Results for "Richie Cole"

Guitarist Vic Juris Interviewed at AAJ

July 28, 2009

Vic Juris is one of the premier jazz guitarists in the business today. Perhaps less known than some of his peers, he is nevertheless admired by all of them and has accumulated, since his emergence on the scene in the 1970s, an impressive portfolio of live performances and recordings. His international career has included associations with ...

Nathan Eklund: Trip To The Casbah

by Jerry D'Souza
May 10, 2009

Nathan Eklund is based in New York City, where he leads two bands: the Nathan Eklund Group and the Nathan Eklund Quintet. This gives him the leeway to cast his music in different streams and to interpret it in the manner that suits his compositions. Eklund has also been part of projects by Craig Yaremko, Eddie ...

Phil Woods: Philology

by George Kanzler
May 2, 2009

When pianist Jim McNeely replaced Hal Galper in the Phil Woods Quintet in 1990 it was the current winner--repeating in 1991--of the Downbeat Readers Poll as top jazz small group. But, as McNeely remembers, his first days with the alto saxophonist's band included a benefit concert for the local volunteer fire department in Delaware Water Gap, ...

Temecula Valley International Jazz Festival

March 12, 2009

Live Jazz concerts Family Fun, Dixieland, Big Bands, Swing, Straight Ahead... an Art Faire, workshops and more! Take over Old Town Temecula for the 6th Annual Temecula International Jazz Festival July 10-12th. The Southern California Wine Country of Temecula comes alive again this year with Poncho Sanchez, Alex Ligertwood formerly of SANATANA, Kenny Burrell, Richie Cole, ...

"Just a Little Taste," the Debut CD from Denver-Based Trumpeter/Educator Al Hood, Due February 17

January 27, 2009

A masterful trumpeter with a wide range of experience in the jazz, classical, and academic arenas, Al Hood has previously recorded and/or performed with the Phil Collins Big Band, Curtis Fuller, and orchestras led by Ray Charles, Arturo Sandoval, and Richie Cole. He's a longtime member of the eclectic, classically oriented Denver Brass as well as ...

This Could Be the Start of Something Big

Featuring the music of Richie Cole
Duration: 7:09
January 20, 2009

The Man With the Horn

By Richie Cole

Label: Jazz Excursion Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Confirmation; Adios; Penthouse Serenade; New York Afternoon; Peg o' My Heart; Save Your Love for Me; Jeannine; Easy Street; Man with a Horn; Slaughter on Tenth Avenue; Um Ummm.

Richie Cole: The Man With the Horn

by Ken Dryden
August 6, 2008

Richie Cole mislaid the tapes to this 1981 session long ago, finally running across them in his basement while looking for something else a quarter-century later. His working band at the time included Philippine pianist Bobby Enriquez (whom the alto saxophonist gave the nickname “The Wildman" for his frenetic playing upon hearing him for the first ...

Serenata

Featuring the music of Richie Cole
Duration: 6:06
February 29, 2008

Richie Cole: A Wiser But Still Swingin' Soul

by Samuel Chell
July 12, 2007

“Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go." (William Shakespeare) Alto saxophonist Richie Cole is the last of a breed--a fast and competitive musical gunslinger acquiring near-legendary status for his willingness to demonstrate his command of Charlie Parker's bebop language by taking on all comers at any speed--Billy the Kid packing an alto instead of a ...