Summary: Fast-rising musician Kassa Overall masterfully dissolves the barriers between hip-hop and jazz music. Taking cues from Karriem Riggins, Madlib, and Flying Lotus, the album matches jazz improvisation with beatmaker ingenuity, and features a cadre of New York's brightest up and comers, including Joel Ross and Morgan Guerin, as well as some of its big hitters, such as Brandee Younger and Theo...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ OVEContents: Disc one. Trapped in the American dream / (featuring Kassa Overall) (7:05) ; Bells (Ring loudly) / (featuring Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Debo Ray) (6:27) ; Pray the gay away / (featuring Raydar Ellis, Nicholas Parton) (7:30) ; Purple mountains / (featuring Kokayi) (4:53) ; Waiting game (Acapella) / (featuring Mark Kibble) (4:06) ; The anthem / (featuring Rapsody) (7:09) ; Love / (featuring Debo Ray)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ CARIyer, Vijay
Summary: Holding it down: the veterans' dreams project is the result of three-year collaboration between Vijay Iyer and poet/librettist Mike Ladd, with veterans of color from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is also the culmination of a trilogy of works spanning more than a decade of American life. For Holding It Down, Iyer and Ladd explore the experiences of veterans of these wars, in particular...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ IYEContents: The uncrowned king (Marion Hayden) (6:59) -- You (Kenny Cox) (5:27) -- Many blessings (James Carter) (9:07) -- Mode for Joe (Joe Henderson) (8:02) -- Lottie The Body's mood (Marcus Belgrave) (8:52) -- Reza (Elvin Jones) (7:12) -- Ghost dancers (A. Spencer Barefield) (8:15) -- French spice (Donald Byrd) (8:00) -- Sheila's blues (Sheila Jordan) (7:26).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015