Home » Search Center » Results: United States

Results for "United States"

News: Radio

Rockwired.com Re-launches Weekly 90 Minute Podcast Jazzed And Blue And Will Launch Bi-monthly Magazine In January 2014

October 20, 2013

Since 2005, Rockwired.com has provided exciting musical reportage with it's daily podcast Rockwired Radio Profiles and its monthly digital Rockwired Radio Profiles and it's monthly digital publication Rockwired Magazine. Now Rockwired re-embraces it's jazzier side with the relaunch of it's weekly 90 minute podcast Jazzed and Blue. The show returns on November 10, 2013 and will ...

Article: Interview

Jerome Harris: Guitar and Bass Doubler

by George Colligan
October 19, 2013

[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth]Jerome Harris is a highly underrated musician. He's proficient doubler on bass and guitar; he's been a regular on the former with Jack DeJohnette and the latter with Sonny Rollins. Add to that he's got a wonderful singing voice, and has also ...

Article: Album Review

Idan Santhaus: There You Are

Read "There You Are" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 19, 2013

This debut release from composer/multi-reedist Idan Santhaus was a long time coming. There You Are actually started to take shape in April of 2008, when four of these tracks were recorded with a solid sixteen piece band, but that was just the beginning. It took three more years for Santhaus to get back into the studio ...

Article: Interview

Brad Tolinski: Jimmy Page is a Complicated Interview

by Nenad Georgievski
October 19, 2013

For more than two decades, Brad Tolinski has been the editor in chief of some of the most popular and successful music magazines in the world: Guitar World Magazine, Guitar Aficionado and Revolver. In 2012 these three magazines were purchased by publisher NewBay Media and shortly after that he was named Editorial Director of the Music ...

Article: Book Review

Larry "Ratso" Sloman: On the Road with Bob Dylan

by Nenad Georgievski
October 19, 2013

On the Road with Bob Dylan Larry “Ratso" Sloman 461 pages ISBN: 1400045967 Crown Publishing 1978 (2002) In the autumn of 1975 singer songwriter Bob Dylan assembled a group of musicians for a variety show tour and this caravan named Rolling Thunder Revue enlisted people like poet Allen ...

Article: Album Review

Bob Mover: My Heart Tells Me

Read "My Heart Tells Me" reviewed by Larry Taylor

by Larry Taylor
October 19, 2013

Jazz saxophone veteran Bob Mover has put together a very satisfying two-disc release, My Heart Tell Me, with both swinging instrumentals and his very effective,unadorned vocals. Disc one has Mover mostly singing standards in soft pensive fashion, bringing to mind Nat Cole, as well as Chet Baker, his early-days cohort. Standouts on this ...

News: Music Industry

Why Can't Digital Music Services Get Jazz & Classical Right?

December 10, 2014

By Ian Dahlman, Future of Music Coalition 20.7 million Americans (8.8% of all US adults) attended a classical music performance in 2012, according to the National Endowment for the Arts’ recent survey highlights. 19 million (8.1%) attended a jazz gig. But if these millions of classical & jazz fans tried to use any of the most ...

Article: Film Review

Song of the South: Duane Allman and the Rise of The Allman Brothers Band

by Doug Collette
October 18, 2013

Song of the South: Duane Allman and The Rise of The Allman Brothers Band Chrome Dreams 2013 Song of the South: Duane Allman and The Rise of The Allman Brothers Band emphasizes the cultural impact of this iconic group and its late lamented leader. Even more so than the biography of the ...

Article: Album Review

Jay Vonada: Organ Trio West - Groovin’ It

Read "Organ Trio West - Groovin’ It" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 18, 2013

Trombonist Jay Vonada heads up two trombone-organ-drums trios called Organ Trio East and West. His Organ Trio West consists of himself and organist Alex Sell and drummer Kevin Lowe. Groovin' It consists of nine compositions, original and standards, presented in this novel and provocative format. While organ trios (de rigeur sans bass) are nothing new, they ...

Article: Live Review

Nathan Hook's Mobiustrip at Somethin' Jazz Club

by Daniel Lehner
October 18, 2013

Nathan Hook's Mobiustrip Somethin' Jazz Club New York, NY Tenor saxophonist Nathan Hook's Mobiustrip opened their set at Somethin Jazz Club in Midtown East, NYC with a tune called “You Probably Thought This Would Be Fun," and it was appropriate. This is not to say that Hook's music was unenjoyable or ...