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Rodrigo Lima: Saga
by Chris M. Slawecki
“I fell in love with the jazz guitar--all kinds of jazz guitarists, from Jim Hall to Pat Metheny to Luis Bonfá, by listening to their records," explains Brazilian composer, arranger, bandleader and guitarist Rodrigo Lima. Saga luxuriously extends this jazz guitar love affair across the American and Brazilian continents--it was recorded in New ...
Checking in from Global Outposts
by Chris M. Slawecki
Atlas Maior Palindrome Self Produced 2014 Open the package for Atlas Maior's debut CD and here's the first line you read: “Palindrome was completely improvised and recorded live with no overdubs." How you respond to these words will greatly shape how you respond to this music. A ...
Kaylene Peoples & Bunny Brunel Dual CD Release, Featuring Patrice Rushen, Benefiting Bella Composers
An exciting lineup of musicians will play for a worthy cause April 8, 2015 at Catalina Bar & Grill at 8:30pm. Famed fusion, Grammy nominated bassist Bunny Brunel and award-winner producer, singer and flutist Kaylene Peoples are celebrating the release of their respective CDs (Invent Your Future and My Man) to raise money for the exciting ...
Guitarist Jack Allen Release Debut CD "Nawlins Boy"
For Jack Allen the release of Nawlins Boy is a “culmination of my musical journeys to date and a tribute to my dad who was born in New Orleans." With the title and opening track one might feel the spirit of the Big Easy as the tune seems to march in second line style during Mardi ...
Rodrigo Lima: Saga
Temperatures dropped to single digits in New York today, compelling me to break out something tasty and warm: Saga, a new double-CD album by Brazilian guitarist and composer-arranger Rodrigo Lima. Produced by Arnaldo DeSouteiro, the album is Lima's first as a leader and a tribute of sorts to CTI's sultry Brazilian jazz recordings of the 1970s, ...
Meeco: Souvenirs Of Love
by Dan Bilawsky
Meeco doesn't skimp on star power when he puts a record together. The personnel listings from his previous projects--Amargo Mel (Connector Records, 2009), Perfume E Caricias (Connector Records, 2010), and Beauty Of The Night (Connector Records, 2012)--read like the invite list for the NEA Jazz Masters Awards Ceremony: Jazz elders--bassists Ron Carter and Buster Williams, flautist ...
The Brecker Brothers: Heavy Metal Bebop
by John Kelman
The Brecker BrothersHeavy Metal BebopArista1978 While artists more often than not look for an album title that in some way reflects the music contained within, few have come up with a name that, in three simple words, says it all as much as today's Rediscovery: The Brecker Brothers' Heavy Metal Bebop. ...
Take Five with Delandria Mills
by AAJ Staff
Meet Delandria Mills: A flutist and educator, I am a native of Houston, Texas. I began playing the flute at age seven and graduated from Houston's High School for the Performing Arts. Both my Masters in Classical Flute and Graduate Performance Diploma in Jazz Studies were earned from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, ...
John Handy at Yoshi's San Francisco
by Harry S. Pariser
John Handy Yoshi's San Francisco San Francisco, California August 31, 2014 If one thinks of iconic Bay Area musicians, saxophonist John Handy immediately comes to mind. Born in 1933 in Dallas, Texas, Handy is an accomplished horn player who, while best known for his work on alto, also plays ...
Jazz on the Screen: A Jazz and Blues Filmography
by AAJ Staff
This article appears courtesy of David Meeker and the Library of Congress. Learn more about Jazz on Screen. Overview of Jazz on the Screen By David Meeker The cultural, sociological and technical histories of jazz and motion pictures have run in parallel, sometimes intersecting, lines ever since both forms emerged ...
