Results for "Fuzzy Music"

3 Nights in L.A.

Label: Fuzzy Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: Disc 1: Have You Met Miss Jones?; All The Things You Are; Dedicated to Michael Brecker; Twelve; I Hear a Rhapsody; Tutti Italiani; The Honeymoon. Disc 2: Like Someone in Love; Invitation; I Want to Talk About You; Hey Open Up; Agrodolce; Have You Met Miss Jones?; The Honeymoon. Disc 3: I'll Remember April; Equinox; To My Papa; It Will Happen To You; Sky Shines on an August Sunday; Have You Met Miss Jones?

George Garzone/Peter Erskine/Alan Pasqua/Darek Oles: 3 Nights in L.A.

by Jim Worsley
September 7, 2019

Any jazz cat will tell you that the art of improvising is the primary contributing factor in what sets jazz apart from other genres. It is the artists' ability to continuously and freely explore a composition. As they expand the notes and the feel, they expand and open our minds along with them. One ...

Peter Erskine

Born: June 5, 1954

Peter Erskine has played the drums since the age of four and is known for his versatility and love of working in different musical contexts. He appears on over 600 albums and film scores, and has won two Grammy Awards, plus an Honorary Doctorate from the Berklee School of Music (1992).

Fifty albums have been released under his own name or as co-leader. He has played with the Stan Kenton and Maynard Ferguson Big Bands, Weather Report, Steps Ahead, Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, Diana Krall, Kenny Wheeler, Mary Chapin Carpenter, The Brecker Brothers, The Yellowjackets, Pat Metheny and Gary Burton, John Scofield, et al, and has appeared as a soloist with the London, Los Angeles, Chicago, Frankfurt Radio, Scottish Chamber, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Royal Opera House, BBC Symphony, Oslo and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras

Daniel Szabo: Visionary

by Jim Worsley
February 26, 2019

It takes maybe ten full seconds to be intrigued by Visionary. Pianist, composer, and arranger Daniel Szabo presents a kaleidoscope view of futures integrating a woodwind sextet, string quartet, and a jazz rhythmic section. There is no meeting somewhere in the middle to be found here. Instead, they sublimely merge as an ensemble for an intriguing ...

Visionary

By Daniel Szabo

Label: Fuzzy Music
Released: 2018
Track listing: Visionary; Vaison-La-Romaine; Cosmic; Infant Eyes; Floating; Underwater.

In Praise of Shadows

By Peter Erskine

Label: Fuzzy Music
Released: 2017
Track listing: Sukiyaki; What If; Each Breath; Labryinth; Marcheta ('A Love Song of Old Mexico'); Silhouette Shadows; Begin Within; Distant Blue; Smile; All That Remains.

All L.A. Band

By Bob Mintzer

Label: Fuzzy Music
Released: 2017
Track listing: El Caborojeno; Havin' Some Fun; Home Basie; Ellis Island; Original People; New Rochelle; Runferyerlife; Latin Dance; Slo Funk; Tribute.

Autumn 2017

by Doug Collette
September 22, 2017

Jazz Journal is a regular column consisting of pithy takes on recent jazz releases of note as well as spotlights on those titles in the genre that might otherwise go unnoticed under the cultural radar. Jim Yanda Trio Regional Cookin' Corner Store Jazz2017 There's an uncanny similarity ...

Bob Mintzer: All L.A. Band

by Angelo Leonardi
April 12, 2017

Ascoltando questo nuovo, scintillante, album orchestrale di Bob Mintzer mi chiedevo perchè si parli così poco di questo sassofonista e bandleader ormai 64enne. Dai primi anni ottanta ha diretto formidabili big band--incidendo una ventina di album -nel solco della tradizione mainstream che va da Count Basie a Thad Jones. In veste di autore ha scritto oltre ...

Peter Erskine New Trio: In Praise of Shadows

by Dave Wayne
March 19, 2017

Expecting the delicately brooding pastel hues of his piano trio recordings for ECM Records, my socks were pleasantly knocked off from the git-go by Peter Erskine's New Trio. In Praise of Shadows opens with a slyly sweet, reggae-infused rendition of “Sukiyaki," a Japanese folk tune that became a surprise novelty hit for Kyu Sakamoto back in ...