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Trombonist Reggie Watkins Centers Himself In, But Branches Out From, His Pittsburgh Home On 'Rivers,' Set For March 28 Release On BYNK Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—trombonist-composer Reggie Watkins’s adopted hometown, and one of America’s richest jazz cities—is at the heart of Rivers, Watkins’s fourth album as a leader, to be released March 28 on BYNK Records. But the album doesn’t confine itself to the City of Bridges. Ever the restless explorer, Watkins uses a Pittsburgh-based, post-bop jazz quartet featuring pianist Michael Bernabe, bassist Eli Naragon and drummer Jason Washington Jr. to take on the world. Even the title of the record (the first to ...
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Wild Tone Artists Takes Over From Reggie Marshall's MarsJazz
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Sujata Subramanian
Wild Tone Artists is pleased to announce its launch as a jazz booking agency, continuing the work of industry veteran Reggie Marshall. After more than 30 years running MarsJazz, Marshall has retired, and Wild Tone Artists will carry forward his mission of supporting jazz musicians. Led by Sujata Subramanian, who has a background in tech and a deep appreciation for jazz, Wild Tone Artists aims to build on Marshall’s work while offering new opportunities for musicians. For Sujata, stepping into ...
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Drummer-composer Reggie Quinerly Explores The Possibilities Of Afro-Latin Jazz With The January 19 Release Of 'The Thousandth Scholar' On Redefinition Music
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Terri Hinte Publicity
The rich straight-ahead jazz of Reggie Quinerly gets an Afro-Caribbean spin with The Thousandth Scholar, to be released January 19on hisown Redefinition Music. Quinerly’s fifth album finds the drummer/composer seasoning his musical recipes with what Jelly Roll Morton called “the Spanish tinge,” a sometimes-subtle Latin flavor that he achieves without sacrificing his distinctive soulful sound—and with the help of an ace quartet including pianist Manuel Valera, bassist Matt Brewer, and percussionist Samuel Torres. The form of the quartet, featuring both ...
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Drummer-Composer Reggie Quinerly Examines His Relationship With The City That Never Sleeps On 'New York Nowhere,' Set For March 12 Release
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Drummer-composer Reggie Quinerly tempers his ever-soulful post-bop jazz concept with a sense of rumination with the March 12 release of New York Nowhere on his own Redefinition Records. The album, Quinerly’s fourth, finds him bidding farewell to the jazz capital of the world, which he called home from 1999 to 2020. Joining him for his send-off is a quintet of the Big Apple’s finest, including trumpeter Antoine Drye, tenor saxophonist John Ellis, pianist John Chin, and bassist Sean Conly. A ...
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Keystone Jazz Collective, Co-Founded By Pittsburgh Trombonist Reggie Watkins & Philadelphia Bassist Nimrod Speaks, Announces New Organization & July Concerts
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Terri Hinte Publicity
The Keystone Jazz Collective is a tale of two Pennsylvania cities. Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, not to mention the surrounding regions, have brought far more than their share of jazz to the world. Whether it’s Billy Strayhorn and Art Blakey from Pittsburgh, Henry Mancini from the nearby town of Alquippa, or Benny Golson, John Coltrane, and McCoy Tyner from Philadelphia, the list rapidly expands to include dozens of the greatest musicians of all time periods. Now the newly formed Keystone Jazz ...
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Drummer/Composer Reggie Quinerly Reveals A New Aspect Of His Musicianship With The April 20 Release Of "Words To Love"
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Hailed by DownBeat as the embodiment of “style, substance, soul, and swagger,” Reggie Quinerly is just the kind of drummer to take on a first-time challenge—like writing an album’s worth of songs featuring vocalists. “As a drummer, I’m always trying to write things you wouldn’t expect,” says Quinerly. On Words to Love, his third album as a leader which is set for April 20 release by Redefinition Music, Quinerly composed music and lyrics for eight songs exploring the many facets ...
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Jazz this week: Jamison Ross, Mardra and Reggie Thomas, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Though not nearly as packed as last week's calendar, this week's schedule of jazz and creative music performances in St. Louis still offers listeners here their first look at a much-praised, up-and-coming jazz talent; the return of a couple of local favorites who have moved away; and a variety of shows from our own hometown performers. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, October 5 Drummer and singer Jamison Ross makes his St. Louis debut with the first of four nights ...
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Trombonist Reggie Watkins's "Avid Admirer: The Jimmy Knepper Project" Set For July 15 Release
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Trombonist Reggie Watkins had the opportunity to meet trombone master Jimmy Knepper just once, shortly before Knepper’s death in June 2003. Watkins was performing in his native Wheeling, WV with Maynard Ferguson’s Big Bop Nouveau Band, and Knepper, himself a Ferguson alumnus, was in the audience. The older musician complimented Watkins after the concert and shook his hand. Little did Watkins realize that a series of remarkable circumstances ten years later would lead him to record an album of Knepper ...
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Jazz this week: Moon Hooch, Avishai Cohen's Triveni, Mardra & Reggie Thomas, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
View more events at stlouis.jazznearyou.com. Memorial Day weekend may be arriving a bit earlier than usual this year, but along with it, St. Louis fans of jazz and creative music can enjoy a couple of touring headliners, the return of some longtime local favorites, a day of performances paying tribute to an influential figure on the local scene, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, May 20 Moon Hooch returns to St. Louis for another gig at 2720 Cherokee. ...
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Drummer Reggie Quinerly's "Invictus" To Be Released March 17 By Redefinition Music
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Drummer/composer Reggie Quinerly made an indelible impression on the jazz world with his 2012 debut recording, Music Inspired by Freedmantown, a soulful and serious-minded tribute to the historic African-American neighborhood in Houston where he grew up. For his second CD, Invictus, which will be released by the drummer’s Redefinition Music label on March 17, Quinerly takes inspiration—and the CD’s title—from the 1875 poem by William Ernest Henley (“I am the master of my fate / I am the captain of ...
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