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Walt Weiskopf: All About the Sound
by Bob Kenselaar
What is it that drives Walt Weiskopf? It's all about the music, all about the sound.He's reached a large audience in ten years of touring with Steely Dan. He's written a half dozen books on jazz improvisation techniques and methods, and he's taught at the Eastman School of Music, Temple University and New Jersey ...
Peter Erskine: Paging Dr. Um
by R.J. DeLuke
There's not much ground drummer Peter Erskine hasn't covered. He's said to have appeared on more than 600 albums. He has won two Grammys and holds an honorary doctorate from the Berklee College of Music. He's been a part of the big bands of Stan Kenton and Maynard Ferguson, and has played with the ...
Pianist/Composer Peter Horvath's 2nd Album As A Leader, "Absolute Reality," Due March 25
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area since the mid-1980s, keyboardist/composer Peter Horvath has thrived in the region’s highly diverse environment, where various music scenes often overlap. He’s played post-bop with Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Henderson, Eddie Henderson, and Charles McPherson, and funk fusion with the Victor Bailey Group, Marcus Miller, Bennie Maupin, and Lenny White. He’s ...
Birdland
By Buddy Rich
Label: Lobitos Creek Ranch
Released: 2015
Track listing: Mexicali Rose; Birdland; Milestones; Just Friends; CTA; God Bless The
Child; Moments Notice; I Hear A Rhapsody; Three Day Suckers;
Parthenia; Keep The Customer Satisfied.
Get Up!
By Bob Mintzer
Label: MCG Jazz
Released: 2015
Track listing: Get Up!; Land Of Oak; It's Your Thing; I Thank You; Sing A Simple Song; Truth Spoken Here; Elegant People; Civil War; Yeah Yeah Yeah.
UMO Jazz Orchestra with Michael Brecker: Live in Helsinki 1995
by Jack Bowers
If your fondness for big-band jazz includes searching for hidden treasures, here's a recently uncovered gem that should more than gladden your spirit: a concert recording from 1995 by Finland's superb UMO Jazz Orchestra featuring the renowned tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker who left us far too soon a dozen years later at age fifty-seven. The impeccably ...
Joey Calderazzo: Going Home
by Luigi Sforza
Un senso di ordine e precisione, di pertinenza linguistica agli schemi del bop e del post bop infondono in Going Home un carattere di immacolato rigore espressivo. Collaboratore abituale di noti ed importanti musicisti mainstream americani-- tra i quali Jerry Bergonzi, Bob Mintzer, Michael Brecker e Branford Marsalis, quest'ultimo ospite nella garbata ballad “I ...
Dave Stryker: Messin' with Mister T
by Angelo Leonardi
Il “Mister T" del titolo è Stanley Turrentine, il sax tenore scomparso quindici anni fa che ha rappresentato uno dei musicisti più influenti nella carriera di Dave Stryker. Il chitarrista ha collaborato con Turrentine per oltre un decennio e ora lo celebra ospitando dieci eminenti tenoristi contemporanei. L'organico base è il classico organ trio che l'ha ...
European Jazz Conference 2015: Hungarian Showcases
by Henning Bolte
Budapest Music Center European Jazz Conference Hungarian Showcases Budapest, Hungary September, 24-27, 2015 The European Jazz Conference is a step forward for pan-European cooperation and collaboration. What was formerly the General Assembly of the Europe Jazz Network (EJN), became the European Jazz Conference from 2014. It is now also opened to ...
Monterey Jazz Festival 2015
by Josef Woodard
Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey County Fairgrounds Monterey, CA September 18-20, 2015 Try as one might to just take the venerable but vibrant Monterey Jazz Festival for its immediate, present-tense and face value pleasure, historical angles keep filtering into the event, intentionally and otherwise. For this year's big, multi-staged jazz meeting at ...
