Results for "Gil Evans"

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University presents: The jazz composer, moving music off the paper

January 27, 2011

A book reading and signing with Graham Collier “Jazz happens in real time, once."  This mantra has provided the inspiration for my music and my beliefs about jazz, which are at the core of  the jazz composer. The work of the three icons of jazz composition—Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Gil Evans—is dealt with at length, ...

Cheryl Bentyne: The Gershwin Songbook

by Larry Taylor
January 11, 2011

Cheryl Bentyne's The Gershwin Songbook is among the best vocal albums of 2010. A member of The Manhattan Transfer since 1979, she frequently strikes out on her own to record, and has released eight albums in the past two decades. Perfecting her talent in vocalese with Manhattan Transfer, Bentyne performs jazz choruses with a ...

Gil Evans

Label: The RCA Victor Encyclopedia Of Recorded Jazz
Released: 2010

Various Artists: CTI Records - The Cool Revolution

by John Kelman
December 23, 2010

Various ArtistsCTI Records--The Cool RevolutionCTI Masterworks2010 The late 1960s was, in many ways, a time of reckoning for jazz. While the music had continued to evolve over the previous half century, it was coincident with the emergence of rock music as a serious force that jazz began to ...

Penang Island Jazz Festival: Malaysia, December 2-5, 2010

by Ian Patterson
December 19, 2010

7th Penang Island Jazz FestivalPenang, MalaysiaDecember 2-5, 2010 There was talk of bringing in a bomoh, or witchdoctor, to chase away the ominous-looking black clouds that hovered over the beachside gardens of the Bayview Hotel, home to the Penang Island Jazz Festival. The south-west monsoon that feeds the lush tropical growth of ...

Lew Soloff and the Harmonie Ensemble New York: Sketches Of Spain

by Bruce Lindsay
December 18, 2010

Trumpeter Lew Soloff, and the Harmonie Ensemble New York, conducted by Steve Richman, release their version of Sketches Of Spain 50 years after Miles Davis' original Columbia recording. The 1960 version is accorded classic status by many, but Soloff and Richman have produced a worthy successor. So what's different? Well, one answer is ...

Charles Pillow: Sound Crafter

by Victor L. Schermer
December 14, 2010

Charles Pillow is a musician's musician who works with diverse ensembles from jazz to pops to classical, small group to large ensemble, straight-ahead to avant-garde. He grew up in Baton Rouge, La., and studied music at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, before eventually settling in the New York City area as a working professional.

Ed Puddick Big Band: Guys and Dolls

by Robert J. Robbins
December 8, 2010

In the hands of the twenty-something bandleader and arranger Ed Puddick and his equally young, London-based seventeen-piece ensemble, Frank Loesser's classic Broadway score joins the ranks of those which have been adapted for big band (Stan Kenton's West Side Story, Les Brown's South Pacific, and Ted Heath's The Sound of Music all come to mind). Puddick's ...

John Burnett Swing Orchestra / University of Missouri Concert Big Band / Either-Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
December 2, 2010

John Burnett Swing OrchestraDown for DoubleDelmark2010 John Burnett, an Englishman who now lives and works (as a morning host at WDCB Radio) in suburban Chicago, is a great admirer of the golden age of big bands in the U.S., which spanned roughly three decades, from the 1930s through ...

The New Universe Music Festival in Raleigh NC - November 20-21, 2010

November 4, 2010

John McLaughlin, Jimmy Herring, Lenny White and other stars headline (Raleigh, NC)—Since its inception in 2003, Abstract Logix has consistently positioned itself at the cutting edge of every element of music sales, production, and distribution. In addition to traditional record label functions, Abstract Logix has fostered a vital community of musicians and fans via its online ...