Results for "Rudy Royston"

Big Ears Festival 2025

by Mark Sullivan
April 8, 2025

Big Ears Festival Knoxville, TN March 27-30, 2025 This year's festival again featured several spotlighted events (but none of them required special ticketing, as was tried last year). “Across the Horizon" was a series of concerts combining Americana and ambient music, curated by Bob Holmes and the band SUSS. “Age ...

Willie Morris: Unbound Inner

by David A. Orthmann
March 27, 2025

Willie Morris's third release as a leader for Posi-Tone opens with the haunting “Flyover Country," which only includes the leader's tenor saxophone and pianist Jon Davis. Combining improvisation and Morris's earnest, subdued theme, the two-minute 25-second gem doesn't declare any particular stylistic allegiance, nor does it clamor for attention. Instead, Morris's and Davis's partnership evokes a ...

Posi-Tone Swingtet: In Jazz We Trust

by Joshua Weiner
March 14, 2025

The Posi-Tone Records label, founded and run by producer Marc Free and engineer Nick O'Toole, celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2025. Given the many upheavals in the music business since 1995--the rise of file sharing, the introduction of iTunes, iPod, and iPhone, the decline of the compact disc concomitant with the rise of streaming services, the ...

Posi-Tone Swingtet: In Jazz We Trust

by Dan Bilawsky
March 4, 2025

In the mid-'90s, when Posi-Tone released its first album, the recording industry landscape was completely different than it is today. Small independent labels were not the norm, every artist did not have their own imprint and Napster had yet to arrive to kick off the access revolution. It was, quite simply, a different world--one where label ...

Out To Dinner

Out To Dinner is another collective group to stem from producer Marc Free’s fertile mind, and is by far the boldest. A salute to the pioneering spirit of Alfred Lion and a step into the unknown. This group taps into an instrumental format and open-minded approach associated with expansive early ‘60s Blue Note releases like Out To Lunch, One Step Beyond, Destination…Out!, & Evolution.

Willie Morris: Unbound Inner

by Willie Morris
February 27, 2025

This album is a culmination of much more than just the compositions, the solos, or the time spent in the studio. It is the coming together of many years of life experience between the musicians featured, the producers, the engineers, and hopefully the listeners. It is a small piece added to an ongoing stream of conscious ...

Lucky All Along

By Lisa Hilton

Label: Ruby Slippers Productions
Released: 2024
Track listing: Little Beach Mornings; All Blues; Prophesies & Predictions; Hollywood Moment; And Some Blues; Escapist Fantasy; See You Again; Starry, Starry Eyes; Lucky All Along; Big Sur Views; Snow On The Beach.

Radio Flyer

By JD Allen

Label: Savant Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: This; The Revelator; Know Dogs Allowed; Boom-Bap; Beeyondsay; Mx. Fairweather; The Knight Of Swords; See It, Say It, Sorted.

Orchestras

By Bill Frisell

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2024
Track listing:
Disc 1
Nocturne Vulgaire; Lush Life; Doom; Rag; Throughout; Electricity; Sweet Rain; Richter 858, No.7; Beautiful Dreamer. 03:50 [8]
Disc 2
Lookout for Hope; Levees; Strange Meeting; Doom; Electricity; Monica Jane; We Shall Overcome.
Disc 3
Be That as It May; Drum Solo; Moon River; Lotus Blossom; Monroe; A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing; What the World Needs Now Is Love.

Measured Response

By Josh Lawrence

Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Where Do We Go?; A Tragic Tango Comedy; Song For The Whales; Every Choice Comes With An Invoice; Stony Mountain Mist; Wise One; Between The Lakes; Flip On A Drip; Prelude To A Farewell (For Barry Harris); Texas Tenor.