Flow in psychology means oneness between you and your doing. Flow in Noah Howard's music means high-density: this is exceeding all boundaries of categorization. A complete magic circle cast by New Orleans born Noah Howard who has travelled from his roots Dixieland, Gospel and Free Jazz through the wonderland the worlds music and funk.

Listen to Noah Howard, Free-Jazz-legend of the sixties, resuscitating his favorite musical terrain in the 90's. Spirited, sensual and energetic.

Noah Howard, born in 1943, New Orleans, USA, Musical training since childhood. Professional musician since 1960.

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RUIS - November 2007 3-page article on Noah (in Dutch)

JAZZ HOT, November 2003 6-page article on Noah (in French)

DOWN BEAT MAGAZINE-NEW YORK: "One of the Best Alto Saxophonist around"
THE NEW YORK TIMES: "He sounds like a New Orleans reed player, gorgeously lyrical! "
SWING JOURNAL-JAPAN: "One of the most representative Musicians of the post Coltrane era"
A CAPITAL-LISBON: "One of the most representative young black musicians"
CINEFILO: "One of the Big Names of 'Free' "
JAZZ PODIUM STUTTGART: "It would be difficult to go beyond such a beautiful sound"
CODA TORONTO: "Perhaps, this nite some of us have seen the birth of a master"

LE MONDE-PARIS: "Five hours of black contemporary music the Noah Howard Quartet with unforgettable sweetness & fury, lyrically closed the concert (Yves Bourde)"
UNITA-FLORENCE: "To demonstrate, in its complete evolution, the itinerary accomplished by jazz music, from dixieland to pop, Noah Howard continues the invention of jazz style"
MUSICA JAZZ-MILAN: "a peculiar dynamic in the saxophone's hypnotic repetitions, with the result of immediately plunging the listener into the theme, into the atmosphere knowingly created by the artist (Stefano Archilly)"
JAZZ MAGAZINE-PARIS: "as a leader Noah Howard can play his music and have it played ample & simple, his sound is no doubt one of the most exciting that one can hear on alto (Philippe Carle)"

DE MORGEN-BRUSSELS: "Noah Howard's warm deep voice and energetic, lyrical saxophone, brings the audience from Chicago blues to post bop and caribbean tunes"
HET NIEUWSBLAD-BRUSSELS: "Noah Howard's international name is a great honor for our country (A. De Swaen)"
STREEKNIEUWS-GHENT: "The American Noah Howard played funk-jazz at its best at the 'Ter Halle' and many others"
DALLAS EVENING NEWS: "Black American musicians find harmony in Paris."

Reviewed on Othermusic.com:

Noah Howard & Bobby Kapp
NOAH HOWARD and BOBBY KAPP "Between Two Eternities" (Cadence) CD $13.99 RealAudio: http://userweb.interactive.net/~tomc/Howard.ram As an alto master, Noah Howard is a player without living peer. In fact, even his dead peers could learn a thing or two about taste and restraint within the avant-garde context. The duet setting with drummer Kapp affords an intimate glimpse into what has kept him at the top of his profession for nearly 40 years. Deft and melodic, poised and balanced, his sinuous lines negotiate an expressway to your skull and an autobahn to your soul. Where lesser talents might be tempted to overplay, Howard holds back; but when he picks his openings, Kapp with him stride for stride, he has burn to spare! Following closely on the heels of his recently reissued 1971 masterpiece "Patterns", "Between Two Eternities", recorded in 1999, documents an artist who has yet to lose a step. 65 minutes. [JG] http://www.othermusic.com