Amerikalı plak şirketi Motema, Blues for Memo albümünü Ocak 2018’de tüm dünyada yayınladı. Albüm eleştirmenlerden olumlu tepkiler aldı. New York Times’in 2018 en iyi caz albümleri listesine girdi. Gilles Peterson Worldwide Awards’da 2018’in en iyi caz albümü ödülüne aday gösterildi. David Murray Infinity Quartet ve Saul Williams, 2018 senesi içinde Blues for Memo adı altında Amerika ve Avrupa turneleri gerçekleştirdiler.
David Murray’s new album Blues for Memo is now available online to download and stream!
Featuring acclaimed actor/poet Saul Williams, Murray crafts a powerful, political expression of the blues, paying homage to a pioneer of Istanbul’s jazz scene, Mehmet “Memo” Uluğ. Inspired further by the legendary conductor/cornetist Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris and poet Amiri Baraka, Blues for Memo is a cutting-edge collaboration of jazz and poetry.
The luminary tenor saxophonist David Murray has long been both an avant-garde pacesetter and a guardian of tradition. That’s the case on this album (recorded live in Turkey), with Murray purring and teasing over a stellar quartet — and savoring his interactions with Saul Williams’s biting poetry.
