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Article: Year in Review

Chris May's Best Albums Of 2023

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by Chris May

Another great year for recorded jazz. Fourteen of 2023's most special albums are presented here. Eight are new recordings and six are reissues or previously unreleased archive items. Joint Number One Best New Albums Of 2023 Irreversible Entanglements Protect Your Light Impulse! There are two contendors for the slam-dunk ...


About Adam Levy

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Adam Levy

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Born on November 27, 1966, in Encino, California, Adam Levy grew up in a musically rich environment: his grandfather, George Wyle, served as music director for television variety shows like The Andy Williams Show and The Flip Wilson Show. Young Levy was exposed early to the values of songwriting, musicianship and studio work through his grandfather’s sessions.

After high school, he studied at the Dick Grove School of Music in Los Angeles under influential teachers such as Ted Greene and Jimmy Wyble — absorbing a deep sense of harmonic nuance and accompaniment technique rather than just soloing.


About Ratko Zjaca

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Ratko Zjaca

www.ratkozjaca.com

Ratko Zjaca ( short bio) -
 is an award winning guitarist, composer and recording artist  with 17 critically acclaimed recordings under his name 
he has recorded and performed with some of the most influential musicians in  jazz and modern  improvisation music. 
After completing his study at the Rotterdam Conservatory, he also studied at New York University School of Music

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Article: Album Review

Jaimie Branch: Fly Or Die Fly Or Die Fly Or Die ((World War))

Read "Fly Or Die Fly Or Die Fly Or Die ((World War))" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

As the malign forces of Amerikkka gather for their 2024 assault on truth, justice and democracy, an assault from which, if it is successful, there may be no peaceable reversal available four years down the line, the American jazz world should hang its head in shame. Denunciations of and opposition to the rise of domestic neo-fascism ...


About Mohammad Basereh

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Mohammad Basereh

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Mohammad Basereh | Composer, psychologist

محمد باسره | آهنگساز،روانشناس


Mohammad Basereh (born August 20, 1996, in Ilam, Iran) is an Iranian composer, music producer, sound engineer, sound designer, and psychologist. He holds an advanced degree in Psychology and has a history of publishing scientific articles in this field. He began his professional music career in 2011, completing specialized courses with renowned professors such as Fereydoon Shahbazyan (composition), Mohammad Reza Azadehfar (art and music therapy), and Nader Mashayekhi (film soundtrack). As a composer and producer of fusion music, he uses interactive technologies in his creative works. His compositions include soundtracks for films and theater productions that have been featured in national and international festivals. In his research and artistic works, he has integrated the scientific principles of psychology with the art of music.



About According to the Sound

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According to the Sound

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Adam and Patrick met as composition students in their first week at Birmingham Conservatoire. Since then, they have worked consistently, writing, and recording music in a variety of musical styles ranging from Jazz (mainly) to electronica and rap. A key feature of their music is their close collaboration with musicians in Bristol and in the US, particularly in New York and their consistent use of Studios in Bristol, in London (Premises studio, Alchemy mastering) and New York (The Bunker studio) in order to focus their sound. They are currently working on their third album.

Adam


About Standard1

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Standard1

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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Michel Legrand: Hollywood Hitmaker And Jazz Genius

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by Chris May

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, ...


About Brian Alexander

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RED123 “Folk Song”

Label: RED123 music
Released: 2022


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