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Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra: Invitation
by Jack Bowers
Here's how to make sure a five-star big-band album receives a four-star review: assemble a group of the finest musicians within a stone's throw or two of the chosen locale, place them in a recording studio, hand them superlative charts to read --then add vocals. In this case three of same, pretty much undermining what is ...
UK's Jazz FM Vocalist Of The Year Nominee Jazz/Blues Singer/Songwriter Polly Gibbons Poised To Take U.S. By Storm With Release Of "Is It Me…?" On Resonance Records
Following sold-out tours in the U.K. opening for George Benson and Gladys Knight, including two acclaimed performances at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall, singer/songwriter Polly Gibbons is set to make a British invasion of her own with the release of her highly-anticipated second album, Is It Me…? on Resonance Records on April 21, 2017. Produced by ...
The University of Toronto 12tet: Trillium Falls
by Jack Bowers
This is an altogether sunny and pleasing session by the splendid University of Toronto 12tet, which sounds at times like a full-fledged big band, at others like a leaner and more even-tempered chamber jazz group. The songs and arrangements, most by members of the ensemble (including a couple by director Terry Promane), are lush and lyrical, ...
The Westerlies: The Westerlies
by Giuseppe Segala
Il quartetto di ottoni The Westerlies è formato da musicisti originari di Seattle che, dopo collaborazioni giovanili nella città dello stato di Washington, si sono successivamente ritrovati a suonare insieme nell'area di New York, dove si erano trasferiti separatamente. Il nome del quartetto si ispira a tale spostamento da Ovest verso Est, la stessa direzione che ...
Antonio Faraò, l'eklektiko
by Daniele Vogrig
In alcuni casi la produzione di un disco può rappresentare un momento di svolta nella carriera di un musicista, non solo da un punto di vista musicale ma anche a livello puramente espressivo. Eklektik è l'ultimo album di Antonio Faraò e a buon diritto può essere considerato un sapiente concentrato di fusion, capace di trascendere generi ...
Dino Betti van der Noot al No’hma di Milano
by Alberto Bazzurro
Spazio Teatro No'hma Milano 22.03.2017 Grande appuntamento (doppio, dato che il concerto è stato replicato la sera seguente) per il jazz milanese, anzi italiano tutto, vista la rarità con cui Dino Betti ha occasione di raccogliere attorno a sé i suoi uomini e proporci anche dal vivo la musica che esce dai ...
Festival International de Jazz de Port-au-Prince, 2017 - Part 2
by Mark Sullivan
Part 1 | Part 2 Festival International de Jazz de Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince, Haiti March 4-11, 2017 In celebration of International Women's Day, Wednesday's concert featured all bands led by women, a first for the festival. Chilean saxophonist Melissa Aldana kicked off the show. Although not literally--she explained ...
Festival International de Jazz de Port-au-Prince, 2017 - Part 1
by Mark Sullivan
Part 1 | Part 2 Festival International de Jazz de Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince, Haiti March 4-11, 2017 Haiti: the only nation in the world established as the result of a slave revolt; home of Vodou. Haiti: poorest country in the Western Hemisphere; subject to devastating hurricanes and earthquakes. Most potential visitors ...
Slavic Soul Party: Live at Barbes: Slavic Soul Party Plays Duke Ellington's Far East Suite
by Chris M. Slawecki
In the late 1990s, visionary percussionist Matt Moran founded Slavic Soul Party, a brass band designed to stretch the boundaries between Eastern and Western European traditional music until those boundaries snap. More than two decades and twenty members later, “New York's Official #1 Brass Band for BalkanSoulGypsyFunk" fully realizes this vision by performing one of Duke ...
Duke Ellington on Storyville Records
by Chris Mosey
The legend of Duke Ellington--one of very few jazzmen worthy of the overworked accolade “genius"--continues to unfold four decades after his death. In large part this is thanks to the efforts of Ellington himself. From 1950 to 1974, he kept a private “stockpile" of recordings made for his own pleasure... and with an ...
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