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Who Was Joe Holiday?
The beauty of jazz is its vast territory. No matter how many years you listen to this music, you invariably come across artists who will be new to you. The delight of new discoveries is largely the result of foreign labels releasing jazz that has been overlooked, forgotten or newly unearthed. No label does this better ...
Backgrounder: Horace Parlan - Movin' & Groovin'
Horace Parlan is probably best known as the pianist on Dexter Gordon's 1961 Blue Note album Doin' Allright. It's hard to imagine anyone but Parlan playing on that record, adding dramatic zest to songs like Doing All Right, For Regulars Only and Society Red. He also played piano on Charles Mingus's Mingus Ah Um (1959) and ...
Bill Le Sage: New Directions in Jazz
If British pianist, vibraphonist, arranger, composer and bandleader Bill Le Sage had an American counterpart, that musician would probably be Mundell Lowe. Like Mundy, Le Sage (pronounced like massage) was exemplary on his instruments, and he arranged and composed for groups of all sizes and wrote for TV and the movies. Le Sage was so busy ...
Before the Music Had a Name
When music genres wind up with a name, it's usually because the style became so commercially viable that someone in the media decided to label it with a clever word or phrase. To illustrate my point, let's look at three demarcation points in 20th century music, each 10 years apart: Swing existed years before Benny Goodman's ...
Automatic Man Legend Todd Cochran Releases 'From The Vault: Notes For The Future'
Notes for the future are the “imagined sometime in the past” tropes of a storyteller. Freed from every day “isms” of convention and released from the symbolic containment of the vault, the music is an allegorical exploration in futurism. The stream running throughout the musical narrative is a speculative commentary about our human search for meaning, ...
Multi-instrumentalist Julian Calv Releases Limited Edition 7” Vinyl Single Through Deko Entertainment Carrying On The Legacy Of Moondog (aka The Viking Of Sixth Avenue)
Julian Calv was a music major recently graduated from Moravian University in Bethlehem, PA. He now resides in the art community of Woodstock, VT. Calv can occasionally be seen on Church Street in Burlington, VT, busking much in the way Moondog, aka the Viking of Sixth Avenue, had done in NYC during the '50s and '60s. ...
Jose Castro, Leading Mexican Music Producer And Composer, Now A Leading Force In The Music And Video Game Industries
In a world where music and gaming converge, one artist has emerged as the top of the field. Jose Castro, the multi-faceted music producer, engineer, and composer from Mexico has cemented his position in the music and video game industries in Mexico and the United States. The most famous Mexican musician to make his mark on ...
Mexican Composer And Producer Jose Castro Is Set To Make Waves In The United States
In an exciting development that will undoubtedly reverberate through the music and video game industries, Mexican composer and music producer Jose Castro is poised to make a resounding impact on the music and video game industries in the United States, having accepted leading positions at some of the industry’s most-recognized production companies, including Silver Gun Records, ...
Luciano Troja: Second Earl Zindars Tribute
Fans of pianist Bill Evans know that one of his favorite composers was Earl Zindars. The American songwriter's work recorded by Evans includes Elsa, How My Heart Sings, Mother of Earl, Lullaby for Helene, Quiet Light and Sareen Jurer. Today, one of the most exquisite interpreters of Zindars' music is Italian pianist Luciano Troja (above). Luciano ...
Backgrounder: Grant Green, Gooden's Corner
If you're new to Grant Green and want to really get a sense of why the guitarist was so special, this week's Backgrounder is for you. Recorded in December 1961, Gooden's Corner was among a bunch of Blue Note albums by Green that weren't released soon after they were recorded. In this album's case, the album ...
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