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John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2011
by John Sharpe
Here are ten new releases and three reissues which stood out from those heard this year: Wadada Leo Smith's OrganicHeart's ReflectionsCuneiform String ensembles and fusion don't usually go together, but in AACM trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith's universe anything is possible. His Organic ensemble made its first ...
Heart's Reflections
Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: CD1: Don Cherry's Electric Sonic Garden (For Don Cherry); The Dhikr Of
Radiant Hearts, Pt. I; The Dhikr Of Radiant Hearts, Pt. II; The Majestic
Way; The Shaykh, As Far As Humaythira; Spiritual Wayfarers;
Certainty; Ritual Purity And Love, Pt. I; Ritual Purity And Love, Pt. II;
CD2: Silsila; The Well: From Bitter To Fresh Sweet Water, Pt. I; Well:
From Bitter To Fresh Sweet Water, Pt. II; Toni Morrison: The Black Hole
(Sagittarius A)/Conscience And Epic Memory (For Toni Morrison); Leroy
Jenkins's Air Steps (For Leroy Jenkins).
Heart’s Reflections
Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: CD1: Don Cherry's Electric Sonic Garden; Heart's Reflections: Splendors of Light and Purification (for Shaykh Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili): The Dhikr of Radiant Hearts, Part I; The Dihkr of Radiant Hearts, Part II; The Majestic Way; The Shaykh, as far as Humaythira; Spiritual Wayfarers; Certainty; Ritual Purity and Love, Part I; Ritual Purity and Love, Part II. CD2: Heart's Reflections: Splendors of Light and Purification (for Shaykh Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili): Silsila; The Well: From Bitter to Fresh Sweet Water, Part I; From Bitter to Fresh Sweet Water, Part II; Toni Morrison: The Black Hole (Sagittarius A*), Conscience and Epic Memory (for Toni Morrison); Leroy Jenkins's Air Steps (for Leroy Jenkins).
The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer
Label:
Released: 2011
Track listing:
01. Uprising; 02. Love; 03. Seeds of a Forgotten Flower; 04. The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer; 05. Mto: The Celestial River; 06. Don't You Remember; 07. Sellassie-I;
08. Seven Arrows in the Garden of Light; 09. Buffalo People: A Blues Ritual Dance; 10. Albert Ayler in a Spiritual Light.
Convergence Quartet: Cambridge, UK, November 9, 2011
by John Sharpe
Convergence QuartetChurchill CollegeCambridge, UKNovember 9, 2011 What began as a one-off invitation, requiring no little chutzpah, shows all the signs of developing an enduring life. Following by multi-instrumentalist/composer Anthony Braxton's >quintet at the 2004 London Jazz Festival, British pianist Alexander Hawkins and bassist Dominic Lash invited cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum--a key ...
Dave Burrell Trio: New York, NY, September 10, 2011
by Garrison Fewell
Dave Burrell TrioCrosscurrent 3 Festival Poisson RougeNew York, NYSeptember 10, 2011For its third annual edition, Crosscurrent moved the festival from its home in Botticino, Italy to New York City. Following the sonic delights of the Vision Festival in June, Crosscurrent 3 offered an additional array of creative music ensembles ...
Trumpets: Wadada Leo Smith; Corey Wilkes
Wadada Leo Smith—Dark Lady of the Sonnets (TUM, 2011) Always searching for new musical vistas, the trumpet and flugelhorn player Wadada Leo Smith teams up with Min Xiao-Fen on pipa and occasional voice and Pheeroan akLaff on drums. The trio is called Mbira, and they create a very interesting album featuring five lengthy improvisations which develop ...
Cuneiform Records: Growing Progressive Music for 27 Years
by Mark Redlefsen
Twenty seven years is a long time for a niche progressive music label such as Cuneiform Records not just to survive, but to remain inventive and, in the best sense, ambitious. Steve Feigenbaum founded Cuneiform back in 1984, and with his wife, Joyce, runs it from Silver Springs, Maryland. Hosting bands such as Universe Zero, digging ...
FAB Trio: History of Jazz In Reverse
by Dave Wayne
Jazz violin, for some, is an acquired taste. Perhaps this has more to do with the instrument's dominant role in Western classical music, more than anything else, but there's something very naked and vocal about the sound of a violin--much like the saxophone, it calls forth all sorts of intense emotions. Billy Bang, who died in ...
