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Nels Cline: Finding Others
by Ted Harms
Ask 10 people when they first heard of guitarist Nels Cline and you'll get 10 different answers. Maybe it was when he joined award-winning, arena-packing, ever-touring rock band Wilco. Or maybe it was stumbling upon a guitar internet forum where nerd boys and girls go over the minutiae of his expansive and varied effect pedals, amps, ...
Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, and Crazy Little Things
by Belinda Ware
Television Actress Lynda Carter introduced herself to national audiences with a spectacular debut in one of the most successful superhero television shows to date, starring in dual roles as Wonder Woman and her alter ego of Diana Prince on The New Adventures of Wonder Woman. As the series became a hit, Carter became one of America's ...
Rent Romus' Lords of Outland: Thee Unhip
by Glenn Astarita
Thee Unhip is a poem by band member, trumpeter/electronics artist C.J. Borosque. The seasoned and thoroughly hip band that was founded by woodwind ace Rent Romus in 1984 is a collaboration between West Coast experimental jazz record labels, Nine Winds and Edgetone. Exciting, raucous, slightly spaced-out and wily, the band has quite a bit of fun ...
International Jazz Artist Kristin Korb Releases New Album "What's Your Story?"
What's Your Story? the sixth album from internationally recognized jazz artist Kristin Korb answers that very question with 12 timeless tunes that celebrate her story as a jazz vocalist and bassist. What’s Your Story? will be released on Korb’s own label, Double K Music, in the U.S. and Europe on April 2, 2013. The album will ...
From Germany, Max Raabe Orchestra to Appear at L.A.' s Disney Hall on April 8
By Larry Taylor Max Raabe & Palast Orchester from Germany make its Walt Disney Concert Hall debut on Wednesday evening, April 10, performing songs from and in the style of the 1920s and 1930s. With debonair charm and wit, Raabe and his orchestra unveil a brand new program, I WON'T DANCE, which includes classics from the ...
Armen Nalbandian To Commemorate 35th Birthday By Reissuing Entire Catalog
To commemorate his 35th birthday, Armen Nalbandian and his record label Blacksmith Brother will be reissuing his entire back catalog on April 6th, 2013. Many of his recordings were limited pressings when originally released and will now be available at music retailers worldwide. Included in the releases are Nalbandian’s experimental “prepared” fender rhodes album, Young Kings ...
Tommy Flanagan / Jaki Byard: The Magic Of 2
by Dan Bilawsky
San Francisco's famed Keystone Korner shuttered its doors in 1983, but it's getting more press today than plenty of clubs that are still serving up jazz. In the past two years alone, a previously unreleased live recording of trumpeter Freddie Hubbard--Pinnacle (Resonance, 2011)--launched Resonance Records' Keystone Korner Live Discoveries series, photographer Kathy Sloane released Keystone Korner: ...
Tommy Flanagan / Jaki Byard: The Magic of 2
by Dan McClenaghan
One of San Francisco's most famous jazz venues, Keystone Korner, closed in 1983. It was a favorite venue of the top jazz players of the day, and several landmark live albums by pianists Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner, and saxophonists Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Stan Getz, resulted from shows taped inside its hallowed hall.The ...
Dee Dee Bridgewater To Star In Lady Day The Musical
The Billie Holiday Musical Previews Begin September 12th Opening slated for September 26th Little Shubert Theatre New York, NY: Tony and multiple Grammy Award-winner Dee Dee Bridgewater will star as one of the world’s incomparable and legendary jazz artists —- Billie Holiday, in the celebrated musical “Lady Day” opening Thursday, ...
John Beasley: Everyone Loves John
by Scott Mitchell
Keyboardist John Beasley (aka “The Bease" to friends and family) is a musician's musician and one of the busiest professionals in the game. His biography and list of credits are so broad and deep that they could fill an NFL playbook.If NASA or MIT were to invent a device that could measure creative and ...
