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Uncommon jazz trio is spellbinding
There is a notable, and rather robust, roster of jazz-playing siblings through the years. A much leaner list of identical twins playing jazz shows that most play different instruments. That makes sense. If you are working together a lot as budding musicians, you need a variety of position players in a band. Peter and Will Anderson ...
Jimmy Smith: Midnight Special – Blue Note 4078
by Marc Davis
The history of jazz is filled with great pairs: Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn--Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker--Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond--Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul. Add one more pair to the list: Jimmy Smith and Stanley Turrentine. Smith was the ground-breaking organist, steeped in the blues, who introduced the Hammond B-3 ...
Vijay Iyer Trio: Break Stuff
by John Kelman
When it comes to jazz/improvised music, there are those who, like pianist Keith Jarrett, prefer to approach it with a blank slate, clearing their minds of everything in order to find a way to pull form from the ether. Then there are those who spend considerable time formulating their approach, and coming up with a philosophy, ...
Vance Thompson's Five Plus Six: Such Sweet Thunder
by Edward Blanco
Knoxville-based Trumpeter, arranger and band leader Vance Thompson formed The Marble City Five quintet over a year ago and when thinking about recording their first album, decided to augment the band by adding a six-piece horn section comprised of some of the city's younger rising talent. The resulting new Knoxville, TN-based group is now known as ...
Vijay Iyer Trio at Brooks Center for the Performing Arts
by Mark Sullivan
Vijay Iyer Trio Brooks Center for the Peforming Arts Utsey Chamber Music Series Clemson, SC 1/15/2015 The Vijay Iyer Trio's performance at Clemson University's Brooks Center for the Perfoming Arts was the first jazz programmed as part of the long-running Utsey Chamber Music Series. As the presenter pointed out ...
I 10 Cd nel CD Player di... Phil Markowitz
by Vincenzo Roggero
01. Count Basie/Duke Ellington -The Count Meets the Duke (Columbia -1961). Incontro ai massimi livelli. Sicuramente la sfida ha tirato fuori il meglio da tutti i grandi solisti, che suonano con grande personalità e swing, con Basie e Duke insieme a sciorinare ritornelli blues. Tutto quello che c'è da sapere su come si suona il ...
Colonic Youth, Andy Farber, Tal Ronen & Paquito D'Rivera
by Martin Longley
Colonic Youth Trans-Pecos December 22, 2014 In the wintry wasteland, the new-ish Trans-Pecos venue did not seem to boast a particularly peachy set-up. It may or may not still be operated by Todd P, normally known as a promoter of slightly swerved rock outfits, and there were tales of this ...
Nora Germain: Little Dipper
By John Wesley Reed Jr. Nora Francesca Germain was born 1991 in Madison, Wisconsin. Now based in Los Angeles with a BA in Jazz Studies from USC Thornton School of Music, she was the first violinist alumna of the Idyllwild Arts Academy. Mentor and collaborator Marshall Hawkins, former bassist for Miles Davis and Shirley Horn, presented ...
Out Of The Shadows
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: CD1: Lush Life; Just A-Sittin’ And A-Rockin’; Passion Flower; Take The
A Train; Strange Feeling; Day Dream; Chelsea Bridge; Multi Colored
Blue; Something To Live For; A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing; Tonk;
Johnny Come Lately; In A Blue Summer Garden; Tonk (Pianistically
Allied); Drawing Room Blues; Tonk.
CD2: Something To Live For; Grievin’; Johnny Come Lately; Take The A
Train; Mid-Riff; My Little Brown Book; Day Dream; Bugle Breaks;
Metronome All Out; I Don’t Mind; After All; Kissin’ Bug; Just A-
Sittin’ And A-Rockin’; Clementine; Paradise; Passion Flower; Satin
Doll; Newport Up; What Else Can You Do With A Drum; Blood Count.
CD3: Take The A Train; Chelsea Bridge; Just A-Sittin’ And A-Rockin’;
Lush Life; Isfahan; Just A-Sittin’ And A-Rockin’; Satin Doll; Take The
A Train; Johnny Come Lately; Satin Doll; Chelsea Bridge; Take The A
Train.
CD4: Everything Is Copasetic; Hip; Blue House; Hipper-Bug; Pretty
Girl; Anatomy Of A Murder; Swing Dance; Feet On The Beat; Matinee; Jo;
Flame Indigo; Fol-De-Rol-Rol; Tiffany; Orson; Lozit; Pomegranate.
CD5: The Intimacy Of The Blues; Paris Blues; The Star-Crossed Lovers;
Chelsea Bridge; Portrait Of A Silk Thread; Day Dream; Lotus Blossom;
Blood Count; Upper Manhattan Medical Group; Chelsea Bridge/Star-
Crossed Lovers/Day Dream; Passion Flower; Three And Six.
CD6: No One Knows; Lotus Blossom; Ballad For Very Tired And Very Sad
Lotus Eaters; Rain Check; Snibor; Noir Bleu; The Star-Crossed Lovers;
Something To Live For; After All; Multi Colored Blue; Mid-Riff; A
Flower Is A Lovesome Thing.
CD7: Smada; Depk; Jazz Festival Jazz; Intimacy Of The Blues; All Day
Long; Balcony Serenade; Snibor; Strange Feeling; Kissin’ Bug; Newport
Up; My Little Brown Book; Mid-Riff; I’m Checking Out, Goom Bye; Rain
Check.
DVD: Take The A Train; Mid-Riff; Chelsea Bridge; Passion Flower; Satin
Doll; Medley: Lush Life/Solitude; Take The A Train; Satin Doll; Take
The A Train.
Ho-Ho-Ho Jazz
Guitarist Nate Najar brought his jazz holiday show to Sarasota on Saturday evening with special guest Harry Allen. The South County Jazz Club event at the Glenridge Performing Arts Center blended jazz treatments of holiday material with some jazz classics. The event marked the club's first opportunity to hear trumpeter James Suggs, an upstate New York ...
