Results for "Mike Mitchell"

Mike Mitchell

Jahari Stampley at Jazz Alley

by Paul Rauch
February 5, 2024

Jahari Stampley Jazz Alley jny: Seattle, WA January 30, 2024 There are certain immutable facts that present themselves to you when engaging with 2023 Herbie Hancock Institute International Competition winner, Jahari Stampley. First, he is a brilliant pianist, with prodigious talent and a commanding presence. Secondly, he is a large ...

Cameron Graves: Live From the Seven Spheres

by Mike Jurkovic
April 27, 2022

Since bursting on to the scene full-birthed as part of the West Coast Get Down collective spotlighted on Kamasi Washington's truly epic debut, The Epic (Brainfeeder, 2015), fire-balling pianist Cameron Graves, even when entertaining his inner Chopin, comes at the listener with a force and fury that blows the doors in, windows out, senses to smithereens. ...

Jazz Returns to Seattle's Central District: Two Evenings of Black Brilliance

by Paul Rauch
November 19, 2021

There is a miracle on the corner of 12th Avenue and Jackson St. in what is now Seattle's “Little Saigon." In what was a traditional African American and Jewish community before the influx of Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian immigrants after the war in Southeast Asia in the early 1980's, this urban crossroads was the main pulse ...

Peace

By Greg Spero

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2020
Track listing: Nails; Spirit Food; Kalashnikov; Goodbye; London Blues; Earthbound; Nolo; Cokes With Gregs; Cross Twine; Lamella; I'll Be Around; Lest We Forget; Saltwater

Spirit Fingers: Peace

by Phillip Woolever
August 11, 2020

Variety is said to be the spice of life and it's also a big plus for music. What stands out on this record is variety of the broadest measure. Pianist Greg Spero has a diverse resume that includes assembling this powerful quartet boasting guitarist Dario Chiazzolino and the mighty rhythm section of bassist Max ...

Tbilisi

By Max Gerl

Label: Dolfin Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Tbilisi; If It Happened to Me; Suntrip; Counter.

Blaque Dynamite: Killing Bugs

by Kevin Press
November 20, 2017

Child prodigies have been with us for hundreds of years. And yet they're still not fully understood. Loosely defined as anyone under age 10 who produces something an adult expert in that field would be proud to call his or her own, these rare kids don't always mature into greatness. For every Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and ...

The Stanley Clarke Band At Kuumbwa Jazz Center

by Walter Atkins
July 3, 2017

The Stanley Clarke Band Kuumbwa Jazz Center Santa Cruz, CA June 15, 2017 Preeminent bassist/composer Stanley Clarke and his talented band came to the welcoming and intimate environment of Santa Cruz's Kuumbwa Jazz Center for an enjoyable one night only date. The four time Grammy winner's band of young lions consisted ...

Bass Legend Stanley Clarke’s New Album Up Reaches New Heights The Stanley Clarke Band: Up

September 29, 2014

Bass virtuoso Stanley Clarke’s new recording, The Stanley Clarke Band: UP, is scheduled for release September 30 on the Mack Avenue Records label. He considers UP to be the most energetic, fun, rhythmic and upbeat album that he has ever done and with more than forty albums under his belt, that’s saying quite a lot. Clarke’s ...