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Jason Moran - From the Dancehall to the Battlefield (2023)

Posted By: Rtax
Date: 11 Jan 2023 17:17:33
Jason Moran - From the Dancehall to the Battlefield (2023)

Jason Moran - From the Dancehall to the Battlefield (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 390 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 179 MB
1:08:59 | Jazz | Label: Not on Label (Self Released)

Dedicated to James Reese Europe and Randy Weston. They walked a very long way, saw you, and tagged you forever… then strode away, but kept you in their mind as they tagged someone else. See, That’s how a lot of this works.
They didn’t tell you where they were going, or what it would feel like, or sound like, or the stories you’d tell about all that you’d survive. And YES, you will survive…or be survived by.

In 1881, James Reese Europe is born in Mobile, Alabama, and in the pre-dawn of the Great Migration, his parents moved up to Washington, D.C. because they knew. It is in D.C that James begins to take violin lessons from Joseph Douglas, the grandson of Frederick Douglass because Douglass innately knew that liberation not only speaks from the mind, but also from instrument. The violin, hollowed wood, with a bow strung with horse hair abrading tense steel.

See, Liberation occurs in many forms. And when James then takes his violin up to New York, he is seeking a new sound to make, new folk to break bread with, and a new stage to plow, for The "stage" will always be a portal, a place to test what is real and surreal.

What he realizes is that a required respect on the stage and off must be demanded, which culminated in the Black musicians union called The Clef Club. It is the humanity that I hear in these songs and in his bands. When James tagged 125 musicians to bring his brand of syncopation to Carnegie Hall, the new beat had arrived. Because syncopation is about urgency, pushing the beat ahead to apply the anticipation of the oncoming downbeat , an outlook that is inherently futuristic.

So all that futurism arrives. But the indoor stages proved only preparation for another dangerous stage, the battlefield of WW1. With his band of Black diaspora, he brought the music across the Atlantic, to the frontline of battle as his commitment to expansive vision was beyond.
Beyond the last row of seats in the house, or the horizon of the trenches ahead.
James Reese Europe becomes one of the seminal Big Bangs in Black Music. Let us meditate on that.
From to the Dance Hall
to the Battlefield,
and back home to you.

Love,
Jason
Jason Moran - Piano and voice
Tarus Mateen - Bass
Nasheet Waits - Drums
Logan Richardson - Alto Saxophone
Brian Settles - Tenor Saxophone
Darryl Harper - Clarinet
David Adewumi - Trumpet
Reginald Cyntje - Trombone
Chris Bates - Trombone
Jose Davila - Tuba, Helicon.

Tracklist
1. From the Dancehall to the Battlefield - Jason Moran
2. Ballin the Jack / Feed the Fire - James Reese Europe and Geri Allen
3. All of No Man's Land is Ours - James Reese Europe
4. Russian Rag - George Cobb
5. Darktown Strutter's Ball - Shelton Brooks
6. Flee as a Bird to your Mountain / Ghosts - Traditional / Albert Ayler
7. Drop (Tear) - Jason Moran
8. That Moaning Trombone - Carl Bethel & Sandy Coffin
9. Memphis Blues - W. C. Handy
10. St. Louis Blues - W. C. Handy
11. Hesitating Blues - W. C. Handy
12. Clef Club March - James Reese Europe
13. Castle House Rag - James Reese Europe
14. Zena's Circle - Pauline Oliveros
15. For James - Jason Moran
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