Results for "James Zollar"

Early Blue Evening

By Andy Farber

Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2021
Track listing: Don’t Tell Me What to Do; Feet and Frames; The Holidaymakers; Aircheck; Early Blue Evening; Fanfare on Fairfax; Cork Grease and Valve Oil; Portrait of Joe Temperley; Symphony for Doctor “T”; Theme from The Odd Couple; How Am I to Know?

Andy Farber and His Orchestra: Early Blue Evening

by Jack Bowers
October 5, 2021

Saxophonist Andy Farber's New York-based orchestra came together and cut its teeth as the onstage band for three hundred performances of After Midnight, a Broadway revue that paid tribute to Jazz Age nightclub luminaries from Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford and Count Basie to Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh. As one might presume from the ...

James Zollar

Born: July 24, 1959

James Delano Zollar began his musical career at age 9 playing bugle in his hometown, Kansas City Missouri. At 12, he graduated to the trumpet where he began to discover his musical voice and focus. After high school he continued to study at San Diego City College and then the University of California at San Diego. At the same time he honed his chops with various funk and jazz bands and lead his own straight-ahead quintet. 

In, 1985, he moved to New York City and played with the Cecil McBee Quintet for five years and then recorded with Tom Harrell, Bob Mover Sextet featuring Esperanza Spalding and Victor Lewis. Weldon Erving and Sam Rivers. Zollar was featured in Robert Altman’s motion picture “Kansas City”, also in Madonna’s music video “My Baby’s Got a Secret”, as well as Malcolm Lee’s film “The Best Man”. He played on the sound track of “The Perez Family” and is proud to be included in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oxford University Press 1999.) 

Eyal Vilner Big Band: Swing Out!

by Jack Bowers
July 26, 2019

Eyal Vilner's fourth album as leader of his impressive New York-based big band is a throwback to the kind of concert dates audiences no doubt derived great pleasure from during the storied Big-Band Era well over half a century ago when groups not far removed from this one in spirit traveled cross-country by bus, car or ...

Caetano Veloso, James Carter, Hamza Akram, Eyal Vilner and David Grollman

by Martin Longley
July 20, 2019

Caetano Veloso Brooklyn Academy Of Music April 12, 2019 Always essential for the local Brazilian community, but also far beyond, into the general music enthusiast zone, singer and songwriter Caetano Veloso made one of his occasional visits to NYC, presenting the Ofertório show. Essentially, this involved his three musical sons, ...

With Respect

By Peter Lin

Label: Self-Released
Released: 2018
Track listing: Forgotten Times (被遺忘的時光); Sweet as Honey (甜蜜蜜); The Moon Represents My Heart (月亮代表我的 心); Born Here, From There ; My Blues; Rose, Rose, I Love You (玫瑰玫瑰我愛你); Evening Primrose (夜來香);

The SLM Ensemble Album Release Concert at Roulette on October 8th

September 18, 2015

Program: “Spectral Syn” by Mark Dresser and Sarah Weaver “Cycles of Awakening” by Sarah Weaver “SubTeleToning” by Mark Dresser “Multidimensional Tunings” by Sarah Weaver Jen Shyu, voice, Robert Dick, flute, Julie Ferrara, oboe, Rebekah Heller, bassoon, Jane Ira Bloom, soprano saxophone, Oliver Lake, alto saxophone, Ned Rothenberg, bass clarinet, shakuhachi, ...

Colonic Youth, Andy Farber, Tal Ronen & Paquito D'Rivera

by Martin Longley
January 7, 2015

Colonic Youth Trans-Pecos December 22, 2014 In the wintry wasteland, the new-ish Trans-Pecos venue did not seem to boast a particularly peachy set-up. It may or may not still be operated by Todd P, normally known as a promoter of slightly swerved rock outfits, and there were tales of this ...

It's All Good People

By James Zollar

Label: JZAZ Records
Released: 2013

Billy Bang: Da Bang!

by Troy Collins
August 4, 2013

Da Bang! is the last studio album recorded by violinist Billy Bang, made just two months before he passed away on April 11, 2011. Diagnosed with lung cancer in 2009, Bang spoke about the healing power of music during these sessions and how he wanted to give something back to those who inspired and supported him. ...