Results for "Ron Carter"

Little Waltz

Featuring the music of Ron Carter
Duration: 7:49
August 18, 2009

Take Five With Erik Applegate

by AAJ Staff
August 16, 2009

Meet Erik Applegate: Erik Applegate has been called “a top-notch acoustic bass performer" (Jazzreview.com), and he has appeared with the Bob Mintzer Big Band, Nnenna Freelon, Milt Jackson, Jeff Coffin, Eddie Daniels, Ingrid Jensen, George Garzone, Tom Harrell, Marlena Shaw, and others. He toured with James Williams and in a trio with Harold Mabern and Ed ...

J.D. Allen: Shine!

by Wilbur MacKenzie
August 4, 2009

Shine! is the second Sunnyside release by saxophonist JD Allen and his trio with bassist Gregg August and drummer Rudy Royston. A Detroit native, Allen has been based in New York for quite a few years now, working with bassist Ron Carter, saxophonist David Murray, trumpeter Lester Bowie and drummers Jack DeJohnette and Cindy Blackman.

Murcia in Spain to Rock with Jazz, Blues and World Music

June 30, 2009

This summer music lovers should head for a quiet region on Spain's Mediterranean coast. Murcia will be filled with the sound of music - jazz, blues, world and rock - from not one, but two major festivals. Kicking off tomorrow, the 12th San Javier International Jazz Festival will feature 16 concerts with music greats like John ...

Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber: Making Love to the Dark Ages

by Chris M. Slawecki
June 12, 2009

Composer Greg Tate leads Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber through melodic and harmonic structures, using a unique repertoire of physical gestures and expressions known not as conducting but as conduction. Tate christened this ensemble to honor the communal exploratory nature of Sun Ra's Arkestra and the Wu Tang Clan's 36 Chambers: “I wanted to ...

HDtracks Releases Free "Jazz & Blues Experience" Album in a CD-Quality Download

June 11, 2009

New York, NY -- HDtracks, the world’s pre-eminent high-resolution music downloading Website, offering spectacular CD and DVD audio quality downloads, announces the release of the FREE album Jazz & Blues Experience, available for download at hdtracks.com. Jazz & Blues Experience is a seven-track odyssey of music of some of today’s finest artists. Pioneered by David and ...

World-ly, and Otherworldly, Beats From the Inside Out

by Chris M. Slawecki
June 11, 2009

Leonardo E. M. Cioglia Contos Quizamba Music 2008 The following words probably do Brazilian bassist, composer and bandleader Leonardo E. M. Cioglia no favors, because it lays the weighty burden of expectation upon him and his group of young musicians. But no other words say precisely this: Contos showcases an ...

IDST: Seven Dials

by Chris May
June 6, 2009

As the youthful sextet IDST demonstrates, exciting developments in British jazz are not confined to London, nor do all British jazz musicians succumb to the lure of the capital (or not immediately anyway). IDST was formed in 2007 in the Yorkshire city of Leeds in northern England, where it continues to be based, and its players ...

Freddie Hubbard: Without a Song: Live in Europe 1969

by Greg Thomas
June 4, 2009

Do you listen to the music of great jazz artists differently once they pass away? This newly-issued live date, with bassist Ron Carter, drummer Louis Hayes and the late pianist Sir Roland Hanna, may elicit nostalgia and sadness mixed with a spirit of wonder and startled appreciation of the recently departed trumpet master Freddie Hubbard.

Julie Coryell – Jazz Author, Manager, Singer

May 28, 2009

By Bill Siegel Julie Coryell – jazz author, manager, singer, songwriter, actress, and more – passed away unexpectedly on May 10, at St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie, NY. She was 61 years old, and had been living at the Victory Lake Nursing Home in Hyde Park, NY. She collaborated with award-winning photographer Laura Friedman on the ...