Results for "Brian Swartz"

Article: Big Band Report

Time Check: A Paucity of Riches?

by Jack Bowers
June 2, 2016

On May 18, Betty and I flew to Los Angeles to attend Time Check: A Buddy Rich Alumni Reunion, a four-day panorama sponsored by the L.A. Jazz Institute and held at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel, about a stone's throw or two from the LAX airport. We arrived early afternoon so we could also be present for ...

Album

"Portraiture" Brian Swartz & The Gnu Sextet

By Brian Swartz

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2014

Album

"Portraiture" Brian Swartz & The Gnu Sextet

By Brian Swartz

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2014

Album

"Portraiture" Brian Swartz & The Gnu Sextet

By Brian Swartz

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2014

Article: Live Review

MONK'estra at SFJAZZ Center

by Harry S. Pariser
September 7, 2013

MONK'estraSFJAZZ CenterSan Francisco, CAAugust 22, 2013The music of the legendary Thelonious Monk (October 10, 1917-February 17, 1982) has rarely been heard in a big band setting. The second most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington, Monk's music is nothing if not popular. While Ellington composed over a thousand songs, Monk penned only ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Kim Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra: Artistry

by Jack Bowers
July 24, 2013

On Artistry, the Kim Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra pays homage to one of Richmond's former employers, the legendary Stan Kenton, not by rehashing music performed by the Kenton Orchestra--no matter how forward-leaning that may have been--but rather by renovating a few themes associated with Kenton (and quite a few others that weren't) in the manner in ...

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Smile 4 Me

Featuring the music of Brian Swartz
Duration: 2:27
November 27, 2012

An excerpt from "Smile 4 Me" from HOME, part 4 of the evening length performance "Portraiture" Stories in Jazz." June 9, 2012. Nate Holden Performing Arts Center, Los Angeles. Featuring Jazz Antiqua Dance Ensemble Composer/Music Director: Brian Swartz. Artistic Director/Choreographer: Pat Taylor. Gnu Sextet: Otmaro Ruiz: piano; Trevor Ware:bass; Aaron McLendon: drums; Brian Swartz:trumpet; Keith Fiddmont;saxophone; Phil Ranelin: trombone.

Article: Album Review

Gerry Gibbs: Gerry Gibbs & the Electric Thrasher Orchestra Play the Music of Miles Davis 1967-1975

by Chris M. Slawecki
December 8, 2010

Among other callings, drummer/percussionist and bandleader Gerry Gibbs serves as occasional “aural historian" of the mercurial music of Miles Davis. Gibbs' most recent tribute to one of the most controversial and notorious segments of Davis' career--fusion explorations that began to expand jazz with Nefertitti (Columbia) in 1967 and continued to stretch past even its most elastic ...

Article: From the Inside Out

40 Year Old Bitches, New MilesTones & Others, Too

by Chris M. Slawecki
November 28, 2010

AntibalasWho is This America? Ropeadope Records2010 Few American bands have been more influential in the global Afrobeat movement than the Brooklyn collective Antibalas. Keeper of the African protest flame ignited by Nigerian musician/activist Fela Kuti in the 1970s, Antibalas' reach is expansive and impressive: it contributed to the ...

Article: Album Review

Rickie Lee Jones: Balm in Gilead

by Gina Vodegel
January 10, 2010

If a musical career spans a period of thirty years, there's bound to be ups and downs along the way. Rickie Lee Jones has always insisted on making her own choices, sometimes baffling her critics with yet another puzzle to work out. Here the Duchess of Coolsville combines her multiple talents as an artist, songwriter and ...