Results for "Dave Stryker"

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Massimiliano Cignitti, Marianne Solivan, Tim Berne, Martin Tétreault

by Cheryl K.
January 19, 2025

During this week's two-hour program of Jazz and improvised music, selections from new releases by bassist Massimiliano Cignitti, spoken word poet Don Paul, vocalist Marianne Solivan, saxophonist Tim Berne, free improvisation musician and visual artist Martin Tétreault, and pianist and composer Steve Sandberg. Playlist John Coltrane “Lush Life" from Lush Life (Impulse!) 13:54 Brent ...

Video

Dave Stryker Goes to the Movies

Featuring the music of Dave Stryker
Duration: 4:46
January 17, 2025

Music and movies are the most captivating, the most arresting of all art forms. In their immersive magic they spark the inner powerhouse of emotions and dreams that illuminates the soul. Inspired by their 2023 Emmy-winning PBS special Wes Montgomery at 100: A 100th Birthday Tribute Concert, guitarist Dave Stryker and arranger and conductor Brent Wallarab decided to explore their mutual love of movies by recording 11 classic movie themes with a 30-piece studio orchestra.

News: Recording

Dave Stryker: Goes to the Movies (2024)

January 16, 2025

Jazz artists have been recording “at the movies" albums since 1962, when arranger-conductor Manny Albam recorded Jazz Goes to the Movies for Impulse. Jerome Richardson, Eddie Harris, Erroll Garner and even Bill Evans recorded Hollywood compilation LPs along with dozens of other jazz artists. Prior, there were Broadway, movie and TV show soundtracks centered on one ...

Article: Album Review

Dave Stryker: Stryker with Strings Goes to the Movies

by Jack Bowers
January 4, 2025

Guitarist Dave Stryker, who is at home in any venue, Goes to the Movies on this ambitious album, wherein his working quartet is greeted by a thirty-piece orchestra with strings and four talented guest artists. There are some gems here--Henry Mancini's “Dreamsville," Rodgers and Hammerstein's “Edelweiss," Ennio Morricone's theme from Cinema Paradiso among them--and a few ...

Album

Plays Ellington & Strayhorn

By Brian Landrus

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Agra; Chelsea Bridge; A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing; Daydream; Praise God; Prelude to a Kidd; Come Sunday; The Telecasters; Lotus Blossom; Lush Life; Isfahan; Star-Crossed Lovers; Warm Valley; Sophisticated Lady.

Album

Gil Evans Remembered (Live At The Cutting Room, NYC)

By Gil Evans Remembered

Label: Dot Time Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: La Nevada; Goodbye Pork Pie; Teen Town; London; Little Wing; Nana; Stone Free.

Album

Stryker with Strings Goes to the Movies

By Dave Stryker

Label: Strikezone Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: In Your Eyes; Cinema Paradiso (main theme); You Only Live Twice; Taxi Driver (main title); Theme from Shaft; Cavatina; Flirtibird; Low Key Lightly; Moonglow; Dreamsville; Edelweiss.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Youn Sun Nah, Ran Blake, Guy Klucevsek, Volker Goetze & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 29, 2024

This time we focus on great vocalists, and poignant chamber-like projects, and renditions of tunes by Curtis Mayfield, Astor Piazzolla (by way of Grace Jones) and Stevie Wonder (mashedup with Pete Rugolo).Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Dave Stryker “Theme from Shaft" Stryker and ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

2024 Holiday Show with Mars Williams and Norah Jones

by Jerome Wilson
December 25, 2024

This is a show of holiday-oriented jazz music for the season, mostly Christmas songs but also including a set of Hanukkah tunes. Musicians featured on the show include Mars Williams. Norah Jones, Fats Waller, Doug Munro, and Benny Benack III. Playlist Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O “Christmas Time Is Here" from Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases From Naylor, Funnell, Stryker, Eaton And More

by Bob Osborne
December 19, 2024

This time we have a mixed bag of new releases features a variety of line-ups and includes some newly discovered live music from Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Jack DeJohnette, and Henry Grimes. In this playlist there is jazz in the conventional sense alongside some fascinating new approaches to the music.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Patrick ...