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Vocalist Staci Griesbach Launches 'Songbook Singles' Series Celebrating 20th Century Composers From Great American Songbook And Beyond
New Series Launches with 1951 Academy Award-Nominated Best Original Song “A Kiss To Build A Dream On” & 1961 Academy Award-Winning Best Original Song “Moon River.” Now Available on Bandcamp & Coming to All Digital & Streaming Platforms on June 25, 2021. Known for reimagining the Great American Songbook of country music, Los Angeles-based vocalist Staci ...
Marty Napoleon Centennial
You'd think that a guy who played piano as impressively as the late Marty Napoleon would be an aloof character. After all, Marty was the guy who replaced Earl “Fatha" Hines in Louis Armstrong's All Stars in 1952. That alone would have earned him the right to be a cool, reserved cat. But that wasn't Marty. ...
Shambhu Announces A New Single 'Infinite Eyes' Due May 20th
Acclaimed jazz/new age guitarist Shambhu announces a second single, 'Infinite Eyes,' from his upcoming EP, Heart Awakening. Releasing May 20th, “Infinite Eyes” features pianist Geoffrey Menin and guitarist Matteo Palmer. Reviewer Kathy Parsons (Mainly Piano) described “Infinite Eyes" as"stellar...soothing and relaxing yet has plenty of substance to sink your musical teeth into." Steve Sheppard (OWM Radio) ...
Record Store Day 2021 Jazz Releases
Since its inception in 2007, Record Store Day has become an important event for record collectors around the world. Every year, limited edition runs of albums from a variety of different genres hit the shelves, and jazz is no exception. There are two 2021 Record Store Day drops planned: one on June 12 and the other ...
Mike Neer: Keepin' It Real
When I last posted on Mike Neer in 2016, he had just released an album called Steelonious, a tribute album to Thelonious Monk performed on the lap steel guitar. What wouldn't seem like a good fit turned out to be a happy marriage. Monk interpreted by Mike on a lap steel guitar gave the music enormous ...
Nara Leão: Muse of the Bossa Nova
Nara Leão (pronounced LEE-yay-yo) was a celebrated Brazilian bossa nova and Tropicália pop singer in the 1960s. Her father had given her a guitar at age 12, and as a teenager in the late 1950s, she became friends with many of the singer-songwriters who were pioneering the bossa nova. The list included including Roberto Menescal, Carlos ...
Creed Taylor: Shades of Green
Today is Creed Taylor's birthday. He's 92. The fabled producer had a significant influence over the direction of jazz from the mid-1950s on. His first job was at Bethlehem Records in New York in the summer of 1954, attracting talent and overseeing the recording of jazz singers and instrumentalists on the East Coast. Creed's vision was ...
Glimmers of hope, turning a corner
This 2021 edition of Jazz Appreciation Month underscored the notion that we can’t take the music or its makers for granted. Especially after the past year: clubs shuttered temporarily or permanently, or forced to present music to their supporters virtually via webcasts because of limited or no live audiences. Musicians without steady gigs or, in some ...
Paris Washboard: Superswing
Parisians are crazy about three things: Food, love and syncopation. I've always felt that the city's fascination with the latter has much to do with its romanticized impression of the years before World War II. But Paris's history with syncopation goes back even further. European classical modernists came under its influence at the start of the ...
Tony Adamo Receives Permission To Rename And Write Lyrics To A Future Sun Ra Song
Tony Adamo wrote about and released music on Eddie Harris, B.B. King, Eddie Henderson, Art Blakey, James Brown, Mark Murphy, Eddie Gale, Jack Kerouac, and Sun Ra, the song entitled “Sun Ra Goes to Mars.” The Eddie Harris estate gave Adamo permission to write spoken word to his “Listen Here.” Adamo renamed it “Listen Here Listen ...
