Results for "Katisse Buckingham"

Katisse Buckingham

Katisse is neither your average jazz musician, nor your average MC. A saxophone and flute virtuoso, he combines musicianship and poetry to create a flow that leaves every listener in awe. Growing up in Los Angeles studying jazz performance, he cites John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme and Run DMC’s Sucker MC’s as equally important influences. In the words of multi-Grammy-award winning pianist Billy Childs, “Nobody's doing any shit like this." “I just want to say how much I dug this record!” he says. Widely recognized for his talent, Katisse has recorded for some of the world’s greatest musicians, including Prince, Lionel Richie, Dr

Alter Ego

By Zane Carney

Label: Orenda Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Brain Freeze; Alter; Oleo; Lost; Pitchfork; Minority; Things You Aren't; Found; Ego.

Zane Carney Quartet: Alter Ego

by Friedrich Kunzmann
April 30, 2021

While guitarist Zane Carney's work as a leader may have yet to experience the hype it arguably deserves, his session work is another thing. Among other projects, he has played on Thundercat's Drunk (Brainfeeder, 2012) as well as John Mayer's folk album Paradise Valley (Columbia, 2013), the Grammy award-winning Thundercat calling him “a massive guitarist." And, ...

Introspection

By Brian Auger

Label: Sunset Blvd. Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: CD 1: Freddie's Flight; It Burns Me Up; Butterfly; Isola Natale; The Lady's in Love; Midnight Sun; Season of the Witch; Inner City Blues; Light My Fire; Happiness Is Just Around the Bend; Fanfare for the Common Blue Turkey. CD 2: Planet Earth Calling; Sea of Tranquility; This Wheel's on Fire; Just Me Just You; The Road to Cairo; Indian Rope Man; Sundown; Second Wind; Somebody Help Me; We Three Kings; Whenever You're Ready; Future Pilot; CD 3: Ella; Pavane; Cry Me a River; Birds of Paradise; Lament for Miss Baker; Jam Side Down; If You Could See Me Now; Homeward; Looking in the Eye of the World; Dawn of Another Day; Voices of Other Times; I've Gotta Go Now

The Missing Song

By Gergo Borlai

Label: Blue Canoe Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Billy; Gary; Dennis; Keith; Steve; Kirk; Peter; Terry; Vinnie.

'Say Their Names' Raising Awareness & Contributions for Stricken Families

December 11, 2020

Many musicians and music fans have felt the need to respond to specific events or situations in America’s 2020 sociopolitical climate by doing more than creating, sharing and listening to music. Ethan Sultry’s “Say Their Names” opens one opportunity: The protest track is available for free download on sirsultrymusic.com, connected through a web button to MyGood.org, ...

Gergo Borlai: The Missing Song

by Jim Worsley
May 29, 2020

The Missing Song has been heralded as a tribute to Gergo Borlai's nine most influential drummers still alive and performing today. This is much more than just listing them and perhaps covering one of their songs. Borlai composed eight of the nine new songs on this album. He plays them all in the manner, or mindset, ...

Scott Kinsey: On speaking Luniwaz with an accent

by Friedrich Kunzmann
January 24, 2020

Scott Kinsey belongs among the most influential keyboard players of the past decades and seems capable of adapting to any style of music. Unlike those who came before him, Kinsey was born into the golden era of keyboards and synthesizers, when visionaries such as Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock had already begun to explore the vast ...

Sonikete Blues

By Ethan Sultry

Label: Sir Sultry Music
Released: 2016

Ethan Margolis: Perfect Mission of Feeling

by Chris M. Slawecki
September 6, 2016

Describing guitarist, composer, bandleader, producer and conceptualist Ethan Margolis as a citizen of the world barely does him or his music justice. Born and raised in jny: Cleveland (OH), Margolis left the US when he was 21 to study the art of Gypsy flamenco guitar in Spain. He stayed there for more than a decade, living ...