Results for "Philip Norris"

Ulysses Owens, Jr. and Generation Y: A New Beat

by Jack Bowers
March 19, 2024

The rhythms presented on award-winning drummer Ulysses Owens Jr.'s latest album are not exactly A New Beat, as they have been heard in various configurations for at least eighty years or more, but they do provide a plausible indication of the path that Art Blakey's legendary Jazz Messengers would presumably have followed had Blakey lived into ...

Joshua Redman Group At Gates Concert Hall

by Steven Roby
March 6, 2024

Joshua Redman Group Gates Concert Hall Denver, Colorado March 1, 2024 A luminary of contemporary jazz, Joshua Redman graced Gates Concert Hall last Friday with his stellar group featuring Paul Cornish (piano), Philip Norris (bass), Nazir Ebo (drums), and the outstanding vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa. The 100-minute sold-out performance relied ...

Veronica Swift

By Veronica Swift

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: I Am What I Am; Closer; Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me; The Show Must Go On; I'm Always Chasing Rainbows; In the Moonlight; Severed Heads; Je Veux Vivre; Chega de Saudade; Keep Yourself Alive

Send for Me

By Catherine Russell

Label: Dot Time Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Did I Remember; Send for Me; At the Swing Cats' Ball; Make It Last; Going Back to New Orleans; If I Could Be with You; You Can Fly High; East of the Sun (and West of the Moon); In the Night; You Stepped Out of a Dream; Blue and Sentimental; Sticks and Stones; Million Dollar Smile.

Meet Trumpeter Anthony Hervey

by Sanford Josephson
April 4, 2022

Anthony Hervey was in the sixth grade when he discovered jazz. “My mother encouraged me to play trumpet because my grandfather played trumpet," he said. “I was very reluctant to do so, but she convinced me to do it and said I could quit after a year if I wanted to." Then, Hervey was ...

Veronica Swift at the Newman Center

by Geoff Anderson
November 24, 2021

Veronica Swift Newman Center Denver, CO November 19, 2021 I don't know about you, but I love to watch pigeonholes explode. Not with pigeons in them of course, that would be too messy. No, the fun stuff is when those small boxes that the human mind loves to construct turn out ...

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Ulysses Owens Jr. At The Jazz Corner

by Martin McFie
February 24, 2019

Ulysses Owens Jr.The Jazz Corner Songs of Love Hilton Head Island, South CarolinaFebruary 15-16, 2019 It was a pleasure to hear a group of skillful, energetic, and highly-educated young musicians at Hilton Head Island's Jazz Corner, led by master musician and two-time Grammy winner (including one for his work with ...

Justin Varnes & Ulysses Owens Jr at The Jazz Corner

by Martin McFie
October 6, 2018

Justin Varnes / Ulysses Owens Jr. The Jazz Corner Hilton Head Island, SC September 21-22, 2018 The special relationship between jazz drummers and bass players could never have been more obvious than on two consecutive weekends at The Jazz Corner in September 2018. Holding down the rhythm and bass line together, ...