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Tom Waits: New Studio Album
NEW ALBUM BAD AS ME OUT OCTOBER 25 ON ANTI-RECORDS Bad As Me is Tom Waits' first studio album of all new music in seven years. This pivotal work refines the music that has come before and signals a new direction. Waits, in possibly the finest voice of his career, worked with a veteran team of ...
Take Five with Simon Little
by AAJ Staff
Meet Simon Little: I'm a session bassist living in London. I was born in London and started learning the double bass at school in Dorset with Barry Glynn. I went on to study at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London (1999-2003) receiving tuition from Kevin Rundell, Jeff Clyne and ...
Liane Carroll: Up And Down
by Bruce Lindsay
Liane Carroll is a much-admired British singer and pianist, winner of accolades including Musician Of The Year at the 2008 Parliamentary Jazz Awards. She has worked with musicians as varied as Sir Paul McCartney and Charlie Haden, while on this album her invited guests include tenor saxophonists Kirk Whalum and Julian Siegel, and Kenny Wheeler on ...
St. Vincent, Arthur H, and More Perform Tom Waits Rain Dogs
PERFORMING 1985 ALBUM RAIN DOGS IN FULL Dates have been announced for an unforgettable evening as a stellar cast of singers and musicians revisit Tom Waits' classic 1985 album Rain Dogs. The record has emerged as an object of fascination for Waits fans. In a very personal evocation of the New-York slums, the album's nineteen tracks ...
Late Mali Guitarist Lobi Traoré on Live Recordings
We first met the legendary African singer/guitarist Lobi Traoré in one of the many dimly lit, grimy nightclubs of Bamako in Mali. Considered one of Mali's most exciting, original, and enigmatic guitarists, he immediately made an impact. His overdriven amp, ungrounded fuzzbox pedal and the occasional blast of feedback made for a raw electric blues soundscape ...
Isaac Allen Releases "Don't Smoke"
It is hard to keep in mind that Mr. Isaac Allen is only twenty-four years young when listening to the tracks of heartache, addiction, death row, and back alleys that compose his brilliantly honest debut—Don't Smoke. Don't Smoke shows Allen's lyrical talents, melding of jazz and blues in day when artists of this type are teetering ...
Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland 2011: Days 1-3
by Matt Marshall
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 8-10 32th Annual Tri-C JazzFest ClevelandCleveland, OhioApril 28-May 8, 2011 Like most jazz festivals, the Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland, now in its 32nd year, features a fair share of tributes to jazz legends. Slated this time around were tributes to usual suspects Miles ...
Eliane Amherd: Now And From Now On
by Bruce Lindsay
Eliane Amherd creates bright and cheery, easy to listen to; jazz music that's a perfect soundtrack to sunny summer days. She also writes and performs material with a harder edge, darker and raunchier. She's blessed with a strong voice that's capable of intimate romance and bluesy hollers, and she is a fine guitarist, with touches of ...
Jeff Bridges Signs With Blue Note; Album Produced By T-Bone Burnett
Jeff Bridges Signs With Blue Note Records/Emi Music Group Oscar-Winning Actor And Musician Is Recording His Major-Label Debut Album With Oscar- And Grammy-Award Winning Producer And Crazy Heart Collaborator T-Bone Burnett New York, NY—Having earned an Academy Award for “Best Actor" for his portrayal of a grizzled former country music legend in the 2009 film Crazy ...
Rebekka Bakken: Dusseldorf, Germany, March 17, 2011
by Phillip Woolever
Rebekka BakkenZakkDusseldorf, GermanyMarch 17, 2011 After singer Rebekka Bakken ignited an intimate evening before a comfortably snug, sold out gathering of 303 counted customers, it seemed that--promotionally at least---she's been characterized with too soft an edge. Bakken may, indeed, be marketed too gently. On recording covers and ...
