Results for "Americana"

Lovestruck Balladeers

The Lovestruck Balladeers are the band the mob boss hired to play his daughter’s wedding. Hailing from the American Midwest, Northeast, and Canada, these players, with their crumpled suits and otherworldly faces have collectively committed themselves to bringing old music into the 21st century with all the energy of a train disaster. They might whip out a lost melody from a forgotten mandolin folio, or they might play a Mexican waltz. They might push into a renegade re-arrangement of a swing standard, or get down with a country rag. They are the five scorpion sons of a West Virginia dance hall, a Little Italy tourist attraction, and a Oaxacan birthday party

Americana

By JD Allen

Label: Savant Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil; Another Man Done Gone; Cotton; Sugar Free; Bigger Thomas; American; Lightin’; If You’re Lonesome, Then You are Not Alone; Lille Mae Jones.

JD Allen: Americana

by Angelo Leonardi
November 7, 2016

Con questa profonda, austera e appassionata indagine sul blues, JD Allen intende ribadire la sua centralità nell'ambito della musica statunitense (“il blues è la porta d'ingresso -dice nelle note -per il passato e il futuro della musica americana; la fonte da cui gospel, jazz, rock, country, rhythm & blues e hip hop sono formulati. Lo spirito ...

JD Allen: Americana

by Franz A. Matzner
July 25, 2016

JD Allen is an artist who always delivers. He is also an artist who takes risks, willing to explore his limitations, and then break them; to expose his vulnerabilities, and reflect upon their source and meaning. His experimentation is not obvious. It spirals inwards, orbiting the central axis of jazz, while traversing its various trajectories with ...

Americana

Featuring the music of Bebo Valdes
Duration: 8:15
April 1, 2013

Americana

By Larry Koonse

Label: Jazz Compass
Released: 2003
Track listing: Angeles Crest; You and the Night and the Music; Segues; Changes; Americana; Tristeza; Leisureman Blues; Fax Fiction (50:00).

Larry Koonse: Americana

by Jack Bowers
May 3, 2003

Guitarist Larry Koonse recorded Americana in ’97, then had to wait for the passage of six years and the formation of a receptive record label to see it released. The label is Jazz Compass, an online venture established by Koonse, bassist Tom Warrington, drummer Joe LaBarbera and trumpeter Clay Jenkins to “provide the serious jazz listener ...

Americana

By Arturo Sandoval

Label: Concord Jazz
Released: 1999