In conjunction with REPLICA , Judith Sanchez Ruiz leads a special movement workshop at the New Museum. Students with dance experience are encouraged to apply. Interested students should contact the teacher directly at jusaru@verizon.net for more information. By learning to listen to your body, you will learn how to work body and mind in time and space. You will learn to make creative choices in the...
In conjunction with REPLICA , Judith Sanchez Ruiz leads a special movement workshop at the New Museum. Students with dance experience are encouraged to apply. Interested students should contact the teacher directly at jusaru@verizon.net for more information. By learning to listen to your body, you will learn how to work body and mind in time and space. You will learn to make creative choices in the...
Avant-garde jazzman Henry Threadgill has been described as “one of the most original jazz composers of his generation.” But his music isn’t for everybody. Threadgill has a brand new CD out... with his ensemble called Zooid, which combines instruments such as tuba and acoustic guitar. I got a FREE MP3 off the new album featuring Mr. Threadgill on flute. Click here to hear “White...
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York , November 2009: Gerald Clayton , Two-Shade (ArtistShare) Graham Dechter , Right On Time (Capri) Anne Drummond , Like Water (ObliqSound) Terell Stafford-Dick Oatts Quintet , Bridging the Gap (Planet Arts) Henry Threadgill’s ZOOID , This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi Recordings) Miguel Zenón , Esta Plena (Marsalis...
SONG Artist Album Label : Year It’s been a while since we last offered any free booty to our kind, good-looking, abnormally intelligent, and generous readership. Welcome to the latest D:O contest, brought to you by the fine folks at Pi Recordings, and Henry Threadgill. CONTEST ONE – Blindfold, please. The blindfold test. We’ve posted an mp3, above, stripped of identifying [...]
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Pi Recordings "Henry Threadgill - This Brings Us To, Vol. 1" giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on December 2nd. Click here to enter the contest (Following Henry Threadgill at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)...
Henry Threadgill's new release is not music for everyone, but it is music for anyone. This is a difficult review to write, knowing that the folks who follow Henry Threadgill are likely already aware of (or in possession of) this new release -- his first in eight very long years. On the other hand, this is an easy review to write, since it is pretty painless to recommend exceptional music. So let it...
The Charles Tolliver Big Band The Iridium Jazz Club New York, NY October 17, 2009 Charles Tolliver leads a modernist 16 piece big band that pushes the envelope of contemporary orchestral jazz sounds. The Big Band played a four night stand at the Iridium Jazz Club and I was fortunate to catch the second set on Saturday night. The Iridium is situated in Midtown Manhattan, just a few blocks away from...
Alicia Keys - Alicia Keys Smooth Jazz Tribute (CC Entertainment ) Aram Shelton - Two Cities (Delmark ) Art Blakey - Jazz Messengers (LP W/Tshirt) (Phantom ) Charlie Parker - Bird On 52ND Street (Original Jazz Classics ) Collage - Fifty-Four Minutes Twenty Seconds (Wool ) Crane River Jazz Band - Storming Session (United States Of Distribution LTD. ) Crane River Jazz Band - Storming Session: Germany...
Pi Recordings was founded in 2001 to release a pair of albums by legendary AACM composer/multi-instrumentalist Henry Threadgill, the electric Everybody's Mouth's a Book (with Make a Move) and acoustic Up Popped the Two Lips (with Zooid). This Brings Us To, Volume 1 is his first commercially released recording in eight years--a homecoming of sorts for both Pi and Threadgill...
CARDIO – LIVE QUESTIONS OF AGENCY – LIVE Vijay Iyer Trio [ exclusive to D:O ] : 2009 VI, piano; Stephan Crump, bass; Marcus Gilmore, drums. We’re incredibly pleased to have longtime friend of the site Vijay Iyer back for another guest post. This time he’s been generous enough to share two exclusive live tracks from his trio, recorded [...]
New issue of The Wire features Julian Cope on the front cover. On The Cover: Julian Cope - How the modern antiquarian, megalithic European and Odinist rock 'n' roll heretic orchestrates elegant chaos with his new group Black Sheep. Plus: Cornelius Cardew, Henry Threadgill, Peter Walker, Jim Jarmusch's Invisible Jukebox, 00I00, Mordant Music, Bernie Krause in Cross Platform, William Bennett on Yoko...
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If I am black now like your butane in the butt wild in singing crow londoners gasping bust POE POE BPOE with bubble gum bubbles from out its ears Henry Threadgill to the 70's AIR sunglasses lost and found and private bodies If I am earthman, woomond horticlique-cher's sonny abonition if I am ebonics as a white man my body my existence If I never touch that goddamn latte' again I would rather be Sonny...
Alto saxophonist and composer Henry Threadgill hasn't issued a CD since 2001, an unusually long silence for a musician of his stature, but "This Brings Us To, Volume 1" has been worth the wait (**** out of four stars, Pi Recordings, out Oct. 27). The album is a major achievement.
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