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Eldar Djangirov: Breakthrough
by Dan Bilawsky
"Point Of View Redux"--the eight-minute-long opener on pianist Eldar Djangirov's Breakthrough--doesn't exactly say it all, but it says a hell of a lot. A firmly delivered flourish flies through the air in the opening seconds, a rollicking riff sets things in motion as titan-like technique powers the warp-speed explorations that follow, things take a bluesy turn ...
Motema Takes Flight With Steady Stream of Breakthrough Albums
Motéma Music's tenth anniversary year is in full swing, and as the summer heats up, the Harlem-based label has much cause for celebration. The month of July kicked off with vibraphonist Joe Locke's May release Lay Down My Heart, spending two weeks in the #1 slot on the Jazz Week chart. For the week of July ...
Motéma Music Takes Flight In Its Tenth Year With Steady Stream Of Breakthrough Albums
Harlem-Based Label Makes Waves on International Sales, Radio and Tastemaker Charts and Polls Celebrations planned at Monterey, Exit 0 & London Jazz Festivals, As Well As at Events in Detroit, NYC and Paris Motéma Music's tenth anniversary year is in full swing, and as the summer heats up, the Harlem-based label has much cause for celebration. The ...
New York City's Pedrito Martinez Group Signs with Motéma Music
The charismatic Pedrito Martinez Group - a veritable 'Latino Fab Four' - who met and started playing together at the Guantanamera restaurant in New York City five years ago, is led by the much in-demand Cuban percussion wizard Pedrito Martinez. Pedrito has performed on over 100 recordings, including Eddie Palmieri and Bryan Lynch's 2010 Grammy®-winner Sympatico; ...
Grammy Nominated Pianist Eldar Djangirov Achieves A Career Breakthrough With Tandem Releases: Breakthrough, A New Jazz Trio Opus And Bach/Brahms/Prokofiev, His Solo Classical Debut
"A sparkling command of the instrument." —Chick Corea “An uncompromising clarity of rhythm, timing and sound that is pure light." —Jan Vogler, Dir., Moritzburg Chamber Music Festival Few artists could record two albums over the course of one week in different musical genres, with disparate personnel, and at separate studios. Yet New York City-based pianist Eldar ...
Joe Locke: Lay Down My Heart: Blues & Ballads Vol.1
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
The successful combination of two chordal instruments--like vibes and piano--requires giant ears and mutual respect in order to avoid melodic pile-ups and harmonic collisions. On this CD, vibraphonist and composer Joe Locke and pianist Ryan Cohan provide a textbook example of how this is done. They are happily aided and abetted by bassist and co-producer David ...
Joe Locke: Lay Down My Heart - Blues & Ballads Vol 1
by John Kelman
In a rarefied space, Joe Locke continues to evolve, engage and impress. There simply isn't another vibraphonist of his generation with Locke's stellar chops, thorough understanding of history/tradition--not just of jazz, but of music, period--and ability to build programs based on thematic concepts that not only stand out in his gradually growing discography, but fit contextually ...
Rondi Charleston And Her All Star Band Perform On June 12th At Catalina Jazz Club - Only Los Angeles Area Performance
* * * PRINT THIS PAGE & PRESENT AT SHOW TO REDEEM FOR A FREE COCKTAIL WITH TICKET PURCHASE * * * Critically lauded vocalist, songwriter and lyricist Rondi Charleston brings her All Star Band to Catalina Jazz Club in Los Angeles for one show only, on Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Charleston is performing ...
Verve Jazz Ensemble Takes It International With Japanese Website
It's About Time may be the Verve Jazz Ensemble's debut album, but the reception that these five players have received since its March release is as impressive as that awarded to the most seasoned jazz groups. Within weeks of being released on radio, It’s About Time soared to the #5 position on the national JazzWeek chart, ...
Joe Locke: Lay Down My Heart: Blues & Ballads Vol.1
by Edward Blanco
The ever versatile vibraphonist extraordinaire Joe Locke returns to his early days of music-making, where he once felt that jazz was, is and “should always be, people music." On his third recording for the Motema label, Locke presents Lay Down My Heart: Blues & Ballads Vol. 1 designed as a vehicle for people everywhere who need ...
