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Kyle Eastwood: Songs From The Chateau
by Bruce Lindsay
Kyle Eastwood's career encompasses the writing of film soundtracks, as well as the life of a jazz composer, bandleader and bassist. On those seemingly rare occasions when he isn't working, Eastwood spends much of his time in France. Songs From The Chateau is his fifth album since 1998's debut, From There To Here (Sony), and his ...
Sachal Jazz: Jazz Standards Recorded in Lahore, Pakistan
Sachal Music presents Sachal Jazz: Interpretations of Jazz Standards & Bossa Nova by the Sachal Studios Orchestra, Lahore Recorded at Sachal Studios Lahore, Pakistan and Abbey Road Studios, London, a collection of jazz classics fused with the traditional classical music of Pakistan and India Physical release date May 17th; Digital release date April 12th On May ...
Great Sidemen - Great Leaders
by Greg Simmons
Being a sideman can be a thankless job. Sure, you might get to play regularly, but you rarely get to call the tune. If your boss is a big star, the gig might even pay pretty well, but if the band is going to Fargo, North Dakota in January, brother, so are you, and you weren't ...
Are You Sure, Bobby?
by Jack Bowers
In late March, I received an e-mail from trumpeter Bobby Shew. He said he'd performed a gig in West Palm Beach, FL, and had met my brothers, whom he described as “nice guys." My first impulse was to write back and ask if he could have been mistaken. My brothers? Nice guys? Well, the fact is ...
"JAZZ ROOTS: Music of the Americas" Out April 5th!
Sony MASTERWORKS Jazz in partnership with producer Larry Rosen will release JAZZ ROOTS: The Music of the Americas, the first compilation of this new branded series which traces the story of Jazz starting with the “Drums from Africa" and their effect on the musical DNA of the Americas. The historical descriptions for the package have been ...
Extended Interviews with Jazz Greats Available on Hamilton College Jazz Archive Website
A collection of 300 audio interviews with jazz musicians, arrangers, writers and critics, the jazz greats and the supporting cast from the 1930s to the present, is now available online and free to the public courtesy of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive at www.hamilton.edu/jazzarchive. Listeners can click on a link and read the transcripts or listen ...
Jazz vs Racism
by Greg Thomas
Jazz saved me from becoming a racist. Back in the early to mid-1980s, while attending Hamilton College in central New York, I learned details about the transatlantic slave trade that sickened and angered me. I read about the history of the abolitionist movement in the 1800s, and the civil rights movements of last ...
Matt Jorgensen: Painting With Sound
by Joshua Weiner
Matt Jorgensen is a very busy man. A drummer and composer, he plays and records with a wide variety of musicians, including his own long-running quartet 451 and popular trumpeter and label-mate Thomas Marriott. Jorgensen also co-manages the Origin Records label, a thriving concern that has released over 300 discs since 1997, and that now encompasses ...
Joe Morello, Springfield Native and Jazz Drummer (1928-2011)
Joe Morello, drummer for the Dave Brubeck Quartet, died at his home in New Jersey on Saturday at age 82. A native of Springfield, Massachusetts, Morello was sight-impaired as a child and studied the violin, performing at age nine with Boston Symphony Orchestra as a soloist in the Mendelsohn Violin Concerto, according to his biography. He ...
Eldar's "Three Stories" Coming April 5
Since signing with Sony Masterworks at the age of 17, the young pianist Eldar has worked tirelessly on the road and in the studio to deepen his exploration of the traditions of jazz: bebop, post-bop and beyond. With the April 5th release of Three Stories, his first solo recording on Masterworks Jazz, Eldar pays homage to ...
