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Ada Rovatti: The Green Factor
by Woodrow Wilkins
Italian-born Ada Rovatti possesses talent as both an ensemble player and a bandleader. Versed in several styles of music, the saxophonist brings an eclectic blend of Irish, Celtic, jazz, and a few other flavors to The Green Factor. A scholarship winner from the Berklee College of Music, Rovatti spent time living both in ...
Cindy Bradley: Bloom
by Jeff Winbush
The smooth jazz listing in Wikipedia includes only eight trumpeters/flugelhornists and half of them are artists whose surname starts with the letter “B." The names include Chris Botti, Rick Braun, Randy Brecker and Tom Browne, all of whom have their own style and have left their own mark.It's time for another “B" to break ...
Ada Rovatti: Green Factor
by Dan McClenaghan
If a label is necessary, Italian saxophonist Ada Rovatti--who is now based in New York--could probably be tagged a straight-ahead jazz artist. On her Airbop (Aria Records, 2005), Rovatti showed off a top shelf set of chops along with first rate writing and arranging skills, to go along with a bunch of soul and an energetic ...
Alex Sipiagin: Burning For Jazz
by R.J. DeLuke
The 1980s in the Soviet Union was a time when the role and rule of the Communist Party were being questioned and unmasked by the policy of “glasnost"--less censorship and greater freedom of information--that was emerging. Before glasnost fully took hold, and before U.S. President Ronald Reagan famously told Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down ...
April 2009
by AAJ Staff
Edward SimonEd Simon TrioVillage VanguardNew York City March 1, 2009In any circumstance, it would be worth hitting the Village Vanguard to hear Edward Simon (Mar. 1st), one of the most gifted pianists of our day. But the presence of guest saxophonist Mark Turner--back in undiminished form after a ...
Monterey Jazz Festival Announce 2009 Schedule
The 52nd Monterey Jazz Festival for three days will celebrate the joy of jazz with a variety of legendary performers and visionary new artists in a weekend of jazz, blues, folk, and American song with performances on multiple stages at the Monterey Fairgrounds in bucolic Monterey, California. The Arena/Jimmy Lyons Stage will be the focal point ...
Steve Haines Quintet with Jimmy Cobb: Stickadiboom
by Woodrow Wilkins
With so many jazz artists revisiting standards, it is refreshing when an album like The Steve Haines Quintet's Stickadiboom comes out, featuring all-original music.Bassist Haines directs the Miles Davis Program in Jazz Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has recorded with some major names in jazz, including Branford Marsalis, Peter ...
Ada Rovatti CD Release: "Green Factor"
Green Factor is a unique recording with a melting pot of Irish, Celtic, jazz and fusion influences with strong harmonies and sophisticated arrangements. Green Factor Tracks: The Kerry Dance The Green Factor Oh Corko Mio I Lost My Wisdom Oh Danny Boy The Untold Story Somewhere Over The Rainbow Wild Colonial Boy Peter Pan Your Highness ...
Randy Brecker Quintet Honors Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" at the Kimmel Center
by Victor L. Schermer
Randy BreckerPerelman TheaterThe Kimmel Center for the Performing ArtsPhiladelphia, PAFebruary 7, 2009 Around the time that Miles Davis was recording the iconic album Kind of Blue in 1959, a kid from Philadelphia named Randy Brecker was learning to play trumpet, and not long after that, he entered the firmament ...
Grammy Winner 2009: Jazz
= winner Category 45 Best Contemporary Jazz Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.) Randy In Brasil Randy Brecker [MAMA Records] Floating Point John McLaughlin [Abstract Logix] Cannon Re-Loaded: All-Star Celebration Of Cannonball ...
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