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Geoffrey Armes Releases New CD/Download "Hemisphere"
This is to let you know that Geoffrey Armes has a new CD/Download release entitled HEMISPHERE. The music is freewheeling 'live' ambience, richly detailed for the listener using headphones. Thanks very much for listening... and indeed buying... you can now download directly and using code COOLFRIEND obtain tracks for as low as 69 cents each. One ...
Announcing New Recommendations at Rifftides
Eddie Higgins, Standards by Request, 1st Day and 2nd Day(Venus). Among those mourning Higgins' death are virtually all other jazz pianists and the Japanese. He was a celebrity among the large and enthusiastic coterie of listeners in Japan who are devoted to piano jazz. Higgins recorded nearly two dozen albums for Japan's Venus label. These solo ...
Brian Setzer Collects His Classics for a Cool Yule
Brian Setzer is “the new king of jingle bell rock" (Billboard) and on October 13, Surfdog will re-release the perfect Setzer treat for all good boys and girls: 'Christmas Rocks! The Best of Collection' and the new 'Ultimate Christmas Collection'. 'Christmas Rocks!' brings together the best songs from his two Christmas albums, 'Dig That Crazy Christmas' ...
The Jazz Session #79: Myra Melford
Listen Pianist Myra Melford. Melford is active with many groups and on many recordings, including this years Under The Water (Libra, 2009) with pianist Satoko Fujii. In this interview, Melford talks about her early contact with Leroy Jenkins, Henry Threadgill and other AACM musicians; her pursuit of an individual voice; and the role that her meditation ...
At This Jazz Festival, a Surprise: Jazz
The town of West Orange is a highly logical place to stage a jazz festival. Besides having a lakeside amphitheater — the Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center--it is home to a small but powerful army of jazz musicians, including the guitarists Dave Stryker and Vic Juris and the drummer Cecil Brooks III. But the OSPAC Jazz ...
Jazz Trumpeter Thomas Marriott Looks Forward to the Past with Tribute to Horace Silver
In the compressed, sometimes circular history of jazz, the freshest ideas often come from the past. Many young musicians, looking to push their music forward, are now mining the music of the late 1950s and '60s, the birth of what we think of as modern jazz. A quintet led by trumpeter Thomas Marriott, 33, will attempt ...
Yale Hails Benny with Byron and Another Big Band Aficionado
The great clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman had a profound effect on American music in the 1930s and 40s. One of the first performers to integrate his touring unit, Goodman also crossed over from the jazz world to classical music more than once in his long career. He also had a prickly personality, managing to alienate ...
The Motet:Dig Deep
By: Bill Clifford With its sixth studio recording, Dig Deep (available for free download on the band's website), The Motet continues to mix dance oriented electronica sounds with rich Afrobeat and Latin tinged funk. It's an evolution of the sound that drummer Dave Watts began to delve into with the group's 2006 release, Instrumental Dissent. Dig ...
Tortoise: 20 Years of Evolution
By: Ron Hart Tortoise It's been five years since Chicago's intrepid instrumentalists Tortoise released new material, but that hasn't slowed fan appreciation or band reflection. Following 2004's It's All Around You, Tortoise released The Brave and the Bold where they backed Bonnie “Prince" Billy on a series of totally inventive covers, as well as their career-spanning ...
Robert Glasper Cancels Shows at Jazz at the Bistro; Houston Person Booked to Perform October 7-10
Jazz St. Louis has announced another change in the fall schedule for Jazz at the Bistro. Pianist Robert Glasper, who had been scheduled to perform at the Bistro Wednesday, October 7 through Saturday, October 10, has canceled.Saxophonist Houston Person (pictured), who was in town this past weekend to perform at Harris-Stowe State University as ...
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