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The Avatar Sessions: The Music Of Tim Hagans
Label: Fuzzy Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: Buckeyes; Boo; Box Of Cannoli; Here With Me; Palt Seanuts; Rufus At Gilly's; Song For Mirka;
Wayne Escoffery: Uptown
by Woodrow Wilkins
Bob Mintzer, Kirk Whalum and Ada Rovatti are just a few of today's stunning tenor sax players. Wayne Escoffery can be added to their company. Escoffery, 34, is a native of London who moved to the United States with his mother at an early age. He enjoyed singing, and was a member of the ...
John Geggie / Josh Rager / Paul Meyers: Ottawa, Canada November 28, 2009
by John Kelman
John GeggieGeggie Concert Series: 2009-10, #3 National Arts Centre, Fourth Stage Ottawa, Canada November 28, 2009 For the third in his 2009-10 Geggie Concert Series, Ottawa bassist John Geggie once again demonstrated his astute ability to bring together musicians who have not previously played together, but who share ...
Take Five With Amanda Monaco
by AAJ Staff
Meet Amanda Monaco: Playing guitar has led Amanda Monaco to perform at the Blue Note, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Birdland, Tonic, Joe's Pub, and the JVC Jazz Festival, as well as other venues in the United States and Europe. Amanda has recorded several CDs as both a leader and a sideman, and has ...
Roni Ben-Hur: Fortuna
by J Hunter
The most famous lyric from Charlie Chaplin's bittersweet song “Smile" is, “Smile, though your heart is aching/Smile, even though it's breaking." Roni Ben-Hur knows that methodology, and how: Smile (Motema, 2008), Ben-Hur's benefit disc with fellow guitarist Gene Bertoncini, was originally conceived as a duet with Ben-Hur's longtime bassist Earl May, who died before recording began. ...
Jon Irabagon: The Observer
by John Sharpe
Back in the day this might have been seen as an “In the tradition" statement for someone like saxophonist Jon Irabagon--last heard in freely improvised settings on I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues {Loyal, 2009), with drummer Mike Pride, and the RIDD Quartet's Fiction Avalanche (Clean Feed, 2008), or artful deconstructions of the Blue Note ...
Rising Star Saxophonist Ricky Sweum Interviewed at AAJ
The fog has lifted off of the coast of Seattle with the rise of Origin Records. As the fisherman of jazz today, they've cast their nets and pulled in a catch of fresh, raw and bold talent. Their latest catch: saxophonist Ricky Sweum. Pulling Your Own Strings, which came out in mid-August 2009, has received some ...
Ricky Sweum: String Theory
by Cicily Janus
The fog has lifted off of the coast of Seattle with the rise of Origin Records. As the fisherman of jazz today, they've cast their nets and pulled in a catch of fresh, raw and bold talent. Their latest catch: saxophonist Ricky Sweum.Pulling Your Own Strings, which came out in mid-August 2009, has received ...
Jon Irabagon Releases Concord Jazz Debut - The Observer
The new release from 2008 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition winner Jon Irabagon, The Observer, hits stores this week (CD & digital) via Concord Jazz Records. Irabagon has assembled a dream-team of musicians, including the stellar rhythm section of pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Rufus Reid and drummer {Victor Lewis}}, alongside veteran producer Don Sickler and legendary ...
Jon Irabagon: The Observer
by Troy Collins
Best known as the volatile saxophonist in bassist Moppa Elliott's self proclaimed terrorist be-bop band Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Jon Irabagon has only just begun his career as a solo artist. His bristling duet with drummer Mike Pride, I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues (Loyal Label, 2009) was preceded by Outright! (Innova, 2008), ...
