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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 ...
Vance Thompson's Five Plus Six: Such Sweet Thunder
by Jack Bowers
For the mathematically challenged, Vance Thompson's Five Plus Six equals eleven. In other words, it's Thompson's working quintet, the Marble City Five, amplified by half a dozen horns. On its debut recording, the Knoxville, TN-based ensemble performs music by Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Thelonious Monk and--brace yourself--country singer Dolly Parton. In fact, Parton's “Little Sparrow," the ...
South Africa at the South Bank
by Duncan Heining
The Dedication Orchestra and Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya The South Bank Centre London Jazz Festival November 15, 2014 The London Jazz Festival is now in its twenty-second year. It's a vast, sprawling event and its venues criss-cross a city that never quite seems to end, whilst its musical styles span ...
The Nash Second Anniversary in Phoenix
by Patricia Myers
The Nash Second Anniversary The Nash/Private Home Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona October 31, November 1-2, 2014 There's something about the way Lewis Nash plays drums. No, there's everything about the way he plays drums--selectively, tastefully, underplaying vs. bombastic; in a word, elegantly. Nash's classy combination of swing and sophistication was abundantly evident during ...
