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Tag Archives: AACM
Warriors International + AACM – Celebrating 50 years of GREAT BLACK MUSIC & Chicago’s Avante Garde
This Saturday, November 14th, as part of the London Jazz Festival, Warriors International celebrate 50 years of the the AACM with their ‘London – Chicago Vibration’ featuring Orphy Robinson’s SPonTANeoUS CoSMic RawXtra ensemble. Having been a devotee of the music … Continue reading
LIVE THE SPIRIT BIG BAND LIVE @ The Tabernacle – 26.10.013
LIVE THE SPIRIT BIG BAND premiered A Dream Deferred or A Dream Or A Dream Come True + ‘1919’ at The Tabernacle in Ladbroke Grove. Fresh from concerts in Brest and Paris, Chicago’s Live The Spirit Big Band touched down … Continue reading
A Deferred Dream or a Dream Come True? arrives in London
A Deferred Dream or a Dream Come True? arrives in London this Saturday, 26th October, with Chicago’s Live The Spirit Ensemble. A Deferred Dream or a Dream Come True? is a 45 minute suite composed by Ernest Khabeer Dawkins – … Continue reading
Posted in Is That Jazz?, Words, Sound & Power
Tagged A Deferred Dream or a Dream Come True?, AACM, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Chicago, Corey Wilkes, Delmark, Delmark Records, Dr Matin Luther King, Ernest Khabeer Dawkins, I Have A Dream, Jazz Alive, Kahari B, Live The Spirit Ensemble, March On washington, THE TABERNACLE
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FREEDOM! “In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.” (Steve Lacy)
It’s a freezing cold Sunday night and as I waited at the bus stop, weighed down by a bag of vinyl, I had to wonder who would brave the weather and venture to Hoxton for the launch of our FREEDOM … Continue reading
Danilo Parra tells ‘The Unknown Story of Kalaparusha’
I spotted Danilo Parra’s film a while back on the Guardian website and was blown away. It was in the shadow of Steve Reid passing away and I was moved by the plight of a generation of great musicians in … Continue reading
Posted in Is That Jazz?
Tagged AACM, Avante Garde, Coltrane, Delmark, Jazz, Kalaparusha, Maurice McIntyreGanilo Parra, New Thing, New York City, spiritual jazz, tenor sax
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