Tag: Kresten Osgood

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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...

Describing the worst time of his life, the saxophonist and music historian Allen Lowe circled the dark and brayed against the ravenous morning sun, unable to sleep or breathe then suffering from the lingering effects of peripheral neuropathy as he recovered from surgery to remove a cancerous tumour in his sinus. Somehow in the midst of all that he...

The Chicago native and veteran bandleader Kahil El'Zabar guides his Ethnic Heritage Ensemble and special guests on a rhythmic tour de force in celebration of the legendary jazz trumpeter Don Cherry. Locating the middle ground between his British roots and the Occitan part of his family in the southern French department of Aveyron, the percussionist and sound artist Sébastien...