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Charlie Harrington Signs With Prologix Percussion
Award-Winning Acclaimed Artist, Charlie Harrington, has signed with ProLogix Percussion. Charlie, an in demand session player with a well-established reputation as a first call drummer, is proud to endorse the superior products offered by ProLogix. ProLogix is the revolutionary practice pad manufacturer of the world drumming industry. ProLogix guarantees their practice products to be of higher ...
Tyshawn Sorey: Composite Reality
by Daniel Lehner
Though Tyshawn Sorey's Oblique-I (Pi Recordings, 2011) is his most recent release to date, it's actually comprised of some of the percussionist/composer's earliest work. Containing music that is sonically dense, enormously challenging and (as the title suggests) consistently blurs and obscures the lines drawn between improvisation and composition, it has been hailed by critics and fans ...
Litchfield Jazz Festival Announces 2012 Artist-in-residence, Baritone Saxophonist Gary Smulyan
Goshen, CT — Litchfield Jazz Festival announces the 2012 Artist-in-Residence for the 17th Annual Litchfield Jazz Festival. The honor goes to baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan. Known as a master of bebop, Smulyan is one of the major voices on his instrument today. Winner of six Grammy Awards, his latest honors include winner of the 2009 and ...
Sligo Jazz Summer School And Festival 24-29 July 2012
The best value summer school in Europe! Sligo Jazz Project, an organization run by musicians for musicians ensures all funds raised go towards keeping its annual main event— a six day intensive summer school and full blown jazz festival—as inclusive as possible and open to all musicians from all backgrounds! Sligo Jazz Project's stellar 2012 faculty ...
Take Five With Quentin Angus
by AAJ Staff
Meet Quentin Angus: Australian-born guitarist Quentin Angus is a name to remember. He has performed in Japan, USA, Australia, Europe and New Zealand, including Jazz Hoeilaart (Belgium), and the Adelaide International Guitar Festival. Angus has released one album as a band leader, Retrieval Structure, in 2011, and several as a side man, including recording/ ...
Jay Anderson: Driving the Bus
by Ian Patterson
The term “sideman" really doesn't do justice to bassist Jay Anderson, as his beautifully melodic, lyrical lines and in-the-pocket-grooves lift and shape any music that he is a part of. And while the term “journeyman" holds some truth--Anderson has played with a huge number of people--one glance at his extensive discography reveals that most of the ...
Sound Check - Jack Cortner & His NY Big Band
By Jack Cortner
Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2009
Track listing: 1. Strike Up The Band - George Gershwin 04:44
2. Speak Low - Kurt Weill 05:24
3. Sometime Ago - Sergio Mihanovich 05:18
4. Cantaloupe Island - Herbie Hancock 05:43
5. Sound Check - Jack Cortner 04:55
6. Yesterdays - Jerome Kern 06:34
7. Caravan - Juan Tizol 05:17
8. Cinema Paradiso Love Theme - Andrea Morricone 05:11
9. A La Mode - Jack Cortner 04:35
10. You and the Night and the Music - Dietz/Scwartz 05:22
11. It's All Right With Me - Cole Porter 06:09
Quake
By Mike Holober
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Quake; Twist & Turn; Roc & A Soft Place; Here Comes The Sun; Note To Self; Thrushes; Ruby Tuesday.
Todd Coolman: Perfect Strangers
by Jerry D'Souza
A little bit of imagination is a good thing. Bassist Todd Coolman thought “outside the box" and came up with the idea of soliciting compositions from the public. He chose seven tunes which make up the program for the aptly titled Perfect Strangers. Hopefully, the voices that are heard here through Coolman, Eric Alexander (tenor saxophone), ...
Fast Track - Jack Cortner & His NY Big Band
By Jack Cortner
Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2006
Track listing: 1. Who's 'at Talkin"? - Marvin Stamm 05:02
2. Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise - Sigmund Romberg 05:39
3. Ballad For Betsy - Jack Cortner 05:07
4. Etude - Jack Cortner 05:00
5. Secret Love - Webster/Fain 04:09
6. On The Trail - Ferde Grofe 06:35
7. Limehouse Blues - Furber/Braham 05:45
8. Slowdown - Jack Cortner 04:25
9. Flimflam, Ma'am - Jack Cortner 05:38
10. Fast Track - Jack Cortner 04:51
11. Lover Man - Davis/Ramirez/Sherman
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