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Small-minded jazz critics may choose to hate or ignore female jazz singers simply because they're female jazz singers. But when you get down to it, they have a lot in common with jazz instrumentalists. Both run the gamut from the exciting to the generic, and critics who whine about “the glut of female jazz singers out there" seem oblivious to the fact that there's also a glut of unremarkable instrumentalists out there. The problem with critics who whine about singers ...
read more2024 NEA Jazz Masters Honored At Free Events
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Silky Sullivan
Washington, DC—The National Endowment for the Arts, in collaboration with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, will celebrate the 2024 NEA Jazz Masters at a series of public events April 11-13, 2024, in Washington, DC, culminating in a free tribute concert on Saturday, April 13. The 2024 NEA Jazz Masters tribute concert will include virtuoso vocalist and pianist Amina Claudine Myers, prolific saxophonist Gary Bartz, Grammy-winning trumpet player and composer Terence Blanchard, and writer and Artistic Director ...
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Alfredo Dias Gomes Releases 'Tributo A Elvin Jones,' In Honor Of The Legendary Jazz Drummer
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Alfredo Dias Gomes
Accompanied by a respected team of musicians (Jessé Sadoc, trumpet and flugelhorn; David Feldman, piano; Jefferson Lescowich, acoustic bass), Rio de Janeiro drummer Alfredo Dias Gomes released Tributo a Elvin Jones. Recorded in his home studio with sound engineer Thiago Kropf, the album arrived on digital platforms (Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, Amazon and YouTube Music) on March 1st. “The fascination with Elvin Jones’ style is longstanding,” says Gomes. “The first time I saw him play was on a VHS video ...
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Saxophonist Borys Janczarski Goes It Alone with 'Time Remembered'
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Borys Janczarski
Polish tenor saxophonist Borys Janczarski, who for some years co-led an excellent quintet with drummer Stephen McCraven, has since gone his own way with a quartet of which he is sole leader. This is their first release, Time Remembered, is available exclusively on Bandcamp. Interestingly, the album was made three and a half years ago, in July 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic was scaring the bejesus out of anyone who gathered together—to make music or anything else. It’s a shame ...
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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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Backgrounder: Wes Montgomery - Incredible Jazz Guitar
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery remains one of jazz's finest guitar albums. Recorded for Riverside in January 1960 and released in April, the album came out just one month after Montgomery's first album for the label, A Dynamic New Sound. It's highly unusual for any producer to release two albums by a new artist on top of each other. That's because one is sure to win over record buyers while the other founders. It's unclear why Riverside's Orrin ...
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Vocalist Audrey Silver's Jazz-Inspired 'Oklahoma'—A Soulful Tribute To Iconic Musical
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Mouthpiece Music
Audrey Silver has loved musicals since she was little. As a child, she went to Broadway shows, watched movie musicals and listened to her father’s collection of soundtracks. One of her favorites was “Oklahoma!,” which she adored so much that when she turned 11, she asked her parents if they would play the film for her friends at her birthday party. Although her friends thought her movie selection was a bit quirky, her early passion developed into a life-long love ...
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Documentary: Basie, The Kid From Redbank
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Three days into the week, I'm still hooked on Count Basie. What can I say. The sound, the feel, the simplicity and the prowess—no band was as influential in jazz over the decades. Duke Ellington was a towering figure with a singular band, but I think it's fair to say that he didn't influence nearly as many players, arrangers and bands as the Count. To this day, Basie brings pure joy. Today, here's an hour-long Dutch TV documentary from 1983... ...
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Buddy Rich’s 'Birdland' Lp To Be Re-released On Limited Edition Translucent Red Vinyl July 21, 2023
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Glass Onyon PR - William James
Lightyear Entertainment and Lobitos Creek Ranch, in association with Scabeba Entertainment and the Buddy Rich Estate, have announced the release of a special limited-edition version of the best-selling live album Birdland featuring Buddy Rich and his Killer Force Band at the peak of their performing years. The new release will be a 180-gram audiophile translucent red vinyl collector’s edition. It will be released July 21 through Virgin/Universal Music Group and will temporarily replace the original black vinyl version, which has ...
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Chet Remembered: Enrico Pieranunzi, Bert Joris and the Frankfurt Radio Big Band - A Tribute To Chet Baker
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Vivo Musique Internationale
Enrico Pieranunzi is continuing the collaboration with Bert Joris for their second album together on Challenge. All tracks composed by Enrico Pieranunzi, arrangements by Bert Joris. This CD has a very special meaning for me. Remembering Chet takes me back to 1979 when I first met him. That meeting would soon prove to be a turning point in my musical life. Playing together, sharing concerts or recording sessions with him allowed me to be in close contact with an artist ...
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Frank Zappa's Incredibly Rare Recordings, Believed To Have Been Planned For A Potential Sequel To His Iconic 'Hot Rats' Album, Have Been Unearthed From The Vault And Compiled As New Collection, 'Funky Nothingness'
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Michael Ricci
FEATURES 25 UNRELEASED AND RARE TRACKS AND MORE THAN THREE AND A HALF HOURS OF NEVER-BEFORE-HEARD COMPOSITIONS, COVERS, AND JAMS FROM 1970 WITH CORE GROUP OF AYNSLEY DUNBAR, DON “SUGARCANE” HARRIS, IAN UNDERWOOD, AND MAX BENNETT In 1969, after The Mothers of Invention disbanded, Frank Zappa released his groundbreaking solo debut, Hot Rats. Fusing jazz and rock, the innovative album became one of the artist’s bestselling releases, thanks to classic tracks like “Peaches En Regalia” and “Willie the Pimp.” Over ...
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