Results for "Beatles"

Article: In Pictures

Tommy Igoe and the Birdland All Stars at the Sandler Center for the Arts

by Mark Robbins
March 28, 2018

In 2014 Tommy Igoe was voted the Worlds #1 Jazz Drummer in a Modern Drummers Readers Poll. Once you see him in action, you'll know why. Backed by his nine piece Birdland All-Star Band Igoe more than lives up to his reputation. Think of Buddy Rich on steroids. Steely Dan, the Beatles, Snarky Puppy, Latin, David ...

Article: Live Review

Di Vi Kappa 3 al Pinocchio di Firenze

by Neri Pollastri
March 6, 2018

Di VI Kappa Trio Pinocchio Live Jazz Firenze 3.2.2018 Per il secondo appuntamento del Pinocchio in collaborazione con Metastasio Jazz 2018, sul palco del jazz club fiorentino la curiosa proposta del trio Di Vi Kappa: una rilettura particolarissima, tra camera e sperimentazione, dei Beatles e dei Rolling Stones. Un modo, ...

Article: Jazz Bastard

February 2018: The Necks, Vienna Art Orchestra, Elliot Mason

by Patrick Burnette
February 22, 2018

After a January of unusual episodes, the boys are back in the groove for February. Episode 133 features a wide spread of entries, from Juli Wood's tribute to Finnish folk music Synkka Metsa to the Vienna Art Orchestra's energetic homage Duke Ellington's Sound of Love. Alex Sipiagin's Returning also gets a thorough look-in, along ...

Article: The Big Question

Presenting Problem

by Duncan Heining
January 30, 2018

Jazz often appears to exist within its own cultural and artistic paradigm, isolated from other arts and in its own discreet musical corner. Worse still from the perspective of those who would hope to make a living from it, it often seems that more people want to play the music than listen to it or, more ...

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Article: Live Review

Michael Lington At Blue Note Napa

by Walter Atkins
October 28, 2017

Michael Lington Blue Note Napa Napa, CA October 7, 2017 Danish saxophonist Michael Lington and company presented a genuinely rousing evening of contemporary jazz music and a few surprises at the inviting Blue Note Napa venue. The exhilarating second set also included a few tracks from his current Second Nature album ...

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Article: Live Review

Earl Thomas At Biscuits & Blues

by Walter Atkins
July 22, 2017

Earl Thomas Returns to Biscuits & Blues Earl Thomas Homecoming Biscuits & Blues San Francisco, CA July 7, 2017 Earl Thomas and his potent band ignited the enthusiastic audience at San Francisco's Biscuits & Blues, located near Union Square. Vocalist Thomas' band featured: guitarist and band ...

Article: Live Review

James Taylor and Bonnie Raitt at the Prudential Center

by Mike Perciaccante
July 15, 2017

James Taylor and Bonnie Raitt The Prudential Center Newark, NJ July 6, 2017 On a pleasant Thursday evening just after the 4th of July, when many of the audience members were enjoying an extended Independence Day holiday, James Taylor and Bonnie Raitt touched down at Newark, NJ's Prudential Center for the ...

News: Recording

The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper at 50

June 1, 2017

Fifty years ago today, Capitol Records released the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Bandin the U.S. Two months later, my Aunt Mary gave me the album for my birthday. Astonishingly, nothing from the album was released as a single for AM radio. At 11, I was a big Beatles fan, but I couldn't figure out ...

Article: Live Review

Joe Jackson at the Paramount Theater, Denver

by Geoff Anderson
October 25, 2015

Joe Jackson Paramount Theater Denver October 8, 2015 Joe Jackson has led a double (or maybe triple) life for most of his lengthy career. He hit the scene in 1979 with his debut album Look Sharp! (A&M 1979) rolling into the U.S. from England as part of the “New Wave," a ...

Article: Film Review

The Who Live at Shea Stadium 1982

by Doug Collette
August 29, 2015

The Who Live at Shea Stadium 1982 Eagle Vision 2015 It's equal parts courageous and foolish for The Who to release this document of their 'farewell' tour from over four decades ago as the group celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2015. Business enterprise aside, the band as it was constituted at ...