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Article: Album Review

The Omar Hakim Experience: We Are One

Read "We Are One" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush
August 20, 2014

To properly appreciate The Omar Hakim Experience one must look back to move forward. By the time Hakim slipped behind the drum kit of Weather Report in 1983, the band was staggering under the weight of personnel departures, management problems and family issues. Founding member Joe Zawinul went in search of new recruits and in walked ...

Article: Album Review

Joe Rosenberg Ensemble: Resolution

Read "Resolution" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
August 20, 2014

Inizia come una sorta di orazione funebre, toni gravi dominanti, una litania segnata dal sax del leader, con il violoncello a marcare alcune piccole deviazioni e minime dissonanze. Sono i primi tre brani, in pratica una mini suite, che aprono le meditazioni musicali del Joe Rosenberg Ensemble. Quasi un rito sciamanico per preparare la mente alle ...

Article: Lyrics

I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Joe Rosenberg

by Vincenzo Roggero
August 20, 2014

01. Alla Rakha & Zakir Hussain--Together (Magnasound--1989). Questo è solo uno dei tanti dischi di Alla Rakha & Zakir Hussain che ascolto in maniera ossessiva, per settimane e settimane... 02. Bhimsen Joshi--Maestro's Choice (Music Today-1991). È il primo vero disco Hindustani che ho ascoltato e suona sorprendente adesso come la prima ...

Article: Album Review

Frederic Blondy, Joe Rosenberg: Rouge et Blanc

Read "Rouge et Blanc" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
August 20, 2014

È il silenzio il protagonista di Rouge et Blanc. Il silenzio inteso come cassa di risonanza per le esplorazioni dei due musicisti ma anche come momento necessario per assaporare a pieno tutte le sfumature di una musica per lo più sussurrata. Così come possiamo considerare Rouge et Blanc un disco costruito intorno all'assenza. Quella di melodie ...

Article: Album Review

John Coltrane: Offering: Live At Temple University

Read "Offering: Live At Temple University" reviewed by Robert Bush

by Robert Bush
August 20, 2014

Discovering unheard John Coltrane material is the Holy Grail for serious music devotees, and the imminent release (Sept.23,2014) of a 1966 live date in the form of Offering: Live at Temple University on the Impulse! label (in conjunction with Resonance Records and Universal Music) to join The Olatunji Concert and One Down, One Up Live at ...

Article: Album Review

Bill Warfield Big Band: Trumpet Story

Read "Trumpet Story" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 20, 2014

Trumpeters Bill Warfield and Randy Brecker have been friends for twenty years; it's high time they joined forces in a recording studio and began making beautiful music together. On Trumpet Story, Warfield's big-band homage to trumpeters and other musicians who have influenced him through the years, six-time Grammy Award winner Brecker solos on eight of ten ...

News: Event

Renowned Composer/Percussionist John Hollenbeck Teaching At New England Conservatory During Fall 2014 Semester

August 20, 2014

Also leads September 23 Master Class with Claudia Quintet “John Hollenbeck has the power to induce synesthesia. A precociously gifted... composer, arranger, percussionist, and leader of several musical groups... Hollenbeck makes music that sounds the way the world looks and feels… Hollenbeck is a musician for our time.” —David Hadju, The New Republic New England Conservatory’s ...

News: Video / DVD

Jim Henson's "Drums West" Animation

August 20, 2014

Watch How Jim Henson Animated Jazz With Tiny, Dancing Strips of Paper Before he achieved fame with the Muppets, Jim Henson, a skilled animator as well as a puppeteer, was making all sorts of innovative work out of his home studio, in Bethesda, Md. Around 1961, he made the papercut animation above, which visualized jazz drummer ...

News: Recording

Audrey Martin's Debut Album "Living Room" (Blue Hydrangea Records) Streets August 26

August 19, 2014

At its best music can heal the sick and soothe the soul, refresh the spirit and embolden the meek. Audrey Martin experienced first hand the power of a song to provide hope and emotional sustenance in the darkest of times. With her captivating debut album, Living Room, the Berkeley jazz singer shares a lifetime of wisdom ...

News: Award / Grant

Chamber Music America Announces The 2015 Presenter Consortium For Jazz Grant Opportunity

August 19, 2014

Chamber Music America (CMA) is accepting applications for the 2015 Presenter Consortium for Jazz. The application deadline is Friday, October 17, 2014, 5:00 P.M. ET. Guidelines, application, and FAQs are available on the CMA website. The Presenter Consortium for Jazz provides support to consortiums of three U. S. presenters that collectively engage up to three professional ...