Yazz Ahmed –
La Saboteuse (Naim): “Bahraini-British performer, Yazz Ahmed, is transforming what jazz means in 2017. This trumpet and flugelhorn-playing artist has worked with Radiohead and These New Puritans, experiments with electronic effects, and combines sounds from her shared heritage to author a new narrative for the genre. Part of the new wave of artists credited with stirring up the sound, including Kamasi Washington, Yussef Kamaal, Sons of Kemet and The Comet is Coming, Yazz Ahmed is thrilled by the possibilities of making something new. “I feel like I’m a part of modernising jazz and connecting it with audiences today,” Yazz says. “It’s exciting.” (https://yazzahmed.bandcamp.com/album/la-saboteuse-2) The full release is now available and the mixes and performances are quite wonderful throughout. Click here to listen to several songs from this exceptional blend.
Pianist Satoko Fujii creates abstract expressionism in musical form
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Satoko Fujii, a Pianist Who Finds Music Hidden in the Details of Life
In ensembles big and small, the prolific musician uses sound to make the world’s complexities a little more graspable.
Since the 1990s, Satoko Fujii has released close to 100 albums, mostly through her own Libra Records label.Credit.Kosuke Okahara for The New York Times
March 17, 2021
Whether she’s playing solo piano or leading one of her various large ensembles, the pianist and composer Satoko Fujii will tug you toward the details.
The leader of a dizzying array of ensembles both large and small, Fujii is arguably the most prolific pianist in jazz if also among the most underrecognized. Since the 1990s, she has released close to 100 albums, mostly through her own Libra Records label. Two years ago, celebrating her 60th birthday, a milestone known as “kanreki” in Japanese culture, she put out a new album each month, including both solo piano and big-band works.
Foo Fighters
Dave Grohl is a) one of the nicest rock stars that ever lived and b) the former drummer in Nirvana. These two facts seem to make it difficult for people to be critical of Foo Fighters. His bandâs 10th album, which Grohl has said was designed to be âan up, fun recordâ, loads many of popâs broadest tropes into a paint-gun, then splatters them over the groupâs arena-filling rock.
Foo Fightersâ hotly-anticipated 10th album doesnât quite hit the mark for reviewer Barry Divola.
Pre-release, Grohl telegraphed the fact that there were some Bowie influences, and itâs pretty obvious which tracks he was referring to â the
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