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Kurt Elling: Stories from New York
by R.J. DeLuke
Singer Kurt Elling seems to be always on the go, working with his fine quartet and lending his artful vocals to a variety of other projects as time allows. Whatever the situation, he brings high aesthetic values and standards. He likes to investigate different musical possibilities under the jazz umbrella, which he embraces without reservation.
Arild Andersen: Celebration
by John Kelman
Arild Andersen Celebration ECM Records 2012 With all the activities surrounding the 40th anniversary of ECM Records in 2009--from a three-day festival-within-a-festival at that year's Enjoy Jazz Festival in Mannheim, Germany, and the budget-priced Touchstone Series reissue of forty essential ECM titles, to the publication of an all-German book of commissioned ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Tommy Smith
All About Jazz is celebrating Tommy Smith's birthday today! Born in Edinburgh in 1967, Tommy Smith won best soloist and best group titles at Edinburgh International Jazz Festival, aged 14, and recorded his first album at 15. After studying at Berklee College of Music he joined Gary Burton’s group, touring worldwide and recording the Whiz Kids ...
Karma
By Tommy Smith
Label: Spartacus Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Cause and Effect; Land of Heroes; Good Deed; Body or Soul; Tomorrow; Karma; Star; Projection; Sun; Who Are You?
Kongsberg Jazz Festival, July 6-9, 2011
by Josef Woodard
Kongsberg Jazz FestivalKongsberg, NorwayJuly 6-9, 2011 By now, it's a self-evident truth that Norway has become something of a hot spot on the global jazz map... again. This is hardly a late-breaking news sensation, given the long arc of jazz lore and fanaticism and support systems in place in this Scandinavian corner, ...
Cause and Effect
Album: Karma
By Tommy Smith
Label: Spartacus Records
Released: 2011
Duration: 3:59
Capsule Reviews - Tommy Smith, Chase Baird
Tommy Smith—Karma (Spartacus, 2011) Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith is much in demand as a soloist (check his extraordinary playing on Arild Andersen's Live at Belleville) and as a well regarded educator. Smith's Karma (no relation to Pharoah Sanders' free-jazz masterwork of the same name) works well, as the band with Smith: Steve Hamilton on piano, synth ...
Gwilym Simcock, Mike Walker, Steve Swallow, Adam Nussbaum: The Impossible Gentlemen
by Chris May
The Impossible GentlemenThe Impossible GentlemenBasho Records2011 You may not have heard of The Impossible Gentlemen, for this is the group's first album, and you may not have heard of one of its two chief protagonists, as he has chosen to spend most of his career away from ...
Tommy Smith: Karma
by John Kelman
Tommy Smith is on a roll. Not that he's been on anything but for the last several years, with a string of superb albums, each as different as they are consistent in demonstrating the saxophonist's ongoing ascension as a player, writer and bandleader. But that's not all. Since returning to Scotland after graduating from Boston's Berklee ...
Saxophonist Tommy Smith Releases "Karma" on Spartacus Records on May 23, 2011
Available May 1, 2011 An exciting new direction for leading Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith's brand new band, Karma combines virtuosic musicianship and powerhouse, grooving rhythms with atmospheric textures evoking Irish, Scottish, Indian, Japanese and Arabic folk influences. A major statement from an internationally renowned master. Personnel Tommy Smith: Tenor & Soprano Saxophones, Shakuhatchi, Synth ...
