Results for "Michael Ricci"

Monks 'Black Monk Time' Reissued Just in Time

April 26, 2009

The joyously hostile songs on the Monks 1966 album, Black Monk Time newly reissued on the Light in the Attic label would be essential, strange 1960s artifacts even without the bands back story. The Monks were American G.I.s stationed in Frankfurt who after their discharge in 1964 stayed there, put on robes and shaved their hair ...

New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival: The Rebirth Brass Brand, Galactic and More

April 26, 2009

The Rebirth Brass Band, wearing identical green Rebirth T-shirts, stood in the bright Saturday sun on the second day of this years New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The front line of three trumpets, two trombones and a tenor saxophonist was backed by a rub-board player, a bass drummer, a snare drummer and a tuba player ...

Larry Fuller: A Life Lived on the Side

April 26, 2009

A career in parentheses even at home in Manhattan. A woman with a white lacquered hairdo and a black lacquered handbag was pursuing Larry Fuller through a crowded theater lobby after a recent show in New Hampshire. The gig was billed as an evening of cool jazz with John Pizzarelli, and Mr. Pizzarelli, the guitarist and ...

Mark Soskin at the Kitano Hotel NY

April 26, 2009

Dom Minasi Interview

April 26, 2009

XV III - Xing Paths the CD

April 26, 2009

“Sophisticated pop that fuses Eastern and Western music influences into a seamless whole that only an exceptional talent can pull off!" - Evolution of Media USA 
Created in 2003, Xenovibes [foreign+expressions] began as the sonic melange of “Singapore's 1st and only diva of the theremin" Shueh-li Ong. Conjoining her Australian- Asian heritage with ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jimmy Giuffre

April 26, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Jimmy Giuffre's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Jimmy GiuffreReedman and composer Jimmy Giuffre was born in Dallas, TX. He started his musical education at age 9 learning the clarinet and within few years he was proficient enough to give solo clarinet recitals ...

The Five Peace Band, McLaughlin and Corea at the Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center

April 25, 2009

Looking to the Present While Peeking at the Past, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Christian McBride, Kenny Garrett and Brian Blade. The Five Peace Band, a jazz-rock juggernaut, presents a parody of abundance. Led by the guitarist John McLaughlin and the keyboardist Chick Corea both restless virtuosos, and legends at 67 the group works hard and fast, ...

SWR Jazz Award for Ingrid Laubrock

April 25, 2009

Saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock is the winner of this year's Southwest Germany Radio (SWR) Jazz Award, one of Germany's most prestigious music awards. The prize money is funded by the State of Rhineland-Palatinate and SWR and is worth around $19,000. Laubrock received the award for her album Sleepthief (Intakt, 2008), recorded with Tom Rainey (drums) and Liam ...

New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

April 25, 2009

Henry Butler, Donald Harrison, Wynton Marsalis and more The older he gets, the more New Orleans pianist Henry Butler resembles Professor Longhair. When Butler, now 59, performed Friday, the opening day of this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, his tall, lanky frame, bald, narrow head and wraparound sunglasses gave him the gaunt look of ...