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Take Five with Vocalist Angelina Kolobukhova

by AAJ Staff
June 23, 2023

Meet Angelina Kolobukhova Angelina Kolobukhova was born and raised in Minsk, Belarus. She started playing classical piano when she was five and singing when she was nine. She was introduced to jazz music by her early mentor Veronika Yanovskaya and, under her guidance, she performed jazz and popular music in Minsk and in Europe at competitions, ...

Powerless

By Charles Langford

Label: Blue Canoe Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Bliss; Feel The Light; Better Days Ahead; It’s A New Day; Feeling Nice; Close To You; Let’s Chill; Midnight Mood; Drive Time; Holding Back; Powerless; Thinking Back; Top Secret

Drive Time

April 27, 2021

Album: Powerless
By Charles Langford
Label: Blue Canoe Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 04:42

A Conversation With Adi Meyerson

by Lorens Chuno
October 7, 2018

On her new album, Where We Stand, bassist and composer, Adi Meyerson presents a classic yet personal interpretation of her original compositions. This albums features Adi Meyerson on bass; Camila Meza on voice and guitar; Joel Frahm on tenor & soprano saxophone; Freddie Hendrix on trumpet; Mike King on piano; and Kush Abadey on drums.

Adi Meyerson: Where We Stand

by Jerome Wilson
July 23, 2018

Adi Meyerson is a young bassist and composer living in New York City. She shows a healthy respect for jazz tradition on her debut CD but also shows the ability to play around with more open-ended musical forms. Most of the tracks have the feel of a hard-blowing '60s jazz combo with Joel Frahm's ...

Seven Women (Plus Three) 2018 – Part VII

by C. Michael Bailey
July 9, 2018

Well, that didn't take long. What started as “Five Women" quickly grew into the present “Seven Women" and will continue to the end of this year as “Seven Women (Plus Three) as a continuing reflection of the state of female vocalists and instrumentalists. We are blessed with an abundance of musical riches. Adi Meyerson ...

Robin Eubanks Mass Line Big Band: More Than Meets The Ear

by Troy Collins
February 25, 2016

More Than Meets the Ear is Robin Eubanks' first foray leading a big band in his three decades as a performing musician. The date features compositions spanning Eubanks' entire career, artfully embellished and re-arranged for a formidable 19-piece ensemble. The key difference between this lineup and a conventional unit--other than Mike King's bluesy organ and Boris ...

Robin Eubanks Mass Line Big Band: More Than Meets The Ear

by Hrayr Attarian
January 6, 2016

Trombonist Robin Eubanks is well known for his versatility and inventiveness. It is no surprise, therefore, that his first big band recording, More Than Meets The Ear, is an innovative and engaging work of mainstream jazz. Various influences, across genres, infuse the intricately crafted music that, despite its precise orchestration brims with energetic spontaneity.

Robin Eubanks + Mental Images: kLassik rocK vol. 1

by John Kelman
July 18, 2014

While jazz purists like to think that the artists they love have always been into jazz and nothing else, the truth is often more than a little different: not only have most jazz artists who grew up in the '60s and beyond been unalterably impacted by more than just the jazz music of their time, but ...