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Jaco Pastorius Has Vinyl LP, Official Documentary For Record Store Day
Limited-issue releases available in brick-and-mortar record stores on Record Store Day, April 19, 2014. Get in line now! Jaco Pastorius documentary, Jaco, is the official Record Store Day film for 2014 LOS ANGELES, CA: If only every day could be like Record Store Day . On a mid-April Saturday, the hearty breed of surviving disc emporiums ...
Portnoy - Sheehan - Macalpine - Sherinian: Live In Tokyo
by Glenn Astarita
This 2-CD set highlights the progressive rock super-group's performance at a Tokyo venue in 2012. The material is culled from the respective artists' songbooks, yet their prior collaborations in various ensembles also signify a nucleus for modern prog-rock fare. As one would anticipate, sparks are flying all over the place via a high-velocity and impacting program ...
Cava Menzies and Nick Phillips: Their Moment
by Bob Kenselaar
Every once in a while, a couple of jazz musicians who've never played with each other before find themselves together on a bandstand, and something special really clicks. They just jell musically as if they've been playing together all their lives. Pianist Cava Menzies and trumpeter Nick Phillips experienced such an encounter not long ago, when ...
Invisible Astro Healing Rhythm Quartet: Invisible Astro Healing Rhythm Quartet
by Mark Corroto
While the tagline 'Miles Smiles' is more befitting Miles Davis' second great quintet, it is an apt reference to this recording by the Invisible Astro Healing Rhythm Quartet (IAHRQ), who draw not so much from the Columbia recordings by Miles Davis E.S.P> (1965), Sorcerer (1967), or Nefertiti (1968) but from the great electricity of Live-Evil (1971) ...
The Blue Note, Pictorial Jazz History Now Available
“The Blue Note takes me home to the heady days of Seattle’s jazz scene. It's a fine blend of rare photographs, first person accounts and scholarship. It also shines light on the path-breaking union musicians who played Seattle and ultimately brought about the merging of the black and white unions.” —Quincy Jones “The Blue Note gives ...
Matt Renzi: Rise And Shine
by Dan Bilawsky
Continuity and freshness, while theoretically at odds with one another, are the two things that tend to fuel group development in the arts. Only time can create bonds of trust and help to crystallize concepts and language shared between artists, but consistency can breed predictability. So how can an artist balance the scales, allowing their work ...
John Daversa Small Band at the CAP
by Paul Naser
John Daversa Small Band CAP Studio Sherman Oaks, CA January 22, 2014 Fans of John Daversa's music range in age from young people still in school to people who have been avid fans of jazz music for decades. Seeing the wide variety of people in the room was ...
Sangeeta Michael Berardi: The Mr. P Sessions
by Dan McClenaghan
In October of 1996, guitarist Sangeeta Michael Berardi went into Nevessa Studio in Woodstock, New York, and laid down the tracks for what would become two monumental recordings, Earthship (Sunjump Records, 2008) and Calling Coltrane (Sunjump Records, 2011). This is stunning music from a man who played with Alice Coltrane, Roswell Rudd, Rashied Ali, Archie Shepp--a ...
2013 Grammy Winner Billy Vera Announces Catalina Jazz Dates For 2014
Platinum selling singer/songwriter and 2013 Grammy winner Billy Vera is gearing up for a string of dates with his Big Band Jazz Orchestra at Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood along with special guest Tamela D'Amico. Billy is thrilled to continue to share with fans his first ever album recorded with a large jazz orchestra entitled Big ...
14th Annual Newport Beach Jazz Party Set Feb. 12-16
Upcoming on Valentine’s Day weekend,eb.13-16, will be the 14th annual Newport Beach Jazz Party at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel & Spa in Orange county, California,featuring over 70 musicians playing “Right Down The Middle And Straight Ahead” Jazz. Among the highlights this year is a Salute to Jazz at the Philharmonic which toured decades ago, a ...
