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Drummer/Singer/Songwriter Brian Blade Interviewed at AAJ
Known in the jazz world for his slick and superlative drumming skills, Brian Blade is engaged in making other musical statements these days. Statements that are outside the jazz genre, but are an essential part of this enlightened man and serious musician whose musical tastes run “between Bela Bartok and Wayne Shorter to Al Green," who, ...
Brian Blade: Songs From His Heart
by R.J. DeLuke
Known in the jazz world for his slick and superlative drumming skills, Brian Blade is engaged in making other musical statements these days. Statements that are outside the jazz genre, but are an essential part of this enlightened man and serious musician whose musical tastes run “between Bela Bartok and Wayne Shorter to Al Green," who, ...
Kyle Eastwood Now
Kyle Eastwood, France's #1 Jazz artist release of NOW, offers a cool twist of genre jumping selections that swirl a post-modern jazz sensibility with a hip Euro electronica lounge vibe. Eastwood's Now is an interesting hybrid of style. The title track is the most successful with its addictive chugging rhythms of Manu Katche on drums and ...
Enthralled by Jazz, Joni Mitchell Set New Moods
Joni Mitchell deserves more credit for her early-'80s output. Mitchell's work took an unexpected turn with Mingus, her streaky and often brilliant 1979 collaboration with jazz bassist Charles Mingus. Before it, she was the sharp-eyed songwriter stringing songs about troubled relationships across vast open prairie. After it, she sounded wiser and hipper, a jazz sophisticate whose ...
Melody Gardot to Release "My One and Only Thrill" on April 28
With her debut album Worrisome Heart, Melody Gardot displayed her instinctive gift for transforming the traditions of jazz and blues with her personal kiss of life. But even her most ardent admirers will be amazed at the giant creative leap forward she has taken with the follow-up, My One And Only Thrill. Mixing Latin rhythms, finger-snapping ...
Joni Mitchell Hopes to Spread "Fiddle"
With The Fiddle and the Drum, her collaboration with the Alberta Ballet, recently documented on DVD, Joni Mitchell is looking forward to spreading the piece worldwide. “The whole thing in a certain way is out of my hands," Mitchell tells Billboard.com. “It's going to be featured at the (2010) Winter Olympics in Vancouver. We've had a ...
Reverend Zen: Angels, Blues and the Crying Moon
by David King
The New York group Reverend Zen has released its debut album, Angels, Blues & the Crying Moon (Blackjack Music, 2006), that is quickly garnering music industry acclaim around the world. Platitudes aside, Reverend Zen's true genius lies in its music. The album is everything a great album should be: melodies that hang in your head like ...
Music a la Carte: Andrea Clearfield's Salon in Philadelphia
by Victor L. Schermer
According to Wikipedia, what is called the “salon" originated in Paris in the 17th century. Held in the homes of significant personages, and providing a unique opportunity for women in particular to serve as hostesses and mingle with “society," the early salons brought together high-minded individuals to read and discuss literary works. Over the course of ...
"Mama Rosa" Brian Blade Coming in April
BRIAN BLADE * MAMA ROSA * The debut singer/songwriter recording On Tuesday, April 21, 2009, Brian Blade will release Mama Rosa, his first recording as a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. The album is a revealing journey through a thirteen-song cycle about family, loved ones, travels and a sense that these things have to be ...
Pernille Bevort: Cowboys and Girls
by Ian Patterson
Since making her recording debut in the mid '90s, saxophonist/composer/arranger/vocalist Pernille Bevort has established herself as one of the leading lights on the Danish jazz scene, with half a dozen recordings as leader under her belt. Playground + 1 (Calibrated, 2007) provides ample proof of her outstanding musicianship, whether on tenor or soprano saxophone, as well ...
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