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Anders Nilsson / Joe Fonda / Peter Nilsson: Powers
by Eyal Hareuveni
This collective trio teams American bass master Joe Fonda, known for his collaborations with innovative musicians and composers such as saxophonist Anthony Braxton, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and pianist Carla Bley, with Swedish brothers a generation younger than Fonda-- guitarist Anders Nilsson, based in New York since 2000, and drummer Peter Nilsson, based in Malmö, Sweden. ...
Remi Alvarez/Joe Fonda/Harvey Sorgen: Trio 3D
by Jerry D'Souza
When drummer Harvey Sorgen met saxophonist Remi Álvarez at the International Musicians Meeting in Monterey, Mexico, he was “taken by his sound, feel and humanity." This is not surprising. Álvarez has cut a wide swath both on record and in live performances as an adventurer who is not afraid to take risks without losing focus. Sorgen, ...
Matthew Shipp: Greatest Hits
by Harry S. Pariser
"Greatest Hits" compilations are not releases normally associated with jazz musicians, and especially not with pianist as decidedly avant-garde as Matthew Shipp.Shipp explains that “My impetus for creating this CD was that I have a vast catalogue which I don't think the jazz world has started to absorb yet. I selected the tunes by ...
Wadada Leo Smith Seeks Funding To Complete & Premiere New Work To Mark 50th Anniversary Of The March On Washington
Smith’s Ten Freedom Summers Voted #3 New Release of 2012 in Rhapsody Jazz Critics Poll Trumpeter/composer/musical innovator Wadada Leo Smith is seeking $17,000 to complete and premiere a new work for his highly acclaimed civil rights opus Ten Freedom Summers. The new work, entitled The March on Washington D.C.- August 28, 1963, will commemorate the 50th ...
Matthew Shipp: Greatest Hits
by John Sharpe
It takes more than a degree of chutzpah for any modern day jazzer to title a collection Greatest Hits, let alone a doyen of the avant-garde. But pianist Matthew Shipp has never shied away from controversy--indeed, on occasion has actively courted it. Slightly apologetically, sleeve note annotator Tad Hendrickson points out that the selections were those ...
Alexander Hawkins: Retaining The Sense of Discovery
by John Sharpe
One of the fastest-rising stars of the UK jazz scene, pianist Alexander Hawkins is remarkable in that he shines equally in both the further reaches of free improvisation and the creation of ingeniously crafted charts. Indeed, Hawkins' particular talent might be in bringing the two so close that it's hard to distinguish between them. At times ...
Mark F. Turner's Best Releases of 2012
by Mark F. Turner
2012 was a year of stimulating music made all of the more relevant by artists who poured out their hearts and souls in diverse and compelling ways. Younger voices emerged like pianist Robert Glasper and drummer Henry Cole to deliver contemporary visions through fresh personal and cultural influences . Esteemed trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith brought his ...
Ancestors
Label: TUM Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Moholo-Moholo/Golden Spirit; No Name In The Street, James Baldwin; Jackson Pollock, Action; Siholaro; Ancestors.
Ten Freedom Summers
Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: CD1: Dred Scott, 1857; Malik Al Shabazz and the People of the Shahada; Emmett Till:
Defiant, Fearless; Thurgood Marshall and Brown Vs. Board of Education: A Dream of Equal
Education, 1954; John F. Kennedy's New Frontier And The Space Age, 1960.
CD2: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 381 Days; Black Church; Freedom
Summer: Voter Registration, Acts Of Compassion and Empowerment, 1964; Lyndon B.
Johnson's Great Society and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
CD3: The Freedom Riders Ride; Medgar Evers: A Love-Voice of a Thousand Years' Journey for
Liberty and Justice; The D.C. Wall: A War Memorial for All Times; Buzzsaw: The Myth of a Free
Press; The Little Rock Nine: A Force for Desegregation in Education, 1957.
CD4: America, Pts. 1, 2 & 3; September 11th, 2001: A Memorial; Fannie Lou Hamer and the
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964; Democracy; Martin Luther King, Jr.: Memphis,
The Prophecy.
Dark Lady of the Sonnets
Label: TUM Records
Released: 2012
Track listing:
01. Sarah Bell Wallace; 02. Blues: Cosmic Beauty; 03. Zulu Water Festival; 04. Dark Lady of the Sonnets; 05. Mbira.
