Results for "Urban Sprawl"

Rita di Ghent

Rita di Ghent is a musician, lyricist, and composer born in Hamilton, Ontario and comes from many generations of artists. She invented a jazz composing approach called “Sprawl” and was nominated for the Montreal Jazz Festival Prix de Jazz for her originality. di Ghent has also been nominated twice for “Jazz Singer of the Year” (National Jazz Awards). She started her independent record label (Groove/Groove Classic) in 1994. di Ghent has toured world-wide with her ground-breaking approach to jazz. Devoted to empowering others–in particular women–Rita created “The New Moon Sister Society”, regularly facilitating gatherings on Creativity, Storytelling, and teachings in Folk Tales and Traditional Stories.

Urban Sprawl

By Mike McAllister

Label: Independent Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Skool; Africa Minor; Urban Sprawl; Antidote; The Protest; The Jungle; A Little Shorter; Stevie Wonderland.

Mike McAllister Group: Urban Sprawl

by Todd S. Jenkins
January 5, 2003

Urban Sprawl is a bright, infectious exercise in jazz-funk from a quintet of promising Berklee-ites. The Mike MacAllister Group takes fusion in bold new directions with a hot, funk-simmered sound and the surprisingly fun inclusion of marimba. All the compositions were written by MacAllister, who shows as much potential as a writer as he does on ...