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David Adewumi

David Adewumi is a New Hampshire native who began his musical journey at the age of 9. At the New England Conservatory, David worked with amazing musicians including Dave Holland, Jason Moran, John McNeil, and the late Laurie Frink. In 2015, he was 1 of 24 musicians accepted to the Betty Carter Jazz ahead program, where he performed his compositions at the Kennedy Center under the guidance of Carmen Lundy, JD Allen, Eric Reeves, Eric Harland, Andre Hayward, and Jason Moran. Through his time at the 2015 Banff Summer Jazz Workshop David had the opportunity to work with Mark Turner, Vijay Iyer, Becca Stevens, and many other amazing jazz musicians in the program. During his final year at NEC, David had the opportunity to study at Harvard with Vijay Iyer with a sextet comprised of Harvard, NEC, and Berklee musicians. In 2016, David performed at the Panama Jazz Festival alongside Dominique Eade and George Garzone. In February 2016, David was selected as a finalist for the Thelonious Monk Institute where he played for Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Kenny Burrell and Herb Alpert. David is currently working towards his Masters degree in Jazz performance at The Juilliard School.

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Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble: Elegy for Thelonious

Read "Elegy for Thelonious" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Pianist Frank Carlberg has been exploring the music of Thelonious Monk for some time, most specifically on his large group album, Monk Dreams, Hallucinations, and Nightmares, (Sunnyside, 2017). This new album has Carlberg returning to the large ensemble format for more Monk investigations, but this time approaching the work in a more splintered and abstract fashion. He does not simply interpret familiar Monk tunes. He writes compositions and arrangements which stitch Monk riffs and ideas into new fabrics, ...

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Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble: Elegy for Thelonious

Read "Elegy for Thelonious" reviewed by Mark Corroto


There was a sardonic saying circulating a few years ago that observed, “It's Frank Sinatra's world, we just live in it." While that was a backhanded compliment, tailoring it to the subject of this large ensemble recording, we would call it a commendation. Pianist, composer, and conductor Frank Carlberg is telling us, “It's Thelonious Monk's world, and (thank god) we live in it." Carlberg has been a disciple of Monk for decades, recording his music in a piano trio format ...

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Jason Moran: From the Dancehall to the Battlefield

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Uscito il primo gennaio 2023 su Bandcamp, questo album di Jason Moran, per il suo concept, per la varietà e la ricchezza, per il modo in cui fonde radici storiche e modernità è probabilmente da considerare il disco dell'anno. Il suggestivo titolo From the Dancehall to the Battlefield sintetizza la storia del mitico musicista a cui è dedicato: James Reese Europe, compositore, arrangiatore e direttore d'orchestra nero, nato a Mobile, in Alabama, nel 1881, e trasferitosi prima a ...

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Dave Douglas: Dizzy Atmosphere: Dizzy Gillespie At Zero Gravity

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Chi si aspetta da questo disco un omaggio fedele all'approccio umoristico e pirotecnico di Dizzy Gillespie, non conosce Dave Douglas. Il trombettista, che ha compiuto lo scorso marzo cinquantasette anni, ha mostrato nelle frequenti dediche ai protagonisti della storia del jazz la propria propensione del tutto personale a tale pratica: lo ha fatto tra l'altro con Mary Lou Williams, Wayne Shorter, Booker Little. Nello splendido Devotion, pubblicato lo scorso anno, in trio con Uri Caine e Andrew Cyrille, c'erano pure ...

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Dave Douglas: Dizzy Atmosphere: Dizzy Gillespie At Zero Gravity

Read "Dizzy Atmosphere: Dizzy Gillespie At Zero Gravity" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The distinctive trumpet of Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993), with the idiosyncratic upward angle of its bell, is transformed into a starship on the cover of Dave Douglas' Dizzy Atmosphere: Dizzy Gillespie in Zero Gravity, seemingly soaring above the stratosphere, in Earth orbit. Douglas has a history of nodding to past greats: pianist Mary Lou Williams on Soul On Soul (Sony Legacy, 2000), saxophonist Wayne Shorter on Stargazer (Arabesque, 1997), and on a pair of Riverside discs that explored the music of ...

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