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Hymn: Silence, Then Birds

Read "Silence, Then Birds" reviewed by John Sharpe


Under the moniker Hymn, the British threesome of trumpeter Chris Dowding, violinist Sylvia Hallett and electronicist David Ross present extemporized slices of understated minimalism distinguished by aching melodies emerging from a granular scratchy undertow. They maintain a taut balance between repetition, movement and noise on three tracks recorded live in London and Norwich, with outcomes variously hypnotic, soothing and spacious. The title cut begins with the sort of hiss which could be distant traffic or waves breaking on ...

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Pianist Deanna Witkowski Presents Trio Arrangements Of 14 Hymns On "Makes The Heart To Sing: Jazz Hymns," Set For November 3 Release

Pianist Deanna Witkowski Presents Trio Arrangements Of 14 Hymns On "Makes The Heart To Sing: Jazz Hymns," Set For November 3 Release

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity

Grace, serenity, and rhapsody are on abundant display throughout the 14 songs pianist Deanna Witkowski performs with her trio on Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns, set for release November 3 on Tilapia Records. One would expect this to be the case, given that the source material is not the Great American Songbook, but the centuries- old trove of hymnody used in churches around the world. Witkowski succeeds in offering a luminously lyrical piano trio session interpreting a spiritually ...

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Christian Hymns Set To Jazz Impacts Lives

Christian Hymns Set To Jazz Impacts Lives

Source: DeBlaze & Associates

“Energized Music Transcends Worship and Ethnicity" Pennington, NJ – Critically acclaimed recording artist, composer / arranger, and jazz saxophonist Jack Furlong will release Charity—his fourth album and first project of jazz improvisation over Christian hymns—on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 in mid New Jersey near Pennsylvania. Coincidentally — not unlike John Coltrane 50 years ago—the songs are linked to a spiritual journey that transcends worship and ethnicity. “There was a different message that fueled us. We knew we were doing something ...

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Jamie Ousley's "Hymn Of The Tides" Featured At The Franciscanized World

Jamie Ousley's "Hymn Of The Tides" Featured At The Franciscanized World

Source: Phil Kolter

Green Bay, WI: Franciscan Sisters’ July featured song for young adults is “Hymn of the Tides” by Jaime Ousley. It is available as a free download at Franciscanized World. Composer Jaime Ousley, a Miami based ascending jazz bassist and composer, reflected that “As I continue to learn to be a “jazz” composer, I find the most peace and satisfaction in my compositions when I can let the music that’s in my heart out into the world. This hymn-style of music ...

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Ray Wylie Hubbard Plans Spring, Summer Dates in Support of "The Grifter's Hymnal"

Ray Wylie Hubbard Plans Spring, Summer Dates in Support of "The Grifter's Hymnal"

Source: conqueroo

On the album, currently #2 at Americana Radio, Ringo Starr contributes vocals, guitar, handclaps and shakers to his own composition. LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Texas troubadour Ray Wylie Hubbard will begin his Spring/Summer tour in support of his new album, The Grifter's Hymnal, currently at #2 on the Americana Music Association's radio chart, on May 31st in Seattle. Whether you're short on time due to an impending apocalypse or simply need a tidy introduction to bring you up to speed ...

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John Hiatt - Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymn (2011)

John Hiatt - Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymn (2011)

Source: Something Else!

Productive and consistently good are two attributes that don't usually go together in the record making business, but it's been John Hiatt's hallmark for a while, now. Particularly at the start of the new century, from Crossing Muddy Waters (2000) on, Hiatt has made a shiny fresh disc of new tunes every year or so and there's been little to complain about them. Less than a year and a half from another solid product with The Open Road comes Dirty ...

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RTF IV Hymn of the 7th Galaxy Tour : First Stop, Australia

RTF IV Hymn of the 7th Galaxy Tour : First Stop, Australia

Source: Jazz (Jazzers Jazzing) by Carl L. Hager

Earlier this month the newly re-constituted jazz/rock supergroup Return To Forever kicked off its RTF IV Hymn Of The 7th Galaxy world tour with two weeks in the land Down Under. Jean-Luc Ponty's superb violin has been added and Al DiMeola's guitar has been replaced by Frank Gambale's. All five musicians in RTF IV possess famously world-class chops, but getting players who have the technical prowess to do the job has seemingly never been an issue for Chick Corea and ...

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David Byrne:Big Love: Hymnal

David Byrne:Big Love: Hymnal

Source: JamBase

By: Greg Gargiulo

As it rolls and accelerates unflinchingly without any effort on anyone's part, seizing some and being seized by others, one thing this man doesn't do is watch time burn by while sitting alongside it idly. Not David Byrne. Even before Talking Heads disharmoniously disbanded in '91, Byrne had been getting his feet wet in as many projects as he could juggle, and that relentlessly curious spirit has only garnered more momentum as time's wick keeps burning and ...

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Darrell Scott:Modern Hymns

Darrell Scott:Modern Hymns

Source: JamBase

By: Dennis Cook

Modern Hymns (Appleseed Records) is five or six cuts above most cover tune sets, and in no small way lives up to the heavenly bent of its title, though in down to earth, fundamental ways that actually help the daily grind of living on the ground. Darrell Scott, a longtime session ace in Nashville and hit songwriter for likes of Travis Tritt, Dixie Chicks and Faith Hill, inhabits a superbly chosen collection of songwriter's songwriter fare, beginning ...

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Barb Jungr's Hymn to Nina Simone

Barb Jungr's Hymn to Nina Simone

Source: All About Jazz

"Just Like a Woman" is Barb Jungr's hymn to the late, legendary Nina Simone. This beautiful, haunting and reflective album comprises eleven songs famously interpreted by the great singer - a voice with whom she has often been compared. Like her mentor, Jungr is truly a singer who lives life through her work. This release is backed by an extensive UK tour - see attached sheet for details. She has just returned from New York where she collected the Nitelife ...

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Justin Time Records Announces the Release of Spirituals & Dedications, a Collective Jazz Album in Celebration of the Traditional Hymn

Justin Time Records Announces the Release of Spirituals & Dedications, a Collective Jazz Album in Celebration of the Traditional Hymn

Source: All About Jazz

Spirituals & Dedications reflects influences both temporal and cosmic. This leaderless, collective album unites the Toronto-based flutist-saxophonist, Jane Bunnett, with friends old and new: husband-producer Larry Cramer, on trumpet; the influential and underrated pianist Stanley Cowell; Dewey Redman, the legendary avant-garde saxophonist; the expressive vocalist Dean Bowman, who helped spark Bunnett's wonderful Ritmo + Soul album of 2000; Canadian bassist Kieran Owens, who has worked with Bunnett and Cramer off and on since 1990; and drummer Mark McLean, the newest ...

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Silence, Then Birds

Confront Recordings
2019

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