The Hot Five recordings made between 1925 and 1926 featured early jazz greats, and along with Louis Armstrong who was still playingcornetat this time were Kid Ory (trombone), Johnny Dodds (clarinet),Lil Hardin Armstrong(piano) and Johnny St. Cyr (banjo). The tracks, or sides as they were...
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The folk roots make for immediately engaging instrumental jazz, the vocals a bit more mixed. ** 73. Steven Kamperman: Maison Moderne (Trytone) Dutch clarinetist, half-dozen album since 1999, describes this as "music inspired by the house, life, and passions of Theo van Doesburg," the ...
Damon Locks began the Black Monument Ensemble as a solo project, putting samples of Civil Rights-era speeches into the context of beat-driven music, but it quickly grew into a proper Ensemble, featuring clarinetist Angel Bat Dawid, cornetist Ben LaMar Gay, drummer Dana Hall and percussionist ...
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clarinet, and flute, displaying a virtuosic fluency in the argot of each instrument while pushing the boundaries of bebop to breaking point with rabid, discursive solos that are striving to break tradition and find a new mode of expression in jazz. Two more volumes of Dolphy’s Five Spot perf...
beating heart to the complexity of cubist jazz through an exhilarating dialogue that transcends generational and geographic boundaries. Bringing together Byron’s Bronx and Ortiz’s Santiago de Cuba for clarinet, saxophone and piano, this is the placid sound of two well-spent December days in Zu?
(Matt Mitchell on piano and synths, Jeremy Viner’s tenor saxophone and clarinet, and Kim Cass is swapped in for Adam Hopkins on bass) that made her debut recording,Mannequins, a sensation. Her facility with brain-bending time signatures has only gotten more fluid and funky, and the ...