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Gia Notte: Shades

by Dan Bilawsky
Margie Gia" Notte's debut recording, Just You, Just Me & Friends--Live at Cecil's, (GNote Records, 2009) was an exciting standards-based journey. Her follow-up, Shades, also finds her interpreting some well-worn songs but the delivery and the arrangements make this more than a run-of-the-mill recording. While the adrenaline-fueled excitement from her live recording is hard to match ...
Take Five With Jerry Tilitz

by AAJ Staff
Meet Jerry Tilitz: Jerry Tilitz is an American trombonist, composer and vocalist from New York City presently ensconced in Hamburg, Germany. In the course of his career Mr. Tilitz has performed and recorded with many exceptional artists including Gerry Mulligan, Horace Parlan, Hank Jones, Roy Eldridge, Herb Geller, Tommy Flanagan, Warren Vache, Adam Nussbaum, Benny Bailey, ...
Feinstein's Presents Jazz Band Braden-Rapp in Their Debut CD Release of "The Strayhorn Project."

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed Best of New York by New York Magazine, and an invaluable New York institution by The New York Post, will continue its star-studded Winter/Spring 2010 season with the debut of the new band led by world-renowned saxophonist, flautist and composer DON BRADEN and MARK RAPP, one of Downbeat Magazines ...
Gentle Storm

By Don Braden
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Secret Love; Gentle Storm; Never Can Say Goodbye; What Are You Doing the Rest of Your
Life?; This Masquerade; The Hunter; Willow Weep For Me; Two of a Kind; My Foolish Heart;
Speed Ball.
Joris Teepe: We Take No Prisoners

by Ken Dryden
A native of The Netherlands, bassist Joris Teepe has long since established himself as a jazzperformer and educator in New England, though he does return to his homeland to teach and perform on occasion while most of his recordings have been for European labels. Teepe's big band evolved from music he was commissioned to write for ...
The Jazz Session #89: Joris Teepe

Dutch bassist Joris Teepe has lived in New York for the past 20 years, making a name for himself with everyone from Benny Golson to the late Rashied Ali. Recently, Teepe was commissioned to write music for both an orchestra and a big band in Europe. Those two experiences were so positive that he decided to ...
Jazz Legacy Productions: Sprucing up the Old School

by J Hunter
At a time when most entrepreneurs blanche at even a mention of the economy, bassist John Lee has damned the torpedoes and gone full speed ahead with his new label, Jazz Legacy Productions. Structured as an artists-for-artists'-sake venture, JLP gives established, non-"flavor of the month" players a place to be heard again. What's more, for every ...
The (Modern) Big Band Era: Dave Rivello, James Carney, Joris Teepe

by J Hunter
In an economic climate where jazz quartets are reviving the time-honored Everybody in one Winnebago" tour strategy, it's amazing that big bands even exist, let alone put out the dynamic, challenging music that's come from Maria Schneider, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and the assorted large units associated with maintaining bassist Charles Mingus' legacy. What's more, the ...
Jack Cortner Big Band / Peter Hand Big Band / Chicago Jazz Philharmonic

by Jack Bowers
Jack Cortner Big Band Sound Check Jazzed Media 2009 For someone who waited so long before taking his first swings as leader of his own big band, Jack Cortner shows again on Sound Check, the band's second impressive recording in as many years, that he's got game. He's ...
Jazz Around Kent; 19 Free Concerts in July Presented by the Litchfield Jazz Festival

The Litchfield Jazz Festival is proud to announce a series of 19 free concerts throughout the month of July Jazz Around Kent Presented by the Litchfield Jazz Festival. Part 1 of the series, Litchfield Jazz Camp Faculty Concerts will be held at Kent Schools Mattison Auditorium, One Macedonia Road (Route 341) in Kent, CT from July ...