This week, we've got some video footage of bassist Christian McBride , who will be in St. Louis from Wednesday, November 18 through Saturday, November 21 to perform with his new band Inside Straight at Jazz At the Bistro. As McBride explains in a short promotional video made for the band's record label - a clip that, alas, has had the embedding feature disabled - Inside Straight was formed as an acoustic...
[ November 14, 2009; 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka, born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, USA, is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, a poet icon and revolutionary political activist who has recited poetry and lectured on cultural and political issues extensively in the USA, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. With influences [...]
So Dressner had a two day tasting event of which I only made it to one day because the party at Ten Bells, with VLM, Guillhaume Gerard, Cory Cartwright, Eric Texier, SFJoe, Alice F., Pameldavi, Devlon and whoever else I am forgetting was too much for me. I am getting old and cannot drink that much wine. Cannot do it. But I had a blast. Here are some ramblings from the Dressner tasting. I tasted a lot...
This is a fascinating two disc set that collects music that the great saxophonist Ornette Coleman recorded in a concentrated session in September of 1971. The music was eventually released on the albums Science Fiction and Broken Shadows . Coleman brought together former colleagues like bassist Charlie Haden, tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman, drummers Billy Higgins and Ed Blackwell and trumpeters Don...
"I'm a sprightly 31 years of age, living in Tokyo with my lovely Japanese wife, a child of grunge and Britpop, I now listen to a wide wide range of stuff (except Jazz and classical - but i'm willing to give 'em a try) my specialist subjects (if this were mastermind) would be obscure and forgotten Britpop never-were's, and the current US psychedelic drone underground which I love to bits. This...
The Ornette Coleman Trio At the Golden Circle Stockholm >>>> Download At the Golden Circle Stockholm <<<< artist: The Ornette Coleman Trio album: At the Golden Circle Stockholm Tracklist: 1 Announcement mp3 2 Faces and Places mp3 3 European Echoes mp3 4 Dee Dee mp3 5 Dawn mp3 6 Faces and Places (Alternate Take) mp3 7 European Echoes (Alternate Take) mp3 8 Doughnuts mp3 9 Snowflakes
NPR: Wilson is "One of the Finest Saxophonists in the Business" JAZZIZ: "An Especially Skilled and Sensitive Jazz Saxophonist" Acclaimed saxophonist Steve Wilson shifts from sideman to center-stage in the months ahead, with a series of events celebrating and honoring the work of jazz legends Joe Zawinul, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman...
Born in Cleveland, Mississippi in 1934 and raised between Dallas and Los Angeles, trumpeter Bobby Bradford began playing with {{Ornette Coleman = 5818}} in Los Angeles in the 1950s, and replaced {{Don Cherry = 5668}} in an unrecorded Coleman quartet during the early 1960s. However, the most significant partnership in Bradford's musical life was with the clarinetist and composer {{John Carter = 5578}}...
“Blow what you feel–anything! Play the thought, the idea in your mind… Break away from the convention and stagnation–escape!”–Ornette Coleman, 1960. When saxophone colossus and jazz prophet Ornette Coleman titled his third Atlantic LP This Is Our Music, it wasn’t an explanation, it was an exclamation: This is our music! Recorded during three fervent and [...]...
The Hong Kong Arts Festival happens in February and March every year and for many people in this city, it is the cultural highlight of the year. Last week I booked tickets for the 2010 programme, which promises to be quite memorable. I’ll be writing more about that in the future. But, [...]
Ornette Coleman Reflections of This is Our Music Ornette Coleman's Meltdown Royal Festival Hall, London Sunday, 21 June 2009 First Set Bachir Attar & The Master Musicians of Jajouka LINK TO FOLLOW Second Set Ornette Coleman (alto sax, trumpet, violin) Al MacDowell (bass guitar) Tony Falanga (double bass) Denardo Coleman (drums) 01 introduction 02 Follow the Sound 03 04 05 06 Bach's Cello Suite...
Guitarist Joe Morris continues his 2002 experimentation with the double-bass. On Fine Objects, he leads a trio of saxophone, bass, and drums through two of his own compositions, a couple of trio improvisations, and other compositions by {{Ornette Coleman = 5818}}, {{Eric Dolphy = 6340}}, {{Larry Clinton = 5763}} and {{Petr Cancura = 17902...
Amazon has been compiling lists of top 100 recordings in various categories and they're actually quite interesting. These seem to reflect actual opinions, sometimes veer away from conventional wisdom and are not compiled with an eye towards commercial sales (to the extent that, as one example the #3 album on their list of live albums is currently not available). I'm sure everyone can find a quibble...
The Ornette Coleman Trio At the Golden Circle Stockholm >>>> Download At the Golden Circle Stockholm <<<< artist: The Ornette Coleman Trio album: At the Golden Circle Stockholm Tracklist: 1 Announcement mp3 2 Faces and Places mp3 3 European Echoes mp3 4 Dee Dee mp3 5 Dawn mp3 6 Faces and Places (Alternate Take) mp3 7 European Echoes (Alternate Take) mp3 8 Doughnuts mp3 9 Snowflakes and Sunshine mp3...
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