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Take Five with Wayne Eagles of trio \ DEF
by AAJ Staff
Meet Wayne Eagles: Wayne Eagles is Canadian guitarist/educator known for his unique guitar style, which incorporates diverse influences from textural soundscapes and free jazz to old school fusion and progressive rock. Wayne has played live and in the studio with a long list of local and internationally known musicians including Adam Nussbaum, Ken Rosser, ...
Storybook - Music CD Release: Dreams Are Made For Children
Sometimes, a little jazz is all you need for a good night’s rest! Adding to their growing catalog of award-winning storybooks with CDs for children, The Secret Mountain will release Dreams Are Made for Children on October 1, 2015. It features twelve popular standards from the golden age of jazz recorded by singing legends Ella Fitzgerald, ...
Marilyn Mazur: The Song in the Woods
by Adriana Carcu
Danish drummer, percussionist and composer Marilyn Mazur reached iconic status on the contemporary jazz scene in the early years of her career. Playing in the eighties with titans Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter and Gil Evans, she later joined Jan Garbarek's group and was instrumental in some of the musician's most significant projects at the ...
Amy, The Movie: The Pure Artist, the Singular Voice, and the Fragile Heart of Amy Winehouse
by Craig M. Cortello
Amy Winehouse Amy Produced by James Gay-Rees, George Pank, Paul Bell Directed by Asif Kapadia 2015 I attended an advance screening this week of Amy, the Amy Winehouse documentary that was co-sponsored by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (GRAMMY) and the New Orleans Film Society. The movie ...
Sunny Kim and Ben Monder: The Shining Sea: Live at Olympus Hall
by Dave Wayne
People who know me know that I am not particularly interested in jazz vocals or straight-up renditions of jazz standards. One of my hobbies is playing the drums, and I am also not really motivated to listen to music without drums or some sort of percussion. So, I put off reviewing The Shining Sea: Live at ...
Jazz Legends, in Their Words
Yesterday, producer Tommy LiPuma sent along a link to a documentary from the BBC featuring interviews with jazz legends Louis Armstrong, Lil Hardin, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie,Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald. The display is a bit pinched on the sides, but the joy and the music come through just the same. Here's the documentary... ...
Marianne Solivan: Spark
by Angelo Leonardi
Marianne Solivan si connette alla grande tradizione di cantanti di jazz come Ella Fitzgerald, Betty Carter e Carmen McRae. La forma vocale esuberante, lo spessore timbrico, la tensione bluesy, la fantasia interpretativa ne fanno un'interprete di primo piano sulla scena musicale di New York. Questo secondo disco da leader -dopo il debutto del 2012 con Prisoner ...
George Gee Celebrates Van Alexander Centennial In Los Angeles on July 12th
The George See Swing Orchestra, one of New York’s premiere dance bands, returns to the world famous Maxwell Demille’s Cicada Club at the Oviat Building in downtown Los Angeles for an evening of swing music and dancing honoring the great Chick Webb / Savoy Ballroom music man, Van Alexander (composer of the Ella Fitzgerald hit song ...
Dave Burrell: Pianist Navigating the Windward Passages
by Victor L. Schermer
Dave Burrell is a master pianist and composer who encountered the avant-garde in the 1960s and has been following his own independent path ever since. He combines classical and jazz elements that are both “inside" and “outside" the mainstream. The title of a poem by J.V. Cunningham, “The Metaphysical Amorist" characterizes much of his playing, which ...
New Orleans Swamp Donkeys - 2015 Summer Tour & New CD! June 10 - August 17
New CD Release: July 7th A Fine Romance" featuring Alia Shawkat—Get It Now On Indiegogo On June 10th the New Orleans Swamp Donkeys left the Big Easy for their tour of the U.S. and Europe. During the tour, the band will be releasing an album recorded earlier this year with actress Alia Shawkat. The new release—A ...
