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Premiere: Audio Documentary: John Coltrane: A Great North Carolina Jazz Intellectual On Sunday Night Jazz With Larry Reni Thomas On WCOM-FM
Listen to WCOM-FM,Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina for the premiere, the first airing of the audio documentary “John Coltrane: A Great North Carolina Jazz Intellectual," September 23, 2012, during The John Coltrane Birthday Special, on Sunday Night Jazz with Larry Reni Thomas, from 9pm-12m. The recently completed profile includes music and commentary from The University of North ...
Shana Tucker: Shine
by Larry Reni Thomas
Shine is a bright, bluesy, jazzy album from the multitalented vocalist Shana Tucker. She also plays cello and guitar on this set of Tucker compositions, with insightful autobiographical titles like the upbeat “Fast Lane," with a great line “leave the porch light on," and the ever-moving “No Get Back (Together With Me)." These tunes, along with ...
Mansur Scott: Something Forgotten, Something Remembered (PAO Records, 2010)
By Larry Reni Thomas Vocalist/percussionist extraordinaire Mansur Scott, known all over New York City as a serious sage and “the jazz mayor of Harlem" is the epitome of a working jazz musician. He has been on the front lines, pushing the music forward, making it visible, boldly, and making it strongly heard throughout all of the ...
Jimmy Heath Returns To Hold Booksigning In North Carolina
By Larry Reni Thomas Chapel Hill, NC—The legendary saxophonist/composer/arranger Jimmy Heath, a Philadelphia native, a former Wilmington, North Carolina resident, and a 1943 graduate of Williston High School, in that coastal city, will return to North Carolina, for a booksigning and concert, February 13, 2011, at 3 pm, at The Hayti Heritage Center, Durham, North Carolina. ...
Spring Jazz Season Sizzles In Triangle North Carolina! Wynton Marsalis, Wayne Shorter, Eddie Palmieri and more!
By Larry Reni Thomas Chapel Hill, NC—-Jazz fans are extremely pleased and very happy about what looks like a great fruitful, immensely-fulfilling, first-class music season this spring of 2011, in the “Triangle" area of North Carolina (Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill). It is very fortunate to have an enthusiastic, strong, large, loyal jazz fan base; three ...
Larry Reni Thomas's Best Jazz Releases of 2010
1. The Heath Bros.—"Endurance"—Jazz Legacy 2. Mansur Scott Harlem Quartet—"Sometimes Forgotten, Sometimes Remembered"—Pao 3. Nnenna Freelon—"Homefree"—Concord 4. Gregory Porter—"Water"—Motema 5. The Cookers—"Warriors"—Jazz Legacy 6. Joe Chambers—"From Horace To Max"—Savant 7. Tim Warfield—"A Sentimental Journey"—Criss Cross 8. Conrad Herwig—"The Latin Side of Herbie Hancock"—High Note 9. North Carolina Central University Jazz Ensemble—"Yesterdays and Forever"—NCCUJS 10. Jimmy Heath/Seattle ...
San Francisco Jazz Collective Starts A Stellar Season at Duke Performances
Duke Performances at Duke University, Durham, North Carolna, has done it again! For the past three years, since Aaron Greenwald became the director, and Ken Rumble, the marketing director, jazz lovers have been treated to first-class, top notch performances by world-class musicians. This season gets off to a fabulous start with the appearance of the touring ...
Joe Chambers: Horace to Max
by Larry Reni Thomas
Drummer/vibraphonist/composer/educator Joe Chambers' Horace to Max is an awesome display of versatility and master musicianship; that's impossible to put away, it gets better with each listen. The distinctive blue-and-black colored cover design is similar to those fine Blue Note records of the 1960s and 1970s. The disc possesses a subtle suggestive theme that can only be ...
Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone
by Larry Reni Thomas
Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone Nadine Cohodas Hardback; 464 pages ISBN: 10-0375424016 Pantheon 2010 Nadine Cohodas' Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone is a desperately sad but riveting tale about the troubled life and career of this uniquely talented ...
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
by Larry Reni Thomas
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original Robin D.G. Kelley Free Press ISBN: 0684831902 2009 Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original is a meticulously documented, yet easy-to-read chronicle of the roller coaster life of pianist and composer Thelonious Monk. It took Robin Kelley, ...
