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Fans Invited To Create Miles Davis Album For Legacy
On August 1, 2011, Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, launched The Miles Davis Fan Project, an innovative online initiative designed to introduce the music of the American jazz composer-trumpeter-bandleader to a digital audience via Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/MilesDavis) and Davis' official website (milesdavis.com). Throughout the month of August, 40 classic Miles Davis tracks—representing multiple ...
Greg Reitan: Daybreak
by Dan McClenaghan
Greg Reitan has, since 1995, carved out a career as an award-winning composer for television and film. It wasn't until 2009, however, that the Los Angeles-based pianist released his first jazz CD, one of the top piano trio recordings of the year, Some Other Time (Sunnyside Records). Reitan followed up this excellent debut with another top-level ...
PDX Jazz Presents Ramsey Embick Trio @ Mission Theater - "In a Silent Way: The Music of Joe Zawinul"
Thursday, September 29th @ 8pm Consumer Friendly Pricing, All Seats $15 Limited Reserved Seats for PDX Jazz Members PDX Jazz, the presenting organization of the Portland Jazz Festival in partnership with the Mission Theater, along with The Crystal Hotel and our media sponsor KMHD Radio, is set to continue the PDX Jazz ...
Various Artists: Jazz For Japan
by DJ Marc Antomattei
In the wake of the barrage of natural and man-made disasters that struck Japan in early 2011, a large group of fine musicians got together for Jazz For Japan. One of the strongest compilations of the year, all proceeds are being donated to help the victims of this great tragedy. The standards featured ...
Vivian Buczek: Dedication To My Giants
by Bruce Lindsay
Dedication To My Giants, is Vivian Buczek's tribute to those giants of jazz who have inspired the Swedish vocalist's own work. While Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles get a mention, Buczek's giants for are predominantly instrumentalists--John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Clifford Brown included--and as a result her song selection for this, her third album, avoids the ...
Brian Lynch and Spheres Of Influence: ConClave Vol. 2
by Edward Blanco
Long an exponent of Afro-Cuban rhythms and Latin jazz music, trumpeter/educator Brian Lynch presents a fine selection of originals and standards in another Latin-styled album, grounded in a strong modern jazz foundation. ConClave Vol. 2 draws on obvious elements of Latin music and contains the influence within a framework of a jazz project, as opposed to ...
David Sanchez: Ninety-Mile Bridge
by Ian Patterson
What, besides music, transcends geopolitical divides so gracefully? What else unites people of different nationalities, political persuasions and religious creeds in common celebration just quite as harmoniously? Religions may have captured the hearts and minds of the majority of the planet's people, but remain bastions of ultra-conservatism and mistrust, despite all the rhetoric to the contrary. ...
Donald Harrison: This Is Jazz
by Greg Simmons
Saxophonist Donald Harrison's name is writ large on the cover of This Is Jazz, but the album is a collaborative trio in every sense. After all, playing with legendary bassist Ron Carter and drummer extraordinaire Billy Cobham could never be equated with simply hiring sidemen. Recorded live at New York's Blue Note, the six tracks on ...
Brian Morton & Richard Cook: The Penguin Jazz Guide - The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums
by C. Michael Bailey
The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums Brian Morton and Richard Cook Paperback; 768 pages ISBN: 9780141048314 Penguin Books 2010 Attention: The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums does not equal The Penguin Guide ...
Sean Nowell: Stockholm Swingin'
by Bruce Lindsay
Sean Nowell has lent his talents to a diverse array of bands including Travis Sullivan's Bjorkestra and his own Kung-Fu Masters, working across numerous musical styles. On Stockholm Swingin', the tenor saxophonist's third Posi-Tone release, he stays in recognizably straight-ahead territory, bringing his impressively wide-ranging and imaginative tenor sound to a live quintet recording from the ...
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