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Introducing Bassist Liany Mateo
by Sanford Josephson
Liany Mateo started playing the bass when she was 13 years old. “They opened up a performing arts school in Jersey City," she recalled. “At that time, I knew I wanted to play an instrument. I was into '70s punk music, and all of my favorite people in those bands were the (electric) bass players. I ...
Detroit Jazz Festival 2023: A Tribute to a Great Jazz City
by Paul Rauch
Detroit Jazz Festival 2023 Hart Plaza & Campus Martius Detroit, MI September 1-4, 2023 Opening night is always a gas. Whether it takes the form of the annual rite of spring in baseball, the long anticipated opening of a Broadway play, or for that matter, the opening salvo of a world ...
Samara Joy at the Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center
by Mark Robbins
When Samara Joy performed last June at the Vocal Jazz Summit in Virginia Beach she was fairly new on the scene and even though she could deliver a song like a seasoned pro she was a little shy interacting with the audience. What a difference one year and two Grammys make. The singer, who appeared at ...
Michael Dease: The Other Shoe: The Music of Gregg Hill
by Jerome Wilson
Gregg Hill is a jazz composer favored by several jazz musicians who have recorded entire albums of his work, such as guitarist Randy Napoleon and bassist Rodney Whitaker. Here trombonist Michael Dease joins the party with a full album of Hill pieces arranged for a quintet. Hill's writing on this album delves into a ...
Detroit Jazz Festival 2022: The 43rd Edition Returns to a Live Audience
by Paul Rauch
Detroit Jazz FestivalHart Plaza and Campus Martius Detroit, MI September 2-5, 2022 The main lobby of the Detroit Marriott at Renaissance Center was abuzz with greetings and joyful conversation. You could feel the ardent positivity in the room as well as you could feel the near ninety-degree heat and accompanying steady ...
Henry Kaiser & Rome Yamilov and Bernard Allison: Blues Changes
by Doug Collette
Is blues music the most mutable of all musical forms? It's a question worth asking when taking into account the expanse of styles within the genre that stretch all the way from the skeletal acoustic likes of Son House and Reverend Gary Davis to the earthshaking electric onslaughts of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Henry ...
This is Our Environment
Label: Next Level
Released: 2021
Track listing: They Say There Are Beautiful Trees; Momma Nature (ft. Dasan Ahanu); Solastalgia; Mama E (ft. Cynthia ‘THiA’
Sharpe); Is This My Fault?; Erring of the Revolution Pt. 1 (ft. Yexandra 'Yex' Diaz); Makes No Cents; Erring of the
Revolution Pt. 2 (ft. Yexandra 'Yex' Diaz); Iron Eyes; LEGACY (ft. RaShad Eas); Estrange Us; Communion (ft.
RaShad Eas); Simple Life (ft. RaShad Eas); Visions of Freedom.
Michael Dease: Give It All You Got
by Kyle Simpler
Jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell once discussed his views on playing music by making a point that, “you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music." Trombonist Michael Dease embodies the spirit of Burrell's statement. Dease is a dedicated musician who is rapidly making a ...
They Say There Are Beautiful Trees
Album: This is Our Environment
By Joseph Herbst
Label: Next Level
Released: 2021
Duration: 05:15
The Solitude Sessions
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Bolivia, "The Solitude Sessions"; The Sencalar/Glassman Quintet - Stardust "The Solitude Sessions"; The Sencalar/Glassman Quintet - Each Step "The Solitude Sessions".
