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Pi Recordings
Pi Recordings is a jazz record label founded by Seth Rosner in 2001. He was soon joined as partner by Yulun Wang. Pi specializes in avant-garde jazz. Its first two albums were by Henry Threadgill. Pi's roster includes Amir ElSaffar, Anthony Braxton, Corey Wilkes, James Blood Ulmer, Leroy Jenkins, Liberty Ellman, Marc Ribot, Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Steve Lehman, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Steve Coleman, Vijay Iyer, and Wadada Leo Smith. In its first twenty years, Pi released fewer than a hundred recordings. In 2021, ''DownBeat'' wrote that "Pi releases rigorous, pathbreaking music that stretches the boundaries of jazz while honoring its history." Discography Main series # ''Everybodys Mouth's a Book'' (2001) – Henry Threadgill # '' Up Popped the Two Lips'' (2001) – Henry Threadgill # '' Song for My Sister'' (2002) – Roscoe Mitchell & The Note Factory # '' The Year of the Elephant'' (2002) – Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet # '' You ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group Corp. ( d.b.a. Warner Music Group, commonly abbreviated as WMG) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It is one of the " big three" recording companies and the third-largest in the global music industry, after Universal Music Group (UMG) and Sony Music Entertainment (SME). Formerly part of Time Warner (now Warner Bros. Discovery), WMG was publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange from 2005 until 2011, when it announced its privatization and sale to Access Industries. It later had its second IPO on Nasdaq in 2020, once again becoming a public company. With a multibillion-dollar annual turnover, WMG employs more than 3,500 people and has operations in more than 50 countries throughout the world. The company owns and operates some of the largest and most successful labels in the world, including Elektra Records, Reprise Records, Warner Records, Parlophone Records (formerly owned by EMI), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vijay Iyer
Vijay Iyer (born October 26, 1971) is an American composer, pianist, bandleader, producer and writer based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' has called him a "social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway". Iyer received a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a United States Artists Fellowship, a Grammy nomination, and the Alpert Award in the Arts. He was voted Jazz Artist of the Year in the ''DownBeat'' magazine international critics' polls in 2012, 2015, 2016, and 2018. In 2014, he received a lifetime appointment as the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts at Harvard University, where he was jointly appointed in the Department of Music and the Department of African and African American Studies. Early life and education Born in Albany and raised in Fairport, New York (a suburb of Rochester), He is the son of Indian immigrants to the United States. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tactiles
''Tactiles'' is an album by jazz guitarist Liberty Ellman, which was recorded in 2003 and released on Pi Recordings. He leads a quartet with Mark Shim on tenor sax, Stephan Crump on bass and Eric Harland on drums. The album also features alto saxophonist Greg Osby on three tracks.''Tactiles'' on Pi Recordings Reception The review by Mark F. Turner states "Liberty Ellman's latest offering, ''Tactiles'', obliterates the 'normal' jazz guitar mindset with its eclectic and progressive tendencies. Having hung out on stage and in the studio with the likes of pianist Vijay Iyer and multi-instrumentalist Henry Threadgill, Ellman brings a natural, forward thinking progression in the creation of mus ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Meeting (Art Ensemble Of Chicago Album)
''The Meeting'' is a reunion studio album released by the jazz group the Art Ensemble of Chicago (AEOC). It was recorded during the spring of 2003 in Madison, Wisconsin and released on August 19, 2003, on the international label Pi Recordings. Background The album was released the same year as their 2001 recording '' Tribute to Lester'', but they were released on different labels. The album reunites Joseph Jarman with the rest of the AEOC after he "retired" in early 1990s after 23 years with the group in order to pursue a spiritual life, including running a Buddhist dojo in Brooklyn, New York. Reviews were mixed for the album, perhaps because, as National Public Radio reviewer Kevin Whitehead commented, "the ensemble is more of a business than a musical enterprise at this point." Reception The album was met with mixed reviews. Allmusic's Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars, saying that ultimately, the album "is a glorious reunion album, one that delights as it provokes." Oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organic Resonance
''Organic Resonance'' is a live album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and reedist Anthony Braxton, which was recorded live at New York's Tonic club in 2003 and released on Pi Recordings. It was their first full duo recording.''Organic Resonance'' at Reception '''' states "Widely admired on first release, these are curiously disappointing sets that never seem to find the two players on common ground." In a double review for '' |
Aaron Stewart (musician)
