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Sam Yahel: Hometown
by J Hunter
Sam Yahel has made the grade. His signature Hammond B3 sound--appearing on both his own work and on recordings by Joshua Redman, Bill Frisell, and Norah Jones--has identified him as one of the players that will take Jimmy Smith's favorite instrument deep into the 21st century. So what does Yahel do on Hometown, his fifth disc ...
Dinner Concerts Returning to Minton's Playhouse
The Uptown Lounge at Minton's Playhouse will return to serving food at selected performances beginning in July. The first dinner performance takes place on Sunday, July 12. Pianist Paul “Spazzy" Winston brings his trio--featuring bassist Michael Logan and drummer George Gray--to perform a tribute to some of the greatest artists who have played at Minton's, including ...
Bobby Broom: Plays For Monk
by Mark Corroto
Monk lives! Perhaps it can be said that Thelonious Monk has had many lives. Ever since the unique pianist established his repertoire in the 1940s and '50s musicians have, probably beginning with saxophonist Steve Lacy, taken up the task of covering the now infamous music. With Plays for Monk, guitarist Bobby Broom delivers one of the ...
Violinist Tracy Silverman & Eclectica Release "Streaming Video Soul" CD on Artistshare
Super-funky, remarkably flexible and wide open to the moment, the aptly named Eclectica captures magic on the fly on Streaming Video Soul, its adventurous ArtistShare debut. Comprised of electric 6-string violinist-vocalist Tracy Silverman, promising young electric bassist Kyle Whalum (son of renowned jazz saxophonist Kirk Whalum) and 5–time Grammy Award winning drummer, inventor and visionary Roy ...
The Making of Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense
by Eric Benson
On an August morning in 1958, a 33-year-old photographer named Art Kane gathered 57 jazz musicians together on the steps of a Harlem brownstone. The resulting picture, known as “A Great Day in Harlem," appeared in the January 1959 issue of Esquire and has become the most famous image in jazz history. The photograph lacks the ...
Bobby Broom: Plays for Monk
by John Barron
Chicago-based guitarist Bobby Broom pays tribute to jazz icon Thelonious Monk on Plays For Monk, a fresh take on eight of the late pianist's compositions, along with a couple of standards associated with Monk's repertoire. Joining Broom for his third release on Seattle's Origin Records are his long time trio mates, bassist Dennis Carroll and drummer ...
Steven Bernstein / Marcus Rojas / Kresten Osgood: Tattoos and Mushrooms
by Chris Mosey
The line-up of slide trumpet, tuba and drums is, to say the least, somewhat unusual in jazz. As is the choice of Hank Williams' “So Lonesome I Could Cry" as a vehicle for improvisation. On Tattoos and Mushrooms, trumpeter Steven Bernstein, tubaist Marcus Rojas and drummer Kresten Osgood go boldly into aural regions where no man ...
Nathan Davis: The Best of Nathan Davis '65-'76
by Clifford Allen
Nathan Davis The Best of Nathan Davis '65-'76 Jazzman 2009 The concept of a “Best Of" album seems like it should be set aside for those musicians who have entered the popular consciousness to the degree that a sampler disc would be an easy sell. In jazz, canonical ...
Antonio Ciacca: Bringing People Together Through Swing
by John Barron
Antonio Ciacca knows a thing or two about multi-tasking. The New York-based pianist is a tireless statesman of jazz, composing music for his own small groups, arranging for various big bands and working as Director of Programming for Jazz at Lincoln Center. Adding to all of this, Ciacca and his wife are busy raising five children ...
"A Swingin' Affair" Outshines Its Name
by Jack Bowers
With an appreciative bow and genial tip of the hat to the late Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra, the Los Angeles Jazz Institute named its semi-annual big-band soiree May 21-24 at the Sheraton LAX Four Points Hotel “A Swingin' Affair." Was the event able to live up to its name? In the immortal words of ...
