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Tony Adamo Thanks Radio For The Spins & Music Reviews
Legendary Drummer Mike Clark Produces Tony Adamo's New CD “Mike Clark gained worldwide recognition as one of America’s foremost jazz and funk drummers while playing with Herbie Hancock’s group in the early 1970’s. Mike became known as a major innovator through his incisive playing on Hancock’s THRUST album, which garnered him an international cult following.” (Drumworld) ...
Music Icons Jon Anderson & Jean Luc Ponty To Release New CD/DVD "Better Late Than Never"
One of the most eagerly awaited releases of 2015 by the AndersonPonty Band, featuring music icons Jon Anderson and Jean Luc Ponty, is scheduled to hit the streets early Fall 2015! The new CD/DVD titled Better Late Than Never features outstanding performances by the band from September 2014 at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, Colorado, ...
Steve Smith: Drummer For All Seasons
by R.J. DeLuke
Drummer Steve Smith has traced the history of jazz drumming--pretty much most of American music drumming--in his storied career that has seen him drive big bands, small jazz combos, and fiery fusion groups, including tenures with Jean Luc Ponty and the rock band Journey. Though sometimes--as in the case of jazz-rock fusion--he was thrown ...
Tony Adamo & The New York Crew Is Reviewed By Kirpal Gordon
By Kirpal Gordon The killin’ist thing about Tony Adamo = 1728 and the New York Crew is that everybody in the band, especially the dope rhyme sayer, has got big ears all the way back to New Orleans and ancient-forward into the ever-evolving multi-new thing. It’s big ears working together that’s keeping this CD in Jazzweek's ...
Listen To This: Miles Davis And Bitches Brew
by Ian Patterson
Listen To This: Miles Davis and Bitches Brew Victor Svorinich 202 Pages ISBN: 978-1-62846-194-7 The University Press of Mississippi 2015 Surprisingly, Victor Svorinich's book is the first dedicated exclusively to a study of Miles Davis's ground-breaking album Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970). Surprising, because just about every facet of the ...
Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2015
by Mark Sullivan
Cape Town International Jazz Festival Cape Town International Convention Centre Cape Town, South Africa March 27 & 28, 2015 The Cape Town International Jazz Festival takes place over two jam-packed nights, on five simultaneous stages. Now in its sixteenth year, it also includes a number of ancillary events during festival week: ...
"Marcus," The Film About Marcus Miller
In the documentary film Marcus, Patrick Savey gives us a unique view into this legendary bassist’s world, capturing his New York roots in Jamaica, Queens and following his path as he meets masters of jazz like Larry Graham, Jaco Pastorius, David Sanborn, Herbie Hancock, Al Jarreau and Miles Davis. The film is a fantastic visual and ...
EJ Strickland: The Undying Spirit
by C. Michael Bailey
Drummer Enoch Jamal Strickland belongs to a technically brilliant and forward-thinking group of young musicians that include multi-reedist Sharel Cassity, vocalist/trombonist Natalie Cressman, and violinist/vocalist Nora Germaine. These musicians prove that youth is not wasted on the young. Strickland, New School-educated, is a veteran of The Ravi Coltrane Quartet, The Marcus Strickland Quartet and Trio, and ...
Listen to This: Miles Davis and "Bitches Brew"
by Victor Svorinich
The following is an excerpt from the “MUSIC" chapter of Listen to This: Miles Davis and “Bitches Brew" by Victor Svorinich (University Press of Mississippi, 2015). Call It Anything “I'd like to say one thing about Miles Davis. One time he said to me, 'Hey Wayne, do you get tired of ...
Beka Gochiashvili Trio Plays Limerick, Dublin, March 25-27
Teddy D Productions proudly present The Beka Gochiashvili Trio, Dolan’s Limerick, Wednesday March 25, 8pm and Dublin, St. Ann’s Church, Dawson Street, Friday 27, 8pm. “Beka Gochiashvili is a brilliant young piano prodigy. You’ll be seeing a lot more of him in the next few years" —Chick Corea, 2010 Line-Up: Beka Gochiashvili (Piano), Marty Jaffe (Bass), ...
