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Woodwind Expert Steven Lugerner Announces Digital Single With Fred Hersch; West Coast Dates; Upcoming CD By Jacknife
The greatest improvisers keep an eye open for stimulating new musical settings. San Francisco Bay Area woodwind expert Steven Lugerner, a rising star with a bevy of exceptional albums, has proven adept at creating situations that take jazz’s foremost masters into unexpected realms. His latest album, the digital-only release Gravitations Vol. II, is a gorgeous duo ...
Audio Fidelity To Release Guitar Innovator Michael Hedges "Aerial Boundries" On Limited Edition 180gm Vinyl
Camarillo, CA – Marshall Blonstein's Audio Fidelity will be releasing guitar innovator Michael Hedges critically acclaimed album Aerial Boundaries on limited edition 180gm vinyl! Aerial Boundaries is unquestionably one of the most groundbreaking albums in acoustic guitar history. This is the record that presented Michael Hedges to the world as the ultimate acoustic guitar visionary, stretching ...
Jimmy Smith: Master of the Hammond B-3
by Mark Sabbatini
Jimmy Smith ignited a jazz revolution on an instrument associated at the time with ballparks, despite never playing one until the age of 28. His legendary multi-part technique on the Hammond B-3 organ, playing bass with the foot pedals and Charlie Parker-like single-line passages with his right hand, shook up the traditional trio as ...
Thelonious Monk "Complete Riverside Recordings" Coming from Concord on May 19
CONCORD MUSIC GROUP TO REISSUE GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING THELONIOUS MONK COLLECTION: THE COMPLETE RIVERSIDE RECORDINGS Reconfigured box set features monk’s entire output for Riverside label, extensive liner notes by compilation producer, the late Orrin Keepnews LOS ANGELES, CA: Concord Music Group is pleased to announce the reissue of its GRAMMY Award-winning Thelonious Monk anthology, The Complete Riverside ...
The Frank Strazzeri Film
Thanks to Rifftides reader Marla Kleman for sending an alert to the posting of a film about one of the late pianist Frank Strazzeri’s loveliest albums. Strazzeri died last year at about this time. He was 84. The album was his Woodwinds West with saxophonists Bill Perkins, Bob Cooper and Jack Nimitz, bassist Dave Stone and ...
Leonard Maltin As Master Of Ceremonies Musicians At Play Foundation June 13 2015
“Musicians at Play” Foundation debuts with first concert “The Vintage Masters of Swing” will headline The Broad Stage June 13th with composers—Alexander, Carmichael, Holman, Nestico, Sherman and Williams with Leonard Maltin as Master of Ceremonies Musicians at Play a 501 (c) 3 non-profit foundation dedicated to the enrichment of local communities' quality of life through a ...
Grammy Winner Neil Citron Releases Remastered Version Of Debut CD “In Search Of Higher Ground"
Los Angeles - Declassified Records and SBI Music Inc. proudly announce the re-mastered release of “In Search Of Higher Ground”, the debut solo CD from Grammy winning guitarist, engineer and producer Neil Citron. Originally recorded in 1994, the digital versions of the record have been re-mastered from the original master tapes to further highlight the sonic ...
The Swinging Shepherds
In the final installment of my three-part series on off-the-radar jazz supergroups of the 1950s, I'm turning today to Buddy Collette and His Swinging Shepherds—a West Coast quartet of superb flutists that regrettably recorded only two albums for Mercury. Both albums were arranged by Pete Rugolo, who pulled out all the stops in terms of writing ...
A Jazz Concert Celebrating The CD Releases Of Kaylene Peoples And Bunny Brunel – A Magical, Musical Event Producing Real Results For Women Composers!
It was a magical, unforgettable night of fusion and acoustic jazz on April 8, 2015, at the Catalina Bar & Grill in Hollywood. Celebrating the dual CD release for Kaylene Peoples and Bunny Brunel (MY MAN and INVENT YOUR FUTURE); together the two jazz musicians put on a show to let the world know their respective ...
Right On! DW3’s “Truth” Is Spreading Fast
With an active summer festival season on the horizon, things are already heating up for the throwback R&B vocal group on the heels of a new album release and a hot radio single featuring Brian Culbertson. Los Angeles, CA: A twelve-song set of smooth old school soul strewn with modern day sensibilities, retro R&B vocal group ...
