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Guitarist Mike Moreno Interviewed at AAJ
A native of Houston Texas, Mike Moreno has been making waves. The guitarist first paid his dues playing gigs around New York, and has since been able to perform with some of the biggest names in jazz, including the Joshua Redman Elastic Band, Lizz Wright, Nicholas Payton, Greg Osby and Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at ...
Mike Moreno: Focusing on the Music
by Matthew Warnock
A native of Houston Texas, guitarist Mike Moreno has been making waves. After graduating from the famed Houston High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Moreno received a scholarship to study jazz at the New School in New York. Moreno first paid his dues playing gigs around New York, and has since been ...
B.B. King, Herbie Hancock Join Montreux Jazz in Switzerland
B.B. King, Herbie Hancock, Dave Matthews Band and, surprisingly, the Black Eyes Peas have joined the bill at this years Montreux Jazz Fest. The Jazz festival is taking place in Switzerland between July 3rd-18th. Steely Dan and Rock Hall inductee Jeff Beck have also scheduled gigs at the famed European event. Founder Claude Nobs announced the ...
Lizz Wright at House of Blues in Cleveland
by Matt Marshall
Lizz Wright House of Blues Cleveland, Ohio June 5, 2008 The strains of swamp organ accompanied, seeming to guide, Lizz Wright onto the tight stage of the House of Blue's small, mood-lit Cambridge Room. Her movement was fluid, unhurried. When she settled behind the microphone, she rooted there like ...
Lizz Wright and Raul Midon Double Billed at JVC
Faith From the South, and a One-Man Band The New York Society for Ethical Culture If I had to choose a single word to describe the mystique of the singer Lizz Wright, it would be steadfast. Ms. Wright, who headlined a double bill with the equally talented singer-songwriter Raul Midon at the concert hall ...
The Orchard by Lizz Wright
The largely self-penned The Orchard finds Wright mining her own experience to create an unmistakably personal musical statement. The warmth and resonance of Wright's gospel-trained contralto is matched by the intimacy and authority of such original compositions as “Coming Home," “My Heart," “Another Angel" and “When I Fall." Wright's interpretive skills are ...
Dreaming Wide Awake
By Lizz Wright
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2005
Track listing: A Taste Of Honey; Stop; Hit The Ground; When I Close My Eyes; I'm Confessin'; Old Man;
Wake Up, Little Sparrow; Chasing Strange; Get Together; Trouble; Dreaming Wide Awake;
Without You.
