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Kate McGarry Will Release "Genevieve & Ferdinand" On February 4 On Sunnyside Records
New CD Is a Dynamic Duet with Her Husband, Guitarist Keith Ganz Grammy-nominated vocalist Kate McGarry, whose most recent release (2012's Girl Talk) scored top honors on many of last year's Best Of lists, will take a slightly different tack on her first release for Sunnyside Records. Genevieve & Ferdinand, an intimate live set which features ...
Berklee Presents Its First-ever Spanish Language Program, January 13-18 In Mexico City
Berklee College of Music presents Berklee Latino, the college’s first-ever program to be taught in Spanish. The program, a series of lectures and master classes, will be held January 13-18, 2014, at the Mexico City campus of Tec de Monterrey. The deadline to apply for Berklee Latino is Monday, December 16. Visit Berklee.edu/latino for more information ...
NCIS Los Angeles Reairs Holiday Episode Tonite Featuring Cynthia Basinet's "Santa Baby"
With her gorgeous voice a part of our modern Christmas heritage, actress/singer Cynthia Basinet brings romance to the very popular CBS show with her sultry Santa Baby. Cynthia's iconic rendition of Santa Baby, oft miscredited to Marilyn Monroe will be featured again in the December 6th episode of NCIS: Los Angeles (episode 410, entitled “Free Ride"), ...
Eric Starr Group's "Such Is Life" Now Available
After a long hiatus, the Eric Starr Group is back with a brand new album entitled Such is Life. The album includes ten new tracks by Eric and features Nelson Starr on vocals, piano, and guitar, Iain Ballamy on tenor saxophone, Ike Sturm on bass, and Eric Starr on drums, vibes, and percussion. Also, special guests ...
Stan Tracey dies aged 86
Stan Tracey, a prime mover in British jazz for more than half a century, has died at the age of 86. The jazz pianist and composer had a keen musical intelligence and was renowned for Under Milk Wood, his 1968 suite based around Dylan Thomas's radio play. Tracey was born on December 30, 1926, in Denmark ...
Rene Marie: I Wanna Be Evil: With Love to Eartha Kitt
by C. Michael Bailey
Iconoclastic and often enigmatic singer Rene Marie was plain when she once said that she never wished to record a tribute disc. After four successful recordings with MAXJAZZ, including one (Vertigo (2001)) provocatively pairing “Dixie" with “Strange Fruit," Marie took a hard left to address in music some of her pressing artistic concerns. This resulted in ...
Take Five With Steve Myerson
by AAJ Staff
Meet Steve Myerson: Steve Myerson has performed, recorded, and/or toured with The Stylistics, Christian McBride, Frank Lacy of The Jazz Messengers, Gianni Russo, Grover Washington, Jr. Sony Grosso, and worked as a Program Manager for Jazz House Kids. Myerson's film credits including arranging music and performing for the film Brooklyn Lobster, which stars Danny Aiello ...
Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Electro Acoustic Orchestra: The Space Between
by Hrayr Attarian
Musical adventurer Rob Mazurek's The Space Between is a provocative and heady fusion of sight and sound. The double disc set includes an audio CD and a DVD containing performance and multimedia artist Marianne M. Kim's haunting, abstract video accompaniment to the music. The forty-minute suite is divided conveniently, and perhaps whimsically, into eight ...
Rich Rosenthal: Falling Up
by Glenn Astarita
At a young age, New York-based guitarist Rich Rosenthal guitarist, was weaned on the cutting-edge sounds of Steve Lacy, Sun Ra, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and other iconoclasts, broadening the jazz vernacular. With a lack of family support for becoming a career musician, Rosenthal needed to work through some inner-conflicts, while subsequently completing a jazz ...
"When Swing Was The Thing" This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, we time-travel back to 1930s Manhattan to hear what the Swing Era was like from the perspective of a young fan, thanks to the teenage diaries of Bob Inman collected in his Swing Era Scrapbook published by Scarecrow Press. Special guest, San Francisco actor Darren Bridgett joins us with excerpts from ...
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