TINEKE
POSTMA / GREG OSBY – SONIC HALO
This
album is promising an absolutely fresh and intriguing music. Osby's modern
energetic and acoustic conceptual sounds will meet the melodic European
influences of Tineke. A recording with two soprano saxophones has hardly ever
been done before; it’s pretty uncommon. The intriguing mix of male and female
ingredients from Greg and Tineke will show that times have changed and jazz is
not a music style dominated by males anymore. Greg Osby was Tineke’s mentor
once, now Greg admits they are peers and he has a lot to learn from her. It is
a multicultural project uniting the greatest young musicians from the NYC
scene, the Netherlands and Australia. Also features, Matt Mitchell on piano, Rhodes,
Dan Weiss on drums, and Linda Oh on bass, the CD will be released October 14 on
Challenge Records. This is the first album of Tineke in the last 3 years and
for the first time she has been recording as a co-leader with Greg. This album
will show her new musical developments influenced by her long stays in NYC and
performances with top artists of the US jazz scene.
GEORGE SPANOS - BEYOND DREAMS
George
Spanos, from Athens, Greece, is a drummer/composer based in New York City. Spanos’
recent highlights include performances with John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Juini Booth,
Lawrence Clark, Marc Ribot, On ka’a Davis, Sylvie Courvoisier, Erik
Friendlander, Steve Swell, The Downtown Avengers and many other incredible
artists. He has appeared in concerts and jazz festivals in Europe, United
States and Canada. His debut recording, Jungle of Illusions 2011 received great
critical acclaims among the critics in Europe and the United States alike. Spanos is a newcomer in the New York City
progressive jazz scene, and on this release he’s brought together an impressive
cast of musicians including bassist Juini Booth (Sun Ra, McCoy Tyner, Elvin
Jones, Tony Williams and Art Blakey), guitarist On ka'a Davis (Sun Ra),
saxophonist Lawrence Clark (Rashied Ali) and Ikue Mori (John Zorn), as well as
vocalist and Evolver Records founder Lola Danza, clarinetist Vasko Dukovski,
tubist Ben Stapp, violinist Fung Chern Hwei, cellist Adam Fisher, percussionist
Sayun Chang, trumpeter Keaton Akins, and pianist Simone Weißenfels. ~ evolverrecords.com
THE DOWNTOWN AVENGERS
The
Downtown Avengers gathers an international cast of musicians from colorfully
varied backgrounds. Fung himself is a Malaysian born and raised in Kuala
Lumpur, who grew up with a variety of musical cultures including his ethnic
Chinese music, Malay traditional music,Bollywood film music and much more;
Vasko Dukovski, Macedonian clarinet mad man, is deeply rooted in both European
classical music and Balkan folk music; percussionist Sayun Chang, a native
Taiwanese whose halfSeediq (an aboriginal tribe in Taiwan, also pronounced
“Seejiq” in her Truku dialect) origin allowed her a beautiful blend of native
Taiwanese and Classical concert percussion sounds; George Spanos, freshly
landed in the States last year from Greece, is an Athenian who integrates his
jazz training with his Classical background, Greek folk music, and his love of
avantgarde jazz; Ben Stapp, Californian tubist and the winner of the 2nd
Annual Bob Stewart Tuba Competition who tirelessly explores new territories and
possibilities for his instrument; last but not least, Lola Danza, the founder
of Evolver Records and a fearless adventurer in vocal art, who, although an
American, has a Korean background that shines through her music in every way.
These musicians, individually worked with the likes of John Zorn, Ornette
Coleman, Uri Caine, John Corigliano, Gunter Schuller and George Lewis, are each
equipped with very special skill sets, much like characters from the superhero
comics and are a breath of fresh air to this musical genre that’s often
perceived as “difficult to understand” or “too cerebral”. ~
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