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Christine Tobin: Romancing the Radical
by Chris May
Brought up in Ireland, singer/songwriter Christine Tobin moved to London in '87. She gigged prolifically before forming her own band and starting to record in the mid '90s. She is today one of the most highly regarded musicians on the British cutting edge, rooted in jazz but roaming far beyond it. One prominent commentator has described ...
Charlie Peacock: Accepting the Gift of Freedom
by Paul Olson
Charlie Peacock's been in the music business for twenty-five years; his recordings as a solo artist and producer (Amy Grant, Al Green, CeCe Winans, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Switchfoot) in the pop, gospel and alternative rock genres have sold millions of records. I'll admit I looked askance at his new jazz CD Love Press Ex-Curio--prejudiced by his ...
Mark Weinstein: Cuban Roots
by Tomas Pena
Flautist/trombonist/Professor Mark Weinstein is a first generation Jewish American of Ukranian descent. He was raised in Brooklyn and grew up in a multi cultural atmosphere, listening to the music of Felix Chappotin, Chocolate Armenteros, Miles Davis and Charles Mingus. Prior to taking up the flute, Weinstein made his mark as a trombonist and member of Eddie ...
Marc Johnson: Sweet Tone for Sweet Tunes
by R.J. DeLuke
Marc Johnson is an extraordinary musician, but recordings under his own name are infrequent. That can often be the case for people whose instrument is the contrabass. But for this musician, it seems more about making statements when the time is right. Johnson plays exquisite bass, with the luscious tone and great harmonic and melodic expression ...
Cynthia "c." Basinet's "Santa Baby" goes to SIRIUS - live interview
Venue: Channel 103 (NYC, NY, USA) Time: 4:30 ET Date: 12.19.05 Where: Jay Thomas Show (2-6pm ET / Channel 103) http://www.sirius.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Sirius/CachedPage&c=Channel&cid=1126670695399 Subject: Cynthia “c." Basinet brings her music, including the #1 hit, “Santa Baby" Further info: www.cynthiabasinet.com, www.myspace.com/cbasinet ...
Peter Knight's Invisible Cities
by Miriam Zolin
Peter Knight's 5+2 Brass Ensemble has recently released Invisible Cities and Other Works, on Rufus Records. The CD comprises compositions inspired by Italo Calvino's book Invisible Cities, which is a series of short and often surreal pieces about fictitious cities, described by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan as a series of conversations. Peter Knight is based ...
Enrico Rava: Consummate Fan, Consummate Artist
by R.J. DeLuke
Listen to Enrico Rava play the trumpet. It's direct and assured. Controlled and cool, yet capable of flights of fancy. His sound on the horn is mature and fat and full. It's capable of bold and brazen statements, and can be fragile as an eggshell. With it, he has become one of the finer players around ...
Prince Lasha's Inside-Outside Story
by Clifford Allen
Alto saxophonist, flutist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Prince Lasha was born in 1929 near Fort Worth, Texas, and came up with Ornette Coleman and Charles Moffett, but his travels have taken him both far away from and nearer to that tree. During the 1960s, after moving to New York from California, Lasha associated regularly with Eric Dolphy ...
Wallace Roney: Fulfilling the Promise
by Paul Olson
Trumpeter Wallace Roney has been working in jazz for over thirty years. He made his recording debut at age fourteen and played in the bands of Tony Williams, Art Blakey, David Murray and Herbie Hancock—just to name a few. A bandleader on his own for many years, Roney has dazzling chops and has composed some classic ...
Victor Noriega: Hangin
by Jason West
Shanghai as been referred to as the Paris of the East and the Whore of the Orient. It's one of the fastest growing cities in the world and one of the most densely populated. The city's history is rich with tales of gangsters and opium dens, but today its streets are filled with signs of Western ...
