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Michel Legrand: Hollywood Hitmaker And Jazz Genius

by Chris May
February 13, 2023

For many jazz fans, Michel Legrand is celebrated, if he is celebrated at all, for one album only: the masterpiece Legrand Jazz (Columbia, 1958). But Legrand's jazz legacy is more extensive than that, including other historic recordings, with large and small ensembles, under his own name and by Stan Getz and Phil Woods, whose Images (RCA, ...

Brian Alexander

RED123 “Folk Song”

Label: RED123 music
Released: 2022

Isaias Desiderio Florindo

Born: December 24, 1980

Biography

Kari Antila

Born in Laitila, Finland, Kari is graduate of pop/jazz music pedagogue in Stadia, Helsinki, Finland.  Kari moved to Belgium 2003 and studied jazz guitar with famous Belgium Jazz players Peter Hertmans and Philip Catherine. 2006 Kari graduated cum laude from Royal Conservatory of Gent as a Master of Jazz Music. Later on Kari has lived for example in New York and has had opportunity to study with many leading contemporary top jazz guitarists. For example:  Lage Lund, and Gilad Hekselman, 

Kari has worked with many top Finnish and European jazz musicians, for example Jukka Perko, Manuel Dunkel,  Severi Pyysalo, Jaska Lukkarinen, Alexi Tuomarila, Ville Herrala, Aili Ikonen, Pekka Pylkkänen , Jussi Kannaste, Peter Hertmans(BEL), Hans Van Oost(BEL), Bart Van Caenegem(BEL), Sal La Rocca(BEL), Jan De Haas(BEL), Marc Godfroid(BEL), Bruno Castellucci(BEL), Bart De Nolf(BEL), Jos Machtel(HOL), Steven Delannoye(BEL), Gianni Gagliardi(ESP), Dario Guibert(ESP), Francesco Ponticelli(ITA), Luca Santaniello(ITA) Will Vinson(UK)…

Chris May's Best Albums Of 2022

by Chris May
December 2, 2022

It was a good year for jazz, as the world recovered from The Great Pause and bands got together once more for real-time live recordings. Twelve of 2022's absolute top albums are presented here, half of them new recordings, the other half reissues or previously unreleased archive items. Number One Best New Album ...

Mark Kavuma & The Banger Factory At Milton Court Concert Hall

by Chris May
November 23, 2022

Mark KavumaMilton Court Concert HallLondonNovember 18, 2022 Fittingly for one of the closing events of the 2022 London Jazz Festival, trumpeter Mark Kavuma's performance at the Barbican Centre's associate concert hall, a few hundred yards down the road from the main venue, was on an epic scale. Kavuma appeared with ...

Voision Xi

Born: January 1, 1989

A jazz vocalist, lyricist, composer and music producer based in Shanghai, China. Mixed with multiple influences from many genres of music, Voision Xi always digs deep into music on the spirituality of jazz, stacking up her musical experience, developing her unique voice and sound with clear articulation and the sincereness both on the stage or in the studio.

With her own jazz band - ‘Little Happiness Group’, consisted of several outstanding local jazz artists, their debut EP album ‘DEBUT’ combining newly arranged, traditional jazz standards released in 2018 has been a natural filter for human ears with the atmospheric sounds of flowing rivers, blowing winds, the pictures of stars in the cosmos and everything else in your stretched imagination.

Horace Silver: His Only Mistake Was To Smile

by Chris May
August 29, 2022

In his sleeve note for the audio restored Horace Silver album Live New York Revisited (ezz-thetics, 2022), British writer Brian Morton cut to the chase. “[Silver]'s only mistake," he wrote, “was to smile while he was playing... a challenge to the notion that jazz should be deadly serious and played with a pained rictus."