Results for "Omaha"

Richard Brent Turner on Islam, Jazz and Black Liberation

by Lawrence Peryer
July 30, 2021

Richard Brent Turner is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the African American Studies Program at the University of Iowa. Since joining the faculty in 2001, Professor Turner has authored several books, including Jazz Religion, The Second Line, and Black New Orleans, New Edition (Indiana University Press, 2016), and Islam in the African-American Experience, ...

John Worsham

Born: January 8, 1959

Born in Fort Worth, Texas to a Baptist minister father and an English teacher mother, John Worsham began singing at a young age in church and school. At the age of ten he began playing guitar and began studying classical guitar at the age of twelve. He took classical guitar lessons from G. Ricardo Fusco of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra until the age of fourteen, when he began writing songs of his own after the death of his mother. John's first recording experience was at the age of 17 in Falls Church, Virginia. Fresh out of Fork Union Military Academy, he worked with Mike Auldridge (Seldom Seen, Linda Rondstadt) on a recording project with Allen Griffin

Brad Thomson

Born: January 7, 1975

Expressing the human condition through six strings.

Michael Lyon

Michael Lyon is one of the Midwest's most popular vocalists for the timeless standards of the modern age. His classical training in opera and musical theater with some of the world's finest teachers helped him achieve a vocal mastery that in later years provided a smooth transition into the finest swing and jazz classics made famous by the greats and rediscovered by such modern day crooners as Harry Connick Jr, and Michael Bublé.

Kevin Pike

Saxophonist Kevin Pike has performed in numerous jazz groups in Chicago and Omaha. His recordings encompass jazz/funk (Funk 204, Big Ol Chunka Funk) and progressive jazz (Pandemic Tunes, Fractured Intuition, Out of the Plains, pulse/flow).

Magos Herrera: Rebirth in New York

by Gabriel Medina Arenas
June 12, 2014

New York City became the new jazz mecca during the 1920s, when many top jazz musicians from jny: Chicago and the rest of the U.S. migrated to the Big Apple. Jazz musicians from around the globe moved there every decade, knowing New York has some of the top jazz venues in the world, a dozen jazz ...

Mário Franco Trio: Our Door

by Gabriel Medina Arenas
May 18, 2014

Our Door, the debut album from the Mário Franco Trio, is lush with nostalgia and camaraderie, but also creates a vibrant breath of fresh air, offering hope for the present and future states of Portuguese jazz. These gifted musicians met at the end of the 80's in Lisbon's Hot Clube de Portugal, one of ...

Enrico Pieranunzi, Marc Johnson, Joey Baron: Play Morricone 1 & 2

by Gabriel Medina Arenas
April 24, 2014

Film lovers all over the world recognize Ennio Morricone as one of the best score composers of all time. His music has been used in more than 500 movies and TV shows. About 60 of them have won Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTA awards and other honors. Enrico Pieranunzi, Marc Johnson and Joey Baron started ...

Abdullah Ibrahim: Mukashi (Once upon a time)

by Gabriel Medina Arenas
April 17, 2014

Japan and South Africa were never so close. The acclaimed pianist and flautist Abdullah Ibrahim fused the Asian zen calmness with stories and inspiration from his native homeland in his latest album Mukashi. Mukashi translates in Japanese as “Once upon a time" is a very appropriate title considering Ibrahim's impressive storytelling skills, as well ...

Steve Cardenas: Melody in a Dream

by Gabriel Medina Arenas
April 2, 2014

Melody in a Dream is a humble tribute to Steve Cardenas' mentors and music heroes. The Kansas City guitarist who moved to New York City in 1995 pays his respects to figures like late piano genius Thelonius Monk, avant-garde drummer Joey Baron(who is his sideman in this album), the deceased drummer Paul Motian and pianist Horace ...