Results for "Francisco Mela"

Take Five with Aruan Ortiz

by AAJ Staff
April 19, 2013

Meet Aruan Ortiz: Named “the latest Cuban wunderkind to arrive in the United States" by BET Jazz, this classically trained violist and pianist from Santiago de Cuba, considers himself “a curious person who loves music," and portrays his music as an architectural structure of sounds, incorporating contemporary classical music, Afro-Cuban rhythms, and improvisation as primary material ...

Joe Lovano Us Five: Kennett Square, PA, January 19, 2013

by Troy Collins
January 30, 2013

Joe Lovano Us FiveLongwood GardensKennett Square, PAJanuary 19, 2013Renowned saxophonist Joe Lovano brought his esteemed Us Five ensemble to Kennett Square's bucolic Longwood Gardens on a crisp January evening, touring in support of Cross Culture, his 23rd release for Blue Note Records. Performing in the Conservatory's intimate ballroom, the unconventional lineup ...

Melissa Aldana: Living a Second Cycle

by Marta Ramon
January 1, 2013

Melissa Aldana may still be in her early twenties, but the tenor saxophonist already knows what it is like to play with big jazz names like saxophonists George Coleman, Benny Golson and George Garzone. In a short time, Aldana has found her own place in the difficult New York jazz scene because she has developed a ...

Take Five With Tyler Mitchell

by AAJ Staff
January 1, 2013

Meet Tyler Mitchell: Chicago born Tyler Mitchell studied the bass with Don Rafael Garrett (John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Rahsaan Roland Kirk) and Malachi Favors (Art Ensemble of Chicago). He played with Von Freeman before moving to New York in 1984. In 1985/86, he joined the Sun Ra Arkestra, with whom he played and toured ...

Chris Crocco: The Chris Crocco Fluid Trio +

by Dave Wayne
November 25, 2012

An up-and-coming jazz guitarist, whose unadorned, largely effects-free sound belies a truly modernist approach, Chris Crocco's Fluid Trio+ stands out a bit from the gaggle of current jazz guitar recordings by virtue of its sheer stylistic range, and by the virtuosity of the playing therein. Crocco, along with drummer Francisco Mela and bassist Peter Slavov, plays ...

Tree Of Life

By Francisco Mela

Label: Half Note Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Retrograde; Africa En Mis Venas; Toma Del Ponder; Yadan Mela; Classico Mela; The Nearness Of You; Yo Me; Just Now; Fiesta Conga; Gracias A La Vida.

Kurt Elling, Rudresh Mahanthappa and more on Reeds & Deeds II

October 17, 2011

Reeds and Deeds II presents its current line up! The jazz program is thrilled to announce two interviews and two in studio performance/interviews for the next coming weeks. The schedule is as follows: October 23: Kurt Elling Interviewed October 30: Rudresh Mahanthappa Interviewed November 6: The Jeremy De Jesus Quintet Interviewed with in studio performance November ...

Enter the "Francisco Mela & Cuban Safari - Tree of Life" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

October 14, 2011

McCoy Tyner Trio with Gary Bartz: New York, NY, September 1, 2011

by Lawrence Peryer
September 14, 2011

McCoy Tyner Trio with Gary BartzBlue NoteNew York, NYSeptember 1, 2011 With all of the thunder and lightning he has summoned for more than fifty years, pianist McCoy Tyner kicked off eight sets over four nights at Manhattan's Blue Note Jazz Club on Thursday, September 1, 2011. ...

Francisco Mela & Cuban Safari: Tree Of Life

by Dan Bilawsky
September 12, 2011

A safari, in essence, is all about the idea of an encounter between the tamed, usually in the form of adventure-seeking humans, and the wild, which they aim to explore. The same could be said for the music that drummer Francisco Mela creates with Cuban Safari on Tree Of Life. For his third solo outing, the ...