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Steve Smith and Vital Information: Live! One Great Night
by Jeff Winbush
Steve Smith and Vital InformationLive! One Great NightBFM2012Even now, the two questions probably most asked of Steve Smith go something like, “Hey, are you the Steve Smith who played drums in Journey?" and “What's Steve Perry like?"This is clearly unfair to Smith, who spent ten years ...
Guitarist Grant Geissman's "Bop! Bang! Boom!" - July 17 Release On Futurism Records
Eclectic new music from jazz guitarist/composer Grant Geissman, with special guests, including Albert Lee, Larry Carlton, Mike Finnigan, Russell Ferrante, Leland Sklar, and Van Dyke Parks. “From loping funk to boogaloo to earthy blues shuffles, with a haunting ballad, a beautiful samba and an urgently swinging post-bop romp thrown into the mix—along with touches of classical, ...
Wing Beat Fantastic: Songs Written By Mike Keneally And XTC’s Andy Partridge
Wing Beat Fantastic (Exowax Recordings, July 17, 2012 release), the magical new album from composer/ producer/multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Mike Keneally, is the highly anticipated result of a songwriting union between the famed rock experimentalist and legendary XTC tunesmith Andy Partridge. Their collaboration produced eight new songs, combining Partridge’s innate sense of angular pop melody and beautifully intelligent poeticism, ...
Young Ukulele Star Brittni Paiva Releases "Tell U What" Produced By Tom Scott
At just 23 years of age, Brittni Paiva (pie-VAH) is the preeminent female ukelele player from Hawaii. This native of Hilo is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist with a prodigous gift who has been embraced by a global audience. Her latest album, Tell U What (July 10 release, Brittni Paiva Music), showcases her true talent along side a ...
Vocalist Connie Evingson's "Sweet Happy Life," A Tribute To Songwriter Norman Gimbel
For her ninth album, SWEET HAPPY LIFE (Minnehaha Music, July 10, 2012 Release), vocalist Connie Evingson (pronounced EE-ving-sen) samples the songbook of Grammy and Oscar winning lyricist Norman Gimbel. “With a healthy dose of bossa nova and samba from Gimbel’s frequent collaborations with Brazilian composers Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luiz Bonfa, Marcos Valle and others (“Girl from ...
David Linx, Maria Joao and the Brussels Jazz Orchestra: A Different Porgy and Another Bess
by C. Michael Bailey
The French classical label Naive has made a successful foray into jazz with recordings like Mina Agossi's Red Eyes (2012); and Tania Maria's Tempo (2012). A Different Porgy and Another Bess is the first thematic big-band offering from the label. Drawing from the George Gershwin/DuBose Heyward opera, Porgy and Bess (1935), A Different Porgy highlights eleven ...
Sara Gazarek: Blossom & Bee
by Dan Bilawsky
Vocalist Sara Gazarek was in a recording slumber for the past half decade, but 2012 seems to be the year that this sleeping jazz vocal beauty finally awakens. She eased her way back into the ears of her fans with Where Time Stands Still (Charleston Square Recordings, 2012), a collaboration that paired her with Germany's Triosence, ...
Jazz Singer/Songwriters Part I: Louise Van Aarsen and Rebecka Larsdotter
by C. Michael Bailey
We can only hear “My Funny Valentine" so many times presented in so many manners. Writer Scott Yanow, in his book The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide (Backbeat Books, 2008), called for a moratorium on singers recording this and several other songs because, like “Stairway to Heaven" and “Freebird" (for those from behind the Cotton Curtain), ...
Sara Gazarek: Blossom & Bee
by C. Michael Bailey
All chicken or feathers, feast or famine, flood or drought; regarding jazz vocal releases, there is always a healthy steady stream of new music being produced. The vast majority is good while, as it should be, the truly exceptional are of a rarer variety. The release of Kate McGarry's exceptional Girl Talk (Palmetto, 2012) might have ...
Sweden's Caprice Records Reissues Don Cherry's "Organic Music Society" - CD And Vinyl Versions
One of the towering figures of American music, Don Cherry was part of the revolutionary free-bop quartet led by Ornette Coleman in the late 1950s and early 1960s, an ensemble that helped shift the conversation about jazz from chord changes and swing to freedom and energy. Always an independent spirit, Cherry brought his openness and burgeoning ...
