The British musician is an artist in residence at Winter Jazzfest in New York this week, playing an instrument group that he first picked up in 2019. By Hugh Morris Reporting from London As Shabaka ...
AMIDST THE RAPIDLY evolving jazz music scene of Germany, saxophonist Volker Schlott's melodies have progressed from personal and authentic characterisations to a much varied and meditative ...
Veteran sax and flute player Lew Tabackin, a product of South Philadelphia, is one of the “Jazz Jews” discussed in Mike Gerber’s new book of that name. Tabackin performs in a quartet with his wife, ...
When the reverb is out of this world... Being a curiously inclined species, musicians have long been fascinated with the possibilities of playing their instruments inside cooling towers. (Just listen ...
14 year-old flutist Nikka vs. 18 year-old saxophonist Gisela Nikka Gershman, a 14 year-old flutist from the United States, performs "Orfeo ed Euridice" by Christoph Willibald Gluck. Then, Gisela ...
‘Life changing’ … Shabaka Hutchings says learning the flute has made him a better sax player. Photograph: Atiba Jefferson/atibaphoto Shabaka Hutchings is at the height of his powers as a saxophonist – ...
Ah, Barbados. Palm trees, turquoise lagoons, flying fish, Rihanna. “Yeah, all that,” says Shabaka Hutchings. The sun is sinking on another perfect day on the tiny, easternmost Caribbean Island. But ...
Eyes squeezed shut, biceps straining, his rangy frame doubled over his “big metal horn”, he’d improvise feverish passages of energy, working with musicians on synths and drums, he has said, to affect ...
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