Tag Archives: Douglas Ewart

Douglas Ewart’s a good multi-instrumentalist who’s made his biggest contribution like a sideman. His stable, enthusiastic solos on alto sax, flute, bass clarinet and bassoon have already been heard within the rings of Fred Anderson, George Lewis, Muhal Richard Abrams, Anthony Braxton and Chico Freeman. A Kingston, Jamaica indigenous, Ewart …

George Mgrdichian was American jazz’s leading proponent of the oud, the pear-shaped lute most typical in Middle Eastern folk music. Given birth to and elevated in NEW YORK, Mgrdichian was a mainly self-taught musician who 1st used the clarinet, becoming a member of a normal Armenian band during his teens. …