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Jazz Across The Generations: The Marel Hidalgo Organ Trio Featuring Roger Humphries And Leonieke Scheuble at Clements Place Jazz on August 15, 2025
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Gregory Burrus
Step into a night of soulful swing and timeless artistry as the Marel Hidalgo Organ Trio commands the stage at Clements Place Jazz, one of the area's most beloved intimate venues. This powerful performance showcases three exceptional musicians spanning generations, delivering a concert that is both historical and fresh Leading the ensemble is 16-year-old Marel Hidalgo, a guitar prodigy whose command of the instrument belies his age. Joining him is the iconic Roger Humphries, age 81, whose legendary rhythms have ...
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Roger Nichols (1940-2025)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Roger Nichols, a sunshine-pop songwriter whose late 1960s and 1970s melodies were among the richest and catchiest of the genre, particularly when teamed with lyricist Paul Williams and groups such as the Carpenters and Three Dog Night, died May 17. He was 84. Nichols also wrote with lyricists Tony Asher and Bill Lane, and was noted for his debut album Roger Nichols and the Small Circle of Friends (A&M Records, 1968), which was produced by Tommy LiPuma. The best way ...
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Roger Lin Displays Sophisticated, Emotionally Grounded Guitar Playing On New Ep
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Christine King
Jazz guitarist/composer Roger Lin has a diverse style and a one-of-a-kind creative approach. He recently surrounded himself with an impressive of world-class musicians in order to release a brand new studio EP titled Whisper Of The Isolated Ones. This release was recorded and mixed by Peter Kontrimas, and mastered by Michael Perez-Cisneros. Performance credits include Phil Grenadier (trumpet & flugelhorn) as well as Ryosuke Tsutsui (piano), Soso Gelovani (bass) as well as Nick Groat sitting behind the drum kit. These ...
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Con Alma Announces Roger Humphries’ Thursday Night Residency
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Mackenzie Horne
Con Alma is excited to announce a new Thursday night residency beginning on November 14. Pittsburgh drumming legend Roger Humphries, whom Horace Silver once described as “one of my best drummers”, will take the Con Alma stage every Thursday from 8:00PM- 11:00PM. Perhaps most famous for his contributions to Silver’s Song for My Father and Cape Verdean Blues, Dr. Humphries is also renowned for his more recent work with the late guitarist Jimmy Ponder and bassist Dwayne Dolphin. He is ...
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Recent Listening: “New” Ones By Anne Phillips And Roger Kellaway
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Until recently, it may have seemed that the singer and songwriter Anne Phillips had resigned as a performer. She had not. Those who remember her 1959 debut album, Born To Be Blue, may be delighted to know that her years below the radar as a writer, arranger, conductor and studio musician did nothing to dilute her impact as a performer. She has buoyed her undiminished presence with a follow-up to her second rare album, Gonna Lay My Heart On The ...
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Tony Adamo and Roger Smith of Tower Of Power Collaborate on "Rain Man Make it Rain Love my Way"— Becomes All About Jazz Top Track
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Tony Adamo on his collaboration with Roger Smith... My Tower of Power (TOP) connection goes back more than 20 years to a recording session in Dave Hartel’s studio in Half Moon Bay, California. Hartel was the organ player for Lydia Pense and Cold Blood at the time, and brought in Mic Gillette and Skip Mesquite to lay down the horn tracks on one of my new songs. From that session Mic and I became fast friends. He continued to write ...
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Roger Guérin: Paris Meeting
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Paris in the 1950s was a special place. Unlike most urban areas in Europe, the city had endured little physical damage during World War II. Miraculously, it was spared German and Allied bombings during its capture, occupation and liberation. The toll on its population was a different story. City residents lived in harsh conditions under Nazi control, enduring cruelty, deportations and deaths at the hands of the Gestapo and German occupiers. When Allied forces liberated Paris in August 1944, residents ...
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Roger Moore and Sinatra
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Roger Moore, who played a dashing secret agent in TV's The Saint and in seven James Bond films, died on May 23, 2017. He was 89. Though Roger wasn't a jazz musician and had nothing to do with music (the point of this blog), I had an opportunity to interview him for one of my Wall Street Journal “Playlist" columns. When I called Roger in late 2014 to do the interview, he was living (naturally) in Monaco. Just saying Monaco ...
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Interview: Roger Kellaway
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
On Thursday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m., pianists Roger Kellaway and Peter Beets will be appearing together as a duet at New York's Sheen Center as part of producer Pat Philips' Jazz on Bleecker Street concert series. They will be performing The Many Moods of McCartney. For more information and to buy tickets, go here. The concert will be held at the Loreto Theater at 18 Bleecker St. Here's how the concept sounded with the Asheville Symphony at the Thomas ...
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Roger Waters Eyes "The Wall" Protest Concert On U.S. - Mexico Border
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HypeBot
Roger Waters is considering staging a performance of Pink Floyd's 1979 classic “The Wall" on the US-Mexico border as a protest against the immigration policies of US President Donald Trump. Waters has previously used the album as a protest tool, famously performing the work in Berlin in 1990 to commemorate the end of the Berlin wall in the previous year. Speaking to the Agence France-Presse news agency in London late last week, Pink Floyd co-founder Rogers noted that he felt ...
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