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"San Francisco," 2nd CD By Bay Area Drummer Brian Andres & The Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel, Due July 16

June 7, 2013

Drummer Brian Andres’s new album with the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel, San Francisco, not only takes its title from the band’s home base. The CD, to be released July 16 by the leader’s Bacalao Records imprint, also makes a persuasive case for the assertion that San Francisco has its own distinctive Latin jazz sound (the classic “San ...

Article: Album Review

Brian Simpson: Just What You Need

Read "Just What You Need" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush
June 7, 2013

The raison d'être behind Brian Simpson's Just What You Need is not as audacious as to reshape jazz as we know it, but to provide some easy listening while we're waiting. The ambitions here are a bit more modest as Simpson, who is best known as Dave Koz's bandleader, brings together an accomplished crew of studio ...

Article: Album Review

Olivia Foschi: Perennial Dreamer

Read "Perennial Dreamer" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 7, 2013

Vocalist Olivia Foschi joins a group of young singers intent on changing the jazz vocals landscape by framing standards in anything other than standard ways. Tierney Sutton is the leader of this new direction, followed by Gretchen Parlato, Jacqui Sutton, Laurie Antonioli and Renee Yoxon. Using the standard acoustic jazz ensembles, these singers use thoughtful arrangements ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Ellingtonian Intimacy: Dukish Duos

by Dan Bilawsky
June 7, 2013

Duke Ellington elevated the art of big band writing to great heights, but his music was never relegated to the large ensemble corner of the room. While it's true that the large majority of his recordings showcase the ever-evolving, yet incredibly consistent “Orchestra" he fronted, he wasn't averse to presenting his music in small group settings; ...

Article: One LP

Marcus Miller: Miles Davis, Milestones

by William Ellis
June 7, 2013

Miles at his height in the '50s before jazz took another turn, Milestones (Columbia, 1958) was--along with the other Miles records of this period--really at the height of the elegant era of jazz. Then it went somewhere else that was equally amazing. But I really love the combination of soulfulness and intelligence with which ...

Article: Album Review

Brian Andres and the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel: San Francisco

Read "San Francisco" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
June 7, 2013

The San Francisco Bay Area is known for many things one of which is, as a hot bed of Latin Jazz music that captured the interest of percussionist Brian Andres upon relocating there in 1999. Now a veteran of the genre and band leader of the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel, Andres and the group tip their hat ...

Article: Interview

Mark Winkler: Peeling Back the Onion

by Scott Mitchell
June 7, 2013

Mark Winkler is a Los Angeles-based jazz singer, lyricist, and songwriter with over 150 songs to his credit and platinum records hanging on his wall. He has written songs with the likes of saxophonists Dexter Gordon, Wayne Shorter and Joshua Redman, as well as pianist David Benoit. Singers Randy Crawford, Dianne Reeves, Lea Salonga, Bob Dorough ...

News: Performance / Tour

Kermit Ruffins to Perform Wednesday, July 24 and Thursday, July 25 at the Gramophone

June 7, 2013

This just in: via the Twitter feed of Basin Street Records, StLJN has learned that New Orleans trumpeter and singer Kermit Ruffins (pictured) will be coming to St. Louis to perform on Wednesday, July 24 and Thursday, July 25 at The Gramophone. Ruffins is a fixture on the New Orleans scene, playing weekly gigs with his ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Rick Haydon Quartet, Terence Blanchard, Ragtime at Scott Joplin's House, Oikos Ensemble, and More

June 7, 2013

If you're looking to get out hear some live jazz in St. Louis, there's there's plenty of local music on tap over the weekend, with some new weekly gigs getting underway, plus some visiting players coming to town to play free concerts next week. Let's go to the highlights: Tonight, singer Joe Mancuso and his band ...

Article: Album Review

Jared Gold: Intuition

Read "Intuition" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
June 6, 2013

Intuition is organist Jared Gold's sixth outing for the Posi-Tone label in as many years. He walks a similar path on all of his prior dates for this imprint, extending the organ group tradition(s) while fronting trios and quartets and working his way through catchy originals and diverse covers, but no two albums are really the ...