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Alex Goodman
In 2013, Alex's CD Bridges was nominated for a JUNO, Canada's highest musical honor as Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year. Since moving to New York in 2012, Goodman has recorded with artists including John Patitucci, Dick Oatts and Rich Perry and performed with a variety of notable jazz musicians like Charles Lloyd, Ari Hoenig, John Ellis and John Riley. Alex was awarded a 2013 ASCAP Herb Alpert Jazz Composer Award, has written a book of solo guitar etudes and has composed extensively for jazz groups, chamber groups, orchestras, big bands, and string quartets.
Alex has performed at top New York City jazz clubs such as Smalls, the Appel Room at Lincoln Center, Mezzrow, 55 Bar, Smoke, National Sawdust and Cornelia Street Cafe, at prestigious international venues such as the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Massey Hall in Toronto, Club Unterfahrt in Munich as well as at jazz festivals including Winter Jazz Fest in New York, the Montreal Jazz Festival and the Montreux Jazz Festival. Alex has also played across the world in countries including Bulgaria, India, Switzerland, Germany, Holland and Belgium. He is a graduate of the Master's program in Jazz Performance at the Manhattan School of Music.
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Remy Le Boeuf’s Assembly of Shadows: Heartland Radio
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by Dan Bilawsky
This ear-grabbing date from Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly of Shadows--the band's third release, following its eponymous debut (in 2019) and Architecture of Storms (SoundSpore Records, 2021)--is a sonic mirror, reflecting the multihyphenate leader's recent travels in both life and sound. Influenced by an odyssey across inland America, sights encountered along the way, and the adventitious, airwaves-dictated soundtrack to the journey, Heartland Radio offers up a striking portrait of a Promethean artist with an unfettered imagination. Opening on ...
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by Mark Sullivan
Mareike Wiening is a German drummer/composer who began her career in New York, and now divides her time between there and Köln, Germany. On her third album, she continues making music with her New York-based working band, an increasingly rare situation in contemporary jazz. It provides her an opportunity for more compositional experimentation with each release. Time for Priorities" begins abstractly, a duet between drums and guitarist Alex Goodman's spacey electronics, before introducing the swinging theme and the rest of ...
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by Jack Bowers
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read moreRemy Le Boeuf: Architecture of Storms
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by Jack Bowers
It's hard to become bored or complacent when listening to Architecture of Storms, alto saxophonist Remy Le Boeuf's second album as leader of the twenty-member Assembly of Shadows orchestra. Every song is quite different from the others, and every one has its moments of shapeliness and charm. Le Boeuf arranged every number and composed all but Justin Vernon's Minnesota, WI" and the album's nameplate, which he co-wrote with poet Sara Pirkle, he asserts, on a brooding stormy ...
read moreRemy Le Boeuf's Assembly of Shadows: Architecture of Storms
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by Angelo Leonardi
Remy Le Boeuf è uno dei nomi emergenti nell'ambito dell'arrangiamento e della conduzione orchestrale. Dopo il sorprendente Assembly of Shadows del 2019, il sassofonista e bandleader californiano (a New York dal 2004) torna con la sua orchestra irrobustita nel numero e nella qualità dei singoli componenti. Tra i nuovi ingressi troviamo in particolare il trombettista Mike Rodriguez e il sassofonista Dayna Stephens, che caratterizzano un paio di brani, anche se il lavoro di Le Boeuf è prettamente ...
read moreMareike Wiening: Future Memories
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by Mark Corroto
It is interesting that in today's creative music world, a jazz drummer cannot just be a jazz drummer. There are so many great drummers that they have to also be composers, band leaders, and sometimes van drivers. A short list includes Tyshawn Sorey, Allison Miller, Ches Smith, and Terri Lyne Carrington. Add to that list Mareike Wiening, the German-born artist with (now) deep New York roots. Her release Metropolis Paradise (Greenleaf Music, 2019) brought her music critical attention and acclaim, ...
read moreAlex Goodman: Impressions in Blue and Red
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by Angelo Leonardi
Con questo splendido doppio album, Alex Goodman esce dal limbo dei talentosi chitarristi emergenti per entrare a pieno titolo tra i solisti e compositori più interessanti del jazz contemporaneo. Era proprio ora. All'età di 34 anni, con sette dischi da leader e prestigiosi premi internazionali (tra cui la vittoria al Montreux International Jazz Guitar del 2014), il chitarrista e compositore canadese ottiene i meritati riconoscimenti della critica con un'opera particolarmente matura. Un concept album che vuol associare ...
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Guitar
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New York City
Willing to teach
Intermediate to advanced
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From: Earth VoicesBy Alex Goodman
If I Loved You
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View in Perspective
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View in Perspective (Intro)
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Sonata No. 12 Adagio
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Sonata No. 12 Adagio (Intro)
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E.T.
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Like a Fire That Consumes All Before It
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Like a Fire That Consumes All Before It (Intro)
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Occam's Razor
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Toys
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In Heaven Everything is Fine
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Impending
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Impending (Intro)
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Circles in a Circle
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Choose
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I'll Never Be the Same
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Still Life With Skull
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Still Life with Skull (Intro)
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Cobalt Blue
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Zen
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Zen (Intro)
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Space Behind Eugene Boch
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Space Behind Eugene Boch (Intro)
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Moods
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Blue Shade
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Blue Shade (Intro)
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No Man's Land
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No Man's Land
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Questions
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Family Breakfast
From: Border CrossingBy Alex Goodman