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Prolific Bassist/Composer Kyle Eastwood Channels His Earliest Jazz Influences on the View from Here, Available March 12 on JazzVillage
Eastwood Joined by Long-Time Band Featuring Pianist Andrew McCormack, Saxophonist Graeme Blevins, Trumpeter Quentin Collins, and Drummer Martyn Kaine It has been 15 years since bassist Kyle Eastwood burst onto the jazz scene with his 1998 debut, From There To Here. At that moment in his budding career, the press seemed more preoccupied with his paternal ...
Drummer/Composer/Conceptualist Jaimeo Brown Transforms Pain and Deliverance into Art on Debut Album, Transcendence, Available April 9 Via Motema Music
Featuring J.D. Allen and Chris Sholar Project Fuses Gee’s Bend Quilters Southern Spirituals with Eastern Indian Music and Electronic Elements, Under the Umbrella of Acoustic Modern Jazz With Special Guests Geri Allen, Falu, and Kelvin Sholar, Among Others Transcendence marks the Motéma Music debut from Jaimeo Brown, a brilliant 34-year-old drummer, composer and conceptualist. With an ...
Donny McCaslin: Lightness and Gravity
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Saxophonist Donny McCaslin seems like a young player, given his energy and inventiveness. But he has been playing jazz for three decades. As a child, he was part of his father's jazz ensemble and a member of his high school jazz band. He led his own bands after moving to New York from his native California, ...
Yelena Eckemoff: Glass Song
by Dan Bilawsky
Pianist Yelena Eckemoff got a late start as a full-fledged jazz recording artist but she's making up for lost time. Eckemoff entered the artistic world as a young classical pianist in the Soviet Union, but she chose to put her work on hold for a spell while raising her children. Eventually, she returned to the piano ...
Saxophonist/Composer Tim Green to Perform on the Checkout: Live from 92YTribeca Wednesday, February 20
New York City Release Event for Upcoming Debut Album, Songs From This Season “Tim Green is a dynamic musician. If you make a checklist of everything you’d want in a musician, Tim has it all.” —Christian McBride “Tim is a very talented musician with a wide array of creativity. His sound and writing is built on ...
Composer/Bandleader Chuck Owen Reflects the Clarity and Thrill of Nature on Latest Album, River Runs, Available April 9 on MAMA Records
Combines Long-Running Big Band, The Jazz Surge, with Full Orchestra “An incredibly colorful portrait, you can feel the power and majesty of these natural settings. Excellent music!” —Dave Liebman “A tour de force in contemporary orchestral composition... This exquisitely produced recording defies classification.” —Rufus Reid “Beautiful. Beautiful. Jazz has never sounded better.” —Bob Belden “‘'River Runs' ...
Kevin Eubanks: The Messenger
by Dan Bilawsky
It's a shame that so few people only know guitarist Kevin Eubanks as the always-smiling, lick-delivering bandleader and guitar sidekick on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He was sharing the stage with drummer Art Blakey and recording with drummer Billy Hart long before he ever did the daily grind in television studios, but time has ...
Saxophonist/Composer/Educator Tia Fuller to Perform at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola in Support of Critically Acclaimed Third Album, Angelic Warrior February 21 - 24, 7:30 and 9:30PM
Album Features John Patitucci, Terri Lyne Carrington, Dianne Reeves, Shamie Royston, Mimi Jones, and Rudy Royston Saxophonist/Composer/Educator Tia Fuller is scheduled to perform at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in New York City from Thursday, February 21 through Sunday, February 24. The performance will be in support of her recently released Mack Avenue Records album, Angelic Warrior. With ...
Pianist/Composer Luke Celenza to Release Debut Album, Back and Forth, Featuring 12 Original Compositions Bridging the Gap Between Jazz and Pop
“I hear in Luke Celenza a young gifted jazz musician who has the right inquisitive attitude and true potential to become one of the key players in the scene. He brings to the table a fresh sound and an uncommon restrained maturity in his music which I am sure will keep on delighting us for many ...
Composer/Saxophonist Joshua Kwassman Spins the Tale of Friendship on Songs of the Brother Spirit - His Debut Album of All Original Extended Compositions, Available March 12 on Truth Revolution Records
Featuring Guitarist Gilad Hekselman The journey from adolescence to adulthood can be a harrowing one. For composer and saxophonist Joshua Kwassman, that was true in a very literal sense, as a three-day bike trip, in August 2010, with an idolized childhood friend collapsed into chaos and shattered his youthful illusions. While that trek itself found Kwassman ...
