New David Murray album featuring Saul Williams "Blues for Memo" is out now!
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.
📋02.02.2018 | Motema
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Best Jazz of 2018 – David Murray featuring Saul Williams, 'Blues for Memo'
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.
📋06.12.2018 | Giovanni Russonello | The New York Times
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