Results for "Mike Emmert"

Mike Emmert

A World That Bears a Question

By Madre Vaca

Label: Madre Vaca Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Janacek's Sinfonietta; Aomame; 1Q84; Fuka-Eri; Tengo; Komatsu; Irretrievably Lost; The Professor; Buzzcut & Ponytail; Refreshing Iced Barley Tea; Sakigake; If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation; Town of Cats; The Little People; Chekhov's Gun; Strong Green Tea; On Top of the Slide; There Are Two Moons in the Sky; The Dead Goat; The Keeper of the Beat; Air Chrysalis; Leader; We Can No Longer Hear the Voice; Calming Roasted Hojicha Tea; Tamaru; Ushikawa; The Bottom of the Sea; Willow House

Mica Bethea: Stage 'N Studio

by Jack Bowers
October 15, 2017

When listening to the Mica Bethea Big Band's generally admirable two-CD set, Stage 'n Studio, the first thought is, “Why hasn't anyone done this before?" That query is immediately replaced by a second thought: “Perhaps someone has and we simply overlooked it." In either case, Bethea's decision to perform (basically) the same material in a recording ...

Jax Jazz Collective: All the Things You Are: The Music of Jerome Kern

by Dan McClenaghan
May 1, 2015

This is a marvelous approach to making jazz recordings: picking one Great American Songbook composer at time and exploring a set of his tunes, with a personal touch. Pianist Oscar Peterson released a series of tributes to the Standards tune-smith's on Verve Record back in the 1950s, tagged “Songbooks," celebrating George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, ...