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Imani Winds

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KOCH Records
Release Date: August 24, 2006

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Imani Winds performs Astor Piazzolla's Libertango
Imani Winds performs Valerie Coleman's Umoja
1 Titilayo  
2 LTC: Prelude  
3 LTC: Fugue  
4 LTC: Menuet  
5 LTC: Rigaudon  
6 Fuga e Misterio  
7 CDB: Molto Allegro Deciso  
8 CDB: Lento Flessibile  
9 CDB: Andante Con Moto  
10 CDB: Adagio  
11 CDB: Presto  
12 Umoja  
13 Oblivion  
14 Afro Blue  
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Imani Winds and E1 Music are pleased to announce that Imani Winds' Terra Incognita will be available on August 24. The album marks the fifth release on E1 for Imani Winds which has, since the Grammy nominated debut release in 2005, established itself as the premier wind quintet in North America. The recording - titled Terra Incognita after Wayne Shorter's piece written for the group - celebrates new additions to the woodwind quintet repertoire with three unique compositions by jazz greats Jason Moran, Paquito D'Rivera and Mr. Shorter. These works, commissioned and written for the enterprising Imani Winds for their Legacy Project, have become staples in their repertoire, and audience favorites.

That these three internationally renowned artists have chosen Imani Winds as the interpreter for their composition is a source of great honor for the group. Each piece on the album reimagines the definition of standard American chamber music by incorporating colorful harmonic language and, especially in the case of the title track, a unique perspective on structure. Terra Incognita is the first piece Wayne Shorter has ever written for another ensemble. It is infused with his unique harmonic language, but also honors the institution of the traditional woodwind quintet. Written in 2008, it was premiered at the La Jolla Chamber Music Festival and performed at Carnegie Hall. Master clarinet player Paquito D'Rivera joins the Imani Winds on his own piece, Kites, along with pianist Alex Brown. Paquito's work captures the spirit of his youth and the soaring kites he recalls in Havana, Cuba, where he lived until 1981, before defecting to the United States. Jason Moran's Cane reminisces about his family's history in rural Louisiana, in the town of Natchitoches. Creole flavors infuse this four-movement work, as does his pride in his family's strong and determined roots.

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    Posted At: March 6, 2025
    Imani Winds is the 2024 GRAMMY® winner in the Classical Compendium category for Jeff Scott’s “Passion for Bach and Coltrane” released on their recently formed record label. Celebrating over a quarter century of music making, the four time GRAMMY® nominated group has led both a revolution and evolution of the wind quintet through their dynamic playing, adventurous programming, imaginative collaborations and ...

  • Imani Winds recital inspires an enthusiastic, appreciative KSU: Bailey Performance Center audience / EarRelevant
    Posted At: October 3, 2023
    EarRelevant's Mark Gresham writes…..Kennesaw State University’s Bailey Performance Center hosted a recital by the eminent wind quintet Imani Winds last Friday evening, featuring their ethnically diverse touring program of music for woodwind quintet, “Black and Brown II: A Celebration of Composers of Color,” all commissioned by or written for the group.Celebrating over a quarter-century of music making, Iman...

  • NYC's 92nd Street Y to present Imani Winds with pianist: Terrence Wilson / BroadwayWorld
    Posted At: September 27, 2023
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  • Imani Winds concert to conclude Wolfeboro NH 'Friends of Music' 2022-23 season / The Conway Daily Sun
    Posted At: April 28, 2023
    Imani Winds will be performing at Brewster Academy’s Anderson Hall in Wolfeboro on May 21.  The Conway Daily Sun writes……Grammy-nominated Imani Winds will be performing at Brewster Academy’s Anderson Hall at 205 S. Main St. in Wolfeboro on Sunday, May 21, at 3 p.m., , following their Carnegie Hall and Midwest Concerts.This is the final concert of Wolfeboro Friends of Music’s 2022-23 season, which ...

  • Imani Winds are set for 'The Civil Rights Project' at Amherst College - Buckley Hall / Daily Hampshire Gazette
    Posted At: October 20, 2022
    Celebrating over two decades of music making, the twice Grammy nominated Imani Winds has led both a revolution and evolution of the wind quintet through their dynamic playing, adventurous programming, imaginative collaborations and outreach endeavors that have inspired audiences of all ages and backgrounds.The ensemble’s playlist embraces traditional chamber music repertoire, and as a 21st century group, Im...

