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Amir ElSaffar Announces New Album 'Rivers Of Sound - The Other Shore'
by A.A. Cristi - July 29, 2021 Amir ElSaffar – who leads five ensembles and has released seven albums over the past 16 years – has earned acclaim for being, in the words of All About Jazz, “a virtuoso on the horn, but also an imaginative bandleader, expanding the vocabulary of the trumpet and, at the same time, the modern jazz en...
Meredith Monk to Receive 24th Annual Dorothy & Lillian Gish Prize
by A.A. Cristi - September 19, 2017 The Gish Prize Trust today announced that the widely influential, utterly inimitable Meredith Monk has been selected to receive the 24th annual Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, in recognition of her ongoing achievements as a composer, singer and interdisciplinary artist. Established in 1994 through t...
'Not Two' Debut Album from Amir ElSaffar's Rivers of Sound Orchestra Out Now
by Caryn Robbins - June 16, 2017 New Amsterdam Records is proud to announce the release of Not Two, the debut album from Amir ElSaffar's Rivers of Sound Orchestra, out today in double LP, CD, and digital formats via Bandcamp.... |