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Harrison Bankhead
Harrison Bankhead is an American jazz double-bassist. Career Bankhead became associated with the Chicago jazz scene in the early-1980s. Early in his career, he performed with Fred Anderson on tour and at Anderson's Chicago club, the Velvet Lounge. Bankhead has worked with Oliver Lake, Roscoe Mitchell, Von Freeman, Malachi Thompson, 8 Bold Souls, and Hamid Drake, and is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. His first album as a leader, '' Morning Sun/Harvest Moon'', was released on Engine, a sub-label of ESP-Disk, in 2011, and featured sidemen Edward Wilkerson, Jr., Mars Williams, James Sanders, Avreeayl Ra, and Ernie Adams. He followed this with '' Velvet Blue'', with Wilkerson, Williams, and Ra, whose name and title track pay tribute to Fred Anderson and the Velvet Lounge.Peter MargasakBassist Harrison Bankhead, back in front ''Chicago Reader'', January 24, 2014. Discography As leader *'' Morning Sun/Harvest Moon'' (Engine Studios, 2011) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Velvet Blue (album)
''Velvet Blue'' is the second album by American jazz double-bassist Harrison Bankhead. It was recorded in March 2013 in Amherst, Massachusetts, and was released later that year by Engine Studios. On the album, Bankhead is joined by saxophonists Mars Williams and Edward Wilkerson, and drummer Avreeayl Ra. The title track is an homage to the Velvet Lounge, the club owned by saxophonist Fred Anderson (musician), Fred Anderson. Reception Writing for ''All About Jazz'', Mark Corroto commented: "Harrison Bankhead's time has come. The... AACM is on a roll with the release of ''Velvet Blue''... this isn't just a blowing session. The bassist's AACM affiliation necessitates the exploration of meditative sounds." In an article for ''Something Else!'', S. Victor Aaron remarked: "Harrison Bankhead's second album confirms that ''Morning Sun Harvest Moon'' was no one-off fluke... [he] makes the case once again he's not only a first-rate bassist but a creator of adventurous jazz who deserves muc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morning Sun/Harvest Moon
''Morning Sun/Harvest Moon'' is the debut album by American jazz double-bassist Harrison Bankhead. It was recorded in April 2010 in Chicago, and was released in 2011 by Engine Studios. On the album, Bankhead is joined by saxophonists Mars Williams and Edward Wilkerson, violinist James Sanders, percussionist Ernie Adams, and drummer Avreeayl Ra. Reception In a review for AllMusic, Alex Henderson wrote: "there is no shortage of AACM influence on ''Morning Sun/Harvest Moon''... But here's the thing that separates this 2010 recording from a lot of AACM-minded efforts: Bankhead and the other members of his cohesive acoustic sextet... occasionally detour into the sort of dense, clobbering, screaming free jazz that the AACM was a departure from... more often than not, this fine album is unapologetically avant-garde. It's great to see Bankhead finally getting a chance to record as a leader." Writing for ''All About Jazz'', Raul d'Gama Rose commented: "Bankhead is a composer with a sensibi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ESP-Disk
ESP-Disk is a New York-based record company and label founded in 1963 by lawyer Bernard Stollman. History Though it originally existed to release Esperanto-based music, beginning with its second release (Albert Ayler's ''Spiritual Unity''), ESP became the most important exponent of what is commonly referred to as free jazz. Early releases included albums by Paul Bley, Pharoah Sanders and Sun Ra. ESP also released recordings by uncommercial underground rock acts including the Fugs, The Godz and Pearls Before Swine. The label's motto is "The artists alone decide what you will hear." Bernard Stollman faced allegations of not paying royalties to the artists that were signed to ESP-Disk. Tom Rapp of the band Pearls Before Swine claimed that: "We never got any money from ESP. Never, not even like a hundred dollars or something. My real sense is that he tollmanwas abducted by aliens, and when he was probed it erased his memory of where all the money was". Peter Stampfel of the band Holy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rising Daystar
''Rising Daystar'' is an album by the American jazz trumpeter Malachi Thompson, released by the Delmark label in 1999.Jazzlists: Delmark Records discography: 500 series accessed October 14, 2019 Reception reviewer Alex Henderson stated: "When Malachi Thompson calls his music 'free bop,' it isn't empty rhetoric; he really does take a free, open-minded approach to bop, and he savors 'the tradition' without being enslaved by it. Recorded at three separate sessions in 1997, 1998, and 1999, ''Rising Daystar'' is primarily a hard bop/post-bop CD ... But while ''Rising Daystar'' is more inside than outside ... the Chicagoan isn't limited to that app ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freebop Now!
