On vous annonçait un nouvel album de Twin Shadow pour cet été; George Lewis, Jr. a tenu promesse - le premier extrait de son nouvel album s'intitule "Five Seconds" et a été publié en début d'après-midi aujourd'hui. Le morceau est plus uptempo que les morceaux auxquels le groupe nous avait habitué sur Forget , l'ambiance est aussi noire et captivante qu'à l'accoutumée. On retrouve un peu de l'aura de l'album réalisé en collaboration avec Chris Taylor et donc cette ces sonorités très new wave propre à la pop charmeuse des américains. Dieu, [...]
Listen to the first new song to drop from Twin Shadow 's upcoming sophomore album, "Confess" , out in July 9/10 (in the UK/US) on 4AD . Those signed up to Twin Shadow 's mailing list got a pleasant surprise in their inbox a few minutes ago. George Lewis Jr., the main man behind the project, has just announced that his new album, titled "Confess" , will be released in July. This new album will be his first new material from the project after last year's "Changes" [...]
We were deeply saddened to hear about the passing of the great Sam Rivers. That last name is as right as rain - his talents were so varied, multifarious, they were like streams that fed into the greater ocean of jazz. Best known as great saxophonist equally adept at the tenor and soprano, he was also a remarkable flutist and pianist, who quietly put his stamp on both instruments. As anyone who has seen Rivers live can attest, he was an astonishing improviser who could instantly summon pieces that were both dramatic and affecting, wrought in [...]
A still-daring reinterpretation of compositions by two bebop masters.
SOUNDDANCE, PT. 2 Muhal Richard Abrams, with George Lewis SoundDance Pi Records : 2011 MRA, piano; GL, trombone, laptop. FOCUS, THRUTIME... -> TIME, PT. 3 Muhal Richard Abrams, with Fred Anderson SoundDance Pi Records : 2011 MRA, piano; FA, tenor saxophone. We're continuing our exploration of the work of the [...]
HOMAGE TO CHARLES PARKER George Lewis Homage to Charles Parker Black Saint : 1979 GL, trombone, electronics; Douglas Ewart, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, cymbals; Anthony Davis, piano; Richard Teitelbaum, polymoog, multimoog & micromoog synthesizers. We're dedicating the next two weeks to providing an inside view of the music of the remarkable composer, trombonist, electronic musician, and professor George Lewis. As a young [...]
One of the fastest rising stars of 2010, Twin Shadow's debut record Forget, released last year on Rough Trade, received numerous glowing reviews. Therefor we were delighted to be able to chat to George Lewis Jr, a.k.a. Twin Shadow, about European politeness, Coachella, and bad musicians. CitR: You've just started quite an extensive tour. How's it been so far, and have you noticed any differences between American and European crowds? Twin Shadow: Good. It's been great. Europeans tend to be a bit [...]
"On top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese..." At a Polish church basement sale in the EV a few months ago, I bought this Tom Glazer cassette for something like 50 cents. I also bought a lot of Polskie Nagrania vinyl in the hopes that it would be jazz but it all turned out to be light instrumental/vocal music of one kind or another. Of course, the real charm was the coffee and cupcakes being sold and the Polish kids intended to market them. I'd never heard of Tom Glazer before--but, incidentally, I came across [...]
UNKNOWN Muhal Richard Abrams Tin Palace, NYC 1976.07.18 MRA, piano; Anthony Braxton, alto sax; George Lewis, trombone; Fred Hopkins, bass; Steve McCall, drums. ARHYTHM SONGY Muhal Richard Abrams 1-Oqa+19 Black Saint : 1977 MRA, piano; Anthony Braxton, alto sax; Leonard Jones, bass. PANORAMA Muhal Richard Abrams [...]
POLARIZATION>RHYTHM MAGNET>WIND DOLPHIN Julian Priester and Marine Intrustion Polarization ECM : 1977 JP, trombone; Ron Stallings, tenor sax; Ray Obiedo, guitar; Curtis Clark, piano; Heshima Mark Williams, bass; Augusta Lee Collins, drums. In the alternate universe we inhabit when tired or otherwise deranged, there is a trombone hall of fame, presided over by Grachan Moncur III, George Lewis... and Julian Priester. (Albert Mangelsdorff mans the European branch; Roswell Rudd is awaiting his vote.) Priester has an [...]
NA ENU IGWE Joseph Jarman and Famoudou Don Moye Egwu-Anwu (Sun Song) India Navigation : 1978 JJ, tenor and alto sax, sopranino, flutes, bass clarinet, conch, vibraphone; FDM, drums and other percussion, bailophone, conch, whistles, horns, marimba. Rare things: Successful utopias. Hen's teeth. Really good linguine con vongole . Giant pandas. And, apparently, silence . There's something of a micro-genre springing up, with recent books devoted to searching out [...]
George Lewis, the New Orleans clarinetist, recorded this song in 1942, on Burgundy Street (rhymes with bundy). I first heard the song on a record pressed by Tulane University sometime in the late 60s. I think it was called "This is Jazzzzzzzzzz," or something like that. I gave the album to my friend Patrick after he helped me move my heavy record collection. He'd always coveted it, he plays the clarinet, and it was a good trade. The liner notes on the record revealed that George Lewis was recovering from a car accident in which his chest had [...]
Well this is a little bit embarrassing…I've been working on this post so long that it's almost out of date. It was meant to be put up at the end of the school year as a way to kick off the summer, yet here we are in August and the summer is almost over! I even had to remove two "school is over" songs, since it seems kind of cruel to post them now, with the start of school only a few weeks away. The rest of them are related to summertime, so let's all enjoy it while it lasts. [...]
CIRCLES VERVE Sam Rivers Contrasts ECM : 1980 SR, soprano sax, flute; George Lewis, trombone; Dave Holland, bass; Thurman Barker, marimba, drums. Sam Rivers - with crucial assistance from his wife - helped launch and sustain the essential NYC loft scene of the 1970s. Studio RivBea and others provided a critical support system for adventurous acoustic jazz during a lean decade for gigs and [...]
PHENOMENOLOGY LUSH LIFE George Lewis The Solo Trombone Record Sackville : 1976 "My old joke is that saxophonists get all the girls, trumpeters make all the money, and trombonists develop an interior life." -Bob Brookmeyer So. Solo trombone? Even though these tracks are exactly as advertised, the music is
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