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Miles Griffith

NEWS: EVENT June 2, 2018

Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches To Play Record Release Concert At DROM NYC On June 14 With Emmy-Nominated Actor Rob Morrow

Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches are likely the only band today infusing elements of Gullah-Geechee and world rhythms with folk traditions, Americana, New Orleans influences, and 1920s jazz. The forthcoming sophomore album, Get Us Out Of Fearland , due June 15, builds upon the multicultural exuberance that made the band’s debut, Very Next Thing, a transcendent ...
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NEWS: EVENT October 3, 2017

Acclaimed Jazz Guitarist Nick Russo Assembles NYC All-Stars For Jalopy Theatre Concert On Sunday October 29

Special Guests Include: Ari Hoenig (Drums), Miles Griffith (Voice), Greg Glassman (Trumpet) Nathan Peck (Bass), Pandit Samir Chatterjee (Tabla), Dan Aran (Drums) Opening Set by Roots, Folk, Americana, Bluegrass Collective, Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches Armed with an “impressive debut recording, broad in scope, deep in concept and eminently listenable,” guitarist/banjoist Nick Russo burst onto the ...
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NEWS: RECORDING February 1, 2017

Brian Kastan "Roll The Dice On Life" New Fusion Double Album

WITH ROLL THE DICE ON LIFE, GUITARIST BRIAN KASTAN OPENS A WINDOW INTO HIS MUSICAL SOUL Full Of Raw Energy, This Dynamic, Guitar-Driven Double Album Features Vocals By Miles Griffith “Think Zappa 21st Century… Brian's Guitar is Just Killer."—Dick Metcalf Jazz-Fusion guitarist, Brian Kastan introduces his newest CD, Roll the Dice on Life. This double album ...
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ARTICLE: GENERAL ARTICLES September 29, 2014

I Nuovi Protagonisti dell'Orchestrazione - 1: Darcy James Argue - Ryan Truesdell - Orrin Evans

By ANGELO LEONARDI

Dopo la morte di Gil Evans e Thad Jones nella seconda metà degli anni ottanta e la progressiva uscita di scena di George Russell, il ruolo del compositore/orchestratore nel jazz ha sofferto di un gap generazionale. Meno marcato di quanto è apparso pubblicamente ma comunque consistente. Anche se negli anni novanta già operavano figure del calibro ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW April 10, 2014

Art Lillard's Heavenly Band: Reasons to Be Thankful

By JACK BOWERS

Although drummer Art Lillard's Heavenly Band makes its home about as far from heaven as one could plausibly roam--New York City, to be precise--the music it produces on Reasons to Be Thankful (recorded in 2000 and released six years later) evokes at times an empyrean vibe, thanks in part to blissful arrangements by Lillard and guitarist ...

ARTICLE: TAKE FIVE WITH... October 5, 2013

Take Five With Kosi

By AKOSUA GYEBI

Meet Akosua Gyebi: I am a songwriter born and raised in New York City. Instrument(s): Vocalist. Teachers and/or influences? Salim Washington, Katchie (Katchie) Cartwright, Miles Griffith, Abbey Lincoln, Jill Scott, Gregory Porter, and Nina Simone. Your sound and approach to music: I've ...

NEWS: RECORDING February 1, 2012

Jazz at Lincoln Center to Release "WeBop"

Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) will release WeBop: A Family Jazz Party, a CD featuring kid-tested and approved music on Tuesday, February 28, 2012. The recording brings the very best of JALC's WeBop classes in NYC home to families worldwide. Critically-acclaimed drummer and music director Matt Wilson leads an intergenerational band of celebrated jazz musicians, including ...
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ALBUM

Only Love

By MILES GRIFFITH

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Released: 2011
Track listing: 01. Sometimes (Weekend Dream) (Feinig/Griffith) - 6:04; 02. When I First Met You (Stevens) - 6:29; 03. Lonely Tears (Nurock/Patterson) - 6:52; 04. Border Line (Stevens/Hughes) - 6:44; 05. Sometimes (Stevens) - 6:39; 06. Only Love (Stevens/Sannwald) - 5:06; 07. Oh Mama (Griffith) - 3:31; 08. Highway Blues (Stevens/Sannwald) - 4:23; 09. Perfect Dream (Stevens) - 6:57; 10. Like An Empty Car (My Tin Can) (Feinig/Griffith) - 6:55.

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW November 15, 2011

Griffith-Stevens Quartet: Only Love

By AAJ ITALY STAFF

Miles Griffith è un vocalist afro-americano, oggi docente al Queens College, che opera professionalmente dalla fine degli anni settanta ed ha all'attivo alcuni dischi e numerose collaborazioni (la più nota è la partecipazione nel 1994 al progetto di Wynton Marsalis Blood on the Fields). Attenti a non equivocare. Griffith non è affatto un tradizionalista e mostra ...