Results for "Francisco Mela"

Montreux Jazz Festival 2010: Grand Geneva Finales

by Phillip Woolever
August 12, 2010

Montreux Jazz 2010 Montreux, Switzerland July 15-16, 2010 Planet Jazz For a city with census figures at under 25,000 citizens, Montreux throws one hell of a party. For summer music fans, its heaven. The 44th edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival wrapped up this season's two ...

McCoy Tyner Quartet / Stanley Clarke Quartet Featuring Hiromi

by Ernest Barteldes
July 1, 2010

McCoy Tyner Quarter / Stanley Clarke Band Featuring Hiromi CareFusion Jazz Festival, Central Park Summerstage New York, NY June 23, 2010 Contrary to what had been announced, pianist McCoy Tyner's all-star Quartet took to the stage with a very syncopated number, led by tenor saxophonist Ravi Coltrane. Bassist Esperanza ...

Chris Crocco Fluidic Duo at Bar Next Door NYC

January 20, 2010

A special show of uncompromised music and truth!! Chris Crocco - Guitar Francisco Mela - Drums 2 sets at 7:00p.m. & 9:00p.m. About Chris Crocco Guitarist Christopher Crocco graduated Berklee College of Music, and began pursuing an open and more truthful approach towards playing the guitar. Along with extensive guitar studies, his ...

James Weidman: Three Worlds

by Donald Elfman
November 12, 2009

Three Worlds is the product of a thoughtful musical soul. Pianist James Weidman is well-versed in the traditional and modern jazz vocabulary and has found ways of deftly incorporating what's he's heard into his playing and composing. And here he adds color to his pianistics with melodica and the exotic xaphoon, a single-reed keyless bamboo wind ...

Uri Gurvich: The Storyteller

by A. Henkin
November 11, 2009

Despite the fact that alto saxophonist Uri Gurvich is Israeli and that his debut CD is on the Tzadik label (as part of its “Radical Jewish Culture" series), The Storyteller only sounds parenthetically Jewish. Yes, some of the titles are in Hebrew (translated as “The Builders," “I Believe" and “Chant" and a type of hummus) and ...

52nd Monterey Jazz Festival Presents Best of Old and New

by Larry Taylor
October 1, 2009

52nd Annual Monterey Jazz FestivalMonterey FairgroundsMonterey, CaliforniaSeptember 18-20, 2009 Three Generations of Pianists, a celebration of piano jazz, spotlighting a family of greats from Jason Moran through Dave Brubeck, highlighted the 2009 Monterey Jazz Festival at Monterey County Fairgrounds in Northern California. And surprisingly, celebrated folk legend Pete Seeger got ...

Kenny Barron: The Traveler

by Florence Wetzel
September 4, 2009

The Traveler is a delicious offering of ten beautiful songs by pianist Kenny Barron. Eight of the tunes were composed by Barron, and each one is brimming with his famous lyricism. Most of the songs feature solid underpinning by Kiyoshi Kitagawa (bass) and Francisco Mela (drums), and in addition the CD features a variety of guests ...

Open-Air Jazz In And Around Moscow

by Cyril Moshkow
September 3, 2009

Moscow's summer is relatively brief: early June is normally the first really warm time during the year, and the final week of August normally the last; which means that most of the fifteen million people who live in and around the Russian capital try to take full advantage of those three short months. Those who can ...

Joe Lovano: Folk Art

by Jeff Stockton
September 2, 2009

Some jazz artists enter a period in their careers where they've said all they have to say yet carry on, eking out a living, resting on laurels and simply playing out the string. Not saxophonist Joe Lovano. Folk Art is his 22nd recording for Blue Note alone, a run that has been marked by artistic consistency ...

The Chris Crocco Fluid Trio at "The Bar Next Door" on February 6th

February 4, 2009