Tag: Cécile McLorin Salvant
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Tracks of the Week 25.03.23

Tracks of the Week
Partially inspired by dialogue from Edward O. Bland's seminal 1959 documentary The Cry of Jazz, which intersperses performances by Sun Ra and a series of conversations on the nature of jazz by a group of intellectuals in a club with scenes of life from black neighbourhoods in Chicago, this week the composer and clarinetist Angel Bat Dawid orchestrates a...

Tracks of the Week 04.03.23

Tracks of the Week
A deep dive into the history of Greenwich Village spurred the author and lyricist David Hajdu to begin a song cycle in ode to a single building, an otherwise nondescript four-story brick townhouse at 64th East 7th Street in bustling New York. Built in 1889 as the parsonage for St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church, home to the Reverend George...

Tracks of the Week 28.01.23

Tracks of the Week
Inspired by her mentor Ran Blake upon her arrival from Mumbai at the end of the seventies, the vocalist Christine Correa with Sam Newsome on soprano saxophone, Andrew Boudreau on piano, Kim Cass on bass, and Michael Sarin on drums takes up the clarion calls and defiant tones of Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, and Oscar Brown Jr. who at...