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Cat Conner: Cat House
by Jack Bowers
On Cat House, the follow-up to her superb debut album, Cat Tales, California-based vocalist Cat Conner shows again that she has the astuteness and chops to leave many other contemporary jazz vocalists floundering in her wake and gasping for air. This time around, Conner has chosen a baker's dozen of what she calls her “lucky tunes," ...
Panel of National Jazz Experts and Legends Announce Prestigious 2014-15 Kimmel Center Jazz Residency Artist Participants!
The Kimmel Center’s commitment to Jazz continues as their Jazz Residency winners are announced! The five-person panel, representing some of the nation’s most influential jazz practitioners and innovators—including Kennedy Center Director of Jazz Programming Kevin Struthers, SF Jazz Center Artistic Producer Lilly Schwartz, Jazz at Lincoln Center Vice President of Education Todd Stoll—culled through over 25 ...
Linda Cole and Joshua Bowlus: What a Wonderful World
by C. Michael Bailey
Yes...that Cole Family. The same talent pool that gave us Nat King Cole and Freddy Cole has also given us Linda Cole (a daughter of the brothers Cole's cousin). Linda Cole teams with pianist/arranger Joshua Bowlus and his quartet for a breezy stroll through 13 pieces from the Cole Family songbook and beyond. Globally, Bowlus supplies ...
La Voz de Tres at Tempe Center for the Arts
by Patricia Myers
La Voz de Tres Tempe Center for the Arts Tempe, Arizona September 27, 2014 Chilean-born Natalie Bernal's vocal sound was both illuminatively angelic and deeply sensual, a transfixing contrast for the New York-based trio La Voz de Tres. Her colleagues, Mike Eckroth on piano-vocals and Jason Ennis on seven-string guitar-vocals, make ...
Bob Lark and His Alumni Big Band: Sweet Return
by Jack Bowers
As was the case two years ago (2012) with its first album, Reunion, trumpeter Bob Lark's Alumni Big Band on Sweet Return is comprised of musicians he has supervised in various groups during a long and eminent career that embodies more than twenty years as director of Jazz Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. Even so, ...
Avishai Cohen: Dark Nights
by Vincenzo Roggero
Disco dalle atmosfere notturne, e non poteva essere diversamente visto il titolo, Dark Nights è stato registrato in una sola giornata, con la musica scritta da Avishai Cohen suonata per la prima volta senza prove o accordi preventivi. Rilassatezza e spontaneità sono dunque le parole d'ordine della registrazione che conferma le doti di intenso trombettista e ...
Bob Lark and his Alumni Big Band: Sweet Return
by Edward Blanco
Trumpeter/educator and big band leader Bob Lark, reunites his Alumni Big Band after their critically acclaimed debut Reunion (Jazzed Media 2012), produced some of the best Jazz orchestrations in the business. Sweet Return is the group's encore performance, their return engagement, their audacious follow up and another masterful stroke by leader Lark. This Alumni band is ...
Carl Bartlett, Jr. First Set at the Kitano: Jazz At Kitano
by Mike Perciaccante
Carl Bartlett, Jr. Jazz At Kitano New York, NY September 25, 2014 Alto saxophonist Carl Bartlett, Jr.'s musical bloodlines run deep. The son of Carl Bartlett, Sr. and nephew of Charles Bartlett (who formed an R&B show and dance band “The Bartlett Contemporaries"), Carl, Jr. has ...
Lara Iacovini: Right Together
by Luigi Sforza
Right Together, disco della cantante Lara Iacovini, gode di un indiscutibile primato. Si tratta della prima partecipazione di Steve Swallow in un album di una cantante italiana. Tale presenza, unitamente a quella del batterista Adam Nussbaum e di tutti gli altri bravi musicisti, conferisce al progetto un'indiscutibile valore aggiunto. A ciò si aggiunga un originale ...
Jax Jazz Collective: Lotus Blossom: The Music of Billy Strayhorn
by Dan McClenaghan
Duke Ellington (1899-1974)--Americas's finest bandleader, America's finest composer--released his own tribute to Billy Strayhorn, his partner in music and tune smithing. It was called ...And His Mother Called Him Bill (RCA, 1967). Ellington and Strayhorn's music was so intertwined that the Duke's less that fanatic fans might think that “Lush Life," “Take the A Train" and ...
