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Winter · Thomas Fonnesbæk · Aaron Parks · Karsten Bagge

Groovements

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Aaron Parks – Find The Way. 2017 ~ ECM 2489.

[nonesuchrecords]

It was 10 years ago today: James Farm—Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland—released its self-titled debut album on Nonesuch Records. "A model of dazzling proficiency," said the New York Times. You can hear it again here.

That same day, Emmylou Harris's album Hard Bargain was released on Nonesuch. "This exquisite collection from the woman who has been the conscience of progressive country music for more than three decades ranks with the best work she's done." You can hear it again here.

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[mosaicrecords]

Terri Lyne Carrington: Running on Determination

Tumultuous times like these can be daunting to anyone, no less to musicians in particular. Yet, as Philip Lutz delineates in DownBeat, we can depend Terri Lyne Carrington to rise to the occasion -- or as it turns out, occasions -- as the exceptional musician, leader, educator and activist she has so clearly become.

-Nick Moy

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Aaron Parks - "Nemesis"

[gottahavesoul]

Kendrick Scott Oracle - >>>>>>>>>>>Mocean (A Wall Becomes A Bridge, 2019)

“Walls are easier to build than bridges. We are often quicker to stack bricks built of fear than we are to weave a cable of empathy and reach across a divide. Where I see walls, then, I see an admission of our fundamental fragility - of vulnerability. So the question that I began to ask myself was how I personally, and we collectively, can use those vulnerabilities not as points of separation, but as points of convergence?

I realized that my life’s purpose is to become an instrument of peace; to bridge divides through my music. Yet, in pursuing this I found my path stagnated by my internal walls of fear and insecurity. As I worked to explore and understand these fears in myself, I came to see my personal journey as parallel with our collective social consciousness.

This project is, therefore, a response to a personal struggle that is also a collective one: how we are more connected than ever, but also more separated; and the opportunities that lie before us within that awareness.

This music was created to explore this narrative, revealing itself from the end (>>>>>>>>>>>) of the story to the beginning (>). Traversing 12 stages including Perspective, Breakthrough, Doubt, Acceptance, Denial, and Innocence, in the end, we arrive at the seat of the allegory: transformation and optimism.  Ultimately, our walls don't exist in contrast to bridges; they are our provocations and precursors to our breakthrough.”

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Dhafer Youssef Live @ Olympia (14/04/2017)

Diwan of Beauty and Odd

A truely amazing music set played by a wonderful crew of musicians (with Ambrose Akinmusire as a guest)!