{"id":4313,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/nicole-mitchell-black-unstoppable-dvd\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"nicole-mitchell-black-unstoppable-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4313","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Mitchell &#8211; Black Unstoppable &#8211; DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/Black_Unstoppable.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" \/><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:16px\"><strong>Nicole Mitchell<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font size=\"2\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14px\"><strong>Black Unstoppable &#8211; DVD<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"000000\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\">  Delmark<br \/>Ray Redmond<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-family:verdana; font-size:13px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\"><\/p>\n<p>Nicole Mitchell brings an exciting new approach to flute improvisation. Recorded live at the Velvet Lounge, the material on this DVD is imbued with a retro-funk feel.<\/p>\n<p>Harkening back to the\u00a0park-jazz concerts of the &#8217;70s &#8220;Cause And Effect&#8221; is an instrumental groove that emphasizes the overall retro feel. &#8220;Sun Cycles&#8221; is more of a free jazz piece with a lot of improvisational licks. <\/p>\n<p>Ugochi Nwaogwugwu is vocalist on three songs, most notably &#8220;Love Has No Boundaries&#8221;, a great duet with trumpeter David Young. <\/p>\n<p>Personnel: David Boykin, saxophone; David Young, trumpet, Jeff Parker, guitar; Tomeka Reid, cello; Josh Abrams, bass; Marcus Evans, drums; Ugochi, vocals.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>BACKGROUND<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Co-president of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), she is the founder of the critically acclaimed Black Earth Ensemble. Mitchell, Downbeat magazine&#8217;s &#8220;#1 Rising Star Flutist 2006 and 2007,&#8221; has performed with Anthony Braxton, James Newton &amp; Muhal Richard Abrams. <\/p>\n<p>Awarded &#8220;Chicagoan of the Year 2006&#8221; by the Chicago Tribune, Mitchell does residencies, workshops &amp; panel discussions in Europe, Canada &amp; the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><font><br \/><?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicole MitchellBlack Unstoppable &#8211; DVD DelmarkRay Redmond Nicole Mitchell brings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}