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Georgia Mancio: Silhouette
by Bruce Lindsay
Georgia Mancio celebrates 10 years as a professional jazz singer with Silhouette, her third album. The mix of standards and original compositions, delivered in Mancio's light but distinctive voice, and accompanied by some of the finest musicians on the British jazz scene, is a genuine cause for such celebration. Silhouette is innovative, lyrically inventive, risky at ...
Take Five with Trinelise Vaering and Fredrik Lundin aka Offpiste Gurus
by AAJ Staff
Meet Trinelise Vaering and Fredrik Lundin aka Offpiste Gurus:Offpiste Gurus was formed as collaboration between Trinelise and Fredrik in 2008. The band's first album will be released on Stunt Records in 2010. Instrument(s):Vocal, saxophones, guitar, bass and drums.Teachers and/or influences?Our music sounds somehow like ...
Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider
by Karl Ackermann
As a classically trained teen, Brad Mehldau was introduced to the music of Keith Jarrett setting him on the road to jazz. He did not abandon the classical genre and those influences were powerfully present in his first solo release Elegiac Cycle (1999). He has since written pieces for the Orchestre National d'Île-de-France and Carnegie Hall ...
Solveig Slettahjell / Slow Motion Orchestra: Tarpan Seasons
by John Kelman
From a simple idea, great things can sometimes come. When Solveig Slettahjell formed Slow Motion Orchestra for a 2001 performance that became the 15-piece group's eponymous first recording on Norway's Curling Legs, the premise was simple: take a collection of songs from the Great American Songbook, and slow them down. Way down. But over the course ...
Chad Eby: Broken Shadows
by Raul d'Gama Rose
On Broken Shadows his wonderful second album, Chad Eby doffs his proverbial hat to the magnificent American music that came before him and in doing so, puts it in the current context. He also goes a step further, adding not only his own vocal-style interpretations of music from Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Thad Jones, Ornette Coleman ...
Tony Marcus: Vanishing Point
by C. Michael Bailey
There are two ways to look at San Francisco-based guitarist-singer-song-writer Tony Marcus. The first is in the light of which guitarist-singer-songwriter he most closely resembles, Antonio Carlos Jobim; he could arguably be called the American Jobim, in fact. The second way is as a musical sommelier, one who knows music and all of the art that ...
'Bones' Howe & Tom Waits the Odd Couple?
When label boss David Geffen teamed respected engineer 'Bones' Howe with an unknown and very strange songwriter called Tom Waits, he set in motion one of the great artist-producer partnerships. PHOTO: Bones Howe, Crystal Gayle and Tom Waits during the recording of 1982's “One From The Heart" soundtrack. There might not have been an odder long-term ...
Preservation Hall Jazz Band: Preservation
by Wade Luquet
Preservation Hall Jazz Band Preservation: An Album To Benefit Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program Preservation Hall 2010 What do you get when you cross America's best traditional jazz band with 20 emerging or legendary musical artists? You get a terrific collection of highly listenable traditional jazz ...
Gov't. Mule at Gothic Theater in Denver
by Geoff Anderson
Gov't. Mule Gothic Theater/Fillmore Denver, CO February 12-13, 2010 OK, I know what you're thinking: “Oh for cryin' out loud, Anderson went to see Gov't. Mule again!" Actually, it's worse than that; I went to see Gov't. Mule, twice! Friday night the Mule played the (relatively) intimate Gothic and ...
The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Meets Fred Sturm
by Jack Bowers
The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra was onstage January 23, 2010 at the University of New Mexico's Woodward Hall for a concert featuring the compositions and arrangements of Fred Sturm, director of Jazz Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. The concert was a part of the New Mexico All-State Band Competition, which was being held at the ...
