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Gryce and Byrd's Jazz Lab
In the early 1950s, as the 10-inch LP began rolling out, leaders of jazz recording sessions were given top billing followed by the size of their ensemble. Hence the Miles Davis Quintet, the Thelonious Monk Quartet and the Sonny Clark Trio. As the decade continued, jazz supergroups formed with multiple star soloists. Names were either created ...
Wes Montgomery "In The Beginning" Is 26-Track, 2-CD Rarity Collection 1949-58 On Resonance
RESONANCE RECORDS PRESENTS IN THE BEGINNING BY JAZZ GUITAR ICON WES MONTGOMERY, A 26-TRACK COLLECTION OF RARE AND NEVER-BEFORE-RELEASED TRACKS SPANNING 1949-1958 ONLY THE THIRD ISSUE OF PREDOMINANTLY UNHEARD MONTGOMERY MATERIAL SINCE HIS PASSING IN 1968; INCLUDES COMPLETE, NEWLY DISCOVERED 1955 RECORDING SESSION FOR EPIC RECORDS PRODUCED BY QUINCY JONES In the Beginning due out May ...
Laura Dickinson: One for My Baby: To Frank Sinatra with Love
by Jack Bowers
Invoking the name Frank Sinatra, even in adulation, always presents a challenge, as Ol' Blue Eyes is considered by many aficionados to be the best-ever interpreter of American popular song. Singer Laura Dickinson writes that she “fell in love" with Sinatra as a teen-ager and resolved then to help keep his music and that of the ...
Varèse Sarabande Releases "Keep On Keepin'" On Soundtrack
Co-Produced by Quincy Jones, The Album Features Performances By Clark Terry (With Duke Ellington, The Count Basie Orchestra, Jazz at the Philharmonic All-Stars) and Justin Kauflin With Original Score by Justin Kauflin and Dave Grusin Varèse Sarabande will release the Keep On Keepin’ On—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, digitally and on CD February 24, 2015. The film ...
Paul Jost: The First Thing is Heart
by Chris M. Slawecki
Even for a musician who has been playing and singing since age six, Paul Jost has just come through one exceptional year. First, he released his debut with The Jost Project, Can't Find My Way Home (2013, Dot.Time Records), featuring the leader on vocals, harmonica and guitar, with drummer Charlie Patierno, double bassist Kevin ...
Poncho Sanchez: Heating up Lincoln
By Gabriel Medina Arenas Nebraska's coldest month is usually January and in 2015 that didn't seem to be an exception. That is, until Poncho Sanchez's hot salsa and Latin jazz melted the ice, bringing “gozadera" and joy to The Midwest. This is not just a metaphor, since the weather did get warmer on Thursday, ...
Brian Culbertson Celebrates A Milestone Anniversary “live”
The first live recording from the multi-genre multi-instrumentalist aims to get radio to “Think Free” Los Angeles, CA: Years ago, a young ambitious musician-songwriter-producer emerged from Chicago who went on to architect 27 No. 1 Billboard singles along with a half-dozen albums that debuted at No.1 that changed the status quo with a creative and fresh ...
Herbie Hancock: A Life Of Possibilities
by Chuck Schultz
Herbie Hancock is a world treasure. The following are a review of his memoir Possibilities and an interview. The Book Review During more than a half-century in the public eye, Herbie Hancock has been acclaimed as a jazz pianist and composer and an explorer of new musical forms. He rose to fame ...
Marquis Hill Wins the Thelonious Monk Competition
The winner of the 2014 Thelonious Monk International Trumpet Competition is Marquis Hill. Raised on the south side of Chicago, Mr. Hill, 27, is a veteran of that city’s jazz scene and a product of its institutions—he earned a masters degree in jazz pedagogy from DePaul University and plays in the Chicago Jazz Orchestra. He’s currently ...
