Artist: Christoph Irniger Pilgrim Titel: Big Wheel Live Label: Intakt Records Genre: nu jazz CD Review by Dawoud Kringle A saxophone figure leaps forward with a texture resembling something like the marriage between a bongo and a plucked string instrument. It eases into its more traditional nature as a saxophone as the head of the song emerges. […]
The Musicians Text by Dawoud Kringle The following are selected biographies of American Muslim musicians. Art Blakey (a.k.a. Abdullah ibn Buhauna) was born in 1919, and became a full time musician in his teens. He switched from piano to drums in the early 1930s. He played with Chick Webb and Sid Catlett. In 1942 he joined Mary […]
Date: September 21, 2016 Venue: Piano’s (NY) Review by Dawoud Kringle South African born singer-songwriter Jeri Silverman offered a set at NYC’s Pianos. I was mildly intrigued; frankly, there are a lot of singer-songwriters. To stand out in this, one must have something of artistic depth, or risk being lost in the crowd. With this in […]
Continued History Text by Dawoud Kringle In this part of the Jazz and Islam Series, I will provide a perspective on the growth of Islam among American jazz musicians. Many of the earlier converts to Islam worked at raising money to bring Muslim / Sufi teachers to the USA. Talib Daoud and his wife, singer […]
Early History Text by Dawoud Kringle There exists little historical documentation of the music and musicians of Islamic culture indigenous to the United States of America. For this reason, I decided to write this series. While this is in no way comprehensive, it should serve as a brief introduction to the much neglected subject of […]
