Makanda Ken McIntyre

In his Makanda Project, the Boston pianist John Kordalewski remembers the saxophonist and composer Makanda Ken McIntyre who died six years ago, as Siddhartha Mitter reports ( Boston Globe ). McIntyre, born in 1931, worked on the Boston scene until the 1950s when he moved to New York to make a career as a musician and a jazz educator. The musicians in the Makanda Project play McIntyre's compositions, a swinging and lyrical music somewhere between the influence of Charlie Parker and the avantgarde. After his death McIntyre's widow found about 400 compositions never recorded by her husband from which pile the Makanda Project now plays several - so far they worked themselves through about 150 pieces.