Jaguar
Released: 2007
Track listing: Spirit of Bilal; Captive Caravan; Sailor of the Sands; Initiation; Freedom Struggle; Resignation; Zawiya; M'allem;
Exaltation; Meeting Ground.
Future Passed
By Tony Kofi
Label: Specific Jazz
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Journey; Suibokuga; Zambia; A Song For Pappa Jack; As We Speak; Blue Pavel; The Eternal
Thinker; Jubilation (For Bod); Brotherhood; April The 13th; This Dream Of Mine (For MJ); We
Out.
Tony Kofi: Future Passed
by Chris May
Though its nuances may not be readily apparent online, the back and front sleeve art for Future Passed, London saxophonist and ex-Tomorrow's Warrior Tony Kofi's second album as leader, is reminiscent of the time-travelling cover of Curtis Counce's 1958 recalibration of hard bop, Exploring The Future. There are no astronauts on Kofi's sleeve, true, but the ...
Plays Monk (All Is Know)
By Tony Kofi
Label: Specific Jazz
Released: 2004
Track listing: Boo Boo's Birthday; Ugly Beauty; Trinkle Tinkle; Ruby My Dear; Brilliant Corners; Comin' On The Hudson; We See; Crepuscule With Nellie; Teo; Misterioso; Gallop's Gallop; Light Blue; Think Of One; Monk's Mood.
