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Rob Mazurek's São Paulo Underground at Jazz Gallery
by Karl Ackermann
Rob Mazurek's São Paulo Underground and Black Cube SP Jazz Gallery New York, NY April 11, 2015 The Jazz Gallery, in NYC's Flatiron District, provided an intimate and unassuming setting for Rob Mazurek's São Paulo Underground and Black Cube SP performance on April 11. The SPU trio, featuring ...
The United Sates Of Events: America's Top Concert Going Cities By Genre
Ticketing and event platform Eventbrite has released a list of America’s top event-going cities and the United States of Events, a visualization of the event-going trends in America's largest 25 cities. The company leveraged its platform of millions of events to zoom in on attendance themes. Overall Music Ticket Sales 1. Austin2. San Francisco3. ...
Howard McGhee: Howard McGhee West Coast 1945-1947
by Richard J Salvucci
Bebop trumpet pioneer Howard McGhee has undergone a lengthy process of rediscovery and reassessment since his death in 1987. A one-time Downbeat Poll Winner (1947), it's probably not much of an exaggeration to say he had been largely forgotten, even by trumpet players. Yet Gunther Schuller (1989) and Scott DeVeaux (1997) soon published searching and sophisticated ...
Take Five With Mike Brannon
by AAJ Staff
Meet Mike Brannon: Having been born in Atlanta and then lived in North Carolina growing up, those Southern roots were likely to blame when I started playing blues/rock guitar. But I soon discovered Wes Montgomery, Hank Garland, Joe Pass, Tal Farlow and finally Pat Martino. After attending Jackie King's Guitar Conservatory of the Southwest, where ...
Richard Oppenheim: Greenhorn in a Red State
by Hrayr Attarian
Saxophonist Richard Oppenheim's Greenhorn in a Red State is a delightful album with a tight, simmering groove and filled with musically unique twist and turns. Inspired by his relocation to San Antonio from New York and the relative culture shock this entailed the seven originals are witty, nostalgic and restless. The front line of ...
The Four Freshmen: Tradition and Innovation in a New Century
by Richard J Salvucci
The year was 1963. The President of the United States was John F Kennedy. It was late Summer. I was riding back from the Jersey shore, returning from vacation. I was twelve years old. My Dad always had music on, always and everywhere, but especially, in the car, a two-tone 1955 Buick Special. I'm ...
Jazz Crooner Ken Slavin To Make New York Debut At Metropolitan Room On October 31
SAN ANTONIO, TX - The number-one male jazz singer in the home of the Alamo has been entertaining South Texas audiences and recording critically acclaimed CDs for more than 23 years. Now Ken Slavin will bring his unique sound to the Big Apple when he makes his New York City jazz cabaret debut on Thursday, October ...
Riffs And Shouts This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
p>This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band uses simple, familiar riffs to build entire arrangements and tunes—from originals like “Keep Off the Grass” to standards like “Dinah.” Special guest Bob Barnard joins the band on trumpet. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can ...
Irving Berlin’s Music Box
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, guest artists—trumpeter Bob Barnard and singers Nina Ferro and Rebecca Kilgore—interpret both familiar and lesser-known works by Irving Berlin. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can also drop in on a ...
This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Milt, Clark And Doc On The Road In The 30s & 40s
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, jazz legends Clark Terry, Milt Hinton, Doc Cheatham and others tell stories of life on the road. And these jazz greats take to the stage with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in performances recorded live at The Landing. Our show features recordings from the Riverwalk Jazz archive and audiotape courtesy of ...
