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Todd Sickafoose, Stewart Copeland, Amaury Faye, Mick Rossi & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
The much awaited return of Todd Sickafoose graces our playlist together with other gems ranging from the gorgeous to the adventurous, with a couple of surprising contributions from musicians whose relationship with jazz has been notoriously... ambivalent, Frank Zappa and Stewart Copeland.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & ...
Todd Sickafoose: Future Flora
by Mike Jacobs
Perhaps currently better known for his long-standing gig with singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco and his recent TONY/GRAMMY-winning work on the Broadway musical “Hadestown," Todd Sickafoose's third album, Tiny Resistors (Cryptogramophone, 2008) is something that should not be left to fly under the radar. As its opener “Future Flora" shows, the album displays Sickafoose's unique ability as a ...
Time to 1.5 (Soundtrack to Threshold Season 4)
Label: Secret Hatch Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Time to 1.5; Holocene; Floating Brick Wall; Upward; Street Change; Carbon; Hidden Effect; Unfolding; The Vastness of Everything Before; 0.04
Percent; Ice Core; Rustle; Co-op in our Blood; Shovel Ready; Water Table; Tracking Song; Biome.
Will Bernard Finds His Own Path To Jazz Career
by Jim Trageser
Guitarist Will Bernard doesn't consider himself a “regular" jazz player. He says this occurred to him when he was being asked to play on some recording sessions in New York. “In New York, I've been doing some recording—I did three records for PosiTone, which is more of a jazz label. They're actually ...
Allison Miller and Friends
by Russell Perry
For over a decade, drummer Allison Miller has led and been the principal composer for the band Boom Tic Boom. The group was launched in 2010 as a quartet with Jenny Scheinman on violin, Myra Melford on piano, and Todd Sickafoose on bass, but was augmented to a sextet more recently with the addition of virtuosic ...
Allison Miller: Driving the Balance
by John Pietaro
Allison Miller sits at the vintage Camco drumkit in her Brooklyn home, playing post-bop over a rolling samba. Within the shimmer of an age-darkened cymbal, she switches from sticks to brushes, filling the room with the shush of summer rain, then a sudden hailstorm as her arms, aerial, traverse snare, tom-toms and cymbals in a blurring, ...
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Todd Sickafoose
Todd Sickafoose is a Tony and Grammy award-winning composer, producer, arranger, orchestrator, bandleader and double bassist. He has performed on hundreds of recordings, toured internationally, appeared at music venues and festivals from Carnegie Hall to New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and played on national television and radio programs including the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with Conan O’Brien, The Artists Den, and NPR’s Mountain Stage. Known as a musical cross-breeder who stretches across genres, Sickafoose has been described by the San Francisco Chronicle as “a captivating improviser, imaginative composer, and master of collaboration”.
2020 Winter JazzFest Marathons: A Survival Guide
by Ludovico Granvassu
Believe it or not, it is that time of the year again! The holidaze are barely over and a new edition of Winter JazzFest is upon us. Knowing a jazz marathon is the perfect antidote to the holiday shopping and social marathons, producer Brice Rosenbloom and his cohorts have put together a program of gargantuan proportions. ...
Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom: Glitter Wolf
by Jennifer DeMeritt
Some jazz musicians dare you to follow them to the rarefied realm of their imagination, where you might discover paradise, or you might get lost in a forest of abstraction. Allison Miller says, “Hey, let's take a ride!" then revs the engine and takes you on a grand tour of a carnival of sounds. A masterful ...
Moaning, Whistling, Sighing and Other Jazz Sounds
by Ludovico Granvassu
Jazz--the quintessential open door genre--has a capacity to beautifully integrate all kinds of sources. From music from faraway places to compositions written and instruments used for completely different genres. When it comes to the human voice, jazz has shown an uncanny openness to its endless possibilities finding a musical role for all sorts of non verbal ...
