Results for "All About Jazz Publicity"

Nobu Stowe Lee Pembleton Project - Hommage an Klaus Kinski (Black Saint, 2007) ****a1/2

June 2, 2008

Those who know Nobu Stowe and Blaise Siwula's fully improvisational records, will be more than thrilled by this one. Stowe joins forces with Lee Pembleton, “sound designer". Other musicians include Blaise Siwula on sax and clarinet, Perry Robinson on clarinet and micro-ocarina, John McLellan on drums and Ross Bonadonna on bass clarinet, alto saxophone and guitar. ...

Individualism: Gil Evans in the 1960s

June 2, 2008

Gil Evans, a Canadian-born pianist and composer, “enormously expanded the vocabulary of the jazz orchestra," as writer Gene Lees pointed out, reducing the standard big-band instrumentation, restraining its vibrato, and adding flutes, oboes, English and French horns, and tubas. Self-taught as an arranger, he created a quietly dramatic, dark-hued sound-world that drew on a multiplicity of ...

Ascona Jazz Award 2008 for Donald Harrison

June 2, 2008

Ascona, Lake Maggiore, Switzerland - Following singer Lillian Boutt (Special Prize 2006) and Father Jerme Ledoux (Special Prize/Award 2007), a third outstanding personage of New Orleans cultural life will be recognized by the Ascona Jazz festival. The Ascona Jazz Award 2008 will be bestowed on the great saxophonist Donald Harrison. The intention of the festival directors ...

'60s Psychedelia Artist Alton Kelley Passes Away

June 2, 2008

Alton Kelly 1940 - 2008 [Petaluma, CA - Sunday, June 1, 2008] Legendary artist Alton Kelley created a graphic style that rocked the world beginning in the psychedelic Sixties. His concert posters, logo designs, LP album covers, and fine art have forevermore defined that time. Kelley, born June 17, 1940, passed away peacefully at home June ...

Father and Son Team Dino and Jose Saluzzi Interviewed at AAJ

June 2, 2008

"Remove the records from Texas, and someone will learn to sing," the composer John Cage once said. The life of Argentine bandoneonist/composer Dino Saluzzi lends weight to Cage's words. Saluzzi was born in 1935 in Campo Santo, a small city in the mountainous Argentine province of Salta, and learned music in the context of daily life ...

Glows in the Dark - Music to Listen to Glows in the Dark by (2008)

June 2, 2008

Scott Burton's compositions are as natural and uncontrived as his guitar playing: they work seamlessly with meaning and breadth. The debut record from his quintet, Glows in the Dark, features eight originals by the guitarist. Often shifting from dire marches to vicious free jazz to driving punk beats, the music never freezes. It would be unfair ...

Hal McKusick

June 2, 2008

The Rifftides staff has no more intention of making this blog a birthday watch than of making it a death watch, although there is an endless supply of both phenomena. However, on the Jazz West Coast listserve, Desne Villepigue pointed out that yesterday was the eighty-fourth anniversary of Hal McKusick's appearance in the world, and that ...

Maria Neckam Tonight at Bar Next Door

June 2, 2008

Old 97's Summer Tour

June 2, 2008

INDIE ROOTS ROCK FAVES HIT ROAD WITH BRAND NEW ALBUM Old 97's Old 97's, one of the most acclaimed and beloved bands to spring from the '90s indie rock scene, released their seventh studio album, Blame It On Gravity, May 13th via New West Records. Forming 15 years ago, the band credits the new ...

"Night of Jazz and Fashion by the Sea Benefit Concert"

June 1, 2008

Nu Groove Records Jazz recording artist Jay Soto will help kick off the first annual “Night of Jazz and Fashion by the Sea Benefit Concert" for children with HIV/AIDS and Pediatric AIDS Research. Jay Soto is a guitarist, songwriter, engineer and producer whose first single, Slammin', became a smash hit and reached #2 on the coveted, ...