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Live Audio from Chris Potter's Underground Performances!
Chris Potter and his band Underground have been performing around the world to rave reviews for a few years now. If you've missed some of those performances, or just can't get enough of Underground, look no further. Chris has teamed up with ArtistShare to bring you Underground Live", an archive of streaming recordings from Underground performances. ...
Cuneiform Artists on Tour - July, 2010
JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN August 4 - The Hideout - Chicago, IL August 5 - The Sugar Maple - Milwaukee, WI August 8 - The Hungry Brain - Chicago, IL THE CLAUDIA QUINTET July 23 - Pori, Finland July 24 - San Sebastian, Spain September 10 - Cornelia Street Cafe - 29 Cornelia St - New York, ...
Jazzwax List: 10 Sax-Organ Combos
After my posts on Arnett Cobb and Lou Donaldson, I found myself with a severe craving for sax-organ combo tracks. So I started running through my library of reed and Hammond B3 albums trying to piece together a Top 10 list of favorites. [Pictured: Brother Jack McDuff] Halfway through, I realized the task was impossible. You ...
Herbie Hancock, "The Imagine Project" (CD Review)
Herbie Hancock is back, with another all-star recording project. The results come across as a little uneven. Check out my review, below, or read it online, or click here to link directly to the review, published in Las Vegas City Life. Herbie Hancock, The Imagine Project (Herbie Hancock Record) Herbie Hancock, an eternally youthful ...
Top Five Music Licensing Myths Debunked
[Editor's Note: This is a repost of an article written by Scott McIntosh, the founder of MusikPitch, an online marketplace that connects talented songwriters with music supervisors, studios, brands, and anyone else looking for custom music. Click here to read WAMM contributor Sasha Lee's profile of the service] 1. Licensing music is a loss of copyright ...
Tuesday Morning Listen: Manu Katche, Third Round
In Coltrane: The Story of a Sound, Times critic Ben Ratliff writes, the sound of so many jazz gigs I've heard in the past fifteen years...is usually the sound of albums like Coltrane's Sound or Coltrane Plays the Blues, the quartet just before or in the first stages of a modal-jazz style, just tightening, still before ...
Trombone Shorty, "Backatown" (CD Review)
New Orleans superstar du jour Trombone Shorty is rising fast with his hard-hitting Backatown CD. Click here to read my review, as published in Relix mag. Or see the full text below. Trombone Shorty, Backatown (Verve Forecast) Supafunkrock" is the name that Trombone Shorty gives his engaging blend of brass band blasts, metal guitar ...
Benny Powell, 1930-2010
Benny Powell, the veteran trombonist, died last Saturday in New York. Born in New Orleans, Powell was treasured by his colleagues as a superb musician and teacher and as a gentleman who observed old-South standards of courtesy and consideration. Among the bands that Powell graced were those of Count Basie, Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, Bill ...
Recent Listening: Linda Ciofalo
As always, the Rifftides staff is trying to keep up with new releases. It can't be done; the inflow never ceases and listening time is at a premium, but in the next few days we'll alert you to a few. Linda Ciofalo, Dancing With Johnny (Lucky Jazz Music). The dancing partner of the title is Johnny ...
Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival 2010
Taking note of newcomers, up-and-comers The Saratoga Performing Arts Center's annual jazz festival in bucolic Saratoga Springs, N.Y., is many different things to the thousands of attendees, some of whom seem to be there every single year. It's a chance for summer weekend reunions of families, extended families and groups of friends - ...

