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Article: Live Review

Rossano Sportiello Trio at The Jazz Corner

by Martin McFie
January 20, 2018

Rossano Sportiello Trio The Jazz Corner Hilton Head Island, SC December 22, 2017 Rossano Sportiello from Milan showed the elegance and deft touch of a concert pianist Friday, December 22nd at the Jazz Corner on Hilton Head Island. He plays softly, modulating the volume only when the piece ...

Article: Profile

Ranky Tanky: African Rhythms Preserved

by Martin McFie
January 18, 2018

Liberia, the West African country named for freedom, was partly financed by wealthy Americans as a haven for people who escaped enslavement. Its capital Monrovia was named for US President Monroe. The Gola (also called Gula) tribe are indigenous to the northern borderlands of Liberia with Sierra Leone. The Gola people are farmers who weave swamp ...

Article: Live Review

Herbie Hancock at the Gaillard Center Music Hall

by Rob Rosenblum
October 23, 2017

Herbie Hancock Quartet Galliard Music Hall Charleston, SC October 18, 2017 Keyboardist and jazz legend, Herbie Hancock sat down at his synthesizer and immediately filled the Galliard Center Music Hall in Charleston, South Carolina on October 18th with a carpet of electronic sound, setting the stage for a panoply of ever ...

Article: Album Review

Mings And Craig: Day By Day

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by Rob Rosenblum
January 16, 2017

Day By Day by the group Mings and Craig consisting of guitarists Monty Craig and Jim Mings is a quiet and unassuming guitar CD by two good friends and respected musicians from the north western part of South Carolina area near Greenville. Both musicians are educators and long time friends. Craig teaches at Clemson ...

Article: Live Review

Houston Person at Kiawah Island, South Carolina

by Rob Rosenblum
January 10, 2017

Houston Person Quartet Turtle Point Club House Kiawah Island Concert Series Kiawah Island January 8, 2017 No rough edges, no experimentation, music just as smooth as chocolate pudding. A perfectly molded musical travelogue down memory lane. Not a formula for a grand performance, but somehow tenor saxophonist Houston Person makes ...

Article: Live Review

Quentin Baxter Quintet at Simons Center Recital Hall

by Rob Rosenblum
December 6, 2016

Quentin Baxter Quintet Simons Center Recital Hall Charleston, SC December 5, 2016 Pianist Tommy Gill was a much-beloved member of the Charleston, South Carolina jazz community and a significant influence on percussionist, Quentin Baxter. Gill's untimely death in August of 2014 at the age of 49 left a hole in the ...

Article: Jazz Near Me

Ruby Lee's Dishes up Blues, Jazz and Soul Food

by Gloria Krolak
February 7, 2016

Three-year-old Ruby Lee's, on the quieter north end of Hilton Head Island, SC, serves up the blues, jazz and soul food. That mix helps set the venue apart from more than 300 restaurants vying for the patronage of the resort town's 39,000 residents and some 2.5 million annual visitors. Proud matriarch and head chef ...

Article: Live Review

Bill Frisell Trio at Peace Center

by Mark Sullivan
November 25, 2015

Bill Frisell Trio Peace Center Greenville, SC November 22, 2015 The promotional description for this Bill Frisell Trio show promised “music from Frisell's entire, and quite versatile, repertoire." A bold claim, given the guitarist's huge, varied discography, which ranges from experimental jazz with John Zorn to reinterpretations of pop songs. ...

News: Recording

Chris Vadala & Rick Whitehead release "Eastern Standard Time" on Art Of Life Records

April 26, 2015

Following up on his debut release Out of the Shadows, Art of Life Records is pleased to present, “Eastern Standard Time", a new quartet recording by Chris Vadala and guitarist Rick Whitehead featuring Barry Hart on drums and John Previti on acoustic bass. Recorded at Bias Studios in Springfield, Virginia in January of 2015, “Eastern Standard ...

Article: Live Review

Jeff Sipe Trio at Independent Public Alehouse

by Mark Sullivan
March 20, 2015

Jeff Sipe Trio Featuring Mike Seal And Taylor Lee Independent Public Alehouse Greenville, SC March 5, 2015 The Jeff Sipe Trio began their set with a surprising cover version of Weather Report's “Black Market." Not a tune that could be easily rearranged for a guitar/bass/drums trio, but they made it ...