Results for "Ralphe Armstrong"

Bob Holz: Live in New York & L.A.

by Dan Bilawsky
April 21, 2021

While Live in New York & L.A. is a split-scene production crossing coasts, spanning several years and utilizing different personnel lists, it offers a cohesive playlist. Not surprisingly, Bob Holz ties everything together with his kit and charisma. Mixing standards and originals to good effect, this Berklee-trained drummer, who previously worked with everybody from guitarist Larry ...

A Night In Tunisia

April 6, 2021

Album: Live in New York & L.A
By Bob Holz
Label: MVD Audio
Released: 2021
Duration: 05:15

John McLaughlin: Where The Muse Leads

by Mike Jacobs
September 24, 2020

John McLaughlin--Miles Davis protégé. Jazz/rock revolutionary. East-meets-West visionary. Acoustic, electric and electronic guitar maestro. Now elder statesman of jazz--what is there left to say? A lot it seems... As a septuagenarian who was facing debilitating hand issues--and possibly the end of his playing career--he was starting to say his farewells to touring ...

Ralphe Armstrong

HomeBASS

By Ralphe Armstrong

Label: Detroit Music Factory
Released: 2014
Track listing: Intro; National Anthem; So What; Band Intro; Freedom Jazz Dance; Dear Old Stockholm; Birdie; Stormy Monday; Miles We Got To Go.

Bathed in Lightning: John McLaughlin, the 60s and the Emerald Beyond by Colin Harper

by John Kelman
June 12, 2014

Bathed in Lightning: John McLaughlin, the 60s and the Emerald Beyond Colin Harper 480 Pages ISBN: 978-1908279514 Jawbone 2014 Few guitarists in the history of jazz have leapt onto the scene the way John McLaughlin did when the relatively new British expat made two very different appearances on albums ...

Ralphe Armstrong: HomeBASS

by Steve Bryant
June 11, 2014

There must be something in the Detroit water, because the Motor City has probably produced more bass players per capita than any other American city. Not only in sheer numbers and variety, but also in terms of musical style and innovation. While Paul Chambers and Ron Carter would suffice for a locale in terms of civic ...

Michele Ramo: A Cigar & A Scotch

by Edward Blanco
February 11, 2014

Hailing from the Mediterranean fishing town of Mazara, Italy, guitarist/violinist and composer Michele Pugielese-Ramo has been fishing the jazz waters of New York and Detroit for the last twenty-six years. Having recorded countless albums as leader during that time, his most recent endeavor, A Cigar & A Scotch, captures a gifted musician and his World Jazz ...

Detroit Jazz Festival 2013

by Steve Bryant
September 17, 2013

Detroit Jazz FestivalDetroit, MIAugust 30-September 2, 2013You have read the news and heard the stories on radio and TV. Detroit is bankrupt and going into ruin. However, Gretchen Valade definitely doesn't appear to believe the hype, as she managed to fashion the Detroit Jazz Festival (DJF) into one of the largest, most star-studded ...

Belgrade Jazz Festival 2012

by Thomas Conrad
November 13, 2012

Belgrade Jazz FestivalBelgrade, SerbiaOctober 25-28, 2012There are hundreds of jazz festivals around the globe every year, in places like Baku, Azerbaijan, and Sibiu, Romania, and Valletta, Malta. But there may be no more improbable setting for a jazz festival than Belgrade, Serbia.Not that long ago, in the late 1990s, during ...