Aaron Stewart (5 October 1845 – 30 November 1910) was a British trade unionist. Life Born in Coleorton in Leicestershire, Stewart's father died when he was two years old, and he began working underground in a coal mine, illegally, at the age of eight. From the age of eighteen, he worked at various pits around England, before settling at Annesley Colliery in 1870. The mine had a local trade union, a remnant of the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Miners' Association, and Stewart became active in it.Joyce Bellamy and John Saville, ''Dictionary of Labour Biography'', Vol.I, pp.312-313 In 1880, Stewart was elected checkweighman at Annesley, and he was a leading figure in the establishment of a new Nottinghamshire Miners' Association (NMA). He was elected as its secretary in 1884, serving part-time, but was unable to make progress in recruiting members, and stood aside in 1886. Instead, in 1888, he was elected as the union's president, in which role, he campaigned for an e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliot Humberto Kavee
Elliot (also spelled Eliot, Elliotte, Elliott, Eliott and Elyot) is a personal name which can serve as either a surname or a given name. Although the given name has historically been given to males, females have increasingly been given the name as well in the United States. Surname origin Differences in spelling can be distinguished in this rhyme: The double L and single T / Descent from Minto and Wolflee, / The double T and single L / Mark the old race in Stobs that dwell. / The single L and single T / The Eliots of St Germans be, / But double T and double L, / Who they are nobody can tell. Scotland The origin of the Scottish surname is obscure, due to much of the genealogy of the Eliott clan being burnt in the destruction of the castle at Stobs in 1712. The clan society usually accepts that the name originated from the town and river Elliot in Angus, Scotland. Other sources claim that the Scottish surnames (Eliott, Elliot) originate from the Ellot Scottish border-clan, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Your Life Flashes
''Your Life Flashes'' is the debut album by Fieldwork, a collective trio consisting of Aaron Stewart on tenor saxophone, Vijay Iyer on piano, and Elliot Humberto Kavee on drums, which was recorded in 2002 and released on Pi Recordings.''Your Life Flashes'' on Pi Recordings Reception In his review for , David R. Adler states, "Like much of what Iyer creates under his own name, this music has the distinction of being toe-tappingly accessible and yet, on a technical level, nearly incomprehensible. It is a highly specialized language, to be sure, but also an endlessly refreshing one." The '' |
The Year Of The Elephant
''The Year of the Elephant'' is the twenty-fifth studio album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith which was recorded in 2002 and released on Pi Recordings. It was the second recording by his Golden Quartet featuring pianist Anthony Davis, bassist Malachi Favors and drummer Jack DeJohnette.''The Year of the Elephant'' at Reception In his review for , David R. Adler states "Both Davis and DeJohnette are credited on synthesizer, but the sounds they employ are remarkably close to the old-fashioned, analog Wurlitzer. Combined with Favors' resonant, groovin ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song For My Sister
''Song for My Sister'' is an album by American jazz saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell which was recorded in 2002 and released on Pi Recordings. It was the third studio recording by the Note Factory, a nonet with twin rhythm sections.''Song for My Sister'' at Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn will later record duo album '' The Transitory Poems'' in 2019. Reception In his review for , Don Snowden states "''Song for My Sister'' is a strong album that takes in a wide varie ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Up Popped The Two Lips
''Up Popped the Two Lips'' is an album by Henry Threadgill featuring seven of Threadgill's compositions performed by Threadgill's Zooid. The album was the second album on the Pi Records label and was released simultaneously with ''Everybodys Mouth's a Book'' by Threadgill & Make a Move in 2001. Reception Both of Threadgill's initial Pi Recordings releases attracted critical approval. The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars, stating, "This is a fun, deft, and smart record. Threadgill is more on his game as a composer and as a bandleader than at any point in his career."Jurek, T. Allmusic Reviewaccessed February 12, 2010. The All About Jazz review by Glenn Astarita stated, "it is a joy to delve into the band's multidirectional evolutionary processes." ''The Boston Phoenixs Ed Hazell stated, "Threadgill has mixed these elements before, but not all in one working band, and he’s rarely given himself as much solo room in music so heavily composed."Hazell, EChanging ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Threadgill
Henry Threadgill (born February 15, 1944) is an American composer, saxophonist and flautist. He came to prominence in the 1970s leading ensembles rooted in jazz but with unusual instrumentation and often incorporating other genres of music. He has performed and recorded with several ensembles: Air, Aggregation Orb, Make a Move, the seven-piece Henry Threadgill Sextett, the twenty-piece Society Situation Dance Band, Very Very Circus, X-75, and Zooid. He was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his album ''In for a Penny, In for a Pound'', which premiered at Roulette Intermedium on December 4, 2014 Career Threadgill performed as a percussionist in his high-school marching band before taking up baritone saxophone, alto saxophone, and flute. He studied at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, majoring in piano, flute, and composition. He studied piano with Gail Quillman and composition with Stella Roberts. He was an original member of the Experimental Band,a precu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
