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Two for the Show Media Celebrates Another Year Serving the Jazz World
2009 marks another year in the books for the Jazz publicity firm Two for the Show Media. The agency based out of New York welcomed in the New Year with two grammy nominations (Peter Erskine & Arturo O’Farrill) and one Grammy win for Best Latin Jazz CD for “Song for Chico” (Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro-Latin ...
Avery Sharpe Trio at Sweet Rhythm (NYC)on May 15th and 16th
Bassist/Composer & Bandleader Avery Sharpe will be performing with his Trio at Sweet Rhythm in New York City on May 15th & 16th, 2009 at 8:00 PM & 10:00 PM in celebration of their new Trio CD release Autumn Moonlight Avery Sharpe Trio: Avery Sharpe on bass Onaje Allan Gumbs ...
Avery Sharpe: Legends & Mentors; Autumn Moonlight
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Avery SharpeLegends & MentorsJKNM2009 Avery SharpeAutumn MoonlightJKNM2009 Few bassists in jazz have Avery Sharpe's technique and imagination. A pair of recent releases, different in focus but with a shared overall ...
The Avery Sharpe Trio Live in Brooklyn on May 9th
Bassist/Composer & Bandleader Avery Sharpe will be performing with his Trio at The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Concert Hall in Brooklyn, NY on May 9, 2009 at 8:00 PM in celebration of their new Trio CD release Autumn Moonlight Avery Sharpe Trio Avery Sharpe - bass Onaje Allan Gumbs - ...
Avery Sharpe Trio: Autumn Moonlight
by Glenn Astarita
Highly regarded bassist Avery Sharpe has been a first-call session musician due to his long affiliation with pianist McCoy Tyner and others of note. Moreover, he's a viable solo artist, evidenced here on this multicolored 2009 piano trio venture. Sharpe is the traffic director here, though it's a democratic engagement, comprised of covers and original compositions, ...
The Avery Sharpe Trio: Autumn Moonlight
by C. Michael Bailey
The Avery Sharpe Trio makes a sharp dressed brand of jazz. At once intelligent and immediate, the eleven songs that make up Autumn Moonlight are splendid fuel for Sharpe's crack piano trio with exceptional pianist Onaje Allen Gumbs and drummer Winard Harper, who collectively raise the art of the trio to a level where the concert ...
Legends & Mentors
By Avery Sharpe
Label: JKNM Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Big Mac (Bro. Tyner); Ballad For Aisha; Fly With The Wind; The Chief (Bro. Shepp); Steam; Ujaama; Gentle Giant (Bro. Lateef); Morning; Because They Love Me.
Legends and Mentors
By Avery Sharpe
Label: JKNM Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Mac; Ballad For Aisha; Fly With The Wind; The Chief (Bro. Shepp); Steam; Ujamma; Gentle Giant (Bro. Lateef); Morning; Because They Love Me.
Avery Sharpe: Legends & Mentors
by Michael P. Gladstone
Bassist Avery Sharpe pays homage to three jazz musicians influential in his life: McCoy Tyner, Archie Shepp and Yusef Lateef. The ambitious and powerful Legends & Mentors provides Sharpe the opportunity to present his own music as well as the compositions of Tyner, Shepp and Lateef. The bassist has provided one section apiece for each artist, ...
Avery Sharpe: Legends & Mentors
by Woodrow Wilkins
Typically, when an instrumentalist or solo artist creates new music, the instrument carries most of the leads. That's not necessarily the case with acoustic bass players. In a class that includes Rufus Reid, Harvie S and Charles Fambrough, Avery Sharpe presents music that features the entire ensemble more than himself.Sharpe, a native of Valdosta, ...
