Rocket

Rocket: Tipp-Topp

by Bruce Lindsay
March 25, 2012

Rocket--led by writer and keyboardist Emanuel Ruffler--refers to the music on its debut, Tipp-Topp, as Disco Jazz. Lest such a description have too many people running for the hills to escape visions of big hair and bigger flares, it needs stating up front that the epithet fits in a good way. Disco was about having fun, creating danceable grooves that would fill a dance floor time and time again. That's what Rocket does with pretty much everything on this album. ...

New Release By The Hammer Klavier Trio "Rocket In The Pocket"

Source: Jan Matthies Music Management
November 26, 2012

The Hammer Klavier Trio (hKT) is one of Germany's premiere jazz piano trios. In fact they are the only jazz act from Germany that ever has been nominated for an award by the American Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) - “Best Video of the Year" in 2010. Having played a lot in Germany and Europe this nomination meant a lot to them and they put in all efforts to do a 1-week tour in New York City, USA in June 2011. ...
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Enter the "Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - Rocket Science" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
October 26, 2011

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One Track Mind: James Cotton and Billy Branch, "Rocket 88" (2011)

Source: Something Else!
June 12, 2011

Like an aging boxer making an heroic late-round stand, James “Superharp" Cotton brilliantly tangles on a timeless favorite from his 1960s tenure with Vanguard, giving fellow harp master Billy Branch all he can handle. Even now, Cotton's playing style closely resembles his bandleading heyday—a memorably robust player, you imagine smoke and spit blasting out of the other side of his harmonica as he blows—but the 74-year-old has found both a suitable inheritor, and a worthy opponent, in Branch. Perhaps that's ...
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Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Rocket Science (2011)

Source: Something Else!
May 25, 2011

By Tom Johnson Sometimes old really is new again. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones existed as a trio for a handful of years after harmonica/pianist Howard Levy left, only to ask consistent fill-in saxophonist Jeff Coffin to join their ranks. Being a talented guy, he gets around, and when Dave Matthews Band saxophonist LeRoi Moore tragically died a few years ago, Coffin, who had been filling in for him while they were on the road, was asked to join the ...
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Martin Lutz Group Releases "It's Swing - Not Rocket Science!"

Source: Michael Ricci
March 7, 2011

After a four year recording hiatus, the Martin Lutz Group has released It's Swing, Not Rocket Science!, the successor to the Danish Music Award winning album Where Are The Trumpets?. With the new album Martin Lutz Group invites the listener along for a journey through a unique landscape of moods and styles all held together by the special sound of the band and the love and flair of its leader for simple, singable and touching melodies. The album presents five ...
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MP3 Rocket - "Hey RIAA Boss, Our Users Do Not File-Share Music Anymore, They Time Shift It!"

Source: HypeBot
February 8, 2011

Here we go again. MP3 Rocket is mostly known for being a LimeWire spin-off. Not anymore. The company has dropped the P2P functionality of their service and gone legit—sort of. Due to the declining quantity and quality of the MP3s available over the Gnutella network, as well as mounting legal concerns, they have decided to reposition themselves as YouTube downloading technology. The client works as it did before, but with one exception. When users search for music, the results that ...
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Astronauts of Antiquity Release "Rocket Science for Dummies"

Source: Miles High Productions
June 18, 2009

Hollywood, CA--June 15, 2009- The Astronauts of Antiquity sport a very unique name and to their credit the music they produce is fitting and true to their moniker.

The sound of AOA has been described as urban-electro-organica to a jazzy, neo-soulful, electronic exploration. Think of it as musical Art Nouveau in constant motion.

The meeting of India on vocals and B. Rhyan on guitars was a chance encounter at an airport one ...
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Sat Eye Candy: Rocket Man

Source: JamBase
April 12, 2009

HIGH AS A KITE ON A TIMELESS FLIGHT

On this day in 1970, Apollo 13, the third manned lunar landing mission, launched. Thanks to Ron Howard and Tom Hanks we all know how things turned out. Just two years after this snafu plagued flight, Elton John and his lyricist chum Bernie Taupin released one of the ubiquitous singles in modern music, “Rocket Man." (Very) loosely based on Ray Bradbury's tale from The Illustrated Man, the Honky Chateau standout has ...
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