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Miles Davis: How 9 Jazz Icons Remember His Genius

by Rob Garratt
September 28, 2021

Like nearly every other jazz fan on the planet, I've long held an unshakeable fascination with the music of Miles Davis. Thirty years after his death, Miles's legacy, innovations and iconography continue to shape contemporary conceptions of the art form more than any other figure--his life and lessons simultaneously a road map, Holy Grail and high ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Jason Tiemann, Tommy Dorsey, Lee Konitz and More

by Joe Dimino
May 10, 2020

As we the world of jazz during the global COVID-19 jazz shutdown, this week we profile trumpeter Dave Scott and a brand new album, along with honoring the great Lee Konitz. Stay safe and dig the jazz. Playlist Jason Tiemann “The Elements" T-Man (T-Man Records) 00:00 Host talks 6:33 Stan Hunter and Sonny Fortune ...

About Dean Martin

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Musician

Dean Martin

Born: June 7, 1917

Quick: name the artist, who (a) knocked the Beatles from the top chart position at the height of Beatlemania; (b) scored a gold record in 2004 with his fastest-selling album ever, which also hit the iTunes Top 5; (c) was worshipped by Elvis Presley; and (d) is heard regularly in the hippest movies, TV shows and commercials. Need another clue? Playboy recently called him "the coolest man who ever lived." Of course that man is Dean Martin. Dean's importance to generations of music fans (not to mention aficionados of masculine cool) now far outstrips his former reputation as the tippler of the Rat Pack or Jerry Lewis' crooning straight man

Article: Multiple Reviews

Our Favorite Things: Jazz Greetings from Military Service Bands

by Chris M. Slawecki
September 9, 2019

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 US Army Blues: Swinging in the Holidays (2017) Swinging in the Holidays does so much more than swing. “Five-Sided Dreidel" sings in the traditional “Dreidel" melody until saxophones unravel it like unwrapping Christmas package ribbon and then hand what's left to the ...

About Brandon Tomasello

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Musician

Brandon Tomasello

Born: February 9, 1992

Brandon Tomasello was introduced to the performing arts at a young age. In the year 2000 , when the charter school boom in Philadelphia began its ascent, young Brandon entered the Philadelphia Performing Arts Charter School as a third grade student. Even in the school’s first year in existence, it enabled Brandon’s unique voice a place to be discovered. While he had always been naturally talented, Brandon’s love affair with music began when he was in the fourth grade. There was nothing unordinary when Brandon came home from school one particular spring day. As he entered his home, his grandmother was busy fixing dinner and was enjoying music as she worked

Article: Album Review

Anthony Braxton: Sextet (Parker) 1993

Read "Sextet (Parker) 1993" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 19, 2018

Is the music of Anthony Braxton impenetrable? Frankly yes, and absolutely not. There are entire wings of his musical house, for instance his Trillium R operas, Echo Echo Mirror House, and Ghost Trance Music, that listeners find untraversable. Some folks cannot reconcile one approach with another or choose to listen solely to one Braxton musical system, ...

Article: From the Inside Out

New Sinatra DVD Collection: Beautiful Stories in Song

by Chris M. Slawecki
September 27, 2017

In September 2017, Eagle Rock Entertainment released the final three titles in The Frank Sinatra Collection, six shows and performances which collectively present highlights from four decades of studio, concert and television performances by The Chairman of the Board. The Royal Festival Hall (1962) & Live at Carnegie Hall captures Ol' Blue Eyes performing ...

News: Video / DVD

Dean Martin's Holiday Show

December 21, 2016

The Dean Martin Show first aired on NBC in 1965 and lasted nine seasons, until 1974. Martin's rugged good looks, enveloping manner, swinging vocals and self-deprecating sense of humor tapped into the psyche of the American adult viewer in the late 1960s and early '70s who was shunted aside by the youth market and left clinging ...

News: Recording

Bar De Nuit (Night Bar) New Album by Daniel Roure

June 17, 2015

French cabaret, French pop and chanson have a long and rich history, from Edith Piaf’s classic recordings of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s to the soundtrack of the 1966 film Un Homme et une Femme (A Man and a Woman). And in recent years, the chanson tradition has been kept alive by younger vocalists such as ...

Article: Genius Guide to Jazz

Jingle All the Damned Way

by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
December 23, 2014

I'm not an unreformed Scrooge, I assure you. I do not lack for holiday spirit, even if I don't decorate the Geniusdome until it looks like a busload of drag queens crashed into a 30-foot Balsam fir. Christmas, to me, is attending Mass on Christmas Eve and then spending Christmas Day cooking a feast for my ...