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'Life After Django Reinhardt' on DVD August 16
Django Reinhardt was a jazz pioneer known for creating an idiom of jazz called “Gypsy Jazz" or “Gypsy Swing." He was the original “guitar hero" in the sense that he invented a radical new way to play guitar, commonly known as “hot guitar." This film celebrates the 100th birthday of Django Reinhardt by documenting the “Django ...
Vieux Farka Toure Returns for US Summer Tour: 16+ Dates
Vieux Farka Touré will be returning to the US for a Summer Tour not to be missed. His third studio album, The Secret, continues to receive rave reviews from Rolling Stone to NPR Music. His live shows have been paired down to a “power trio" consisting of Vieux on vocals/guitar, Mamadou Sidibe on bass, and drummer/multi-percussionist ...
Quentin Moore: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by Chris M. Slawecki
Much has been recently written about the “graying" of jazz and the audience who listens to it, young musicians seem to continually discover (and rediscover) its enduring value--and not just the value of jazz as its own standalone genre, but the benefit of incorporating aspects of jazz, such as improvisation and arrangement, into music of every ...
George Danquah African Funk Reissue Out August 9 on Secret Stash
Secret Stash Records is pleased to announce our next release: George Danquah's Hot & Jumpy. It will be available August 9th, 2011. See below for details regarding our plans for limited edition pre-orders! Hot and Jumpy is one of the funkiest gems to come out of the incredible 1970's Ghanaian music scene. It is the only ...
Mocean Worker Delivers 'Candygram For Mowo!'
Mocean Worker Delivers The Feel-Good Jams With Candygram For Mowo!: First single “Shooby Shooby Do Yah!" available now With special guests Lyrics Born, Bill Frisell, Charlie Hunter, Mindi Abair, John Ellis, Steven Bernstein, Hal Willner & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Available September 27 on MOWO! Inc. It's been four years since we last heard from our favorite ...
Stuttering to the Top of the Charts
The Stuttering Foundation, a nonprofit organization helping people who stutter since 1947, has recognized the song “You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet," a 1974 number one hit by Bachman-Turner Overdrive, as being the most unique of the many rock songs featuring stuttering vocals. Jane Fraser, president of the Stuttering Foundation, said recently, “Not only was 'You Ain't ...
Stronghold Sound Presents - The Audio Refugee Compilation
Encompassing a wide variety of sounds including traditional African and Arab folk, reggae and dub-step, hip-hop and new cumbia, the SF-based Stronghold Sound presents its first in a line of releases, The Audio Refuge Compilation. Each track is both experiment and firm step in a direction that this group of global artists is putting forth to ...
NEA Statement on the Death of NEA Jazz Master Frank Foster
NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman's Statement on the Death of NEA Jazz Master Frank Foster “On behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts, it is with great sadness that I acknowledge the passing of 2002 NEA Jazz Master Frank Foster. An extraordinary saxophonist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and educator, Frank Foster's contributions to jazz are numerous. We ...
"Jazz At The Hollywood Bowl - Expanded Edition" On Hip-O Select / Verve
Jazz At The Hollywood Bowl was the first recorded jazz concert at the prestigious Los Angeles outdoor venue. It was a prime example of jazz elevated to the concert stage, a concept developed by Norman Granz, record producer, label owner, artist manager and the foremost jazz promoter in the world. It was recorded August 15, 1956, ...
Da Cruz Releases "Sistema Subversia" on Six Degrees Records
The ensemble Da Cruz is a collaboration between vocalist Mariana Da Cruz (a Paulista with Bahian roots) and Swiss producer Ane H. Together with their band, they merge Brazilian music, Electro, Afro Beat, Breakbeats, Ethiopian Grooves, Kuduro and other forms of dance music. Da Cruz stand for a “modern, curious and proud Brazil," says Mariana."There are ...
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