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Todd Barkan: Early days of Keystone Korner
by Todd Barkan
In the summer of 1972, at the age of 25, I was working by day as a Customs Broker for the venerable San Francisco firm of Hoyt, Shepston & Sciaroni, and by night as a jazz pianist and arranger for an Afro Cuban jazz band called Kwane and the Kwandito's, which played a lot of the ...
Brian Bromberg: Brian Bromberg
by Dave Wayne
Talk about backstory! There are multiple backstories going on with bass virtuoso Brian Bromberg's Full Circle. The first actually involves Bromberg's back. Full Circle marks Bromberg's return to recording and full-on playing since suffering a debilitating spinal injury several years ago. Always a chops-meister, Bromberg truly projects the sheer joy of music-making throughout. Cutting loose seems ...
Wynton Marsalis Quintet at The Palace Theater
by Karl Ackermann
Wynton Marsalis Quintet The Palace Theater Stamford, CT April 30, 2016 There are expectations baked into a live performance from the caliber of a Wynton Marsalis. An artist who has won a Pulitzer Prize for Music, nine GRAMMY awards, serves as the Director of Jazz studies at Juilliard and is actively ...
Benjamin Duboc/Julien Desprez/Julien Loutelier: Tournesol
by Mark Corroto
The free improvisations by Benjamin Duboc, Julien Desprez, and Julien Loutelier on Tournesol or “Sunflower" bring to mind the lyrics to “Love Dance," a minor crossover hit for George Benson in 1980: “From too much talk to loving touches/Love touches when pure emotion takes the moment/We take the chance/Turn up the quiet, love wants to dance." ...
Joe Syrian's Motor City Jazz Octet: Sanctuary
by Jack Bowers
The Motor City Jazz Octet numbers in its ranks thirty or more of the Detroit metropolitan area's most accomplished musicians, eight of whom actually perform together at any given moment. Because of that, and some other quirks, the octet's debut album, Sanctuary, is in some respects a study in confusion. A press release accompanying the album, ...
Snowboy and the Latin Section: New York Afternoon
by Phil Barnes
The pervasive myths of New York are of a whole different order to those of just about any other world city. If 'Swinging London' ever existed before the offshore 'investors' moved in, it was long ago reduced, as the Clash put it, to the 'ring of that truncheon thing,' yet New York has somehow kept its ...
Dave Stryker: Soulful Sound
by R.J. DeLuke
Guitarist Dave Stryker carries a soulful sound that took root in his early years in Nebraska, where he played the blues before finding his way into the world of Grant Green, Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino. More was added to the recipe when, after moving to New York City, he earned his way into the real-time ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: George Benson
All About Jazz is celebrating George Benson's birthday today! Appreciated as both musician and performer by millions, George Benson has always had the duel personae of expert improviser and vibrant entertainer. He has always placed his keenly discerning art in the service of a rousing good time. Rounding out his singular approach with sly, seductive rhythm ...
Josh Maxey: Celebration of Soul
by Angelo Leonardi
È un nome da tenere a mente quello di Josh Maxey. Non è solo un chitarrista tecnicamente esuberante ma si dimostra un leader fantasioso e un ottimo autore. Celebration of Soul è l'ultimo di dieci dischi autoprodotti nell'arco di tre anni (questo in versione compact disc, gli altri sono scaricabili in formato MP3 o FLAC dal ...
The Ultimate Collection
Label: Rhino Records (2)
Released: 2015
Track listing: Give Me The Night (12" Long Version); Lady Love Me (One More Time); Never Give Up On A Good Thing; Love X Love; Love Ballad; Nature Boy; This Masquerade; On Broadway (Live); White Rabbit; Breezin'; Welcome Into My World; What's On Your Mind; Mimosa; Off Broadway; Gonna Love You More; Unchained Melody; The Greatest Love Of All; Turn Your Love Around; In Your Eyes; Shiver; Inside Love (So Personal); 20/20; Love All The Hurt Away; Feel Like Making Love; Let's Do It Again; The One For Me; Kisses In The Moonlight; Love Will Come Again; Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You; Being With You; Moody's Mood; God Bless The Child; I Only Have Eyes For You; Beyond The Sea (La Mer); When I Fall In Love; When Love Comes Calling;
