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Michael Zilber: East West / Music for Big Bands
by Jack Bowers
On East West, his first-ever big-band enterprise, Canadian-born saxophonist Michael Zilber leads world-class ensembles in New York City and San Francisco, which speaks volumes about his artistry and gravitas. Zilber not only plays saxophone on both bands, he composed eight of the fourteen numbers on this handsome two-CD set and arranged all of them.
Christmas Gifts and Messages, Some From the Grinch
by Marc Cohn
If you haven't had your fill of Christmas, click the play button for last Saturday's holiday show. One of our rotating traditions is to program the Duke Ellington version of “The Nutcracker Suite." Our first segment tracks mostly old favorites that we play almost every year. The rest are offered for the first time on the ...
Originals For the Originals
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Breckerfast Club; Leaves (for Michael
Brecker); Partly Sonny; Autumn Lieb;
Weather Wayne; Pastel Blues (for Wayne
Shorter); Hen House; Late Night Trane (in
the distance); Lieb Dich; Coltraning Daze; St.
Paul (Desmond)
Michael Zilber: Originals For the Originals
by Paul Rauch
Saxophonist/composer Michael Zilber is better known by fellow musicians than by the jazz public, this is an unfortunate truth. The Vancouver, B.C., native moved to Boston in his late teens, then to New York City to begin his musical odyssey. Musicians there recognized his prodigious talent, resulting in recordings with jazz royalty such as Dizzy Gillespie, ...
All About Jazz Top 10 MP3 Downloads: February 2017
All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the 30 tracks featured in February, these ten represent our personal favorites. We also included the top ten reader favorites as indicated by total downloads. Musicians and record labels can submit full length MP3s for consideration here. Enjoy! EDITOR'S PICKS ...
All About Jazz Top 10 MP3 Downloads: January 2017
All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the 30 tracks featured in January, these ten represent our personal favorites. We also included the top ten reader favorites as indicated by total downloads. Musicians and record labels can submit full length MP3s for consideration here. Enjoy! EDITOR'S PICKS ...
John Stowell/Michael Zilber Quartet: Live Beauty
by Dan McClenaghan
Part of the appeal of the teaming of guitarist John Stowell with various “post Coltrane" saxophonists is the cool/hot dynamic. Stowell is the guy with a Zen restraint, the cool guy, his chords sometimes sounding as if they are ringing from frozen stalactite filaments in ice caves. Saxophonists? Some blow cool-- those of the Lester Young/Stan ...
Outside the Box – Jazz Journeys & Worlds Beyond
By Ian Dogole
Label: Global Fusion Music
Released: 2013
Track listing: Jazz Journeys:
Blue Nile (Alice Coltrane)
Lonely Woman (Ornette Coleman)
Resurgence (Ian Dogole)
Ponta de Areia/Lilia (Fernando Brandt & Milton Nascimento)
Anticipation (Dave Tidball)
First Light (Dave Tidball)
Silk Road (Dave Tidball)
Epistrophy (Thelonious Monk & Kenny Clarke)
Yemanhu (Ahmed Khalifa & Yassir Chadly)
Children of the Night (Wayne Shorter)
Worlds Beyond:
Hermanos Shamanicos Suite (Ian Dogole)
Trusting the Journey (Ian Dogole, Warren Kahn & Paul McCandless)
Silhouettes of Yesterday (Ian Dogole)
Jungle Jive (Ian Dogole)
Saadia (Moroccan Traditional)
La Plomberie Entr'amis (Ian Dogole, Bill Douglass & Eric Golub)
Struttin' with Heinie Manush ((Ian Dogole, Bill Douglass & Eric Golub)
Nature Boy (eden ahbez)
Brother Pax (Ian Dogole)
Honey's Romp (Ian Dogole)
