Results for "Luques Curtis"

Luques Curtis

Brian Lynch: Con Clave Vol.2

by C. Andrew Hovan
January 4, 2024

The jazz musician's road to success and sustainability is a rocky one, marked with more than its share of ups and downs. Becoming the norm as of late, those with the strongest staying power have increased their flexibility by becoming more diverse in their efforts. The affect is thus twofold-providing an income to pay the rent, ...

Mélusine

By Cecile McLorin Salvant

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Est-ce ainsi que les hommes vivent?; La route enchantée; Il m'a vue nue; Dites moi que je suis belle; Doudou; Petite musique terrienne; Aida; Mélusine; Wedo; D'un feu secret; Le temps est assassin; Fenestra; Domna N'Almucs; Dame Iseut.

Coincidental Moment

By Lisa Hilton

Label: Ruby Slippers Productions
Released: 2023
Track listing: Anxiety Society; Jagged Lil' Blues; Happily Go Luckily; Blue Tropics; Blue In Green; Enigmatic Adventure; Multiple Perspectives; West Coast; Coincidental Moment; Everyday Anthem; Uncommon Poetry.

Everyday Anthem

December 22, 2023

Album: Coincidental Moment
By Lisa Hilton
Label: Ruby Slippers Productions
Released: 2023
Duration: 05:31

Lisa Hilton: Coincidental Moment

by Mike Jurkovic
November 29, 2023

As good as Coincidental Moment is, there is an uncharacteristic sense of sameness infused in many of these bossa blues. As she notes in the liners, lauded and long-trusted pianist Lisa Hilton intended the music to illuminate the cool energies and history of jazz while relating to these hair-shirt times in which we find ...

Harold López-Nussa Interview

by Steven Roby
November 11, 2023

This episode of Backstage Jazz features an interview with jazz pianist Harold López-Nussa. We discussed his new album Timba a la Americana (Blue Note), and his upcoming show at Dazzle on Saturday, November 18. Cuban-born pianist and composer Harold López-Nussa begins an exciting new chapter of his fascinating career with his Blue Note debut ...

May 2023

by Pat Youngspiel
May 24, 2023

Isaiah J. Thompson The Power of the Spirit Blue Engine Records 2023 Since finishing second in 2018's Thelonious Monk competition, pianist Isaiah J. Thompson has established a particularly convincing profile as one of New York's most promising keyboard artists, while his recordings have been at home on Jazz at Lincoln Center's ...

The Latin Side of Mingus

By Conrad Herwig

Label: Savant Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Gunslinging Bird" (Originally titled "If Charlie Parker Were a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats") Boogie Stop Shuffle; No Dejes Que Pase Aqui Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; Hora Decubitus; Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love; All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother; Better Get Hit In Your Soul.

Life is Beautiful

By Lisa Hilton

Label: Ruby Slippers Productions
Released: 2022
Track listing: Ernie's Blues; Retro Road Trip; Nightingales and Fairy Tales; Too Hot; Unforgotten Moments, Half Forgotten Dreams; Stepping Into Paradise: Santa Monica Samba; Seduction; Temporary Lullaby; More Than Another Day; So This Is Love.