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Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few - The World Is On Fire
Label: Division 81 Records, 2024
Personnel - Isaiah Collier: saxophones, vocals, percussion; Julian Davis Reid: piano; Jeremiah Hunt: bass; Michael Ode: drums // Guests include Kentheny Redman: flute (#3,10), Corey Wilkes: trumpet; Ed Wilkerson Jr.: alto clarinet, and more.
Saxophonist and composer Isaiah Collier’s latest outing, The World is On Fire, is a passionate plea for change, using the power of his infectious music to address pressing global issues like racism, genocide, abuse of power, and injustice. Relying on the dazzling rhythm section of his flagship band, The Chosen Few, Collier continues his meteoric rise on the left side of the jazz spectrum with an album that urges everyone to stand up for what’s right.
The opening cut, “The Time is Now”, is an effusive modal piece energetically introduced by pianist Julian Davis Reid before bursting into a frenzied swing. Collier’s commanding tenor saxophone, evocative of jazz modalists like Billy Harper and McCoy Tyner, takes center stage with eloquence. Following Reid’s solo, it’s the drummer Michael Ode who hits with the force of a tornado. In “The Hate You Give is the Love You Lose”, the trio channels Pharoah Sanders’ spiritual energy, b
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Wail: The Life of Bud Powell by Peter Pullman
Peter Pullman
483 Pages
ISBN-13: # 978-0985141813 (print)
ASIN: B0079NR9IC (ebook)
Peter Pullman, LLC
2012
The best biographies are well researched and annotated without being pedantic, informative without browbeating the reader and objective without indifference, or worse, malice. There exists excellent examples to illustrate the difference between "good" and "bad" biographies, written on the same subject: Elvis Presley. Peter Guralnick produced a two-volume set on Presley, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley(Little Brown, 1995) and Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley(Little Brown, 1999). These books are the gold standard for Presley biographies, carefully researched and meticulously annotated and universally praised as a landmark in music reportage with Gerald Marzorati of the New York Timessaying,
"[It] is not simply the finest rock-and-roll biography ever written. It must be ranked among the most ambitious and crucial biographical undertakings yet devoted to a major American figure of the second half of the 20th century....
... Ambitious? Ambitious like Robert Caro's exhaustively researched biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson, the first two volumes of which
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