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Younger jazz musicians populate Exit Zero Jazz Festival

With bebop-rooted living legends such as drummer Roy Haynes, saxophonist Sonny Rollins and pianist Herbie Hancock in their 80s and 90s, the spring edition of the Exit Zero Jazz Festival has a focus on artists age 50 and younger and those whose careers started in the 1990s or more recently. ....

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Upper Darby alum's jazz album rated tops by N.Y. Times


Upper Darby School District alum, Immanuel Wilkins’ Omega has captured the #1 ranking for the Best Jazz Albums of 2020 by the New York Times. This debut record on the prestigious Blue Note Record label has been described by the New York Times as “… ten compositions that move with such grace, there’s no time to feel overwhelmed by the surfeit of ideas packed into each one.”
Wilkins, 23, said that he wanted to craft something that spoke directly to the Black experience in America. With his own quartet of piano, bass, and drums, the alto saxophonist tries to capture the many emotions over the senseless loss of black lives in this country in compositions “Ferguson – An American Tradition” and “Mary Turner – An American Tradition.” A soothing song, “The Dreamer,” honors the life of Black author, teacher, and activist James Weldon Johnson. “Warriors” is an upbeat tune that Wilkins describes as being about fr ....

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