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Steve Gadd & Friends Releases New CD "Live at Voce"
Steve Gadd & Friends Releases New CD, Live at Voce, Featuring Ronnie Cuber, Paul Bollenback and Joey DeFrancesco LOS ANGELES, CA: 2010 has been a simply stellar year for Steve Gadd. Between tours, recordings and performances with World-renowned artists such as Eric Clapton, James Taylor, Alain Clark and Edie Brickell, he somehow also managed to record ...
21st-Century Technology Has Caught up to '70s-era Quadraphonic Recording
Hear and Now: “Dismal failure" may be the kindest way to describe quad. To music fans for whom even cassette tapes are a quaint throwback, here's a real obscurity: Quadraphonic sound systems were an experiment launched in 1970. Music came out of four speakers spread around the room--guitars over there, vocals over here, drums all around. ...
Enter Music Publishing Hits a Record During Drummies Voting 2010
San Jose, Calif.,--DRUM! Magazine, one of Enter Music Publishings hip, drum/percussion magazines with worldwide distribution, saw record-breaking vote totals in the just-concluded balloting for their annual drumming awards, the Drummies. According to surveymonkey.com, approximately 6500 drummers posted 120,000 votes in the 40 categories that comprise The Drummies. The Drummies, now in its fifteenth year, is the ...
Three Chords for Beauty's Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw
Artie Shaw, the swing eras other great clarinetist, knew just about every romantic self-immolator in the history of jazz. He roomed with both Bix Beiderbecke and Bunny Berigan, he hired Billie Holiday to sing with his band and at least by his own account he turned down Charlie Parkers bid to join his saxophone section. (I ...
Jazz Still a Passing Fad
Jazz musicians improvise for a living. In L.A., as in the rest of the country, where fewer and fewer arts patrons seek jazz as a music of first choice, players improvise ways to find work. Los Angeles has been important to jazz, and vice versa, since the musics beginnings. New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton, who ...
Jazz Guitarists Kevin Eubanks, John Pizzarelli Featured at Gettysburg Festival
GETTYSBURG, PA (June 9, 2010)--Gettysburg is best known as a town where the North met the South in 1863, but this June in Gettysburg, the East meets West--that is, the East Coast style of jazz meets the West Coast style of jazz in a dynamic Gettysburg Festival lineup. Guitarist Kevin Eubanks, although a Philadelphia native, personifies ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Karl Latham
All About Jazz is celebrating Karl Latham's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Karl LathamKarl Latham was born in Trenton, New Jersey and grew up in a musical family. Inspired by his brother Rick, (no relation to the Rick Latham), Karl started playing the drums at the age ...
Airborne Explores New Horizons
Airborne the Musical Peacemakers of Contemporary Jazz are rising higher and soaring on New Horizons with their new and 7th CD to date. The warm, yet cool atmosphere of this wonderful project takes you on a magical and musical journey to a new day filled with joy and hope. Its Smooth Jazz theme rides on the ...
The B3 Guru: Jazz Organ Legend Dr. Lonnie Smith Addresses His Life and Craft
With the passing of Jimmy Smith in 2005, Dr. Lonnie Smith (no relation) is now at the top of the Hammond B3 organ food chain. The latter Smith broke into the New York scene in the mid-'60s as a member of George Benson's quartet and quickly became the go-to organ guy for folks like Lou Donaldson, ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: May 31, 2010
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 21 10 Mike LeDonne The Groover (Savant) 178 103 +75 3 56 1 14 2 24 — Dr. Lonnie Smith Spiral (Palmetto) 169 102 +67 15 52 2 2 3 5 2 John Pizzarelli Rockin In Rhythm: A Tribute To Duke Ellington (Telarc) 163 ...
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