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Hanjin: Raw Jazz
by Jim Santella
With this album of vocal standards accompanied by a rhythm trio, Hanjin climbs the ladder of contemporary male jazz singers and ranks up there with the all-time best. Wordless scat singing that oozes rhythm, convincing lyric interpretations with laid-back attitude, a fine sense of humor that sparkles, and vocal acrobatics that very few will attempt give ...
George Benson's "Songs and Stories" HDS Superdisc Album Now Available from Monster
Monster Music, the sound-breaking music label by Monster Cable, and Concord Music Group have partnered to release the new HDS SuperDisc album for George Benson titled Songs and Stories--available now on Amazon.com! “The Monster version [of the album]... is a specially priced two-disc package that consists of Songs and Stories on compact disc mixed in traditional ...
Al Jarreau: The Very Best of: An Excellent Adventure
by Jeff Winbush
Al Jarreau is the most successful jazz singer of his time and has enjoyed a career that spans four decades. Oddly though, Jarreau has been never been represented with a career-spanning compilation, and his fans have been patiently waiting for a comprehensive overview. They will have to keep waiting. An Excellent Adventure casts ...
Ian Shaw: From Free Jazz to Noel Coward
by Bruce Lindsay
Ian Shaw is a jazz singer. This simple description is accurate--it's how Shaw refers to himself--but it falls well short of doing the man justice. Ian Shaw is one of the most distinctive, original and creative jazz singers on the scene: he is a talented pianist and songwriter with a knack for working with top-quality musicians, ...
Take Five With Johnny J Rivera
by AAJ Staff
Meet Johnny j Rivera:Johnny (j) Rivera is a guitarist/songwriter, multi instrumentalist, and vocalist originally from Southern California, currently living in Las Vegas Nevada. He's been writing songs most his life. Some of his influences range from Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind and Fire, Heatwave, Steely Dan, Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, Paul Jackson Jr, Joe Sample, ...
George Benson: Songs and Stories
Fans of smooth jazz appreciated guitarist/vocalist George Benson's last album, 2006's Givin' It Up, a collaboration with Al Jarreau. While the two seemed to have great fun covering each other's songs as well as other soul and jazz classics, they sounded somewhat reserved, as if afraid to really cut loose. Benson's followup, Songs and Stories, features ...
Aaron Akins: Thinking Love
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
Aaron Akins' music is something out of the ordinary. After all, a certain reminiscence of the voice of Nat “King" Cole wrapped up in the arms of a sophisticated Urban beat is not something heard every day. Jazz is an alive music. Its rawness leaves an open door for pure artistry to grow and ...
Take Five With Mike Mainieri
by AAJ Staff
Meet Mike Mainieri: Primarily recognized as an award-winning jazz vibraphonist, Mike Mainieri's equally remarkable talents as producer, performer, arranger, and composer have contributed to shaping the cutting edge in music. During '50s and early '60s, he performed with such legendary artists as Buddy Rich, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, and Wes Montgomery. ...
Jazz Legends Pay Tribute to Sergio Mendes at Anthology
By Erick Pettersen On July 26, at 7PM, at Anthology--a jazz club in San Diego's Little Italy neighborhood--an ensemble of seven jazz performers, including jazz guitarist Peter Sprague and vocalist Kevyn Lettau, will perform a tribute concert to Sergio Mendes--a Brazilian musician who plays bossa nova, which he crosses with funk and jazz. Mendes influenced modern ...
Joe McBride: Lookin' for a Change
by Woodrow Wilkins
There is The Great American Songbook, that vast repertoire of songs culled from musicals, vintage jazz and early rock--songs that have been tapped dozens of times by artists young and old. It gets to the point that whenever the word “cover" is mentioned, eyes roll and stomachs begin to turn. So it's a pleasant change of ...
