Results for "Christian Howes"

SIU2: Shenging It Up in Hong Kong

by Ian Patterson
June 7, 2011

It shouldn't really come as a great surprise that China hasn't produced an abundance of jazz musicians, while neighboring Japan continues to turn them out at a great rate of knots, given the very different histories the two countries have lived post World War II. The traumatic Cultural Revolution, under Mao Zedong, shunned all things western, ...

Christian Howes: Out of the Blue

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 20, 2011

Il violinista Christian Howes è uno degli interpreti emergenti dello strumento tradizionalmente associato alla musica classica di stampo europeo e portato in ambito jazz e blues da grandi interpreti come Joe Venuti, Stuff Smith, Stephane Grapelli, Don Sugarcane Harris e Jean Luc Ponty. Howes ha avuto una formazione classica ma in questo album dimostra di sapere ...

Out Of The Blue

By Christian Howes

Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Fingerprints; I'm Walkin'; Cape Verdean Blues; Gumbo Klomp; Out of the Blue; Seek and Ye Shall Find; Bobby's Bad; Sing me Softly The Blues; When Will the Blue Leave; Sweet Lorraine.

Christian Howes: Multi-Instrumental Performance

November 3, 2010

I previously saw Christian Howes at the Dakota, about three years ago. He played violin. I don't recall that he also played guitar and bass. In looking back at my photos from that night, he came with a quartet (keyboard, drums, guitar). And had he confined his playing to just violin last week (October 27th) at ...

Announcing the Winners of the "Christian Howes - Out of the Blue" Giveaway

October 15, 2010

Scott Albin, Tobi Powell, Brad Kibbe, Joe Buckendahl and Stephanie Frieze, Congratulations! You're the lucky winners of the Resonance Records “Christian Howes - Out of the Blue“ giveaway. All About Jazz will contact you about claiming your prize. We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the contest and please visit Resonance Records for more releases. ...

Continuum, A Journey Through Jazz - "New Jazz, Straight Ahead (part 2)"

September 28, 2010

Soulandjazz.com Presents: Continuum—A Journey Through Jazz Episode 24: “New Jazz, Straight Ahead (Part 2)" Hosted & Produced by J. Scott Fugate, “The Jazz Evangelist" As it has been with the past 23 episode (which are still available on the soulandjazz.com website, by the way) the show is absolutely free, completely legal, fun ...

Violinist Christian Howes Interviewed at All About Jazz...And More!

September 27, 2010

It's not difficult to think of great blues artists—there's a roll call of honor as long as that of great jazz artists—and every sizeable town in the world has a blues band or two. So where is the violin? Great blues guitarist sand vocalists have never been in short supply, but the great blues violinist, once ...

Christian Howes: Blues for the Blues Violin

by Ian Patterson
September 27, 2010

It's not difficult to think of great blues artists--there's a roll call of honor as long as that of great jazz artists--and every sizeable town in the world has a blues band or two. So where is the violin? Great blues guitarists and vocalists have never been in short supply, but the great blues violinist, once ...

Christian Howes: Out of the Blue

by Ian Patterson
September 27, 2010

The violin is widely considered as the most expressive of instruments, closely approximating the human voice. It depends, however, to a large degree, on whose hands the instrument is in. Christian Howes is that rare breed of musician who makes the violin talk; using the idiom of the blues on Out of the Blue, Howes gives ...

Tell the Truth

Featuring the music of Christian Howes
Duration: 6:00
September 27, 2010