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Terrible Animals is perhaps the most compositionally ambitious and daringly performed of Lage Lund's five albums on Criss Cross. Joined by a never-before-convened, top-of-the-pyramid rhythm section (Sullivan Fortner, piano; Larry...Saturday, February 23, 2019 from NPR Topics: Music
Born and raised in South Africa to Christian parents, Nakhane now makes electronic music about queerness, blackness and survival.Saturday, February 23, 2019 from NPR Topics: Music
The Swedish composer is the link between Childish Gambino's "This is America," Grammys' song and record of the year, and Black Panther , which could help him win an Oscar this weekend.Saturday, February 23, 2019 from NPR Topics: Music
It's wrong to use the Academy Awards' celebration of excellence as an excuse to nitpick others' creative output. So let's do this.Saturday, February 23, 2019 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
As a teaser for her upcoming album, the divine m: Zara McFarlane has released a 4-track EP revisiting Jamaican dub and rockers wizard Augustus Pablo's canonical 1977 single "East Of The River Nile." McFarlane's disc, on which her...Saturday, February 23, 2019 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Big things were always going to be expected from Brazilian guitar prodigy m: Pedro Martins after he won the Montreux Guitar Competition in 2015. Under the guidance of m: Kurt Rosenwinkel , Martins has grown not only as a guitarist but...Saturday, February 23, 2019 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
In November 2016, in celebration of her 20-year recording career, m: Tamara Obrovac took to the stage of the Zagreb Youth Theatre with the Transhistria Ensemble. In front of a sold-out crowd, the Croatian singer and composer performed a...Saturday, February 23, 2019 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Aviva Endean's debut album for the Norwegian label SOFA is heady and gleams with interesting abstracts. In addition to her improvisational acumen, she is a shaper of sound. Endean toggles between various clarinet types on each track....Saturday, February 23, 2019 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
On Amour, m: Colin Linden (of Blackie and The Rodeo Kings) and m: Luther Dickinson (from m: North Mississippi Allstars ) offer a collaborative paean to romantic love that is not entirely sentimental. Even on such an otherwise earnest...Friday, February 22, 2019 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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A wartime concert, a Carnegie Hall debut, an epic work celebrating black history: the story of Duke Ellington's most ambitious work.Friday, February 22, 2019 from JazzWorldQuest - Jazz News With A Global Perspective
Legendary Singer-Songwriter JUDY COLLINS Among the Honorees at the 34th ANNUAL BISTRO AWARDS Gala Monday, March 11 at Gotham Comedy Club Frances Ruffelle, Lee Horwin, Luba Mason, and Sidney Myer Also Recognized Among the 15 ...Friday, February 22, 2019 from NPR Topics: Music
He called it "a parallel to the history of the American Negro." Duke Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige wasn't an immediate hit, but it set a tone for ambitious, provocative works about black life.Friday, February 22, 2019 from NPR Topics: Music
Argento began his career in earnest in the '60s, before rising to international prominence in the '70s for works that often mined the written word for inspiration.Friday, February 22, 2019 from NPR Topics: Music
The R&B star singer has been dogged for decades by allegations that he has sexually abused underage girls and women. Kelly now faces 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.Friday, February 22, 2019 from LondonJazz
Peter Bacon reports: This is just in from The Musicians' Company: "The Musicians’ Company is delighted to announce the winners of the 2019 Dankworth and Eddie Harvey Jazz Arranger Awards. "The winner of the Dankworth Big Band Award is...Friday, February 22, 2019 from LondonJazz
Postmodern Jukebox in Cambridge iPhone snap by Richard Bateman Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox, Welcome to the Twenties 2.0 (Cambridge Corn Exchange, 21 February 2019. Review by Richard Bateman) "Scintillating... and fun!" was...Friday, February 22, 2019 from NPR Topics: Music
Bill Frisell, an elite jazz guitarist, teams up with bassist Thomas Morgan to imagine a playful riff on this 007 theme.Friday, February 22, 2019 from LondonJazz
Alina Bzhezhinska and her band for the Alice Coltrane set Photo: Leah Williams Alina Bzhezhinska – Legacy: Alice Coltrane and Dorothy Ashby (King’s Place, 20 February 2019. Review by Leah Williams.) As part of the Venus Unwrapped...Friday, February 22, 2019 from NPR Topics: Music
Our picks for the best albums out this week include an epic treatise on Americanism from Gary Clark Jr., the delicate and beautiful sounds of singer Julia Jacklin, Atlanta rapper Gunna and more.Friday, February 22, 2019 from LondonJazz
Nick Malcolm – Real Isn’t Real (Green Eyes Records GE 002 CD Review by Jon Turney) Trumpeter Nick Malcolm has a long working relationship with his in-demand quartet mates pianist Alexander Hawkins and bassist Olie Brice . Together...Friday, February 22, 2019 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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The Macuco Quartet's joyful and exuberant Friendly Signs suggests a Brazilian seaside or urban landscape where daylight tropical breezes and palm trees sway over a harbor and waves lap gently along a shore lively with music and dancing....Friday, February 22, 2019 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Maybe the quickest way to sum-up Patchwork Jazz Orchestra's The Adventures Of Mr Pottercakes would be to appropriate the title of m: The Who 's 1971 compilation album, Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy. For that is exactly what it is and quite...Friday, February 22, 2019 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Inspired by legendary clarinetist m: Jimmy Giuffre 's small group recordings, Romanians Lucian Ban (piano) and Alex Simu (clarinet) recorded these luminous duets at The French Cultural Institute in Bucharest, as they personalize the aura...Friday, February 22, 2019 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
