Results for "Michael Ricci"

Kim Rushing Quartet at Egan's, July 11

July 10, 2009

Saturday, July 11 - Kim Rushing Quartet Egan’s Ballard Jam House 1707 NW Market Street 7:00pm, $10 Reservations: 206-789-1621 Kim Rushing grew up in Harrisburg PA, playing piano, clarinet, and participating in chorus, choir and plays. Graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Moved to NYC ...

Ray Charles: Country and Western

July 10, 2009

I don't really think of Ray Charles' Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Vols. 1 and 2 as country albums. Like everything Charles took on, the music he recorded in 1962 was more about his take on an established genre than an attempt to mimic it. But in some ways, Modern Sounds isn't really an ...

George Harrison:Let It Roll: Songs of George Harrison

July 10, 2009

By: Ron Hart Over the last ten years, Capitol/EMI has been notorious for treating its reissue campaign of George Harrison's post-Beatles catalog like some kind of under-appreciated stepchild whose parents force ugly new clothes and disgusting new food onto. First was the 30th Anniversary reissue of the Quiet One's masterpiece, All Things Must Pass, from early ...

Jazz This Week: The Cunninghams, Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, St. Louis Ragtimers, Dawn Weber, Erin Bode, and More

July 10, 2009

Though summer vacation season is officially underway, the next few days will offer St. Louis jazz fans a pretty fair number of musical choices during what's usually a relatively slow time of year.Tonight, the Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Orchestra (pictured at left), a select ensemble of mostly teenage musicians from the West ...

Beacon Article Spotlights Local Cabaret Scene

July 10, 2009

An article written by Terry Perkins for the Saint Louis Beacon local news site takes a look at our town's cabaret offerings, covering the work of promoter Jim Dolan's Cabaret St. Louis organization at the new Kranzberg Arts Center at Grand and Olive, as well as an upcoming local conference for cabaret singers. You can read ...

Greg Worzel Launches New Label with Debut CD from Teen Singer

July 10, 2009

Via email, keyboardist Greg Worzel tells StLJN that he's launching a new independent jazz label called Prospect Records. Based in the St. Louis suburb of O'Fallon, MO, the new imprint will make its debut with Like Someone In Love, the first recording from 17-year-old vocalist Emily Nicole (pictured).Worzel has worked previously with singer Anita ...

Buckwheat Zydeco: Tour/Album

July 10, 2009

BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO CELEBRATES 30TH ANNIVERSARY WITH NEW NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES NEW ALBUM, LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN, RECEIVES STELLAR REVIEWS ACROSS THE COUNTRY Buckwheat Zydeco Buckwheat Zydeco have been celebrating their 30th anniversary and the release of Lay Your Burden Down (released May 5), with a massive North American tour. Buckwheat Zydeco recorded Lay ...

Soulive: Up Here and Tour

July 10, 2009

NEW SOULIVE ALBUM UP HERE RELEASED PHYSICALLY WITH BONUS DVD IN STORES JULY 7 FALL TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED Soulive 2009 has been a busy year for Soulive. The New York-based funk-powerhouse trio formed its own record label, Royal Family Records, released its latest studio endeavor, Up Here, which has been available as a download ...

JFJO | 06.19.09 | Berkeley

July 10, 2009

By: Dennis Cook Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey :: 06.19.09 :: Starry Plough :: Berkeley, CA JFJO '09 by Jeremy Charles “We appreciate your ears." It was late in their sizzling performance at hallowed leftie hang the Starry Plough when Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey's de facto ...

Berklee's Mike King on Modern Music Marketing

July 10, 2009