Results for "Tommy Banks"

Tommy Banks

Live at Room at the Top

Label: Reel To Real
Released: 2022
Track listing: Three And One; Civilization and its Discontents; Patrice; Oleo;'Tis

Pepper Adams: Live at Room at the Top

by Edward Blanco
April 20, 2022

The late, great baritone saxophonist Park Frederick “Pepper" Adams III may be gone but he is certainly not forgotten, as Live at Room at the Top reveals in a spellbinding and blistering engagement documented but not released until now. Recorded at the University of Alberta Student Union at the Top, in September 1972, Adams and the ...

Record Store Day April 2022 Jazz Releases

by Kyle Simpler
April 19, 2022

April 23, 2022 marks the fifteenth anniversary of Record Store Day. Over the years, RSD has grown from a small once-a-year experience to multiple events depending on the year. Each RSD drop features limited-edition vinyl releases, which are popular among collectors. More importantly, though, RSD draws attention to independent record stores, many of whom have flourished ...

Pepper Adams and the Tommy Banks Trio: Live at Room at the Top

by Pierre Giroux
April 15, 2022

In a foreword by Jim Merod to Gary Carner's biography of Pepper Adams “Reflectory: The Life and Music of Pepper Adams," he describes Adams as follows: “Pepper was essentially alone in his magnificent command of his big horn's imposing challenges. He set a standard for its lyric power and boisterous allure." In ...

Al Muirhead: Northern Adventures

by Jack Bowers
February 28, 2017

When you've been a musician as long as Al Muirhead has, you not only earn many friends in the business, you also recognize who among them can play. For Northern Adventures, Muirhead's second album as leader of his own group, the eighty-one-year-old Canadian trumpeter assembled a who's who of the finest musicians his country has to ...

Johnny Summers: Piano Sessions, Volume 2

by Steve Bryant
January 23, 2016

Canada's contribution to jazz may not be as well documented as that of the United States, but our neighbors to the North have produced some fine players such as Oscar Peterson, Jane Bunnett, Diana Krall, and Renee Rosnes. Now add to that heralded group a young trumpet player by the name of Johnny Summers who has ...

5-Time Global Music Award Winning Vocalist & Trumpeter Johnny Summers Releases New Album For The Holidays Entitled "When It's Christmas Time"!

December 1, 2015

Most musicians say they are lovers of great songs, but very few are able to show it in the way that Johnny Summers does! With the new holiday album, Johnny Summers: When It’s Christmas Time, 2015 winner of three Global Music Awards including Best Male Vocalist, Johnny Summers shows why he has become Canada’s best kept ...

5-Time Global Music Award Winning Vocalist & Trumpeter Johnny Summers Releases Piano Sessions: Volume 2 With Legendary Canadian Pianist Tommy Banks

October 4, 2015

Most musicians say they are lovers of great songs, but very few are able to show it in the way that Johnny Summers does! With the new album, Johnny Summers: Piano Sessions – Volume 2, 2015 winner of three Global Music Awards including Best Male Vocalist and Album, Johnny Summers shows why he has become Canada’s ...

Award Winning Canadian Trumpeter & Vocalist Johnny Summers Announces U.S. Debut At The San Jose Jazz Summerfest!

August 5, 2015

Most musicians say they are lovers of great songs, but very few are able to show it in the way that Johnny Summers does. Johnny Summers, the 5-time Global Music Award winning trumpeter/vocalist, will perform one show at his debut U.S. Jazz Festival performance at the San Jose Jazz Summer Festival at 12:00 p.m. on August ...