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Blue Note 70th Anniversary Celebration
by Jim Santella
Blue Note 70th Anniversary Celebration UCLA, Royce Hall Westwood, California January 22, 2009 The Blue Note sound has been at the core of modern jazz for generations and remains the vital quality that has made collectors out of all of us. Who can forget Horace Silver's “Jody Grind," Bud ...
Mark Sherman at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles
by Jim Santella
Mark Sherman Jazz Brasserie at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Los Angeles, CA January 29, 2009 The Jazz Brasserie at LA's Crowne Plaza Hotel is perfect for jazz, with its informal seating and focused performance platform. Situated not far from LAX, it's convenient for both Los Angelenos and longer haul ...
Gary Smulyan: High Noon: The Jazz Soul of Frankie Laine
by Jim Santella
This tribute album by baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan features his bebop-based nonet pulling inspiration from a 1956 album by pop singer Frankie Laine (1913-2007) and trumpeter Buck Clayton. As Laine's foray into jazz's '50s mainstream, Jazz Spectacular (Columbia) represented a piece of the singer's repertoire not as well-known as his pop music. It allowed him to ...
Tony Monaco: Vital Organs
by Jim Santella
Tony Monaco Live at the Orbit Room Chicken Coup Records 2008 Don Hales Unified String Theory Chicken Coup Records 2008 Tony Monaco comes from the Jimmy Smith school of ...
Earl R. Johnson Jr.: Juicy
by Jim Santella
Pianist Earl R. Johnson, Jr. espouses a highly rhythmic approach to contemporary jazz that keeps the bass line front and center, reverberates with hip-hop drum effects, swirls with keyboard authority and allows plenty of space for lyrical instrumental voices.Johnson's piano serves as an anchor for the myriad scenes that he creates through original compositions. ...
Avishai Cohen: Flood
by Jim Santella
In a suite of original compositions subtitled “Part Two of the Big Rain Trilogy," trumpeter Avishai Cohen's pure, sweet trumpet tone and bent notes allow him to create sound pictures that depict gentle raindrops, a giant deluge, the eventual overflow and final sunshine to complete the cycle. Since his songscape relies on personal expression, the instrumentation ...
Eric Alexander: Three Times Around the Block
by Jim Santella
Eric Alexander Quartet Prime Time HighNote Records 2008 Eric Alexander Quartet My Favorite Things Venus Records 2008 Eric Alexander Quartet Gentle Ballads III Venus Records 2008 ...
Monk Competition 2008: Saxophones
by Jim Santella
Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Jazz Saxophone Competition Schoenberg Hall, UCLA Los Angeles, California October 25, 2008The 12 semifinalists at Saturday's competition this year were so close in musicianship that it was nearly impossible to determine who should be named a finalist. The 2008 Thelonious Monk ...
Jazz & Blues: A Tribute to B.B. King
by Jim Santella
Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Jazz Saxophone Competition and concert Kodak Theater Los Angeles, California October 26, 2008 As Poncho Sanchez opened the concert alone on stage with a serious chant aloud over his conga drums, the audience was reminded that jazz is composed of parts ...
Joe Magnarelli: Persistence
by Jim Santella
Trumpeter Joe Magnarelli is a purist who applies natural qualities to his music and eschews gimmicks; his musical conversations can be understood anywhere. Magnarelli studied with James Moody and Tommy Turrentine, began his professional career with Lionel Hampton and Brother Jack McDuff and was a semifinalist in the Thelonious Monk International Trumpet Competition ...
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