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Yuko Ito Charts at JazzWeek World
New York, NY - Yuko Ito's Brazilian jazz debut CD, Mania De Voc, is a provocative, unwavering testament to love. With renditions of classical compositions by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Djavan, Luiz Gonzaga, Rita Lee, Carlinhos Brown and Baden Powell, the album exudes romance and communicates her attraction to and profound respect for Brazilian music. The intoxicating ...
Lin McPhillips Continues to Chart at RMR (4 Weeks)
Lin McPhillips continues to chart at RMR peaking at #16 so far. Lin McPhillips is a San Francisco Bay area jazz vocalist. In this recent recording, she sings a collection of songs dedicated to the friends in memoriam. After a long hiatus and prompted by the loss of so many of her friends, she has returned ...
Gene Ess is Honored by SESAC
New York: SESAC honored its affiliated composers in the jazz genre with the Sixth Annual Jazz Awards Luncheon. The event, held at New York's popular Red Eye Grill, honored the Top 10 jazz albums of 2009. SESAC executives Trevor Gale and Linda Lorence Critelli hosted the luncheon which drew an audience of some of the ...
Zollar Moves up the JazzWeek Chart To #20
James Zollar moves up the national Jazzweek Radio Chart this week. In, 1984, he moved to New York City and played with the Cecil McBee Quintet for five years and then recorded with Tom Harrell, with Weldon Erving and Sam Rivers. Zollar was featured in Robert Altman's motion picture “Kansas City", in Madonna's music video “My ...
Savannah Music Festival Opens This Weekend
On the heels of one of the country's biggest St. Patrick's Day celebrations, the 2010 Savannah Music Festival opens on Thursday, March 18th with a concert featuring Chinese pianist Lang Lang with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, along with Mike Marshall's Big Trio premiering the newly-commissioned “Suite Savannah" on a co-bill with new favorites of western swing, ...
James Zollar - #40 at JazzWeek National Jazz Radio Chart
James Zollar debuts at #40 today on the national jazz radio chart Jazzweek. Zollar is enjoying success on the Jazzweek, CMJ and RMR national jazz radio charts with his new release Zollar Systems. The Zollar Systems CD contains a wide range of music for the musical palate, from swing, bebop and funk to avant-garde to bossa ...
Jenni Brandon, Reviewed Today by Indiana Public Radio
Jenni Brandon's Songs of California contains some of the most imaginative, ingratiating recent chamber music for winds I've heard. Five Frogs (in six movements) is a pond-side exploration of the constituent members of the woodwind quintet at which Thoreau would have smiled. The bullfrog/bassoon swells contentently and flies buzz languidly (courtesy of the detached oboe reed). ...
Gabriel Riesco Reviewed Today at Jazz Chicago
GR Project Sculptures in Time (WUC Records) Eduardo Chillida was a highly acclaimed sculptor who built massive abstract structures that suggest movement through the use of form and space. Guitarist Gabriel Riesco used Chillada's work as the inspiration for his Sculptures in Time. A former student at the Royal Academy of Music in London and Berklee ...
James Zollar Debuts at #17 on the CMJ National Jazz Radio Chart
After a twelve year recording hiatus as a leader, Zollar re-emerges with Zollar Systems, a refreshingly sharp hard bop recital, bristling with energy and sonic acuteness. Tired of that old Blue Note '50s-'60s blowing session model? Think again. Zollar breathes new life into the old form, tightening it up and repackaging it for the 21st Century. ...
Christopher Lehman Maintains His Hold On CMJ Jazz Chart
With so much experience on the bandstand and commitment to musical education timelines, it was easy to get lost in the sideman role. Playing the part in someone else's ensemble or putting together ensembles for the gig of the moment made him hungry to breakout on his own. At a private function in 2006, Lehman (who ...
