News From Azure Miles Records
the Music of Michael Eric Robinson Longhi
"His 2024 Jeweled Saddle draws on these diverse sources of inspiration. It contains a single 50-minute meruvina piece with an infectious and haunting rhythm. The percussive refrains of the cadence are reminiscent of the South Asian raga, albeit one with hints of disco. Over this Robinson weaves a clarinet melody that wavers between a swinging ebullience and a laid-back, cool, swaggers. Throughout this charming opus Robinson sometimes sprinkles the resonant percolating beats with sparse, bittersweet, short phrases while at others he makes the clarinet sing through fluid, densely structured lines. This endows the music with a delightfully angular unpredictability.
"It is the perfect recipe to calm the mind in an age of pervasive angst.
excerpted from Jeweled Saddle review in All About Jazz!
About Becoming A Jazz Pianist new writing!
In Memoriam Aashish Khan new writing!
Not So Subtle Passive Aggression new writing!
Kaunsi Kanada in Los Angeles an Evening with Michael Jackson new writing!
Leonard Bernstein the Conductor new writing!
White and Black Together Make Music Good new writing!
Wisps and Splashes of Colour (Mark Anthony O'Leary)
Elevation Through Sound (dublab)
Touch A Colour of My Dreamsnew writing!
Deliberately, Transparently and Ethereally (Alejandro Cohen)
Krystal Matters upcoming meruvina release!
Jeweled Saddle new meruvina release!
Jasmine Perfume previous meruvina release!
Nonet Piano Albums new solo piano albums!
Eight piano and drums duet albums with Eliot Zigmund
Four piano and tabla duet albums with Guruji Anindo Chatterjee
Selected previous writings!
Louis Armstrong with Tillie and Morris Karnowsky in New Orleans
Germany and Austria to America by Way of India
Scenes from Tanglewood and Central Park: Lenny, Michael and Lee
Not Included In Jazz Books To Date
Opposing the Absence of Alternatives
Six Seas: Conlon, Charles, Claude, Charlie, Chick and de Chirico
