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Andy Hunter: Think Like A Mountain
by Dan Bilawsky
Trombonist Andy Hunter has taken a seat in many of the most important big bands of the past decade, yet many are still unaware of his skills. He sadly suffers from “section man syndrome": that ailment that afflicts those who are heard by many, yet never truly seen for who they are. Hunter, who has resided ...
Newport Jazz Festival: Newport, RI, August 4-5, 2012
by R.J. DeLuke
Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State ParkNewport, RIAugust 4-5, 2012Having a celebration for the 70th birthday of an amazing musician--drummer Jack DeJohnette--was an outstanding feature of this year's Newport Jazz Festival. The drummer was featured in two sets in a single day (Saturday), first with a band he has been ...
Ryan Truesdell: Centennial - Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans
by Dan McClenaghan
Ryan TruesdellCentennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil EvansArtistShare2012Composer/arranger/pianist Gil Evans broke new ground in the arena of arranging in the late 1940s with the Claude Thornhill Orchestra, and the 1949-50 singles which later came out as the album Birth of the Cool (Columbia Records, 1957), made up of ...
Producer/Conductor Ryan Truesdell Releases "Centennial: Newly Discovered Works Of Gil Evans" May 17-20 At Jazz Standard
Join producer/conductor Ryan Truesdell as he celebrates the release of his debut CD CENTENNIAL: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans at the Jazz Standard, 116 E. 27th Street, NYC for four nights: Thursday, May 17 – Sunday, May 20. Sets at 7:30 and 9:30 every night, with an 11:30 set on Friday and Saturday. Tickets are ...
Edmar Castaneda: Double Portion
by Dan Bilawsky
There is probably a greater chance of winning the lottery and being struck by lightning than building a career as a successful, world-renowned jazz Colombian harpist. Fortunately, Edmar Castaneda was more interested in pursuing his vision than studying statistics and probability. The Colombian-born harp phenom, who arrived in the United States in 1994, didn't have the ...
Sligo Jazz Summer School And Festival 24-29 July 2012
The best value summer school in Europe! Sligo Jazz Project, an organization run by musicians for musicians ensures all funds raised go towards keeping its annual main event— a six day intensive summer school and full blown jazz festival—as inclusive as possible and open to all musicians from all backgrounds! Sligo Jazz Project's stellar 2012 faculty ...
Marshall Gilkes: Sound Stories
by AAJ Italy Staff
Difficile trovare un incipit potente, che renda bene l'impressione che si ha all'ascolto di Sound Stories. Il trombonista Marshall Gilkes, già sideman, tra gli altri, di Maria Schneider, Richard Bona e Dave Douglas, ha composto otto ottimi brani e li ha affidati ad un gruppo esperto ed affiatato, che li ha resi con libertà espressiva e ...
Marshall Gilkes: Sound Stories
by Dan Bilawsky
Lyrical strains and muscular machinations are a counterintuitive combination, but trombonist Marshall Gilkes is living proof that they need not be mutually exclusive methods of musical dissemination. Gilkes has made a name for himself through his work with Colombian harp hero Edmar Castaneda, the Maria Schneider Orchestra and many others, but the full scope of his ...
Trombonist Marshall Gilkes Gives Orchestral Shape to Small Group Jazz
Third CD Sound Stories Features Donny McCaslin, Adam Birnbaum, Yasushi Nakamura & Eric Dobb “Marshall Gilkes is the best trombonist to come into jazz in the new millennium." —Stereophile Magazine Trombonist-composer Marshall Gilkes makes a major statement on Sound Stories (March 6, Alternate Side Records). Working with a sympathetic, immensely talented quintet featuring saxophonist Donny McCaslin, ...
Edmar Castaneda: Entre Cuerdas
by Russ Musto
Although jazz aficionados have become accustomed to the regular expansion of the music's vocabulary coming from the Caribbean and South America, virtually nothing in the history of the increasingly diverse genre known as “Latin jazz" has prepared audiences for the uniquely innovative sound of Edmar Castaneda. A native of Colombia, Castaneda plays “el arpa llanera," the ...
