Podcasts about stretch music

How do you find the right creative partners? How do you build a thriving music community around you? To break it all down, I'm sitting down with Alexander Flood—one of Australia's most forward-thinking and versatile drummers.His sound is a fusion of nu-jazz, deep house, broken beat, DnB, funk, and experimental vibes—completely his own. Back in 2020, just a few years after topping his jazz program, he signed with US label Stretch Music and dropped his debut album, Heartbeat.Two years later, he followed it up with The Space Between—an album that wasn't just about the music but about connection, featuring heavy-hitters like Christian Scott and Vivian Sessoms.And that's exactly what we're diving into today.In this episode, Alexander breaks down what it really takes to collaborate as an artist—how he finds creative partners, builds an artistic community, and brings people together to make meaningful music. We're also talking about the evolution of contemporary jazz and getting an exclusive look at his upcoming album, Artifactual Rhythm. This is a conversation you don't want to miss!Check out the Table of Contents

On this week's episode we focus on a 2015 release by Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah (now Chief Xian) entitled Stretch Music. This album features many young jazz musicians that have become mainstays in the current jazz landscape including Elena Pinderhughes, Braxton Cook, and Corey Fonville. Our overall combined rating for the album is 7.6/10, make sure to take a listen to our thoughts and how we came up with that score! Feel free to reach out to us with any listener questions or album recommendations at thejazzjampodcast@gmail.com  Click here to visit our website!

Alex Flood joins me in The Engine Room to discuss his musical journey which began when he was in primary school, when he began to have lessons with Jim McCarthy. His next teacher was Joel Prime, who broadened his musical influences, and introduced him to actively listening to music, and adding percussive instruments to his playing. Alex has been the recipient of many prestigious awards including ‘Australia's Best Up And Coming Drummer' in 2012 in the intermediate category, and the Open category in 2016, The John ‘Slick' Osborne Scholarship in 2017, the Helpmann Academy Jazz Award for Top Drums Undergraduate in 2017, the Helpmann Academy Mike Stewart Memorial Award in 2017, the Helpmann Academy Jazz Award for Top Overall Graduate in 2018 and Helpmann Academy Award for Jazz 2020, among many others. Alexander has also had the opportunity to share the stage with several renowned performers including Ralph Nader, Hugh Sheridan, and international cabaret stars Bridget Everett and Rueben Kaye, and has performed at events such as WOMADelaide, Adelaide Fringe and Cabaret Festivals, and the Australia's Ultimate Drummers Weekend. Flood has performed with renowned artists including Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Marquis Hill, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Vivian Sessoms, Kate Ceberano, Nicholas Buc, as well as performing in 20+ countries on tour in 2019. Alexander plays regularly around Adelaide in several jazz and contemporary music ensembles, including his own trio ER@SER DESCRIPTION. In 2017 Alexander completed his Bachelor of Music: Jazz Performance degree at the University of Adelaide, graduating top of his year. Alex released his debut album HEARTBEAT through Stretch Music (via Ropeadope Records) in 2020, having worked closely with his mentor, 5x Grammy nominee Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah on the project. Alex is currently finishing up his sophomore album The Space Between, set to release late 2021, featuring a conglomerate of international artists. Music: Into "Band It About" theme, written and recorded by Catherine Lambert & Michael Bryant. Outro "FIVE" is a single by ER@SER DESCRIPTION which was released in 2020. Links: MEINL Stick & Brush Artist https://meinlstickandbrush.com/en/artists/alexander-flood-a24938.html Website: https://alexanderfloodmusic.com.au/ Apple Music: https://apple.co/2KIOdW5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexanderfloodmusic/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/alexander_flood YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/FLOODaDIDDLE If you would like to help support this independent podcast: https://paypal.me/banditabout?locale.x=en_AU Review: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/band-it-about-podcast-series-985443/reviews/63027 Contact: banditabout17@gmail.com Follow: https://www.facebook.com/BAND-It-ABOUT-Podcast-Series-103410885324059/ https://www.instagram.com/banditaboutpodcastseries/?hl=en https://twitter.com/DiSpillane BAND IT ABOUT is Free to listen to on All Major Podcast Listening Platforms. If you have enjoyed listening, Please Share the link with your friends who enjoy music interviews. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dianne-spillane/message

Louis Marks sits down with Weedie Braimah and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah to discuss Weedie's new album, The Hands of Time, out on Christian Scott's Stretch Music label and Ropeadope, September 24, 2021. LINKS: Bandcamp Spotify Apple Music Follow Ropeadope Here & Now Playlist on Spotify CREDITS: Host - Louis Marks Producer - Ben Mathewson Art - Kaya Marks --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

