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| Cliff Korman's: Migrations Available Now On All Streaming Platforms Cliff Korman's Migrations will be released on platforms this month Migrations (single) June 5 https://cliffkorman.lnk.to/migrations_single Domingo à noite June 12 https://cliffkorman.lnk.to/Domingo_a_noite Chorondo June 19 https://cliffkorman.lnk.to/Chorondo Migrations (album) June 26 https://cliffkorman.lnk.to/migrations_album When I first encountered Sebastião Salgado's photo exposition "Migrations", its theme resonated with the history of my immigrant family, forcibly displaced from Europe in the mid- 20th century: uprooting, survival, and transformation, on one side, ambiguity, double identity, and the power of untold stories on the other. It also illuminated aspects of my formation as a jazz player and the ways in which they manifests when transposed to Brazilian popular musics. Written in direct response to Salgado's photos, the music reflects the flux of emotionalstates that arise as one is forced to depart a home, a life, to suspend a former reality and join a stream of humanity in motion, emigrating, wandering, immigrating. As with musical motion, the flow between cultures, identities, and time does not run just linearly but also on vertical, simultaneous levels. To reflect this, I work with layers of sound, sometimes congruent, sometimes not, and try to stretch the context in which they interact. Ben Ratliff, in his review in the New York Times of April 2005, noted that one of Mr. Korman's areas of expertise is choro, a complex, jazz-like music that started in Brazil in the late 19th century and that features a lot of counterpoint and improvisation. At this point, choro is part of the past, and a vehicle for a modern jazz composer's imagination: a way to go backward and forward at the same time. Mr. Korman has used bits of a piece written by the composer Francisca Gonzaga and woven them into his original music the way dreams mix the real and the invented; with groups that expand and contract in size, the mood shifts from carnival to classical to jazz. Originally released in 2004 (Planet Arts), Migrations' theme of forced displacement is once again sadly and frighteningly pertinent and immediate. I am grateful that it can be heard again and hope it contributes to a consideration of how to end these traumas. This release is in honor and in memoriam of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado (1944-2025). His vision, his voice and his dedication live on through his work. Cliff Korman: Migrations 01 - Entrance: Abre Alas (Chiquinha Gonzaga) Public domain 02 - Chorondo (Cliff Korman) Almonds and Roses Music/BMI 03 - Interlude 1: Piano and Cavaquinho (Cliff Korman) Almonds and Roses Music/BMI 04 - Corta Jaca (Chiquinha Gonzaga) Public domain 05 - Interlude 2: Abre Alas (Cliff Korman) Almonds and Roses Music/BMI 06 - Procession: Abre Alas (Chiquinha Gonzaga) Public domain 07 - Migrations (Cliff Korman) Almonds and Roses Music/BMI 08 - Interlude 3: Piano, Pandeiro and Caixeta (Cliff Korman) Almonds and Roses Music/BMI 09 - Ciranda: Pobre Cega (anon.) Public domain 10 - Interlude 4: Childlike (Cliff Korman) Almonds and Roses Music/BMI 11 - Interlude 5: Abre Alas (Cliff Korman) Almonds and Roses Music/BMI 12 - Intro to Domingo (Cliff Korman) Almonds and Roses Music/BMI 13 - Domingo à Noite (Cliff Korman) Almonds and Roses Music/BMI 14 - Exit: Abre Alas (Chiquinha Gonzaga) Public domain 15 - Coda: Childlike (Cliff Korman) Almonds and Roses Music/BMI Personnel BILLY DREWES: clarinet, saxophone LUIS BONILLA: trombone ROB CURTO: accordion HENRIQUE CAZES: cavaquinho MARCELLO GONÇALVES: violão sete cordas ANDY EULAU: bass VANDERLEI PEREIRA: drums EDSON DA SILVA (CAFÉ): percussion BETO CAZES: percussion (Migrations and Chorondo) CIDA MOREIRA: spoken voice (Pobre Cega) MURÍ COSTA, JANE BALZANA, EDUARDO FERRER, MALU VON KRÜGER, ELIZA LACERDA, JULIANA RUBIM: coro (Abre Alas) CLIFF KORMAN: piano, arrangements SS Records Executive Producer Kabir Sehgal Recorded at: The Sonic Arts Center, City College of New York: 2002-2003 PAUL KOZEL engineer Ecosom, Rio de Janeiro: JANUARY 2003 ALEXANDRE REIS engineer Studio PlayRec, Rio de Janeiro: JUNE 29, 2003 FLAVIO GOULART engineer Studio MC, Rio de Janeiro: JUNE 27, 2003 L.C. VARELLA engineer Pre-mixing and editing: Makai Productions Studios, Brooklyn, NY JUNE-SEPTEMBER 2003 MACIEK SCHEJBAL engineer Mixed by JENNIFER MUNSON Mixing and mastering: DB Plus, New York, NY OCTOBER 2003-MARCH 2004 write your comments about the article :: © 2025 Jazz News :: home page |