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Trail Magic: Trail Magic
by Geno Thackara
The term “trail magic" is a well-known concept among hikers and other nature enthusiasts. It refers to the time-honored tradition of travelers leaving nice things (usually helpful objects or notes) along the road for others to find someday. The electric tone of this recording may evoke highways and festival stages more than the wilds of nature, ...
Jeremy Monteiro & Eugene Pao: To Paris With Love, A Tribute to the Genius of Michel Legrand / Jeremy Monteiro & Jazz Brazileiro: Brazilian Dreams
by Ian Patterson
Jeremy Monteiro, Singapore's aptly titled King of Swing, is celebrating forty years as a professional jazz pianist and composer in 2016. These two releases span the last twelve months and find Monteiro in two quite distinct settings. The first recording, To Paris with Love: A Tribute to the Genius of Michel Legrand finds Monteiro in a ...
Music Education Monday: Learning jazz violin with Christian Howes, and more
Although there have been jazz violinists ever since the music began, formal jazz education programs in schools usually are set up to cater mostly to trumpets, trombones, saxophones and rhythm sections, leaving many aspiring string improvisors to forge their own musical paths. Fortunately, there seem to be plenty of instructional materials available to help chart that ...
Benjamin Sutin's Klazz-Ma-Tazz New York-based Klezmer/Jazz Fusion Group To Release Their Debut Album
New York-based Klezmer/Jazz Fusion Group to release their Debut Album Tangibility on OneTrickDog* Records September 1, 2015 Klezmer/Jazz fusion group Klazz-Ma-Tazz will release its debut album Tangibility on OneTrickDog* Records. Founded by violinist and composer Benjamin Sutin, in 2014, Klazz-Ma-Tazz blurs the boundaries of labels and genres. Rooted in the jazz idiom, the music reflects the ...
Jason Anick: Tipping Point
by Ian Patterson
One of the Berklee College of Music's youngest instructors, violinist/mandolinist Jason Anick had already made a name for himself in 2008, when at twenty two years of age he was invited to tour with Grammy-winning guitarist John Jorgenson. Anick's tremendous virtuosity was to the fore on the acoustic Rhythm Future Quartet's Sleepless (Self Produced, 2011), a ...
Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition
by Ian Patterson
1st Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music Luslawice/Krakow Poland July 16-19, 2014 He was one of the great jazz virtuosos, right up there some would say with Django Reinhardt, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker. Most frequently, however, he was compared to John ...
Joel Harrison 5 at Gigspace Performance Studio
by John Kelman
Joel Harrison 5 Gigspace Performance Studio Ottawa, Canada March 1, 2014 Tucked at the end of a small strip mall in an unlikely location, Gigspace Performance Studio has, since opening in the fall of 2011, garnered a reputation as an intimate performance space where magic often happens. A not-for-profit 46-seat venue, ...
Southern Exposure
Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Ta Boa, Santa? (Are You OK, My Dear?);
Aparecida;
Oblivion;
Cubano Chant;
Sanfona;
Canción de Amor (Love Song);
Heavy Tango;
Choro das Águas (The Water’s Cry);
Tango Doblado (Bent Tango);
Spleen;
Gracias For Ilustramos (Thank You For Teaching Us).
Christian Howes Performing This Sunday, April 28 at Deco Fortress
Violinist Christian Howes is coming to St. Louis to perform at 7:00 p.m. this Sunday, April 28 at the Deco Fortress, 3622 S. Broadway, across from the Lemp Brewery complex. Howes (pictured) formerly was an associate professor at Berklee College of Music, and won first place in the “Rising Star -Violin" category of the 2011 Down ...
Tango Doblado (Bent Tango)
Album: Southern Exposure
By Christian Howes
Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2013
Duration: 4:50
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