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Take Five With Ralph J DeLorso Jr.
by AAJ Staff
Meet Ralph J DeLorso Jr:I am a 59 year-old seasoned professional drummer. For 43 years I worked for WM Morris and Willard Alexander. For many years I have performed and recorded with many artists. I have performed with the late Jackie McLean two years before his passing at the Artist Collective in Hartford. I ...
Jazzablanca Festival 2013: Casablanca, Morocco, March 30 - April 4, 2013
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by Mehdi El Mouden
Jazzablanca Festival 2013Casablanca, MoroccoMarch 30--April 4,2013A chronological scan through the list of artists who have played in jazzablanca Festival for the last seven years reveals a strong wish to improve and position the event as a leading jazz festival in Morocco, beside Tanjazz in Tangiers and jazz au Chellah in Rabat. Indeed, each ...
Agogo Records Announces Mop Mop "Isle Of Magic"
Anyone familiar with Mop Mop will already know that their refined style has already lend them a unique place somewhere between the worlds of jazz, funk, Latin and the Italian Postmodern style allowed the band to enter the international film business as part of Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love movie soundtrack. But with this latest ...
The Paul Dunlea Group: bi-polAr
by Dan Bilawsky
Bipolar disorder is, at its core, about extreme changes in personality and mood. When somebody is diagnosed with said ailment, it's a serious problem, but it can be a positive attribute when an album carries this affliction. Trombonist Paul Dunlea's two polar opposites deal with grooving funk versus staid scenarios, but nobody need worry about these ...
Bruce Cox Core-Tet: Status Cymbals
by Dan Bilawsky
Drummer Bruce Cox may not be a household name in the jazz world, but he's studied, played and/or recorded with plenty of people who are. The Philadelphia-born stick-wielder gleaned plenty of wisdom through his lessons with drumming icons Philly Joe Jones and Alan Dawson, and he's put that knowledge to good use by backing the greats ...
Take Five With Will Goble
by AAJ Staff
Meet Will Goble: Without fanfare, Will Goble is steadily carving out a unique space for himself as a bassist and bandleader. Driven by a genuine love for group interaction and a positive exchange with audiences, he leads his own bands and supports other musicians with equal energy and enthusiasm. His first album as a ...
Big Sam’s Funky Nation: A Lesson at the School of Funk
by Michael Hood
Big Sam's Funky NationMain StagePennsylvania Blues FestivalBlue Mountain Ski Area, PAJuly 28, 2012Among other things, Big Sam's Funky Nation is a walking, talking, funking class in the history and myriad styles of funk.Classic funk--that most grooving and gritty stepchild of blues, soul and classic R & B--was ...
4 Sided Triangle: 4 Sided Triangle
by Bruce Lindsay
4 Sided Triangle offer up a set of tunes that mix jazz, rock, blues and funk on their eponymous debut album. It's an often-quirky set of tunes from an impressive quartet of British musicians led by Bristol-based saxophonist and composer Kevin Figes.Figes also leads the Kevin Figes Quartet, which has released two albums, but ...
Chameleon
Featuring the music of Fred Wesley
Duration: 9:22
BMW Jazz Festival 2012
by Ross Eustis
BMW Jazz FestivalVia FunchalSão Paulo, BrazilJune 8-10, 2012 To borrow a word commonly associated with BMW cars, this is a luxury festival. The BMW Jazz Festival debuted one year ago, in 2011, in São Paulo, Brazil. With handsome funding from BMW Financial Services-Bank Group in Brazil, the young festival experienced wild ...
