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Take Five With Adam Glasser
by AAJ Staff
Meet Adam Glasser:Adam grew up in South Africa influenced by township jazz. He took a UK English Literature degree, started gigging as pianist in Paris 1980, with a semester at Berklee in 1981. He gigged around London '80s/'90s with own trio and commercial gigs, tours with Jimmy Witherspoon, Martha Reeves, and for Manhattan Brothers, ...
Big Crazy Energy New York Band: Inspirations Vol. 1
by Woodrow Wilkins
The Big Crazy Energy New York Band isn't a name to be taken lightly. This hard-charging group of musicians fuses big band depth to a selection of pop and jazz songs on Inspiration. The band is led by composer/producer/trombonist Jens Wendelboe, who toured with Blood, Sweat and Tears, was musical director for Donna Summer ...
Big Crazy Energy New York Band: Inspirations Vol. 1
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The key word in the name of trombonist Jens Wendelboe's band for Inspirations, “Big Crazy Energy New York Band," is “energy." If there is one thing that there is a surfeit of--and there is much to cheer about here--it is vim and verve. The other unusual and welcome aspect of the record is that it consists ...
Jens Wendelboe's Big Crazy Energy New York Band: Inspirations, Vol. 1
by Jakob Baekgaard
Whenever Norwegian-born trombonist, composer, and arranger Jens Wendelboe starts working with his Big Crazy Energy New York Band, there's a rock-solid guarantee that it won't be boring. With uncompromising energy and an impeccable flair for picking tunes that will make his band swing like mad cats on the prowl, Wendelboe serves up his very own funkified ...
World Renowned Drummer, Billy Cobham-New Album Release January 2010
“PALINDROME" set to be released January 2010 New York, NY: Billy Cobham's 2nd installment in the “Fruit From The Loom" series is set to be released at the beginning of 2010 through his production company “CREATIVE MULTIMEDIA CONCEPTS." The compositions in “Palindrome" represent Billy's re-engagement with music that he created as far back as thirty years ...
Various Artists: Jazz Around The World
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Putumayo World Music is a unique record label. It is a label of “various artists" projects, but what sets it apart from other labels that produce compilations of music is that Putumayo compilations are well off even the road less travelled. First of all, the label compiles not so much songs by artists, but music that ...
Ari Hoenig Quartet: Niu's Jazz & Blues Bar, Bangkok
by Ian Patterson
Ari Hoenig Quartet Niu's Jazz & Blues Bar Silom, Bangkok, Thailand November 5, 2009 There is no other drummer quite like New Yorker Ari Hoenig. Watching him play is like marveling at a cross between Animal, the wild drummer of Muppets fame, and Max Roach. His approach to drumming ...
Billy Cobham New Release "Palindrome" in 2010
The Legendary Drummer Billy Cobham's new CD Palindrome is set to be released at the beginning of 2010. About Billy Cobham The legendary Billy Cobham, with his matchless, dazzling, ambidextrous skills as a drummer, has applied the same insistent fervor to his long list of monumental achievements. Hes an accomplished composer and record producer. It is ...
Steve Kuhn: On Japan
by Wayne Zade
Steve Kuhn's most recent CD, Mostly Coltrane (ECM, 2009), pays tribute to John Coltrane, having been the first pianist in the legendary saxophonist's quartet. He also has played as a sideman with Kenny Dorham, Art Farmer, Stan Getz and many others. Mostly Kuhn has led his own groups, largely trios with bassists including Buster Williams, Eddie ...
