Jazz News

Capitol Says Recording Quality at Its Hollywood Building is at Risk

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2008

The music firm says a proposed high-rise next door would damage its unique underground echo chambers. No! No-o-o-o! No-o-o-o-o-o! That plea from Hollywood is reverberating through Los Angeles City Hall as officials try to decide whether a 16-story tower should be built next to the landmark Capitol Records building. A Marina del Rey developer hopes to construct 93 condominiums, 13,442 square feet of commercial and office space and a 242-space underground parking lot next to the landmark, 13-floor, record-shaped building. ...

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The Vince Ector Quartet to Appear at Cecil's Jazz Club on May 16 & 17, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2008

WHEN: May 16th & 17th, 2008 Set starting @ 9 PM

WHERE: Cecil's Jazz Club & Restaurant 364 Valley Road West Orange, NJ (973)736-4800

Vincent Ector hails from the musical city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he began his professional music career at the age of nine years old while attending a music magnet school (GAMP) devoted to fostering arts education in children.

As a ...

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Guitar Legend John McLaughlin to Release New CD and DVD

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2008

2008 release from guitar legend John McLaughlin. John has already said Floating Point, his brand new CD, “May be the best record I ever made." That's really saying something when you consider McLaughlin's prolific and trailblazing career. The guitarist and composer has appeared on some of the most important jazz-rock and world music albums in the last 40 years. For Floating Point, which was recorded in India, McLaughlin used several of the best Indian musicians in the world. McLaughlin calls ...

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Bassist Tony Grey to Release His Sophomore Record on Abstract Logix

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2008

Surrounding himself with a stellar cast of improvisers and fellow virtuosos, including drummers Ronald Bruner Jr and Chris Dave, harmonica ace Gregoire Maret, guitarist Lionel Loueke, bass trumpeter and trombonist Elliot Mason, current collaborator and former Berklee classmate Oli Rockberger, the astounding Holdsworthian guitarist Tim Miller and pianist Hiromi, Grey acquits himself as a remarkably fluent player with a strong melodic penchant on pieces like the beautiful ballad “Don't Look For Love," the breezy “Walking In Walking Out" and the ...

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The European Youth Jazz Orchestra (the Former EBY Big Band) on Tour

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2008

Swinging Europe - The European Youth Jazz Orchestra is an orchestra composed of professional musicians from European and North American countries, touring the Continent for three weeks - each year in the spring - presenting new written big band music under the aegis of the Danish-based organization Swinging Europe and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Each year the band has a completely new line-up: new musicians, new composers and a new conductor. The actual tour: 22nd of ...

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Matthew Shipp Trio: "The Multiplication Table" on Hatology 656

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2008

Matthew Shipp Trio: The Multiplication Table on Hatology 656 Matthew Shipp -piano, William Parker -double bass and Susie Ibarra -drums

Shipp's music displays his own thought processes, and in trio lays out a physical trail reflecting the way the three players think along with each other. Following those thoughts leads us deep into a new jazz style that has sprung, like Athena from the brow of Zeus, out of the body of jazz preceding it. The new relative in the ...

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David Liebman-Ellery Eskelin Quartet: "Renewal" on Hatology 654

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2008

David Liebman & Ellery Eskelin -tenor saxophones,Tony Marino -double bass and Jim Black -drums: Renewal on Hatology 654 Also available Hatology 615: Different But The Same There is a common understanding that we all share of freedom and spontaneity framed within underlying structures accompanied by a loving nod to the jazz legacy. The compositions heard on this CD evidence a diversity of idioms and styles unified by a common aesthetical approach. This is a group where straight ahead and free ...

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Swedish Trumpeter Peter Asplund Profiled at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2008

Peter Asplund, one of Sweden's most talented jazz trumpeters, gets his inspiration from giants like Louis Armstrong, Clifford Brown and Miles Davis but funnels it through his own, very Nordic filter. “I don't pretend to sound like an American trumpeter," he says. “I'm Swedish and that has to come across. As I see it, you have to be uncompromisingly yourself, pursue your own musical vision." He pauses and smiles ruefully. “Then of course you have to get people to like ...

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