jazz
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ØKSE
New York hip-hop label Backwoodz Studioz continues their hot streak with the self-titled debut from international experimental jazz quartet ØKSE: California-raised NYC-based drummer Savannah Harris, Danish saxophonist Mette Rasmussen, Swede Petter Eldh on double bass, synths and sampler, and Haitian electronic musician Val Jeanty. Known for their genre-expanding underground hip-hop, it should come as no…
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DIS/PLACED
Matana Roberts is a multidisciplinary artist, saxophonist, composer, and performer. With the release of In the Garden…, their ongoing, projected 12-chapter series COIN COIN is near its midpoint. Roberts has developed a composition system for the series based on mixed media scores combining graphic notation, visual art, film, and ephemera, channeling the images and (hi)stories…
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Coleman Hawkins ~ The Hawk Flies High
By the time he recorded The Hawk Flies High in 1957, Coleman Hawkins had already been playing music professionally for over 35 years. Hawkins made his reputation as the first great tenor saxophonist, essentially validating the instrument as a jazz horn, and was an important figure in swing, big band, and bebop. Not content to…
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Comments on Rock
Comments on Rock Luciano Berio One evening, many years ago (maybe 15), in the house of Roberto Leydi, I heard a series of quite rare recordings curated by Alan Lomax, in 1938, for the Library of Congress in Washington. In these recordings Jelly Roll Morton, the first great jazz pianist, recounts the story of jazz…
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Temps Libre EP
“Temps Libre” is the first release from the St. Laurent Piano Project, a recording series initiated by musician Stefan Christoff. Featuring Brahja Waldman on sax, Peter Burton on contrabass and Stefan Christoff on piano, “Temps Libre” is a musical exploration recorded at La Sala Rossa in late summer 2012 as Quebec’s student uprising echoed across…
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