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In advance of the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco, Take Five features artists from its lineup — including King Britt with Tyshawn Sorey, Sara Schoenbeck with Roscoe Mitchell, Sylvie Courvoisier with Mary Halvorson, and Darius Jones.
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Every year since 1982, the National Endowment for the Arts selects a new class of NEA Jazz Masters, a formal recognition reserved for seasoned musicians…
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The NEA Jazz Masters fellowship, America's highest honor reserved for jazz musicians, is typically bestowed by the National Endowment for the Arts in…
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Originally set for early April at SFJAZZ, the 2020 NEA Jazz Masters gala and concert was derailed by the coronavirus pandemic. It was remade into an…
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Stretch your horizons this week in Take Five.The Art Ensemble of Chicago, “Oasis at Dusk”For a broad coalition of adventurous listeners, few albums this…
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Famoudou Don Moye was in his early 20s, an expatriate jazz drummer working in Paris, when he got the invitation to join the Art Ensemble of Chicago. With…
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Take Five: Roscoe Mitchell, Luciana Souza, Ben Allison, Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse, Mobetta BrownRoscoe Mitchell, “EP 7849”The composer, multi-instrumentalist and educator Roscoe Mitchell has been a profound force in American experimental music for…