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Article: Live Review

2013 Tri-C JazzFest: Cleveland, OH, April 19 - 27, 2013

by Matt Marshall
May 8, 2013

34th Annual Tri-C JazzFest ClevelandCleveland, OHApril 19-April 27, 2013There was a determined effort by Tri-C JazzFest Managing Director Terri Pontremoli to give this year's event more of a festival atmosphere than it has perhaps enjoyed in years past. For starters, many of the outlying venues, such as the East Cleveland library, a regular ...

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Article: Album Review

Ethan Mann: It's All About A Groove

Read "It's All About A Groove" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
September 2, 2010

It's All About a Groove is all about three self-effacing musicians having a fine time playing some music that burns with a cold fire, and swinging, sometimes with a fair gusto. Most of all this date is about uncomplicated, yet attractive improvisation, as a group that rarely veers far from the melody, but ventures far enough ...

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Article: Album Review

Ethan Mann: It's All About a Groove

Read "It's All About a Groove" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins

by Woodrow Wilkins
June 23, 2010

Jazz, pop, funk, blues--put them all together, and you get It's All About a Groove, by guitarist Ethan Mann. Aided by keyboardist Albert Chip" Crawford and drummer Greg Bandy, Mann presents a delightful mix of original songs and tributes. The three musicians started very young. Mann was 14 when he and a friend were ...

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Article: Album Review

Ethan Mann: It's All About A Groove

Read "It's All About A Groove" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
June 6, 2010

While plenty of jazz fans are schooled musicians, an even greater number doesn't have significant training--or any training, for that matter--in music. These people might not know chord progressions or specific rhythmic patterns, but they do know if music feels good. When songs are stripped to their bare essence, the groove is often what creates the ...

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Article: Interview

Myron Walden: Eclectic Reedman

by Edward Bride
November 23, 2009

In words often used to describe the music of Duke Ellington, Myron Walden is a saxophonist beyond category. More so than many other musicians, Walden himself eschews reliance on any one instrument, not tenor or alto nor soprano nor bass nor... well, you get the idea. The voice that he is striving to use in any ...