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Transcendent Trombone - Jazz Survivor: The Rick Stepton Story
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Transcendent Trombone Frank McGowan Self Published 2017 “Jazz Luck"--a phrase I pull out of the hat every so often that aptly describes those oddball and, in some cases, unfortunate events which practitioners of the art encounter in the business. It's a more apropos term that the commonly-used “Stuff Happens," because ...
Award Winning Musician & Bandleader “Tat” Tatsuya Yoshinaga Announces Date For Boston Concert At Ryles With The XTY Group
Multi-Instrumentalist, bandleader, and award winning drummer “Tat” Tatsuya Yoshinaga, announced today the date for his Boston/Cambridge concert featuring the XTY Group. They will perform on January 10, 2017 from 8:30-11:30 PM at the Ryles Jazz Club, 212 Hampshire St., Cambridge, MA. The XTY Jazz group is an exciting new collaboration between some of Boston's finest jazz ...
Nat Hentoff: The Never-Ending Ball
by Ian Patterson
This interview was first published at All About Jazz on June 23, 2010. Nat Hentoff was eleven years old when, walking down the road one day in Boston, he heard music so exciting that he shouted with pleasure and ran into the shop to learn that the music was of clarinetist Artie Shaw. In ...
Rakalam Bob Moses: Song of the Free Will
by Dave Wayne
Though Ra Kalam Bob Moses is known primarily for his uncanny and profound drumming skills, few realize that he has forged a unique and highly personal piano style in parallel with his efforts as a percussionist, composer and bandleader. Few remember his wonderful band Compost with that other ineffable drummer / pianist, Jack DeJohnette. Compost recorded ...
Mehmet Ali Sanlikol & Whatsnext?: Resolution
by Dave Wayne
Turkish multi-instrumentalist, composer and ethnomusicologist Mehmet Ali Sanlikol has a wide variety of interests and clearly isn't afraid to think big. His second album, Resolution features two distinct ensembles: a 19-member jazz orchestra and a 12- member jazz combo. Each track, except for “A Dream in Nihavend" and the set closing “Love Theme from Ergenkon," features ...
Monty Alexander's Harlem Kingston Express At Scullers On September 30th!
THE LEGENDARY JAMAICAN PIANO MASTER—MONTY ALEXANDER—HARLEM KINGSTON EXPRESS Scullers Jazz Club September 30th One Night Only! Returns to New England Hot Off Their Newport Jazz Festival Explosion! On the heels of his recent sensational concert at the Newport Jazz Festival, Monty Alexander returns to New England with his Harlem Kingston Express for ...
Nick Sanders & Logan Strosahl: Janus
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Nick Sanders and saxophonist Logan Strosahl have named their duet outing Janus. The Janus of the Roman Empire era was a God with two faces, a God of time, with one gaze directed forward, the other backward in time. Sanders and Strosahl began playing in the duo format a decade ago, wood-shedding in ...
John Scofield: Country for Old Men
by John Kelman
When guitarist Bill Frisell first began a more decided focus on roots music, bluegrass and country & western music with the release of 1996's Nashville (Nonesuch), despite being largely very well-received, jazz purists rankled when the largely bluegrass/folk-informed album began to garner awards like Downbeat Magazine's Best Jazz Album of the Year. While Frisell's oftentimes Americana-tinged ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Early Americans
by Alberto Bazzurro
Inciso a metà luglio del 2015, questo è con tutta probabilità il miglior album di Jane Ira Bloom che ci sia passato per le mani. Le grandi curiosità iniziali, attorno a questa esile donna che oltre trent'anni fa faceva parlare di sé accanto ai maestri dello strumento che si stava imponendo come una sorta di cornucopia ...
Radio Intro: Sketches on the Radio
by Mark Sullivan
Radio Intro is a duo project of Israeli pianist Yakir Arbib & Italian drummer Roberto Giaquinto. Arbib is an award-winning pianist (he won Second Prize at the Montreux International Piano Jazz Competition in July, 2015) equally skilled in classical music and jazz--he has a special interest in restoring the role of improvisation to classical music performance, ...
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