Mark de Clive-Lowe Remixes Charlie Parker With Strings

Mark de Clive-Lowe takes two songs from Charlie Parker’s famous Strings project and remixes them with a 21st-century feel. The bebop creator fulfilled a creative dream in 1950 when producer Norman Granz arranged for Parker to record with a string section. Charlie Parker With Strings was released as two separate recordings of standards, and those albums were Parker’s most commercially successful releases. Mark de Clive-Lowe reconfigures “Temptation” with a beat that slaps and subtle piano. Parker’s “Repetition” is re-tooled with a snappy broken beat and a lot of energy. The infusion of a hip-hop and dance music aesthetic into Parker’s tunes is in the spirit of bebop, which was new and innovative in its time. Charlie Parker With Strings Remixed is available via Bandcamp. 

Charlie Parker with Strings Remixed by Mark de Clive-Lowe




Mark de Clive-Lowe Celebrates The Music Of Pharoah Sanders On New Album

Mark de Clive-Lowe Freedom

 

 

Mark de Clive-Lowe’s Freedom-Celebrating The Music Of Pharoah Sanders is out now. The producer/musician and his friends vocalist Dwight Trible, saxophonist Theodross Avery, percussionist Carlos Nino, bass/sousaphone player Corbin Jones and drummer Tommaso Cappellato recorded the album at the now-closed Blue Whale jazz club in Los Angeles. Their tribute to Sanders captures the essence of the saxophonist’s spiritual journey in song. Sanders’s immersion in free jazz during the ’60s was influenced by his time in John Coltrane’s band and he also inspired Coltrane. Sanders’s interest in chanting and Islam contributed to his singular sound. Mark de Clive-Lowe and the band bring Sanders’s compositions back into view using their 21st-century voices. The project is available as a two-album or two-CD package and the usual streaming platforms. The group will perform the music live on July 16th at 2220 Arts in Los Angeles. Tickets are on sale now. They will also have a limited supply of vinyl albums on sale that night. 

Freedom – Celebrating the Music of Pharoah Sanders by Mark de Clive-Lowe




Mark de Clive-Lowe: CHURCH Sessions Album Stream

Mark de Clive-Lowe Vs. Omar Comes To The US

tickets are still available. The Friday night event will be for the dancefloor and it is his actual birthday and entry is free before 11 PM. Next week he will bring his Mark de Clive-Lowe Vs. Omar shows to the Bay Area and Chicago on the 19th and 20th. Tickets can be purchased here and here. 

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