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Jazz Musician of the Day: Marvin "Smitty" Smith
All About Jazz is celebrating Marvin Smitty" Smith's birthday today! Marvin Smitty" Smith, Born June 24, 1961 in Waukegan (Illinois). It was a very natural inclination for me to play drums," says Marvin Smitty" Smith. A glance at his early life validates that truth. Born the son of a drummer, Marvin, Sr., was always surrounded by ...
L.A. Source Codes
By Will Lyle
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Forasteira; Above The Clouds; Be My Love; So in Love; Two for the Road;
rains_of_change; La Cumbia de MacArthur Park; No. 1 Green Street; I Believe
in You; It Ain't Necessarily So; You Stepped Out of A Dream
The Jazz All Stars Volume 1
Label: Le Coq Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: There For Flotus; Tu Were Nui; Log Jammin; There You Go; Afro Blue; Caravan; Rockin and Rhythm; Avalon.
Will Lyle: L.A. Source Codes
by Kyle Simpler
For computer programmers, a source code is a piece of computer language, which they are able to read and transfer and put to use in a practical way. With his debut album, L.A. Source Codes, bassist Will Lyle makes a connection between this concept and jazz. As with computer programming, jazz has its own language, and ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Marvin "Smitty" Smith
All About Jazz is celebrating Marvin Smitty" Smith's birthday today! Marvin Smitty" Smith, Born June 24, 1961 in Waukegan (Illinois). It was a very natural inclination for me to play drums," says Marvin Smitty" Smith. A glance at his early life validates that truth. Born the son of a drummer, Marvin, Sr., was always surrounded by ...
Forasteira
Album: L.A. Source Codes
By Will Lyle
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Duration: 05:41
Take Five with Will Lyle
by AAJ Staff
Meet Will Lyle Born in Southern California, Will began studying cello when he was three and also played drums, guitar, piano and percussion, taking up the electric bass at the age of 12. I had aspirations to become a producer and I originally went to Berklee for musical production, but during my freshman year I heard ...
Bill Cunliffe: Always Doing It The Right Way
by Jim Worsley
Most notably a jazz pianist, it comes as more than a surprise that Bill Cunliffe was not in the same orbit as jazz until he was in college. With the sheer volume of top shelf jazz he has written and recorded since, he would seem to have made up for any lost time. That time, those ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Marvin "Smitty" Smith
All About Jazz is celebrating Marvin Smitty" Smith's birthday today! Marvin Smitty" Smith, Born June 24, 1961 in Waukegan (Illinois). It was a very natural inclination for me to play drums," says Marvin Smitty" Smith. A glance at his early life validates that truth. Born the son of a drummer, Marvin, Sr., was always surrounded by ...
Sex & Drugs & Jazz & Jive: Top Ten Stash Records Albums
by Chris May
With all the transgressive flair you would expect of bohemian New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, Bernie Brightman's Stash Records made its name with a hugely entertaining series of sex and drugs-themed compilations of swing-era recordings. The first was Reefer Songs in 1976. But Brightman's legacy extends much further. There was a finite amount ...