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Randy Simon Jazz Project: Nyhavn Live
by Nicholas F. Mondello
As instrumentalists and established groups explore new musical vistas, there's somewhat of a “safe harbor" in the richness of classic hard bop. Perhaps that's because the repertoire and stylistic formats of drummer Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, pianist Horace Silver and the like offer performers significant latitude in terms of groove, melodic and harmonic diversity, ...
Luis Muñoz: Luz
by Jerry D'Souza
Luis Muñoz gathers strength with each of his recordings as he goes past the post of the previous one, making new ideas and developments his haunt. Luz, as the title would suggest, injects new light into his music. Muñoz conceives and marvelous executes his game plan. Driving the rhythm and the beat from ...
Sophisticated Ladies And Red Hot Mommas This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, New Orleans’ Topsy Chapman joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to separate “sophisticated ladies" from “red-hot mommas." Heart-breakers, man-takers, vamps, tramps and the girl next door—through the decades they’ve all shown up in song. Songwriters are forever trying to decipher the feminine mystique, and singers never tire of crooning about the ...
Ronnie Burrage Performances This Friday and Saturday Moved to Probstein Golf Club in Forest Park
This just in: There's been a last-minute change in venues for the previously announced performances by drummer Ronnie Burrage's quartet this Friday and Saturday. The shows for both evenings have been moved to the clubhouse of the Norman Probstein Golf Club, 6141 Lagoon Dr. in Forest Park. Set times will be 9:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. ...
Fontanelle: Vitamin F
by Dave Wayne
The sheer improbability of Vitamin F alone is almost reason enough to savor it. But this is one heck of a great jazz recording, so Fontanelle's back story is worth pondering. Formed out of the ruins of Jessamine, one of the few Seattle bands from the mid-1990s to buck the grunge craze, Fontanelle recorded three albums ...
Jukkis Uotila / Stockholm Jazz Orchestra: The Music of Jukkis Uotila
by Florence Wetzel
The Music of Jukkis Uotila presents an exciting array of modern big band arrangements performed by The Stockholm Jazz Orchestra (SJO), with compositions provided by SJO's drummer and occasional pianist, Jukkis Uotila. For over twenty-five years, the SJO has been at the forefront of big band music, proving that it's possible to explore innovation while remaining ...
Curtis Hasselbring: Number Stations
by Bruce Lindsay
Number stations are, apparently, shortwave radio stations that intermittently broadcast random series of numbers: a Cold War communication system that still lingers. Number Stations is an album by trombonist Curtis Hasselbring and his band, the wonderfully named New Mellow Edwards, that takes its inspiration from these mysterious transmitters.The tune titles are rather enigmatic, but ...
Shamie Royston: Portraits
by Dan Bilawsky
Pianist Shamie Royston shares more than familial bonds with her husband/drummer Rudy Royston and employer/sister/saxophonist Tia Fuller; she clearly shares their oft-demonstrated belief that music is about expressing oneself by placing your own personality and experiences into and onto your art. In truth, every artist worth their salt, knowingly or not, adheres to this philosophy in ...
Ehud Asherie with Harry Allen: Lower East Side
by Dan Bilawsky
In this day and age, when shock-and-awe maneuvers and new-thing sounds tend to get all the plaudits and press in jazz, it says a lot when a throwback duo date is widely admired by critics and fans alike. Such was the case with pianist Ehud Asherie's Upper West Side (Posi-Tone, 2012), which brought him into contact ...
Return Of The Del-Lords: The "Elvis Club" Is Open For Business Again
Fabled New York rockers the Del-Lords return with their first new album in more than two decades NEW YORK, NY: ”We didn’t start with any agenda, other than to make a great record,” Scott Kempner says of the Del-Lords’ unexpected return to action following a two-decade layoff, which has yielded Elvis Club, the band’s first new ...
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