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Article: Album Review

Ezra Weiss Sextet: Before You Know It [Live In Portland]

Read "Before You Know It [Live In Portland]" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
October 21, 2014

Recorded over two nights in Portland's Ivories Jazz Lounge during late-2013, Before You Know It [Live In Portland] is pianist and composer Ezra Weiss' seventh album and his first live recording. Weiss' previous releases have featured big bands (Our Path To This Moment [Roark Records, 2012]) and trios (The Shirley Horn Suite [Roark Records, ...

Song of the Day

Groove Easy

May 14, 2011

Album: Class Is Now In Session
By Farnell Newton
Label: Casa de Amor Recordings
Released: 2011
Duration: 8:06

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News: Recording

Farnell Newton's "Class is Now in Session" on House of Love Records Now Available

May 4, 2011

Trumpeter Farnell Newton is one of the most versatile musicians and educators in the Northwest, playing straight ahead jazz, smooth jazz, Latin music, soul, and hip hop. When he is not teaching at Portland State University's Jazz Department or working with his youth jazz group, PDX Jazz Project, he is touring, recording, and performing with sax ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Farnell Newton

by AAJ Staff
March 9, 2007

Meet Farnell Newton: Farnell Newton composer/trumpeter was born on March 21, 1977 in Miami, Florida where he was exposed to many forms of music from jazz, salsa, funk and hip-hop.Instrument(s): trumpet.Teachers and/or influences? My trumpet professors at Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Marcus Belgrave, Kenny Davis and Bill Lucas. Dennis Reynolds from the ...

Album

Sense of Direction

By Farnell Newton

Label: Diatic Records
Released: 2006

Album

Class Is Now In Session

By Farnell Newton

Label: Casa de Amor Recordings
Released: 2011

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News: Interview

Makin' It Happen - Farnell Newton

February 13, 2010

The first time I saw Farnell Newton I had no idea who he was, but he made a big impression on me. I was in Portland for the night and dropped by Jimmy Maks to catch the Mel Brown Sextet. The band was cookin right along and I was enjoying the show greatly. Then a trumpet ...