Results for "Jake Reed"

Jake Reed

Collecting Things

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1. SOL MINOR PRELUDE 2:152. SOL MINOR 6:20 3. NOW AND LATER 4:34 4. JACK'S DILEMMA 5:47 5. BOOM DIDDLE IT 5:02 6. ON A CLEAR DAY 5:35 7. DARK BOSSA 4:52 8. RONDO 4:57 9. CODA 4:45 10. 49 2:39

Guitarists in Review: Lofsky, Scott, Rose and Bro

by Jerome Wilson
May 28, 2021

Here are current releases by four accomplished guitarists who display their talents in varied contexts. Lorne Lofsky This Song Is New Modica Music 2021 Lorne Lofsky is a highly respected Canadian guitarist. This is his first recording as a leader in over 25 years, a relaxed but ...

Guitarist Mike Scott Releases 'Collecting Things,' Featuring Joe Bagg, Darek Oles And Jake Reed

January 12, 2021

Collecting Things, the newest recording by guitarist and composer Mike Scott, is a pastiche of music styles mostly penned by Scott and performed by some of the top jazz musicians in Southern California. This is the third album by Scott as a leader and follows Fallen Peach (2011) and Good Place To Be (2000). The L.A. ...

My Shania Twain Songbook

By Staci Griesbach

Label: Staci Griesbach
Released: 2020
Track listing: “My Shania Twain Songbook” Track Listing: 1. No One Needs To Know 2. The Woman in Me (Needs the Man in You) 3. Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under 4. Leavin’ Is The Only Way Out 5. Is There Life After Love 6. God Bless The Child 7. Any Man of Mine

The Series Finale - All Jazz is Local (2011 - 2018)

by Russell Perry
July 28, 2020

So far, we have broadcast ninety-nine one-hour programs to tell the story of the first 100 years of recorded jazz. We have heard the creative work of hundreds of players, composers, arrangers, and bandleaders, famous and obscure. Each of the contributors to this rich history had colleagues and bandmates with whom they played as they grew ...

Struttin With Some Barbeque - Celebrating July 4 with Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne and Friends

by Mary Foster Conklin
July 13, 2020

The Independence Day broadcast included new releases from Jimmy Heath featuring Cecile McLorin Salvant, vocalists Kathleen Grace, Melody Gardot and drummer Jake Reed with birthday shoutouts to Rhoda Scott, Lena Horne, Natalie Cressman and Louis Armstrong (yes we know, it's really in August but he claimed July 4 for his own and who are we to ...

Nick DePinna: Nexus Music Vol. 1

by Jack Bowers
June 22, 2019

Los Angeles-based composer-trombonist Nick DePinna dips his toes warily into the big-band pond on Nexus Music Vol. 1, a concise yet largely impressive glimpse at contemporary motifs from a large-group perspective. The album encompasses only three songs whose total playing time is a brief twenty minutes, about one-quarter the maximum length of a Compact Disc.

Ron Boustead's CD Release Concert For "Unlikely Valentine," Wed., February 22nd At The E Spot Lounge, Studio City

February 17, 2017

Vocalist and lyricist Ron Boustead will perform a CD release concert for his new CD Unlikely Valentine on Wednesday, February 22nd at the E Spot Lounge at Vitello’s in Studio City, one show at 8pm. Boustead will be accompanied by the stellar band featured on Unlikely Valentine, including pianists and co-arrangers Bill Cunliffe and Mitchel Forman, ...

Time Check: A Paucity of Riches?

by Jack Bowers
June 2, 2016

On May 18, Betty and I flew to Los Angeles to attend Time Check: A Buddy Rich Alumni Reunion, a four-day panorama sponsored by the L.A. Jazz Institute and held at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel, about a stone's throw or two from the LAX airport. We arrived early afternoon so we could also be present for ...