New Orleans trumpeter, composer, producer, and instrument designer Christian Scott, also known as Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah (in 2011, he de-Westernized his name with these two extensions, names from the Ghanaian, as a nod to suppressed histories), makes Stretch Music. Jazz-trained, he stretches and marries the seemingly disparate sounds of Trap Music (Southern hiphop, mixed with techno, dub, and dutch house), traditional West African percussion and New Orleanian Afro-Native American styles.  Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah is also intent on using music as political protest to confront social issues, key among them are - Slavery in America via the Prison Industrial Complex, Food Insecurity, Xenophobia, Immigration, Climate Change, Sexual Orientation, Gender Equality, Fascism and the return of the Demagogue- to name exactly all of the concerns cited on his Bandcamp page. His 2017 record Ruler Rebel, the first in his Centennial Trilogy of releases, marks the very first jazz recordings and he joins us to play his Stretch Music, in-studio. (From the Archives, 2017.)   

Recent Certificate recipient, Heath Pearson, Ph.D. sits down with American Jazz Trumpeter, Christian Scott, to discuss his inspirations, his creative process, and the importance of musically challenging himself. Christian, also known as Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, is an architect of concepts. His signature Stretch Music, a genre-blind form, allows him to create sonic landscapes across multiple forms of sound, language, thought, and culture. At once, Trap, Alt Rock, World Music. Stretch Music is, as its creator, a collision of ideas and identities. Growing up as an heir to a Legendary Afro-New Orleanian Chieftain amidst the complexities of a racially and economically conflicted New Orleans, Adjuah’s work reflects his sensibilities: analytic, expansive and unafraid to confront the social and political realities of our time head-on. Please note that the following content contains strong langauge. Parental advisory is advised

Welcome back to The Station Tapes at 21 Soul! Sarah Elizabeth Charles is an internationally alluring vocalist. As a performer, songwriter, and teacher, she's traveled from Hudson to Haiti to Abu Dhabi, bringing light to marginalized communities. 3 albums have been released by her band SCOPE, and she has collaborated with Ajoyo, Transient Beings, and Christian Scott's Stretch Music. Charles is a teaching artist of the musical language, making sure no one is cast out of the global conversation. Ropeadope CEO Louis Marks interviews Sarah about her life as a musician and the role of activism in her journey. Learn more about SEC & SCOPE at http://www.sarahelizabethcharles.com/ Produced by Nick Perri & Steve Eshewsky. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

With just one question, Eddie Palmieri walks us through the history of 'Salsa', quickly pointing out that this name is a misnomer and revealing the underlying roots. At 5:22 Mr. Palmieri mentions the Palmieri Salsa Jams App: An interactive music player of the Full Circle recording, the Palmieri Salsa Jams App (powered by Stretch Music and Spectrum) is sure to please musicians and audiophiles alike. It gives musicians the ability to completely control their practicing, listening and learning experience by customizing the player to fit their specific needs and goals. The app has the capability to mute, solo, pan and fade any instrument chosen along with tempo control, looping and sheet music for each part. https://www.uprisingmusicnyc.com/news/2018/7/26/palmieri-salsa-jams-app-out-now] Eddie Palmieri Links: Sabiduria Full Circle --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

