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Take Five with Ariel Bart
by AAJ Staff
Meet Ariel Bart Ariel Bart is a harmonica player and composer born in Israel in 1998 and currently based in Berlin. Her debut album, In Between, was released in May 2021 on Ropeadope. In the album, Ariel presents a unique approach to the harmonica and her composed melodies, which are inspired by the European jazz tradition ...
Blues for Cecil No. 2
Album: 2 Blues for Cecil
By Andrew Cyrille
Label: TUM Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 8:42
The Gathering—Roots & Branches of Los Angeles Jazz, Survival Unit II & Hot Heroes
by Maurice Hogue
With only one opportunity left to program some music to recognize Black History Month, I decided to dedicate the last hour music by some of the great Black musicians making their own history (Andrew Cyrille, William Parker, Wadada Leo Smith and Graham Haynes & Oliver Lake of OGJB) and The Gathering: Roots And Branches of Los ...
Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double, MOTDTK & UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra
by Maurice Hogue
Tomas Fujiwara's one of the most respected drummers in the creative scene, and his new release with Triple Double reinforces that. March is a must-have for 2022. The UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra is the leading large ensemble, and their new Last Dance is a gem too. One of the hottest people around is saxophonist James Brandon ...
Daniel Rorke, Hello Cacus & Previews
by Maurice Hogue
Saxophonist Daniel Rorke, originally from Australia, then NYC, Scandinavia and now in Dublin Ireland, dropped some music on OMJ recently and tracks from different trios plus a stint in a crazy Icelandic big band are featured. Two very important alto saxophonists have new recordings on the way and those are previewed--Ornette Coleman's first two releases for ...
Michael Bisio: In His Own Words
by Mark Corroto
If you happen to be a liner note geek you probably have noticed the name Michael Bisio mentioned frequently on album sleeves. Whether the author is the session leader or analyst, the general consensus is the bassist is the cornerstone upon which great music is built. His playing allows a fellow musician to access not only ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa, Emile Parisien & Felix Henkelhausen
by Maurice Hogue
Several debut recordings on this episode for you and music from Rudresh Mahanthappa & his Hero Trio, drummer Maximilian Hering from Germany, bassist Felix Henkelhausen also from Germany, the trio In Real Time (Carol Liebowitz, Adam Lane & Andrew Drury), Argentinean bass clarinetist Emma Famin, French saxophonist Emile Parisien & the striking duo of saxophonist Dave ...
Ava Mendoza, Vijay Anderson, Stephen Gauci: Studio Sessions Vol. 4
by Alberto Bazzurro
Free jazz della più chiara (e abbastanza indiscriminata, acritica) acqua è quello che ci accoglie da subito in questo album, inciso nel febbraio 2019 e pubblicato alla fine di quello stesso anno. Vi figura uno degli elementi più interessanti delle nuove leve del jazz (in realtà classe 1983, ma si sa che oggi, musicalmente parlando, si ...
William Parker - Tra stazioni spaziali maya ed inverni pittorici
by Vincenzo Roggero
William Parker è da considerarsi personaggio centrale negli sviluppi della musica afroamericana degli ultimi cinquant'anni sia nelle vesti di compositore, formidabile contrabbassista e multistrumentista che di agitatore culturale, poeta, saggista, educatore. Oltre centocinquanta titoli a proprio nome con ogni sorta di formazione (dal solo all'orchestra) e centinaia di partecipazioni come collaboratore ne certificano la statura di ...
William Parker: Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World
by Karl Ackermann
If multi-instrumentalist/composer William Parker's ten-CD Migration Of Silence Into And Out Of The Tone World suggests a cohesive, high concept plan, it is something more. The beautifully packaged clamshell box set is comprised of mutually exclusive projects—one dating back ten years—with some common themes. There is an overall dedication of the music to “all people of ...
