Tag: Chris Tordini

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Allen Lowe's short bio says that the veteran saxophonist and guitarist 'spans the history of jazz in his music in a way that few have'. While sharing bebop idioms and offering an especially gritty take on the avant-garde, some of his earliest records incorporated not only roots music in the form of nascent jazz and blues but tango theatrics...

For the follow-up to her Grammy-nominated debut album Fanm d'Ayiti, a celebration of the unheralded female singers of Haiti which was recited and performed in collaboration with Spektral Quartet, the Haitian American vocalist and flautist Nathalie Joachim sought to fete those ties that bind, from romantic trysts and familial bonds to the semantic shifts and twisted etymologies of Haitian...

The creative life of the composer Cergio Prudencio - a Guggenheim fellow and Platino Award winner for his score for the Bolivian drama Utama, an intergenerational meditation on life in the Altiplano amid drought and the fraying of old ways, and a vice minister for interculturality within the Bolivian ministry of cultures, decolonization and depatriachalization - remains inextricably linked...