Free Jazz 2019

We can reasonably assume that New York avant-gardist Amirtha Kidambi does not want us to "eat the rich." That being said, she delivers the oft-quoted line with enough snarling disdain to approximate what a more literal order would sound like. By the time she completes the thought — "or die starving" — don't be surprised if you find yourself contemplating its ethics just a bit too deeply.

Trevin Roming's music gravitates towards experimental themes, revolting against the culture of his youth. Solidifying his position as a serious composer at just 23 years old, his first album features pieces in orchestral, chamber and jazz settings, presenting the full scope of his interests and abilities

On their new CD "FREE RIDE", HANDS ON STRINGS celebrate their breathtaking blend of world music, concert music and jazz, revealing unbridled joy of playing and boundless fantasy.

Jazz is played on trumpets, saxophones, banjos and drums, right? Jazz always has the word “blues” in its titles, or else the name of a Broadway song. We all know that, ok? But listen, dig deep into the history of the music and it becomes clear that some of the earliest jazz or pre-jazz performances, played after hours, away from the big house and in private, almost certainly involved string players who’d been employed to accompany waltzes, polkas and maybe reels for the plantation owner and his guests. So we shouldn’t be too surprised to hear jazz performed on violin, viola and cello.

The Tiger’s Mind is an inspirational text (‘score’) where improvising musicians can find hints, pointers, images, metaphors, which can draw them into an unfamiliar orbit where they can respond and react to the characters which feature in the narrative: the insensate tree, the insubstantial wind, the abstract circle, the tiger, the human being (Amy) and the Mind, a ‘non-entity’, hard to recognise.

Live at the Hilcrest Club 1958 (also released as The Fabulous Paul Bley Quintet) is a live album by pianist Paul Bley, saxophonist Ornette Coleman, trumpeter Don Cherry, drummer Billy Higgins and bassist Charlie Haden recorded in California in 1958 and released on the Inner City label in 1976. The album is notable as being the first live recording of Ornette Coleman, made shortly after he recorded his first album, Something Else!!!! and featuring the group (without Bley) that would soon record the classic Atlantic albums The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) and Change of the Century (1960).

Call it what you will—Blaxploitation flick, Afrofuturistic science fiction, low-budget surrealism, Black-power manifesto—SPACE IS THE PLACE is the only film written by, scored by, and starring Sun Ra. Directed by John Coney, produced by Jim Newman, filmed in 1972, and released in 1974, it remains an iconic part of Ra's deeper cultural legacy and a touchstone for his fans. In too many cases, the title (also the title of an unrelated 1973 album on Blue Thumb) is the only thing uninformed Earthlings know about Sun Ra. It has become the Ra ur-cliché, a not-so-secret handshake. If all you know about Sun Ra is "Space is the Place," you don't know Ra.

Shannon and Keast are an exciting young musical partnership working in the South Of England featuring guitarist James Shannon and vocalist Olivia Keast . Currently the duo are performing regularly at functions alongside arranging and recording covers for Lark Recordings which are released globally available from iTunes, Amazon, Googleplay and across all streaming platforms.

Après avoir fait la plus belle des surprises en ouvrant une Cigale à Paris le 31 mars à son public, Joé Dwèt Filé dévoile son premier album. D’origine haïtienne, Joé Dwèt Filé est auteur, compositeur, interprète et ingénieur du son.
Baigné dans la musique depuis tout petit notamment via l’Eglise, il se fait d’abord connaître dans le milieu afro-caribéen en composant des titres pour de grands noms du zouk et du kompa mais également du rap et de la pop. Artiste polyvalent, il ne tarde pas à se faire connaître également dans le milieu urbain avec son groupe Lespada qui cumule aujourd’hui plusieurs millions de vues sur YouTube et qui vient de sortir une première mixtape en novembre dernier.