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Luis Conte's "En Casa De Luis" Features The Many Sides Of The Powerful Percussionist
LOS ANGELES—Luis Conte, most famous as a masterful percussionist, has announced the release of his latest album, “En Casa de Luis," out March 8th through BFM Jazz. Conte can play virtually any style of music and has performed with a very wide range of major artists, including James Taylor, Madonna, Barbara Streisand, Phil Collins and Pat ...
Tamela D'Amico and her Septet Perform at Ivan Kane's Cafe Was on April 17
The multi-talented artist Tamela D'Amico has been gaining a great deal of attention as a formidable song stylist and highly appealing jazz singer. She will be performing fresh arrangements of standards from her CD Got A Little Story, her new single “Down With Love," and originals co-written with singer/songwriter Billy Vera at Cafe Was on Vine ...
A Cup of "Ko-Ko"
"Ko-Ko“ was a songrecorded on this date in 1940 by the famous Blanton-Webster version of the DukeEllington Orchestra (bassist Jimmy Blanton and saxophonist Ben Webster werefeatured soloists). Ellington said that the song was meant to evoke CongoSquare in New Orleans (where Louis Armstrong Park is now), a place whereAfrican-Americans gathered on Sundays in the pre-jazz days ...
Hollywood Brazilian Carnaval Week To Launch With Longoria Performance
International Latin Trumpeter and recording artist David Longoria will appear and perform at Level 3 Nightclub at Hollywood Highlands as guest star to launch Hollywood's Brazil Carnaval week on Monday, March 7th, 8pm. Hollywood, CA—David Longoria will debut his Latin infused Dance single Zoon Baloomba live on Monday, March 7th to launch Hollywood's celebration of the ...
Mickey Hart & Bill Kreutzmann Discuss Forty Years Of Collaboration In DRUM! Magazine
San Jose, Calif., The editors of DRUM! Magazine are a patient bunch. After all, they've tried for the past two decades to secure a cover story on Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, the former drummers for The Grateful Dead. But while Hart always seemed game to talk about drums and drumming, and was over the years ...
Frank Macchia's Booga Booga Celebrates 30th Anniversary
Jazz composer/arranger/saxophonist Frank Macchia celebrates the 30th anniversary of his first album project “Frank Macchia's Booga-Booga" by offering the music from the original album from 1981 for the first time as a digital download, available for sale at CDBaby, iTunes and Amazon.com. This band was comprised of some of Boston's best young musicians from 1981, including ...
RTF IV Hymn of the 7th Galaxy Tour : First Stop, Australia
Earlier this month the newly re-constituted jazz/rock supergroup Return To Forever kicked off its RTF IV Hymn Of The 7th Galaxy world tour with two weeks in the land Down Under. Jean-Luc Ponty's superb violin has been added and Al DiMeola's guitar has been replaced by Frank Gambale's. All five musicians in RTF IV possess famously ...
Anna Mjoll Live at Herb Alpert's Vibrato March 4th, 2011
"Icelandic jazz diva Anna Mjöll is another guaranteed sell-out for a single set at Vibrato." —Tom Meek, LA Jazz.com 2/28/2011 “Do yourself a favor and catch her now, at an intimate small club, before she breaks out into larger venues." —Charles Andrews, Music Forums Moderator, HomeTheaterSpot.com ..."lightly twisted, jazzy..." —Los Angeles Times ..."the sweetest voice in ...
The Miles Davis Movie: Will It Be the Best Movie Ever About Jazz? Or: Wow, There Are Not a Lot of Movies About Jazz
Let's take a look at a shortlist of good-to-great films with jazz as its central theme (excluding documentaries...): Bird Round Midnight Mo' Better Blues The Five Pennies Sweet And Lowdown Sweet Love, Bitter Tune in Tomorrow... Paris Blues St. Louis ...
Here No Evol @ Beacon Arts in Inglewood, CA
Thursday, March 24 · 8:00pm-11:00pm Daren Burns, bassist, composer, and improviser, has been playing and composing music for over twenty years and has played with many notables such as, Wadada Leo Smith, John 'Drumbo' French, Mike Keneally, and Famoudou Don Moye. Much of his musical interest lies in the area of improvisation and how to make ...
