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Lionel Loueke - Clicks His Way into Jazz

March 27, 2008

Guitarist Lionel Loueke has established himself as a world-class sideman playing for both Terence Blanchard and Herbie Hancock. Now as a group leader, Loueke demonstrates his prodigious talents by playing guitar, singing and adding percussive clicks to his singing. JazzCorner.com's Jazz Perspectives producer Reese Erlich discovered that Loueke borrowed the rhythmic clicks from a language in ...

Hacienda Brothers' Chris Gaffney Ill, Fund Will Aid Medical Expenditures

March 26, 2008

TUCSON, AZ - The Hacienda Brothers have some sad and unfortunate news to announce. Chris Gaffney, founding member and lead singer, has just been diagnosed with liver cancer. Gaffney had been recording as recently as January but was taken ill in February. He then began an extensive round of tests that led to the discovery of ...

Essential Cachao Recordings: Part 1, Cachao in Cuba

March 26, 2008

Cachao firmly believed in the importance of history and tradition. He was not a conservative musician - he innovated at several points during his career, taking experimental turns at Cuban music performance. His new directions were always based on his roots though; he valued the history behind his music, and he always respected it. He [...] ...

Nugroove Saxophonist Michael Lington Becomes American Citizen

March 26, 2008

NuGroove Records wishes to congratulate Michael Lington on becoming an American citizen. On March 20, 2008, Michael was sworn in with 6,007 other immigrants in Los Angeles, California. The Danish-born contemporary jazz superstar arrived in the United States in September 1990. “I am extremely proud of my Danish heritage and it will always be a big ...

Lionel Loueke Featured in the New York Times

March 25, 2008

THE NEW YORK TIMES Sunday, March 23, 2008 A Hybridist Jamming With the World By NATE CHINEN LIONEL LOUEKE, a guitarist from the West African country of Benin, was a spellbinding presence at Joe's Pub a couple of months ago as he started into the title ...

Choir Soloist from the Movie "The Color Purple" Sings Jazz

March 24, 2008

She, like the child in Billie Holiday's “God Bless The Child", has got her own. - Kymyarda Croomes/This Week On Okinawa Powerful. Riveting. Sultry. Mere words can only capture the refrain of her awesome talent. Maria Howell is much more. She is the ballad of beauty and elegance. The melodies flowing from the petite vocalist are ...

Emily Remler: A Musical Remembrance

March 24, 2008

Jazz and Religion: The Church of John Coltrane

March 23, 2008

The Saint John Coltrane Church in San Francisco has always been a source of curiosity for Trane fans and jazz lovers who've heard of it, not to mention less-jazz-and-Trane-inclined skeptics sure to offer a cynical “what's that all about" smile. (Crazy jazzheads! A friend who lived in San Francisco for a few years told me that ...

Jazz for the Easter Weekend

March 22, 2008

Marian McPartland at 90

March 21, 2008

By Dan Morgenstern There comes a time when it IS nice to mention a lady's age. Marian McPartland took the plunge in 1998, when she marked her 80th birthday with a concert at New York's Town Hall, a high point of which was the reunion with bassist Bill Crow and drummer Joe Morello, her trio partners ...