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CTI Celebrates Kudu Legacy: Lonnie Smith, Johnny Hammond, Hank Crawford, Esther Phillips
by Chris May
CTI Masterworks' 40th anniversary reissue program has, until now, focused on producer Creed Taylor's primary label. Two multi-disc sets and 24 single discs have made available on CD cherished CTI LPs by artists such as trumpeters Chet Baker and Freddie Hubbard, saxophonists Paul Desmond and Stanley Turrentine, guitarists George Benson and Kenny Burrell, vibraphonist Milt Jackson ...
Take Five With Erin Dickins
by AAJ Staff
Meet Erin Dickins: I am a jazz singer and a founding member of the Manhattan Transfer. I have performed and recorded with everyone from Jaco Pastorius and The Talking Heads to Leonard Cohen and Dr. John. After taking a hiatus, I have returned to jazz with a new solo CD, Nice Girls. I am ...
Caravan Palace and The Spirit of Zazou
by Chris May
Caravan PalaceCaravan PalaceWrasse Records2011 Caravan Palace is a Paris-based sextet which, augmented on its debut album by seven guest musicians, is propelling manouche (French Gypsy jazz) into the digital age. It is to the genre something like the Gotan Project is to tango, but without the dark ...
Afro-Latin Dance Percussionist: Carlos GoGo Gomez
Carlos GoGo Gomez, New Paradigm Global Music (KidLat Records) Preacher/Martial Artist/Musician With Smooth Electronica Release Date: Feb 01, 2011 Smooth Electronica artist and Latin percussionist Carlos “Go Go" Gomez is three things: master musician, priest, and martial artist. Now after decades as a sought-after rock, pop, and Latin player and as a spiritual seeker, he has ...
Eartha Kitt: Purr-Fect & In Person at the Plaza
by Samuel Chell
The singer and actress Eartha Kitt (1927-2008) was the ultimate femme fatale, “the most exciting woman in the world" according to film director Orson Welles. Purr-Fect: The Eartha Kitt Collection is an enjoyable if flawed greatest hits collection. In Person at the Plaza a representative and recommended live recording. Eartha Kitt ...
Jon Burr Band: Just Can't Wait
by Woodrow Wilkins
Bassist Jon Burr has spent many years supporting other artists. He brings a lot of that experience into Just Can't Wait, a 14-song collection that reflects the artist's obsession with love. Burr has toured and recorded with musicians such as Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Horace Silver and Stéphane Grappelli. Vocalists who have shared the ...
Eartha Kitt an Appreciation
Yes, she played up her sexy image, but she was also a pioneer among African American entertainers. Even as a pre-adolescent growing up in subarctic Rochester, N.Y., watching Eartha Kitt's Catwoman taunt Adam West's Batman always made me feel a little, um, hot. Julie Newmar, Emma Peel and the rest of the leather-jumpsuited superwomen/femmes fatales of ...
Eartha Kitt CD and First Ever Concert DVD Coming Out Soon.
"The most exciting woman in the world" - Orson Welles on Eartha Kitt, 1950. It is with great pleasure that Network announce the releases of EARTHA KITT LIVE AT THE CHELTENHAM JAZZ FESTIVAL (E) on DVD on 27th October 2008, RRP 19.99 and CD, RRP 12.99. This is, unbelievably, Eartha Kitts first ever live ...
Eartha Kitt in Cheltenham - Extra Date Added!
In a change to the advertised programme the HSBC Cheltenham Jazz Festival is pleased to announce that Eartha Kitt will now perform in an additional concert on Monday 28 April. Both this and the scheduled concert on Tuesday 29 April will now take place in the intimate setting of the Pittville Pump Room.
