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Two Centuries
Label: Red Hook
Released: 2022
Track listing: For D.F.; The Curve; Spiritual Is 150; Organum; Tympanic; Bypass Decay; Palaver; Sadden Upbeat; Wraith; Halide; Orion Arm.
The Emerald Duets
Label: TUM Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Disc 1: Litanies, Prayers and Meditations: The Prayer (For Keith Jarrett); First
Meditation from the Heart; the Beauty and the Beloved; The Uyghur in Xinjiang, China;
Rumi’s Masnavi: A Sonic Expression, Parts I - IV; A Sound Litany on Peace; The Patriot Act:
Unconstitutional and a Force That Destroys Democracy; A Sonic Litany on Justice; Second
Meditation from the Heart: the Beloved, The Beauty.
Disc 2: Havana: The Patriot Act: Unconstitutional and a Force that Destroys
Democracy; Havana, the Maghrib Prayer and Reflections;United States Representative Ilhan
Omar; Jeanne Lee: In a Jupiter Mood; Donald Ayer: The Master of Sound and Energy Forms; A
Rainbow Sonic Ark for Tomasz Ludwik Stanko (1942 - 2018); Haitian Independent Nation in
1804 But Not Recognized by Britain, France, Germany, the United States and Others: A
Designed Tragedy; Mongeze Fezi.
Disc 3: Mysterious Sonic Fields: Chrysanthemum F On a Moutaintop (for
Katherein Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson; Largo: a Mysterious Love Sonic
(forShana, Robson andSarah); Louis Armstrong in New York City and Accra, ghana; Ornette
Coleman at the World’s Fair of Science and Art in Fort Worth, Texas; The Call—A Duet
Between Joseph “King” Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton; Light Garden in a Dream Space, A
Remembrance of Shaba of Ethiopia; Han Bennink on Fifth Avenue, NYC; Johnny Dyani: the
Artist who Imagined a New South Africa—a Celebration.
Disc 4: Freedom Summer: The Legacy:Sandalwood and Sage; Freedom Summer;
Meditation: A Sonic Circle of Double Piano Resonance; The Patriot Act: Unconstitutional and
a Force that Destroys Democracy; Silence, Quietness and Very Still.
Disc 5: Paradise: The Gardens and Fountains: Part I: The River of Abundance;
Part II: The Fountain of Tasnim; Part III: The Supreme Fountain; Part IV: Exaltation and Musk;
Part V: Pomegranate and Herbal Teas.
String Quartets Nos. 1-12
Label: TUM Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Disc 1: String Quartet No. 1 (1965-1982) Movements 1 - 4, String Quartet No. 2 (1969-1980) 16:52; Disc 2: String Quartet No. 3 "Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit" (1995) Movements 1 & 2, String Quartet No. 4 (1987-2001) Movements 1 – 5; Disc 3: String Quartet No. 5 "In the Diaspora - Earthquakes and Sunrise Missions" (2005), String Quartet No. 6 "Taif: Prayer in the Garden of the Hijaz" (2007), String Quartet No. 7 "Ten Thousand Ceveus Peruvianus Amemevical" (2011); Disc 4: String Quartet No. 8 "Opuntia Humifusa" (2011), String Quartet No. 9 (2001-2015) Movements 1 & 2, String Quartet No. 10 "Angela Davis: Into the Morning Sunlight" (2007-2016); Disc 5: String Quartet No. 11 (1975-2019) Movements 1 – 5; Disc 6: String Quartet No. 11 (1975-2019) Movements 6 – 9; Disc 7: String Quartet No. 12 (2016-2018) Movements 1 & 2.
Hyaku: One Hundred Dreams
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: One Hundred Dreams: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5.
Producer Sun Chung: Always Listening for a Story
by Tyran Grillo
On April 28, 2021, a quiet masterpiece marked the end of an era--and the beginning of another. Hanamichi was to be the last studio recording of Japanese pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, who died in 2015, two years after its creation. And yet, while its sweeter overtones struck balance in the bitterness of his absence, the album marked ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Wadada Leo Smith
All About Jazz is celebrating Wadada Leo Smith's birthday today! ISHMAEL WADADA LEO SMITH trumpet-player, multi- instrumentalist, composer and improviser has been active in the creative contemporary world music for over thirty years. His theory of Jazz and World music was significant in his music development as an artist and educator. Born in Leland, Mississippi, Smith's ...
Karl Ackermann's Best Creative Music Albums Of 2022
by Karl Ackermann
For good, or bad, the “new normal" can finally be archived, and the club doors reopened to full rooms of unmasked patrons. 2022 marked an informal end to the Pandemic and a rebirth in live performing arts. Like similar periods in history, an unusual burst of creative energy followed isolation. Jazz was no exception; the resilience ...
Dan McClenaghan's Top Jazz Recordings of 2022
by Dan McClenaghan
The top jazz recordings of 2022, in no particular order. Justin MorellExit Music For Intelligent Life On Earth Sonic Frenzy Records A provocative and beautiful guitar and drums album. Guitarist Justin Morell has teamed with drummer Mark Ferber (see postscript concerning Ferber at the end of this article) to construct ...
Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM
by Angelo Leonardi
Sound Experiments—The Music of the AACM Paul Steinbeck 272 Pagine ISBN: # 978-0-226-820095 The University of Chicago Press 2022 Fondata a Chicago nel 1965 su impulso di Muhal Richard Abrams, l'AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) è giunta alla quarta generazione di musicisti e resta l'organizzazione ...
November 2022
by Pat Youngspiel
Ayanda Sikade Umakhulu Afrosynth Records 2022 There's both a satisfying sense of ease and a certain expressive urgency to the catchy melodies that South African drummer Ayanda Sikade spins around the minimally designed, extensively repeating structures on Umakhulu. Take the bluesy gospel concept behind opener “Medantsane" for example: Simon ...
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