with the artists drawing from wells of jazz, Urdu poetry, and spirituality. Aftab’s vocals gesture at themes of love and loss, while Ismaily and Iyer surround her with fluid piano and softly undulating bass. Iyer hasdescribedLove in Exileas part of a deeper personal reckoning around South ...
The big jazz festival in Switzerland has been an annual affair since 1967. Dozens of artists have released tapes of their performances there, so it's unsurprising that the Foundation itself would want to get into the act. This draws on four performances by the diminuitive French pianist --...
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Despite operating under the "jazz" umbrella, all these artists are wildly divergent in almost every possible way. Joy is connected to a jazz-vocal tradition that snakeswayback in history, back to when her heroes likeSarah Vaughan,Ella FitzgeraldandCarmen McRaewere dropping jaws. ...
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Term jazz originated from a word belonging to traditional French culture, linked in meaning to the joy of living.
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He immediately decamped to New York to play in small group line ups with some of the best jazz artists of the time, including Max Roach, Sonny Stitt, Bud Powell & Charlie Parker. The 1950’s saw him make his first Blue Note albums – both as a bandleader and with Miles Davis – fo...
The latest full-length release from jazz artist Meshell Ndegeocello is a tribute to James Baldwin and features contributions from such artists as Hilton Als, Jebin Bruni, Staceyann Chin, Justin Hicks, Josh Johnson, Kenita Miller-Hicks, Julius Rodriguez, Abe Rounds, and Jake Sherman. ...