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INgrooves Adds Telarc and Headsup Overseas
INgrooves has inked Telarc and Heads Up International, both divisions of Concord Music Group for digital distribution worldwide excluding the US and Canada. The wide ranging Telarc and Heads Up catalogs include jazz icons like Dave Brubeck, McCoy Tyner and Stanley Clarke, the blues of Taj Mahal and Tab Benoit, contemporary jazz from the likes Candy ...
Ada Rovatti: The Green Factor
by Woodrow Wilkins
Italian-born Ada Rovatti possesses talent as both an ensemble player and a bandleader. Versed in several styles of music, the saxophonist brings an eclectic blend of Irish, Celtic, jazz, and a few other flavors to The Green Factor. A scholarship winner from the Berklee College of Music, Rovatti spent time living both in ...
Tony Grey: Stepping out of the Shadows
by Ian Patterson
Since graduating from Berklee with honors in 2001, Tony Grey has earned a reputation as one of the most exciting bassists of his generation. His debut solo recording ...Moving (Self Produced, 2004) won enthusiastic reviews and revealed a musician gifted with a very strong sense of melody, and songwriting skills which drew from influences far beyond ...
Chuck Loeb: Between 2 Worlds
by Jeff Winbush
While no one was looking, Chuck Loeb was quietly becoming one of the most interesting guitarists making music today. Loeb kept working as a sideman, composer and arranger, making his own solo albums in a low-key way until he reached the point where any serious conversation about who's among the best in the business that doesn't ...
B.D. Lenz Awarded Rising Star from Gigmasters
"This means we're doing something right. GigMasters.com has become an important part of my income and gig schedule." --B.D. Lenz, Premier Contemporary Jazz Guitarist Hackettstown, NJ -- B.D. Lenz, one of the hottest contempo-jazz guitarists on the scene today, was awarded the “Rising Star Award" for the #1 jazz band from GigMasters. The online entertainment booking ...
Take Five With Alessandro Bottura
by AAJ Staff
Meet Alessandro Bottura: Alessandro Bottura, was born in Italy on 03/06/1984, and started to get interested in music when he was a child, studying piano for five years, then guitar and drums until 2000, when he came to the bass, for which he is self-taught. Alessandro performed many live shows throughout Modena with the rock band ...
Mike Stern And Kenny Garrett at Iridium, New York
by AAJ Staff
Mike Stern and Kenny GarrettIridiumNew York, New YorkDecember 31, 2008 It is New Year's Eve, and the temperature shown on the buildings around Time Square as minus 12!... I had just seen Mike Stern, jazz-fusion guitarist extraordinaire, at Broadway's Iridium jazz club. To get there, I had to sacrifice a backpack, ...
Grammy Winner 2009: Jazz
= winner Category 45 Best Contemporary Jazz Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.) Randy In Brasil Randy Brecker [MAMA Records] Floating Point John McLaughlin [Abstract Logix] Cannon Re-Loaded: All-Star Celebration Of Cannonball ...
The Story of Jazz Guitar
by AAJ Staff
While in its early days, jazz guitar was considered a rhythm instrument alongside the banjo of Dixieland. In 1940, Charlie Christian and his Gibson ES-150 changed that and elevated guitar to lead instrument status alongside the saxophone and trumpet--instruments that could acoustically cut through the sound of a piano-bass-drums rhythm section. Here, we encapsulate some of ...
Ray Levier: Ray's Way
by C. Michael Bailey
If drumming is the subatomic glue that holds a jazz performance together, then Ray Levier is the Einstein of jazz drumming. On his debut recording, Ray's Way, Levier provides a veritable masters class on the seamless and relative incorporation of drums into the melody of a song. Add to this that Idit Shner joins Levier in ...
