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Nora McCarthy Music Various CDs
REVIEW:  "THE LIFE"  Priceless musical treasures with these musicians entirely in their art and the urgency to say the madness of men, to sing the world in what it has good and bad. Life movement, life energy, cosmic forces boiling, revitalizing electric charges emerge from the golden pavilions of the saxophones of Jorge Sylvester and Johannes Schleiermacher and the bass clarinet of the great and late Gunter Hampel, / The voice of the singer and vocalist Nora McCarthy round by round birds, bulls, lioness, then voices shadows and light, clouds, soap bubble. Voice stories without words, voice sung that rocks, vocabulary with humor, with tenderness, screams its blues with strength, creative imagination, ventures into unknown land. Childhood voice found that plays with everything, marelle voice, one two three sun. Voice of water, voice of fire, voice of air that does not lack breath, this is the exit. Life as a celebration, life always restarted to feel even more alive! . Improvised music or instant compositions, ways to be poetically in the world. Vibraphone stars, drum drum, drums beating the measurement of linear time for another time closer to the mystery of being in the world. P.G/Y Patrick Geffroy Yorffeg
Improvised Sketches, Solo, Duos
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Jorge Sylvester Spontaneous Expressions Octet

Live Recording

New York City's Baha'i Center

Jorge Sylvester Alto Saxophone Solo
Performance + Spontaneous Expressions Improvisations


Featuring the Improvisations of:
 

Nora McCarthy - Voice
Vincent Chancey - French Horn
Waldron Mahadi Ricks - Trumpet
Marvin Sewell - Electric Guitar
Jose Dávila - Tuba**
Kuba Cichocki - Piano
Tony Moreno - Drums

​The Session: A memorable afternoon in NYC at the 13th Street studio, recording session with Gunter Hampel and his European Quartet with Jorge Sylvester and Nora McCarthy, 2010. Gunter's compositions, the outstanding musicianship, and the on the spot poetic improvisations, and vocal expressions made for an unforgettable session. The absolute amazing creativity was an incredible experience as was working with the pioneer and master of modern avant-garde music - a one of a kind treasure.

credits released May 30, 2026

 

German multi-instrumentalist Gunter Hampel (vibraphone, bass clarinet, flute, and piano), was a pioneering figure in European free jazz who founded Birth Records. Hampel is highly celebrated for his impressionistic vibraphone work and probing bass clarinet performances.

 

Gunter Hampel - vibrafon-bass clarinet-flute

Johannes Schleiermacher - tenor saxophone

Bernd Oezsevim - drums

Andreas Lang - bass

Jorge Sylvester - alto saxophone

Nora McCarthy - voice, words

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       AVANT-GARDE,        EXPRESSIONISM,

        AFRO-CARIBBEAN-EXPERIMENTAL
     
        MINIMALISM

ORIGINAL MUSIC AND POST BOP

The Music of A Small Dream In Red
Innovative Voice and Saxophone Duo
Live Recording at Cleveland State University's Sundown Jazz Series (2002)
An afternoon of Total Intuitive Improvisations on Jazz Standards and Original Compositions. CD Released 2003.

(1) Afro Blue/My Romance
(2) Wanting Memories
(3) All Blues
(4) Miles' Mind
(5) Akara Moi Moi

Song Composers/Lyricists
(1) Mongosanta Maria/Rogers & Hart (1935)
(2) Ysawe Maria Barnwell
(3) Miles Davis
(4) Nora McCarthy
(5) Jorge Sylvester

STANDARDS, GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK, DUOS, ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS

 Created By: © Grounds For Art 2020

Painting:  Noah Jemisin

Digital Transformation: Nora McCarthy

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