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Dreamsville
By Cory Weeds
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2017
Track listing: Who Can I Turn To; Lady Wants to Know; How Do You Like Them Apples; Blue Daniel; Dreamsville; Hammer’s Tones; Nothing to Lose; Bennissimo; Love Is a Now and Then Thing; Robbins Nest; She Walks This Earth.
Let's Groove: The Music of Earth Wind & Fire
By Cory Weeds
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2017
Track listing: Let’s Groove; Getaway; Devotion; You and I; The Way of the World; Imagination; Shining Star; Kalimba; After the Love Is Gone.
Cory Weeds: Let's Groove: The Music of Earth Wind & Fire
by Jack Bowers
When last heard from, Canadian Cory Weeds was wielding a mean neo-swing tenor saxophone with the superb Jeff Hamilton trio on the albums Dreamsville and This Happy Madness. On Let's Groove: The Music of Earth, Wind & Fire, Weeds moves from tenor to alto (with no loss of merit) alongside tenor and fellow Canadian Steve Kaldestad, ...
Smokin' at The Nash
by Dave Kaufman
Jazz cognoscenti may not think of Phoenix as a hotbed of great jazz. However, a confluence of factors contributes to a remarkably vibrant jazz scene. The city boasts a wealth of excellent jazz education programs spread across universities and community colleges. This has attracted great musicians and educators from around the country who play the local ...
Five on Cellar Live
by C. Michael Bailey
Corey Weeds' Cellar Live label is dedicated to the most organic of jazz: small ensemble acoustic performance. In 2000, Weeds had opened his Cellar Jazz Club, originally located at 3611 W Broadway, Vancouver, BC. A year later followed the inauguration of the Cellar Live imprint. In spite of the club's closing in 2014, the label remains ...
Grant Stewart Trio: Roll On
by Jack Bowers
Add Grant Stewart's name to the growing list of tenor saxophonists who are gaining broad approval by reanimating exemplary yet by and large overlooked songs from the Great American Songbook and elsewhere and lending them a fresh coat of paint that not only accentuates their timeless charm but does so while swinging in the grandest jazz ...
Cory Weeds & the Jeff Hamilton Trio: Dreamsville
by Jack Bowers
Even though the substance and framework of jazz are constantly changing and evolving, the music's bedrock--marked by spontaneity and free-wheeling swing--remains essentially unimpaired and secure. And when it comes to swinging, it's hard to eclipse the irrepressible pulse of the tenor saxophone, an instrument whose long and enduring ties to jazz and swing have been epitomized ...
Take Five with Michael Kocour
by AAJ Staff
Meet Michael Kocour: Michael Kocour is a jazz pianist, organist and composer. He also serves as Director of Jazz Studies in the School of Music at Arizona State University. Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “one of the most sophisticated pianists in jazz," Kocour has performed at venues around the world and has been ...
The Nash Second Anniversary in Phoenix
by Patricia Myers
The Nash Second Anniversary The Nash/Private Home Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona October 31, November 1-2, 2014 There's something about the way Lewis Nash plays drums. No, there's everything about the way he plays drums--selectively, tastefully, underplaying vs. bombastic; in a word, elegantly. Nash's classy combination of swing and sophistication was abundantly evident during ...
Cellar Live Records: The Finest in Live Jazz Recordings
by Mike Oppenheim
Cellar Live Records is a contemporary jazz label located in Vancouver, British Columbia. Jazz saxophonist and producer Cory Weeds founded the label in 2001, one year after purchasing The Cellar Restaurant and Jazz Club (later renamed Cory Weeds' Jazz Cellar). Since that time, Cellar Live Records has released over seventy albums. Performers at Cory ...