  • The Library of Congress presents the Catalyst Quartet with Imani Winds
    Posted At: February 15, 2022
    The Library of Congress will present an exciting 22-event lineup of concerts, lectures, conversations with musicians and engaging educational programming in a packed spring season launching March 4. Featuring classical music, jazz and dance events, the series will offer both virtual and in-person programs.New American music is a special focus, with concerts showcasing a diverse and wide-ranging group of you...

  • Valerie Coleman's 'Umoja' and Helene Grimaud's Bartok featured on 90.1WRTI's Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert
    Posted At: February 16, 2021

    90.1WRTI's GREGG WHITESIDE writes.....Join us on Sunday, February 21st at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, February 22nd at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 to hear a rebroadcast of one of the first concerts of The Philadelphia Orchestra's 2019/2020 season, the Orchestra's 120th. The three works on the program all have roots here in America: the world premiere of a Philadelphia commission, Umoja, a colorful orches...

  • 9 black classical performers speak with The New York Times about transforming the white-dominated field
    Posted At: July 16, 2020

    With their major institutions founded on white European models and obstinately focused on the distant past, classical music and opera have been even slower than American society at large to confront racial inequity. Black players make up less than 2 percent of the nation's orchestras; the Metropolitan Opera still has yet to put on a work by a Black composer. The protests against police brutality and ...

  • Imani Winds and Catalyst Quartet join forces for (Im)migration / San Francisco Chronicle
    Posted At: February 10, 2020

    Two innovative ensembles in the world of contemporary chamber music, Imani Winds and the Catalyst Quartet, are about to join forces in San Jose on Feb 23 at the Green Music Center for a kind of chamber music summit. The heart of the program, which is titled "(Im)migration: Music of Change," will be a new work by composer Jessie Montgomery, who usually serves as the Catalyst's first violinist. Unfortu...

  • LiveConnections welcomes Imani Winds to World Cafe Live / Broadway World
    Posted At: August 12, 2018

    LiveConnections, Philadelphia's non-profit organization known for its collaborative, community music-making, turns 10 in 2018, and they'll be celebrating by doing what they do best. Their 2018-19 season features socially engaged programs and incredible musical matchmaking, with world-renowned artists teaming up with schools and community organizations in a quest to make connection through music. ...

  • Chamber Music Northwest artists-in-residence; Imani Winds, set for 3 Portland shows / Oregon ArtsWatch
    Posted At: April 18, 2018

    Classical music has a diversity problem. So it marked a turning point when the Portland classical music presenter Chamber Music Northwest announced that its next annual artists-in-residence - following the 2015-16 tenure of the storied Emerson Quartet, composed entirely of older white men - would be Imani Winds, a younger, equally talented and until recently, entirely black ensemble. Bassoonist Monic...

  • Imani Winds presents 'Terra Incognita'
    Posted At: August 12, 2013

    Imani Winds and E1 Music are pleased to announce that Imani Winds' Terra Incognita will be available on August 24. The album marks the fifth release on E1 for Imani Winds which has, since the Grammy nominated debut release in 2005, established itself as the premier wind quintet in North America. The recording - titled Terra Incognita after Wayne Shorter's piece written for the group - celebrates ...

  • 'Self-Titled' album from the groundbreaking African/Latino woodwind quintet, Imani Winds
    Posted At: March 29, 2006

    Koch International Classics is proud to announce the highly-anticipated self titled Imani Winds follow up release to the Grammy- nominated debut recording The Classical Underground by the groundbreaking African/Latino woodwind quintet. The group-Valerie Coleman, flute; Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboe; Mariam Adam, clarinet; Jeff Scott, French horn; Monica Ellis, bassoon-has been perfecting this pan-dialectical...

  • Imani Winds' 'The Classical Underground' features music that has never been recorded by a woodwind quintet
    Posted At: January 25, 2005

    Imani Winds is very excited and proud to present our sophomore CD, released on the Koch International Classics label, The Classical Underground. Following the award winning, Umoja, this entire new disc features music that has never been recorded by a woodwind quintet, which alone is a ground-breaking feat! The music of our in house composers, Jeff Scott and Valerie Coleman, are quickly becoming...
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