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Juilliard Jazz, Celebrating its 10th Year, Announces its 2010-2011 Season
Season Opens with its Faculty Ensemble, Juilliard Jazz Quintet, on September 21 Guest Artists During 2010-2011 Season Include: Trumpeter Jon Faddis as Soloist with the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra in the Miles Davis/Gil Evans Arrangement of Porgy and Bess on February 25, Plus Bassist John Clayton Performing with the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra on October 19, and Trombonist ...
Tribute to a Reggae Legend: Global Celebration of Bob Marley, July 13
Tribute to a Reggae Legend: A global celebration of the music of Bob Marley, featuring five new, exclusive recordings by exceptional international artists Release Date: July 13, 2010 (International release dates vary) Few people have made the kind of lasting, universal impact that Bob Marley has made with his music. In his short 36 years, Marley ...
Experience Euphoria in Greenville, South Carolina
While there are countless food and wine festivals across the country, few are incorporating music to the extent that Euphoria, a food, wine and music festival in Greenville, South Carolina, has done in it's first four years. One of the reasons may just be that Edwin McCain, platinum selling singer/songwriter and local legend, is co-founder of ...
Michele Choiniere Gives New Voice to Long-lost Franco-American Songs
The Lone Songbird in the Woods: Michele Choiniere Gives New Voice to Long-Lost Franco-American Songs on La Violette Along the borderlands between the US and Canada, a lone songbird sings with a voice clear, rich, and distinctly French. Her name is Michele Choiniere, and nestled in the northwestern Vermont woods, she continues a once thriving Franco-American ...
10 Ft. Ganja Plant Deliver The Roots on "10 Deadly Shots, Vol 1"
10 Ft. Ganja Plant brings the sound of roots, rocksteady and dub from the smokey hills and rough streets of Jamaica to the ears of their rabid fans around the globe. On 10 Deadly Shots, the mysterious reggae collective captures the vibe of classic reggae and distills it down to it's essence--without vocals. The tracks were ...
Mushroom: Naked, Stoned & Stabbed
by Chris M. Slawecki
Mushroom's first new set in three years, twelve new originals culminating in a cover of “Singing a Song in the Morning," co-written by Kevin Ayers of the Soft Machine and Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd in heady 1969, is an acoustic guitarist's dream--every song strums and hums with its psychedelic, folksy sound. Mushroom's careening, psychedelic collective ...
Slavic Soul Party: Taketron
by Chris M. Slawecki
The massive Baltic brass band Slavic Soul Party (SSP) has played in Istanbul and Carnegie Hall, Macedonia and the Kennedy Center, Serbia and the Knitting Factory, and currently resides Tuesday nights at Club Barbes in Brooklyn, which released this fifth SSP album on its own label. “I think Taketron really shows our original style, more so ...
Lokesh: Utopia
by Chris M. Slawecki
Lokesh embodies the sprawling global village that the age of internet music has ushered in. He was born and grew up studying computer science in New Delhi, but now lives and works as a DJ and producer in San Francisco, where he also contributes to the pan-global electronic musical co-ops Vishnu Operative and Ultraviolet Carnival. “I ...
Gabriel Johnson: Fra_ctured
by Chris M. Slawecki
Gabriel Johnson seemed anointed for jazz greatness: A New England Conservatory prodigy who served as musical director for Blood Sweat & Tears when he was merely 24, and was personally recruited by Clint Eastwood to serve as trumpet soloist for Eastwood's films Changeling (2008) and Invictus (2009). Then a friend hipped Johnson to electronic ...
Rhett Frazier, Inc.: Escape from Dee-Troyt
by Chris M. Slawecki
At first, singer-songwriter Rhett Frazier and producer-drummer Donny Gruender “incorporated" this joint retro-futuristic soul side project just to play around, nothing more than a diversion from their Los Angeles studio session work (Gruender, for example, rocks beats for the Motown house band, the Funk Brothers). But their Escape quickly evolved into its own full-blown monster: Two ...
