Melissa Aldana -][- FREE FALL [Inner Circle Music]

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Jazz, Melissa Aldana, Saxophone

Melissa Aldana - FREE FALL

Melissa Aldana -][- FREE FALL – [Inner Circle Music, 2010]

Melissa Aldana lives through her tenor saxophone. It has become part of herself as a vital organ. With FREE FALL she has created an allegory of 9 chapters documenting her personal journey from her birth place Chile to Brooklyn, New York where she lives today.

“Free Fall” is a pure mix of jazz improvisation rooted deep in the tradition and compositions that are taking the music in a more modern direction. This amazing quartet is controlled by young and experienced hands alike. You can feel the air of New York clubs exhaled with a new spirit and virtue. Aldana captures Coleman, Rollins, Parker and Garzone reinvented and regenerated. It is an unpredictable journey through the emotions and intricate harmonies that are transformed into evocative melodies in the delicate hands of Melissa.

“Free Fall” is pure jazz, pure emotion. It is the wisdom of the classics mixed with the young innocence of this fresh new voice. It is the music of the street and of her journey over time in essence.

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Kendrick Scott & World Culture Music NEWS

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African American, Drums, Jazz, Kendrick Scott

World Culture Music

World Culture Music Founder, Drummer/Composer KENDRICK SCOTT Appearing, and Preparing for New Recording:

Kendrick Scott “Oracle” – December 27 & 28, 2010
@ Ovations (Houston, Texas)

Kendrick Scott w/Terence Blanchard – January 4-9
@ The Jazz Standard, NYC, 7:30 & 9:30 PM, plus an 11:30 PM set on Fri & Sat

Kendrick Scott “Oracle” – January 8, 2011 (3AM show on the 9th)
@ Sullivan Hall as part of 2011 Winter JazzFest

Jason Moran Presents 713 → 212 – Houstonians in NYC
@ The 92nd Street Y (NYC) – January 14 & 15

Kendrick Scott “Oracle” – February 21, 2011
@ The Blue Note, NYC, 8 & 10:30 PM

Kendrick Scott | Composer & Drummer

Drummer/composer Kendrick Scott, founder of the artist collective label, World Culture Music, leads his KADS relaxin band “Oracle” in a series of shows, and makes several high-profile sideman appearances, in preparation for leading “Oracle” into the studio to record his third CD as a leader in late February 2011, immediately following the band’s engagement at The Blue Note (February 21). The new CD will be the much-anticipated follow up recording to the hugely successful release, The Source (on World Culture Music).

In addition to leading “Oracle”, Scott has recently been on the road with Herbie Hancock, Gretchen Parlato, and Terence Blanchard.