''Freebop Now!'' (subtitled ') is an album by the American jazz trumpeter Malachi Thompson recorded and released by the Delmark label in 1998.Jazzlists: Delmark Records discography: 500 series accessed October 28, 2019 Reception reviewer Don Snowden stated "''Freebop Now!'' is designed both as a manifesto for Malachi Thompson's aesthetic principles and a 20th anniversary celebration of his Freebop Band concept. But it's a rather disjointed disc jamming together two sextet sessions with different goals ... while that doesn't derail ''Freebop Now!'', it's not the strongest disc in Thompson's consistently interesting catalog".[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47th Street (album)
''47th Street'' is an album by the American jazz trumpeter Malachi Thompson, released by the Delmark label in 1998.Jazzlists: Delmark Records discography: 400/500 series accessed October 14, 2019 The album formed part of Thompson's efforts to revitalize the one of the last remaining links to the 47th Street Jazz Scene in Chicago. Reception reviewer Tim Sheridan stated that "Thompson's terrific ode to a unique time and place in African-American history is filled with exciting musical ideas whil ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddy Bolden's Rag
''Buddy Bolden's Rag'' (subtitled '' 00 Years of Jazz') is an album by the American jazz trumpeter Malachi Thompson, recorded and released by the Delmark label in 1995.Jazzlists: Delmark Records discography: 400/500 series accessed October 14, 2019 accessed October 14, 2019 Reception reviewer Alex Henderson stated: "On ''Buddy Bolden's Rag'', Thompson and his band Africa Brass salute Bolden in an unconventional way; instead of playin ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lift Every Voice (Malachi Thompson Album)
''Lift Every Voice'' is an album by the American jazz trumpeter Malachi Thompson recorded and released by the Delmark label in 1983.Jazzlists: Delmark Records discography: 400/500 series accessed October 14, 2019 accessed October 14, 2019 Reception reviewer Ron Wynn stated "Malachi Thompson merges hard bop, free, African rhythms, and gospel stylings on this release. ... Thompson deserves high praise not just for trying something different, but succeeding".Track listing All ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jaz Life
''The Jaz Life'' is an album by the American jazz trumpeter Malachi Thompson, recorded in 1991 and released by the Delmark label the following year.Jazzlists: Delmark Records discography: 400/500 series accessed October 14, 2019 "Mystic Trumpet Man" is a tribute to . Reception The '''' called the album "spirited and bluesy," writing that Thompson "is a real talent." |
Chicago Reader
The ''Chicago Reader'', or ''Reader'' (stylized as ЯEADER), is an American alternative weekly newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater. It was founded by a group of friends from Carleton College. The ''Reader'' is recognized as a pioneer among alternative weeklies for both its creative nonfiction and its commercial scheme. Richard Karpel, then-executive director of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, wrote: e most significant historical event in the creation of the modern alt-weekly occurred in Chicago in 1971, when the ''Chicago Reader'' pioneered the practice of free circulation, a cornerstone of today's alternative papers. The ''Reader'' also developed a new kind of journalism, ignoring the news and focusing on everyday life and ordinary people. After being owned by same four founders since 1971, by the early 2000s profits and readership of the ''Reader'' were dropping, and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernie Adams (musician)
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Ernie Adams may refer to: *Ernie Adams (actor) (1885–1947), American film actor *Ernie Adams (American football) (born 1953), American football coach and administrator * Ernie Adams (footballer, born 1922) (1922–2009), English association footballer * Ernie Adams (footballer, born 1948), English association footballer * Ernie Adams (Australian footballer) (1878–1946), Australian rules footballer See also *Ernest Adams (other) Ernest Adams may refer to: * Ernest Adams (baker) (1892–1976), New Zealand baker, businessman and philanthropist **Ernest Adams, a New Zealand bakery and a brand of Goodman Fielder *Ernest Wilcox Adams, philosopher, brother of William Y. Adams ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
