Results for "Michael Ricci"

Under Your Skin Interview: The Barbican London

September 3, 2010

What's New @ shop.allaboutjazz.com: Classic Photos, DVDs, and more!

September 4, 2010

CLASSIC JAZZ PHOTOS FOR YOUR OFFICE OR HOME! THE BLUE NOTE PHOTOGRAPHY OF FRANCIS WOLFF—$100 per print Bllue Note co-founder Francis Wolff was a master photographer. Bringing his camera to every Blue Note session, he built an archive of great photographic value and a visual documentation of jazz history unmatched ...

Eden Brent: A Jazz Queen With a Case of the Blues

September 3, 2010

Jazz grew out of the blues some time in the late 19th or early 20th century in and around New Orleans. While the two styles grew apart as each developed its own lexicon, there's no mistaking the fact that the they are deeply intertwined—one need look no further than Billie Holiday, Count Basie and most musicians ...

Announcing the Winners of the "Charnett Moffett - Treasure" Giveaway

September 2, 2010

Stephen Ranney, Kim Fagan, Eric Towler, Stephanie Cronin and Jeffrey Clark, Congratulations! You're the lucky winners of the Motema Music “Charnett Moffett - Treasure“ giveaway. All About Jazz will contact you about claiming your prize. We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the contest and please visit Motema Music for more releases. Enjoy the music! ...

A celebrated Austin lounge group re-creates itself in Richmond

September 1, 2010

By Brent Baldwin The Recliners retrofit Cream, Billy Idol and Beastie Boys into lounge versions at nite clubs and venues throughout Richmond and the north eastern United States as well as the southwest and west coast. The Richmond music scene could always use a little more good humor. All that math rock, jazz and metal is ...

Chris Massey Signs with the Spectra Jazz Record Label

September 2, 2010

Not often does a drummer start off a career with high praise and reviews from jazz critics—nor does a drummer provide the sort of recorded listening experience one leaves on continual play, but you'll have to hear drummer Chris Massey's New Jazz Project CD “Vibrainium"to believe it! We here at Spectra Jazz have kept Massey's CD ...

Dave Bass Quartet Featuring Ernie Watts, Babatunde Lea, Mary Stallings, and Gary Brown Release "Gone"

September 2, 2010

David Bass on Gone The word Gone has several meanings for me... There's the 20-plus years I was away from the music scene, then there's the feeling when your lover leaves and your heart breaks... alone and empty, and finally, the beatnik/hipster notion of an irrevocably cool person. I have returned to music and am proud ...

Open for business! The Seabird Jazz Lounge in Long Beach, CA

September 2, 2010

The Seabird Jazz Lounge was formally known as the “Cotton Club," a classy, intimate straight-ahead and contemporary Jazz Lounge in Long Beach, CA. Presenting a variety of live world class local and nationally known musical acts! Featuring our amazing house band The Dale Black Quartet The Seabird Jazz Lounge has reopened their doors and remains one ...

Cuneiform Artists on Tour - September, 2010

September 2, 2010

AHLEUCHATISTAS September 9 Barking Legs Theater 1307 Dodds Ave Chattanooga, TN 37404 (423) 624-5347 9:00 pm Septemper 10 Lemp Neighborhood Art Center 3301 Lemp Ave St. Louis, MO 63118 8:00 pm September 11 Adventures in Modern Music festival (sponsored with The Wire) Empty Bottle 1035 N Western Ave Chicago, IL 60601 (773) 276-3600 RAOUL BJORKENHEIM/MORGAN AGREN/BILL ...

"India & Africa": Coltrane Tribute by Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra

September 1, 2010

For the last dozen years, percussionist-composer Anthony Brown's innovative Asian American Orchestra has reinvented classics of American music by composers Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, and George Gershwin from a Pacific Rim perspective by mixing instruments of European and American vintage with those of various Asian cultures. Now, with the September 28 release of India ...