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The Jazz Session #117: Eldar
Pianist Eldar came onto the jazz scene as a child prodigy. Now in his early 20s, Eldar is expanding his repertoire as a composer and improviser. His new album is Virtue (Sony Masterworks Jazz, 2009). In this wide-ranging interview, Eldar talks about making music relevant to the present day; the nature of the jazz audience; and ...
EM Come Home Tour ... Call Spielberg! Elliott Murphy--the Extra Musical Man. (Opening Act for Four Dates: Jann Klose)
He won't be alone, and he won't be afraid, but we want Elliott Murphy to come home. And he will this December. Elliott Murphy, the man who could have written a book but chose rock and roll instead is coming home to play. Elliott Murphy, who “remains the poet laureate of rock and roll," says Blurtonline's ...
BT3 Brings Radical Guitar Pyrotechnics & Hard Jazz/Funk Grooves to Rose Live Music -- Thursday, December 17th @ 9PM
From a lifetime of breaking boundaries, leading an award-winning, DC-based hip-hop/fusion band, Miscellaneous Flux, and collaborating with numerous musical pioneers, guitarist Ben Tyree, at last, steps forward with his own ground-breaking, improvisational, sci-fi/jazz/funk trio project, BT3. On Thursday, December 17th at 9pm, Tyree will present BT3 at Rose Live Music (345 Grand St - btwn Havemeyer ...
Which is Which, the New Release by Baritone Saxophone Trio Reed's Bass Drum
Reed's Bass Drum is a Brooklyn based jazz collective focused on composing music as dialogue for baritone saxophone, bass and drums. “I originally organized the trio as a workshop for compositions that simultaneously embrace the spectral range of baritone saxophone and bass, and are built around melodies that transcend the trio sound and become collective musical ...
The Jazz Session #116: Wayne Wallace
Trombonist Wayne Wallace brings a lifetime of jazz, R&B and latin playing together on his new latin jazz CD, Bien, Bien! (Patois Records, 2009). In this interview, Wallace talks about his introduction to latin music and why it spoke to him; his years as a semi-pro soccer player and how that helped him navigate the communities ...
AllAboutJazz-New York December 2009 Issue Now Available!
Of the many laudable qualities of jazz, possibly its most notable is a courage to explore boundaries. Born out of its original free spirit and now supported by a knowledgeable (if lamentably small) fan base, modern jazz musicians can inhabit multiple sub-genres and flavor their work with a number of outside influences, all without being explicitly ...
Konnex Records
by Celeste Sunderland
One night in the early '70s, saxophonist Trevor Watts and drummer John Stevens were playing a concert in West Berlin. After the show, a tall, elegant, German man by the name of Manfred Schiek asked if he could buy one of their records. But they didn't have one. “There was an oil crisis at the time ...
Sickle Cell Anemia Fund Raiser Today in Buffalo
Ron Walker, Recording artist, producer you name it, and all around nice guy has been working to bring awareness to the sickle cell research for years. His company RMVP combined forces with Grand Slam Promotions to bring a quality product in a party atmosphere with class. Earlier this year August 2009 they produced a concert at ...
The Jazz Session #115: Paquito D'Rivera
Paquito D'Rivera is equally at home in the jazz and classical worlds, a fact he showcased during his performance at the 2009 Tanglewood Jazz Festival. In this interview, D'Rivera talks about several of the pieces he performed that night: Conversations With Cachao and The Panamericana Suite. He also discusses “Fiddle Dreams," a rare commission from the ...
Amina Claudine Myers: From Mozart to Miles and Beyond
by Kurt Gottschalk
Composer, pianist and singer Amina Claudine Myers is a part of the first generation of the famed Chicago collective the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Coming north from her native Blackwell, Arkansas, she was an unusual presence in the organization--not just as one of the few female members, but as a singer and ...
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