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Trombonist Marshall Gilkes Gives Orchestral Shape to Small Group Jazz
Third CD Sound Stories Features Donny McCaslin, Adam Birnbaum, Yasushi Nakamura & Eric Dobb “Marshall Gilkes is the best trombonist to come into jazz in the new millennium." —Stereophile Magazine Trombonist-composer Marshall Gilkes makes a major statement on Sound Stories (March 6, Alternate Side Records). Working with a sympathetic, immensely talented quintet featuring saxophonist Donny McCaslin, ...
Travelling the “Rhythm Road”: Jazz Ambassadorship in the Twenty-First Century
by Victor L. Schermer
When asked to define jazz, Count Basie, said, “Tap your feet!" Rhythm brings people together, and is part of what makes jazz America's musical bridge to the world. “Jazz ambassadorship," a concept which came on the scene over half a century ago, continues into the New Milennium. One current basis for its longevity is that every ...
Cara Campanelli: So Near
by Dan Bilawsky
Harry Nilsson said that “one is the loneliest number" and another common phrase is that two's company and three's a crowd. Keeping this in mind, vocalist Cara Campanelli wisely chose the middle road and seems right at home crafting duo readings of standard gems from an era long gone. Campanelli is a New York native who ...
Travels
Label: Smalls Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Jackhammer; Kat's Dance; Three for One; Kate the Great; Travels; Band
Call; Song of Those Who Seek; House Party Starting; Hor' Ich Das
Liedchen Klingen; Urgency; The Very Thought of You; Camden.
Adam Birnbaum: Travels
by Christopher Shoe
Travels is the long awaited debut album for one of the younger voices in jazz piano. The term debut, however, is ill suited for someone like Adam Birnbaum, who has spent his short career opening for, and performing with, some of the better-known names in the industry such as saxophonist Greg Osby and pianist Brad Mehldau. ...
Adam Birnbaum: Travels
by Marcia Hillman
Pianist Adam Birnbaum gets around a lot, both geographically and musically--touring West Africa, for example, as part of the Rhythm Road program. Here however, he and his traveling companions--Sharel Cassity (alto and soprano saxophone), Joe Sanders (bass) and Rodney Green (drums)--take a musical journey through material mostly composed by the pianist. Birnbaum's credentials ...
Travels
Label: Smalls Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Jackhammer; Kat's Dance; Three FOr One; Kate The Great; Travels; Band Call; Song Of Those Who Seek; House Party Starting; Hor Ich Das Liedchen Klingen; Urgency; The Very Thought Of You; Camden.