By now it is generally accepted that there is such a category as Germanic free improvisation. One separate from the m: Peter Brotzmann , m: Alexander von Schlippenbach , m: Gunter Sommer , m: Peter Kowald , m: Manfred Schoof , {{m: Gerd...Friday, February 22, 2019 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Sometimes a recording comes with a "play it loud" recommendation. Let's give one of those to Sun Of Goldfinger, from guitarist David Torn, alto saxophonist Tim Berne and percussionist Ches Smith. Torn, a self-described...Friday, February 22, 2019 from All About Jazz News
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An adept musician in a pop band dismissed as made-for-TV, Tork became famous with the Monkees in the 1960s. Their reunion tours lasted well into the 2000s.Thursday, February 21, 2019 from JazzWorldQuest - Jazz News With A Global Perspective
ENJOY AN AFTERNOON OF MUSIC BY THE DELVAL SYMPHONIC BAND AND JAZZ BAND March 03, 2019 3:00pm to 4:15pm Event Location Life Sciences Building Auditorium On Sunday March 3 at 3:00 PM, the acclaimed DelVal Symphonic Band and Jazz Band will...Thursday, February 21, 2019 from JazzWorldQuest - Jazz News With A Global Perspective
Into The Herd HD) by The Wrong Object UK magazine Jazzwise has described Belgian sextet The Wrong Object as “adept at mixing Canterbury styled prog rock with Zappa-esque jazz fusion and Frippertronics to produce a beat that has elements...Thursday, February 21, 2019 from JazzWorldQuest - Jazz News With A Global Perspective
RICHARD SUSSMAN “THE EVOLUTION SUITE” For Jazz Quintet, String Quartet, and Electronics at Maureen's Jazz Cellar, Nyack, NY Saturday, March 9 Richard Sussman's Groundbreaking "Evolution Suite" A Compelling Integration of Jazz,...Thursday, February 21, 2019 from NPR Topics: Music
Rochelle Washington and Latresa Scaff said the singer made sexual advances on them when they were underage in the mid-1990s. The claims come amid a flurry of renewed accusations against R. Kelly.Thursday, February 21, 2019 from NPR Topics: Music
Roma director Alfonso Cuarón handpicked artists to make music inspired by the characters from his Oscar-nominated film. The results are stunning.Thursday, February 21, 2019 from NPR Topics: Music
White accompanies himself on piano in this intimate performance, a contrasting compliment to his expertly arranged and produced studio recordings.Thursday, February 21, 2019 from NPR Topics: Music
The Austin native's latest album This Land incorporates punk, soul and even hip-hop.Thursday, February 21, 2019 from LondonJazz
The big names taking part Publicity image Peter Bacon reports: A fundraising gala concert is being organised to support the National Youth Jazz Collective. It’s called Jazz For The Future and it's at 8pm (doors open 6.30pm) on 29 April...Thursday, February 21, 2019 from NPR Topics: Music
Elizabeth Rowe, the symphony's principal flutist, filed suit against the orchestra last July. It was among the first lawsuits regarding gender pay gaps filed under a new Massachusetts law.Thursday, February 21, 2019 from All About Jazz News
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The voices of women who've been marginalized, demeaned, abused, and overlooked will no longer be silenced. The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have pulled the curtains back on deplorable actions and practices that have run rampant in all...Thursday, February 21, 2019 from NPR Topics: Music
The 29-year-old pianist and composer who performs all the on-screen music in the Oscar-nominated movie, Green Book , explains how it was done.Thursday, February 21, 2019 from LondonJazz
Nishla Smith Photo: AJ Dehany Nishla Smith Quintet (London debut, Vortex, 12 February 2019. Review by AJ Dehany) The London debut of Manchester-based Australian-born classically-trained jazz singer-songwriter Nishla Smith twinkled with...Thursday, February 21, 2019 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Ashley Wilson's debut recording features the vocalist and songwriter singing eleven original tunes, incorporating a range of genres and mining a lot of her own experiences. "Once In A While" starts the album with a flirty tune about...Thursday, February 21, 2019 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Herman Poole Blount, contrary to some urban myths, didn't claim to be born on the planet Saturn but had purportedly been transported there--and back--in his teens. A life shrouded in mystery, it isn't entirely clear when Blount became m:...Thursday, February 21, 2019 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Among pianist and composer m: Satoko Fujii 's many and varied ensembles are the orchestras she leads in various cities. These two releases contrast Fujii's approach to orchestral music with the results of another composer writing for one...Thursday, February 21, 2019 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
You may wish you had paid more attention in your high school chemistry class, because listening to Rhyme And Reason by trumpeter m: Jason Palmer calls to mind the description of the nucleus of an atom. Spinning and spinning, various...