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Instrument: Saxophone, alto
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Immanuel Wilkins
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Immanuel Wilkins is a saxophonist, composer, educator, and bandleader from the greater Philadelphia area. While growing up, Wilkins honed his skills in the church and studied in programs dedicated to teaching jazz music like the Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts. After moving to New York in 2015, he proceeded to earn his bachelor’s degree in Music at Juilliard (studying with the saxophonists Bruce Williams and the late, great Joe Temperley) while simultaneously establishing himself as an indemand sideperson, touring in Japan, Europe, South America, The United Arab Emirates, and the United States and working and/or recording with artists like Jason Moran, the Count Basie Orchestra, Delfeayo Marsalis, Joel Ross, Aaron Parks, Gerald Clayton, Gretchen Parlato, Lalah Hathaway, Solange Knowles, Bob Dylan, and Wynton Marsalis to name just a few
Blues Blood
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Matte Glaze; Funmi; Motion; Everything; Air (Interlude); Dark Eyes Smile; Apparition; Assembly
(Interlude); Afterlife Residence Time; Mosphit; Set! (Interlude); If That Blood Runs East; Your
Memory
(Interlude); Blues Blood.
Motion I
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ofafrii; Synchrony; Radical; Aspiring to Normalcy; Second Day; Gabaldon’s Glide; Bird’s Luck.
Mountains
By Micah Thomas
Label: Artwork Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Life; Processing; lament; libre; no answer; Hide; The Mountain; nomad; collapse; Encounter; through; coda.
Beyond This Place
By Kenny Barron
Label: Artwork Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Nearness of You; Scratch; Innocent; Blues On Stratford Road; Tragic Magic; Beyond This
Place; Softly As In A Morning Sunrise; Sunset; We See.
Marilyn Crispell/Harvey Sorgen, The Young Mothers & B.B. King
by Maurice Hogue
If you haven't heard the piano trio, Dreamstruck (Marilyn Crispell, Joe Fonda & Harvey Sorgen), put them on your must-listen list. Highly original and free wheeling playing make their two releases much appreciated. Crispell and Sorgen decided to continue making magic as a duo on the new Forest, now available, and it's one of the feature ...
John Chacona's Favorite Jazz Albums of 2024
by John Chacona
First the bad news: There are too many recordings being released these days. In the past 12 months, I have received or purchased 769. That's insane. Now the good news: There are a great many very good recordings being released these days. The following 10 are a snapshot, on one day, of my favorites ...
Out Of/Into: Motion I
by Mike Jurkovic
Most supergroups happen and barely dent the dust. Despite those odds, one or two happen for a reason. That reason is Motion I by Out Of/Into. Formerly known as The Blue Note Quintet--pianist Gerald Clayton, alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, vibraphonist Joel Ross, drummer Kendrick Scott, and bassist Matt Brewer--hijack the lead track Ofafrii" with a brazen romp of ...
Stylings of Silver, Nods to Nica, Quartet of Trios
by David Brown
This week, our featured artist is pianist/composer Horace Silver. We'll check out a number of his compositions as performed by Ran Blake, Shirley Scott , Tommy Flanagan, Gigi Gryce and Silver himself. From there we will check out works written in homage to the Baroness Panonnica de Koenigswarter--known as Nica--a patron, supporter and friend to many ...
Ganavya, Alice Coltrane, CTI Summer Jazz
by David Brown
This week, we jump to the summer of 1972 for selections from a live show at the Hollywood Bowl in California captured on a trio of LPs titled CTI Summer Jazz. The set features some of the greatest jazz funk players of the early 70s all on one stage. Then, our shows featured artist will be ...