Results for "Bob Brookmeyer"

Got Big Ears? John Hollenbeck's Large Ensemble at Painted Bride on February 28 and March 6

February 21, 2009

With a huge sound and mesmerizing subtlety, John Hollenbeck's Large Ensemble combines the sonic range of a big band and the intimacy of a small group of closely-knit musicians. Hollenbeck is striking for his compositional process, one that is deeply immersed in personal experience and that uses the accumulation of simple elements to create a complex, ...

Grammy Winner 2009: Jazz

February 9, 2009

= winner Category 45 Best Contemporary Jazz Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.) Randy In Brasil Randy Brecker [MAMA Records] Floating Point John McLaughlin [Abstract Logix] Cannon Re-Loaded: All-Star Celebration Of Cannonball ...

It's the Economy, Man!

by Jack Bowers
January 29, 2009

Even though the present (and future) state of the economy here in the States is no laughing matter, there has been at least one tongue-in-cheek article about jazz musicians seeking bailout money from Congress and the Bush administration (still in power when it was written last December). It's presented as a straight “news" story, but musicians' ...

Vanguard Jazz Orchestra / Bob Brookmeyer

January 28, 2009

THE VANGUARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA In collaboration with PLANET ARTS, SIXTEEN AS ONE MUSIC INC., and THE VILLAGE VANGUARD, PRESENT The Monday Night Legacy: Past Present Future Monday, February 2 through Monday February 9 2009 From February 2 though 9, 2009, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (VJO) will present a special week-long retrospective at the Village Vanguard in ...

Stan Getz: At The Shrine

By Stan Getz

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2008
Track listing: Chocolate Sundae; When Your Lover Has Gone; Candy; Ballade (Lush Life, Lullaby of the Leaves, Makin'Whoopee, It Never Entered My Mind); Woodyn' You.

Stan Getz: Stan Getz: The Bossa Nova Albums

by Chris May
November 11, 2008

Bossa nova was jazz's final moment in the hit parade sunshine before The Beatles swept across the world in the mid-1960s and changed everything. A blend of chilled- out Brazilian samba and cool jazz created by an emergent generation of Brazilian songwriters led by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto, bossa nova (meaning “new flair" or ...

Spirit Music

By Bob Brookmeyer

Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Door; New Love; Dance for Life; Happy Song; Alone; Silver Lining; The End (61:38).

Valse Hot

Featuring the music of Bob Brookmeyer
Duration: 8:01
December 9, 2006

Bob Brookmeyer and the New Art Orchestra: Spirit Music

by Jack Bowers
July 18, 2006

Clever title this, even though perchance unintended. Bob Brookmeyer (in his 76th year) and the impressive New Art Orchestra have recorded their fifth album, and first for ArtistShare, Spirit Music--in other words, the “Spirit of '76. Brookmeyer doesn't mention that in the liner notes, preferring to let others read between the lines and saying only that ...

Bob Brookmeyer And Friends

By Bob Brookmeyer

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Jive Hoot; Misty; The Wrinkle; Bracket; Skylark; Sometime Ago; I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face; Who Cares?; Day Dream; Time For Two; Pretty Girl.