La ville de New Orleans, affectueusement dénommée Crescent City, fête cette année son tricentenaire. Cette ville qui a subi les influences française (il suffit de noter les noms à consonance française de Bechet, de Blanchard…), espagnole, anglaise, caribéenne et plus particulièrement haïtienne respire la musique. Ses habitants ne la quittent que contraints et forcés ; Fats Domino n’a jamais voulu partir, Terence Blanchard, malgré ses contraintes professionnelles est venu se réinstaller malgré les stigmates laissés par le passage de l’ouragan Katrina Cap donc sur Crescent City et son histoire musicale à forte connotation afro-américaine (60% de la population), du mythique trompettiste Buddy Bolden aux jeunes musiciens de Rebirth Grass Band. Notre invité est Claude Carrière. Il se fera le témoin de la musique de Crescent City, ville où il se rend régulièrement, hébergé et guidé - le veinard - par sa belle- famille afro-américaine . Longtemps producteur à France Musique, président de l’association Maison du Duke, préfacier de la biographie de Duke Ellington (Music Is My Mistress) et concepteur du coffret The Extravagant Mr Gillespie, Claude Carrière nous présentera des artistes emblématiques de la ville quoique méconnus chez nous comme la chanteuse Germaine Bazzle, les pianistes Ellis Marsalis et David Torkanowski et la formation Rebirth Brass Band. C’est évident, on aurait aussi aimé vous parler de Jelly Roll Morton, de Fats Domino, de Lee Dorsey, de Professor Longhair, des Neville Brothers, des Meters ; on se contentera d’Allen Toussaint et de Dr John, faute de temps. Hélène nous donnera sa chronique autour de la Stretch Music de Christian Scott mais nous parlerons aussi de la Suite composée par Terence Blanchard (illustrée dans l’émission par «  Funeral Dirge ») sans oublier « Congo Square » tiré de la Suite A Drum Is A Woman d’Ellington parce que c’est à Congo Square que les esclaves africains se réunissaient et firent éclore une musique qui allait embraser le monde : le Jazz.   Liste des titres : Rebirth Brass Band ; "Blackbird Special" de l'album The Main Event: Live At The Maple Leaf : https://www.discogs.com/fr/Rebirth-Brass-Band-The-Main-Event-Live-At-The-Maple-Leaf/release/1679817 Duke Ellington And His Orchestra ; "Congo Square" de l'album A Drum Is A Woman : https://www.discogs.com/fr/Duke-Ellington-And-His-Orchestra-A-Drum-Is-A-Woman/master/466893 Terence Blanchard ; "Funeral Dirge" de l'album A Tale Of God's Will (A Requiem For Katrina) : https://www.discogs.com/fr/Terence-Blanchard-A-Tale-Of-Gods-Will-A-Requiem-For-Katrina/release/2443140 The Ellis Marsalis Quintet, de l'album Plays The Music Of Ellis Marsalis : https://www.discogs.com/fr/The-Ellis-Marsalis-Quintet-Plays-The-Music-Of-Ellis-Marsalis/release/11804434 Germaine Bazzle, "You’ve Gone" Jazz Chamber Quintet, "Pretty Girl" de l'album For All We Know : http://chamberjazzquintet.com/for-all-we-know/ Duke Ellington Orchestra, "Harlem Airshaft " : https://www.discogs.com/fr/Duke-Ellington-His-Orchestra-Harlem-Air-Shaft-Five-Oclock-Drag/release/11239477 Duke Ellington And His Orchestra, "U.M.M.G." de l'album Ellington Jazz Party : https://www.discogs.com/fr/Duke-Ellington-And-His-Orchestra-Ellington-Jazz-Party/release/1915666 Dr. John, "My Buddy" de l'album In A Sentimental Mood : https://www.discogs.com/fr/Dr-John-In-A-Sentimental-Mood/master/193821 David Torkanowsky, "Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most" de l'album Steppin' Out : https://www.discogs.com/fr/David-Torkanowsky-Steppin-Out/master/1264780 Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra, "Perdido Street Blues" de l'album Perdido Street Blues : https://www.discogs.com/fr/Louis-Armstrong-And-His-Orchestra-Perdido-Street-Blues-219-Blues/release/11461246 Allen Toussaint, "Working In The Coal Mine" de l'album Toussaint : https://www.discogs.com/Allen-Toussaint-Toussaint/release/1574769  

12e émission de la 35e session... Cette semaine, assez "urbain" avec des beats, du jazz moderne puis une vieille affaire ! En musique: Karriem Riggins sur l'album Headnod Suite  (Stones Throw, 2017); Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah sur l'album Ruler Rebel  (Stretch Music, 2017); Nate Smith sur l'album Kinfolk : Postcards From Everywhere  (Ropeadope, 2017); Ohad Talmor Newsreel ; Giancarlo Tossani Synapser ; A10A10 sur l'album Auand Meets NYC, 2011  (Auand, 2016); Scandinavia New Jazz Group sur le boîtier International New Jazz Meeting Burg Altena 1972-1973  (B. Free, 2016)...

12e émission de la 35e session... Cette semaine, assez "urbain" avec des beats, du jazz moderne puis une vieille affaire ! En musique: Karriem Riggins sur l'album Headnod Suite  (Stones Throw, 2017); Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah sur l'album Ruler Rebel  (Stretch Music, 2017); Nate Smith sur l'album Kinfolk : Postcards From Everywhere  (Ropeadope, 2017); Ohad Talmor Newsreel ; Giancarlo Tossani Synapser ; A10A10 sur l'album Auand Meets NYC, 2011  (Auand, 2016); Scandinavia New Jazz Group sur le boîtier International New Jazz Meeting Burg Altena 1972-1973  (B. Free, 2016)...

6e émission de la 31e session... Cette semaine c'est assez éclaté avec le retour de Marie-Eve Boulanger et ses découvertes, électro-jazz et finale free ! En musique: Christian Scott sur l'album Stretch Music (Ropeadope, 2015); Nano Stern sur l'album Mil 500 Vueltas (Chilevisión Música, 2015); Karin & Mike Kelleher sur l'album Mélange (Indépendant, 2015); Christopher Tin sur l'album The Drop That Contained the Sea (Tin Works, 2014); Brian Ellis Group sur l'album Escondido Sessions (El Paraiso, 2015); Dikeman Noble Serries sur l'album Obscure Fluctuations (Trost, 2015)...