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Acclaimed Bariton Saxophonist Claire Daly Will Perform with Poet Kirpal Gordon in Upstate New York on August 13 and 20
Performances at the College of Poetry in Warwick on August 13 and at the Liberty Free Theatre in Liberty on August 20 Will Fuse Poetry and Jazz Claire Daly, whose new CD, The Mary Joyce Project: Nothing to Lose, will be released in September, will join frequent collaborator Kirpal Gordon for two performances that explore the ...
Blues/Roots Guitarist & Vocalist Tommy Castro to Perform in Sellersville
"Tommy Castro can do no wrong...soulful, heartfelt vocals, and exquisite, stellar guitar work. A seamless blend of blues, gospel-flavored R&B, soul and roadhouse rock." —Blues Revue Blues/roots guitarist and vocalist Tommy Castro will perform at the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville on Wednesday, August 24, 2011. Castro will be performing songs from his Alligator Records debut, Hard ...
Erin Dickins: Rediscovering Repertoire
by Nick Catalano
One of the great challenges for any established recording vocalist is finding material. Often, even the best arrangements fall short if the composition is a tired standard that has been recorded to death. Success in this area is rare, so when a debut CD contains one thoughtfully performed obscure gem after another, it is time to ...
TD Toronto Jazz Festival, Days 4-10: June 27-July 3, 2011
by Alain Londes
TD Toronto Jazz Festival 2011Toronto, CanadaJune 24-July 3, 2011 Monday, June 27, 2011On Monday evening, fans had a few hard choices to make among the headliners. At Koerner Hall, award-winning Dee Dee Bridgewater paid tribute to Lady Day, Billie Holiday. Meanwhile at the Enwave Theatre, Kurt Elling ...
George Benson: Body Talk
by Dan Bilawsky
With a title like Body Talk, and a lead-off track called “Dance," George Benson--a guitar-god-on-the-rise when this album originally hit shelves in 1973--makes it clear that this music is all about feeling the groove. While a good number of Benson projects on CTI benefited from Don Sebesky's arrangements, the guitarist needed a funkier feeling for this ...
Tabou Combo's "Respect" Out July 12 on Secret Stash
Formed in 1967 just outside of Port-au-Prince, Tabou Combo has proven to be the most successful band to ever come out of Haiti. They've toured Europe, Mexico, Africa, the Caribbean and the United States (including a central Park concert boasting over 20,000 attendees). It has been said by many that Tabou Combo is Haitian music. Their ...
Gutbucket: Cascades and Collisions
by Gordon Marshall
Over its 12-year career, Gutbucket has resituated its various musical parts like the pieces of a Rubik's cube. The elements of that cube, the sonic strains, have remained similar--an amalgam of fuzz rock, jumpy jazz, post-serial classicism--but its panoply of shifting color has been redeployed in unique ways on each of the Brooklyn-based quartet's five CDs, ...
Anthony Branker: Jazz Dialogics
by Victor L. Schermer
Anthony Branker is a musician for all seasons. He began his career as a trumpeter, including a stint with the Spirit of Life Ensemble, which honored its African-American and Afro-Caribbean roots during a multi-year tenure as the Monday night band at the legendary Sweet Basil club in New York City. Over time, Branker developed an increasing ...
Club d'Elf: Electric Moroccoland / So Below
by Chris M. Slawecki
Even in our far-reaching and cluttered modern musical culture, it seems safe to suggest that there is no other band quite like Club d'Elf, a floating riverboat gamble with a fluid cast of contributors--keyboardist John Medeski, guitarists Reeves Gabrels and Duke Levin, Mat Maneri on electric viola, turntablist Mister Rourke, and many others among them--steered by ...
Voices Instrumental in Jazz
by Chris M. Slawecki
Natacha AtlasMounqalibaSix Degrees Records2010 Vocalist Natacha Atlas seems to embody the modern musical millennia: She was born in Brussels and raised in one of its Moroccan suburbs; her compositions and singing reach into and crisscross storied European and Arabic musical traditions. Primarily co-written ...
