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Vocalist Alysa Haas Fuels New Album With Vibrant Personality And Irresistible Singing
Voices carry. In the case of jazz vocalist Alysa Haas, a voice does carry, especially on her new album, Spasm. Performing covers of pop standards requires not only genuine singing talent but style and grace as well. Thankfully, Haas has no difficulties in fulfilling such requirements. Haas captures the emotional weight and film-noir sexiness to spring ...
Interview: Phillip Brandon
Q: Your music is a hybrid of various genres, namely funk, jazz, and rock & roll. How did this style come about? A: It's an amazingly beautiful thing when you set out with a vision, and then have others share in that vision without purposefully persuading them to do so. When I started this project, I ...
Interview: Slack-Key Guitarist Jim "Kimo" West On New Christmas CD
Q: You have a new Christmas album. You released “Kimo's Hawaiian Slack-Key Christmas" in 2008. How would you say this CD differs? A: “Ki Ho'alu Christmastime" is my second holiday CD. I recorded it back in January 2013 while the spirit of the season was still intact. Just before Christmas I had been playing around with ...
Canadian Singer/Songwriter James Bruce Moore Dedicates Album To Late Wife
It’s no surprise that one of the songs on “Lisbeth," the first album from Canadian singer/songwriter James Bruce Moore, is entitled “Stars of Silver.” After all, a number of tracks on the CD are about light – the light that emanates from life, and the light that fades when life passes away. In Moore’s case, it’s ...
Interview: Alysa Haas
Q: What started your love for music, and how old were you at the time? A: I have always been surrounded by music. My grandmother, who unfortunately passed before I was born, was a Yiddish folk singer. My mother Bira Rabushka is a violinist; my father Georges Haas was a world famous oboist; and my stepfather ...
L.A. Guitarist Andy Waddell Debuts With Inventive New Album
Andy Waddell is a true craftsman, a jazz guitarist with a keen ear for both accessible melodies and inventive arrangements. The Los Angeles-based musician lets his creativity soar on his debut album, Sunset to 7. Backed by pianist Matt Politano, bassist Roger Shew, drummer Evan Stone, and tenor saxophonist Tom Catanzaro, Waddell delivers a consistently engaging ...
The Sally Cats Are "On The Prowl" With Winning Covers On New Ep
The Santa Barbara-based Sally Cats consist of regional vets, professional musicians who have no doubt paid their dues. Although the group is mainly rooted in jazz, folk and blues influences break through the surface, perhaps no more than on their new EP On the Prowl. Here vocalist Sally Barr again casts a mesmerizing presence; her singing ...
Texas Blues Rocker Hamilton Loomis Tours U.S. For Album Release
“If blues, soul, and rock can be said to form a triangle, you’ll find Hamilton Loomis right in the center of it,” says Guitar Player Magazine. An apt description, as young Loomis is one of the young artists at the forefront of bringing blues-based American music into the 21st century and redefining it for a contemporary ...
An Interview With Jude Gwynaire
Q: Where did the interest in music originate from? A: I guess I’ve always had a natural interest in music from an early age. I started playing keyboards when I was about 12 (a home organ), and this led onto an electric piano and guitars when I was about 17. I’m also an aspiring author and ...
Singer/Songwriter Randy Cherkis Soars With New "Super Hero" Single
Singer/songwriter Randy Cherkis does not need flying lessons to soar through the skies. On his latest single, “When a Super Hero Falls in Love,” Cherkis unveils the cape beneath his beating heart. “I’m not just an ordinary man,” he croons to his ladylove. Strumming an escalating riff that recalls Filter’s “Take a Picture,” Cherkis has written ...
