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John Berndt: Boston, USA, December 1, 2010
by Gordon Marshall
John Berndt, Joshua Jefferson, Forbes Graham and Flandrew FleisenbergFleisenberg Floft, Fort Point ChannelBoston, MADecember 1, 2010 Alto saxophonist John Berndt of Baltimore, Maryland is a master geometer, and he applies this sensibility to sound. There is a solipsistic quality to his efforts--at work even when he is playing with others--which ...
Argenti & Rosa: Boston Gig
by C. Michael Bailey
When Hank Mobley's “Funk in the Deep Freeze" and Eddie Harris' “Freedom Jazz Dance" are brought close together on a recording, hard bop critical mass occurs, giving rise to music like guitarist Enrico Rosa's “Stress Me" that opens the Argenti/Rosa recording, Boston Gig. But this is a controlled detonation. So breezy and strolling ...
Junior Wells & the Aces: Live In Boston 1966
by Nic Jones
Here's a particularly potent exercise in musical archaeology. By the time the year of this recording rolled around, blues singer/harmonicist Junior Wells had been in the music game for nearly fifteen years, and it seems as though every one of those had been a period of learning. What's particularly interesting is that Wells elected to play ...
Review: Jason Moran's "Ten"
June 15th, 2010 - IMN Update: (From The Village Voice) Jason Moran's New Jazz Testament By: K. Leander Williams Published: June 15, 2010 The jazz grind was much the same as it is today when Bandwagon, pianist Jason Moran's trio with bassist Tarus Mateen and drummer Nasheet Waits, formed in late 1999, spun out of ...
New Music Management & Booking Firm Founded by Music Industry Veteran Scott Foster
SCOTT FOSTER MANAGEMENT provides representation for superb jazz artists ADA ROVATTI, ARLEE LEONARD, PATRIZIA SCASCITELLI, and JAMIE BAUM Music industry veteran SCOTT FOSTER has announced the formation of a new artist management organization, SCOTT FOSTER MANAGEMENT, with a unique spotlight on female jazz artists. Scott Foster's many years in the jazz festival business make him ideally ...
The New World Jazz Composers Octet Releases Second CD: Transitions
The New World Jazz Composers Octet is releasing its second CD, TRANSITIONS, on the Big and Phat Jazz Productions label. This exciting new CD features eight stylistically diverse compositions written by five of the most talented jazz composers on the scene today. Each piece is presented with a combination of precise ensemble performance and inspired solos. ...
West Meets East: Cathy Segal-Garcia & Rebecca Parris at Ryles Jazz Club on June 17
Two Special Jazz Vocalists Unite once again! Thursday, June 17, 2010 8:30pm to 12:00am Cathy Segal-Garcia was born and bred in Newton, MA. Her father was Mike Segal, a sax player and band leader, and mother Natalie had been a big band singer. Cathy's twin sisters, Margy and Edie, joined her in their youth ...
Jazz Cafe Video Contest for Tanglewood Jazz Festival
The annual Labor Day Weekend Tanglewood Jazz Festival will take place September 4-5 at the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Lenox, Massachusetts. Jazz greats highlighting this year's festival include Kurt Elling, John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra, the Eddie Daniels-Bob James Quartet, the Laurence Hobgood Trio, the Julian Lage ...
Air Department fuses world music with jazz for new CD
Once described by a fan as sounding like “an eight-piece duo," The Air Department produces sounds unusually immense for just two musicians. Multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and engineer Roger Ebacher performs original music using keyboards, keyboard bass, melody flute, wood flute, a Casio DH-100 digital horn, kalimba, congas, bongos and doumbek. He's joined by Dennis Pelletier on ...
Celebrate Mary Lou Williams Centennial with Aardvark Jazz Orchestra
Mary Lou Williams Centennial Celebration: From Swing to Sacred Music, a Journey of Faith Aardvark Jazz Orchestra with special guests Geri Allen, pianist and narrator Father Peter F. O'Brien. Sunday, May 9, 2010 at 8:00 pm Boston College, Robsham Theatre, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA. MBTA: Green Line, B-Branch, Boston College Station. Parking nearby. Admission: ...
