Results for "Sumi Tonooka"

Alchemy Sound Project: Further Explorations

by Neri Pollastri
May 3, 2017

Un settetto di ottimi musicisti provenienti dalle più diverse esperienze, per sviluppare cooperativamente un repertorio che unisca il jazz con la musica da camera: questo è l'Alchemy Sound Project, qui al debutto disccografico. In realtà la formazione originale è un quintetto, singolarmente -ed è una buona notizia -compsoto da tre donne e due uomini, ...

Firebird (Single Release) By Kansas City-Based Saxophonist/Composer Christopher Burnett

September 2, 2014

Kansas City, MO: BurnettMusic.com and the Artists Recording Collective LLC are pleased to present “Firebird" (single release) ARC-2581 from the forthcoming album by Christopher L. Burnett, BMI. “Firebird”, the first single, was released on Monday, September 1st exclusively at iTunes, Amazon Music, Google Play and CD Baby. The CD Baby download features the highly recommended MP3 ...

Marcus Hampton Releases Debut On ARC

January 3, 2014

Veteran trumpet player and composer Marcus Hampton, who is a nephew of Slide Hampton and a cousin of Lionel Hampton, has just released his debut recording that features 12 of his jazz originals. The title of his release is Hampton House of Jazz (ARC-2543). The title comes from the jazz club that Hampton and his family ...

Phantom Carousel

Featuring the music of Sumi Tonooka
Duration: 3:12
January 14, 2013

NOW: Solo Live at the Howland Cultural Center

By Sumi Tonooka

Label: ARC - Artists Recording Collective
Released: 2012
Track listing: CD1: I Hear A Rhapsody; Heaven; I'm Old Fashioned; Mary Lou Williams Medley (Baby Man/Waltz Boogie/Dirge Blues); Evidence; All of You. CD2: Phantom Carousel; Soujourn 1 and Uganda; Moroccan Daze; Mingus Mood; At Home; I'm Confessin'.

Artists Recording Collective Label Celebrates 5-year Anniversary

December 13, 2012

The Artists Recording Collective celebrated its 5th anniversary on Pearl Harbor Day this month. Also, commonly known as ARC, the company is a registered Kansas Limited Liability Company (LLC) in good standing that is based in the scenic Kansas City metropolitan area at Leavenworth. ARC is simply a recording label and low intensity marketing platform that ...

Sumi Tonooka: Now - Solo Live at the Howland Cultural Center

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 27, 2012

Ascoltando Sumi Tonooka in questo intenso concerto in piano solo, ci si interroga per quali ragioni jazzisti di tale valore restino ampiamente sottovalutati e in gran parte sconosciuti. Sumi ha 56 anni ed ha già svolto quelle esperienze che potevano darle notorietà. Nata a Filadelfia, dopo aver studiato pianoforte con Margaret Chaloff (la madre di Serge) ...

Sumi Tonooka: NOW: Solo Live at the Howland Cultural Center

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
July 16, 2012

There are some jazz players who suffer an unusually large gap between their credentials and their renown. Pianist Sumi Tonooka is a case in point. She studied with Mary Lou Williams, made her recording début with Detroit trumpeter Marcus Belgrave (of Motown/Tribe Records fame), and was part of Philly Joe Jones's band. Two especially strong albums--Long ...

Virginia Mayhew Quartet: Mary Lou Williams: The Next 100 Years

by Dan McClenaghan
July 10, 2012

Saxophonist Virginia Mayhew is a rare forward-looking jazz artist who doesn't mind looking back. She leads the Duke Ellington Legacy, responsible for the superb Thank You Uncle Edward (Renma Recordings, 2007) and Single Pedal of a Rose (Renma Recordings, 2012). Now she honors Mary Lou Williams (1910-1983) in this tribute to the groundbreaking pianist/composer/arranger's one hundredth ...

Sumi Tonooka: Now

by Dan McClenaghan
June 19, 2012

Sumi Tonooka is a resourceful jazz pianist who, along with alto saxophonist Chris Burnett and tenor saxophonist Erica Lindsay, started the Artists Recording Collective, offering up Initiation (2010), an excellent quartet outing which Tonooka co-led with Lindsay, and a more intimate Tonooka-led trio effort, Long Ago Today (2008). A former student of piano legend Mary Lou ...