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Article: Album Review

Luis Muñoz: Luz

by Mark Corroto
February 17, 2013

Lessons in light--or, in Spanish, luz--lush arrangements need not be dense, as proven in Costa Rican-born Californian Luis Muñoz's compositions, orchestrations and arrangements on Luz, his sixth release for the Pelin label following the widely acclaimed Invisible (Pelin, 2010) and Of Soul And Shadow (Pelin, 2008).While his roots go back to Central America, this ...

Article: The Mort Report

Mort Meets the Mob

by Mort Weiss
February 16, 2013

Hello again. This remembrance takes us back to the early 1960s when I went under the name of Mort Wise and my band's name was The Wisemen. Go ahead and Google Mort Wise And The Wisemen, and you'll probably come up with the recording we did (on a 45 rpm) called “Wild Boy." Also, you might ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Chorus Corner: Chanticleer, Cantus and Seraphic Fire

by C. Michael Bailey
February 16, 2013

Singers singing songs. Times are good for choral music when stalwart Chanticleer and relative newcomers Cantus and Seraphic Fire produce new music in such close proximity. Chanticleer releases a collection of concert highlights while Cantus expands the choral acreage on all four sides and Seraphic Fire looks backward with an instrumentally strip-down of an old favorite. ...

Article: Album Review

Hristo Vitchev Quartet: Familiar Fields

Read "Familiar Fields" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
February 16, 2013

There's a poignant scene in the film Gladiator (DreamWorks/Universal, 2000), where the film's hero, Maximus--played by actor and guitarist, Russell Crowe--flashes back on the lush fields of his far away farm home. There's a longing, a yearning sense in that memorable, moving sequence. Those fields pull at his heart.With Familiar Fields, his fifth CD ...

News: Festival

Announcing The 12th Annual Brubeck Festival "Dave Brubeck Across Time--A Tribute To His Legacy," March 18-23, 2013

February 16, 2013

University of the Pacific’s Brubeck Institute presents the Twelfth Annual Brubeck Festival, titled Dave Brubeck Across Time, which honors his legacy as a jazz giant and his Stockton, California roots. The 2013 Festival is a broad-based tribute to his legacy that covers the spectrum of jazz in its fullest expression: live concert performances ranging from jazz ...

News: Performance / Tour

Bill Frisell's Beautiful Dreamers to Perform Sunday, April 28 at Old Rock House

February 16, 2013

Guitarist Bill Frisell (pictured) is returning to St. Louis to perform at 8:30 p.m. Sunday, April 28 at the Old Rock House. Frisell's last St. Louis appearance was with his quartet in May 2011 at the ORH. This time, he'll be with the ensemble known as Beautiful Dreamers, which also includes Eyvind Kang on viola and ...

News: Contest

Enter the "Christian Howes - Southern Exposure" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

February 15, 2013

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Resonance Records “Christian Howes - Southern Exposure“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on March 15th. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of Christian Howes at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck!

News: Performance / Tour

John McLaughlin, Steely Dan, Phil Lesh, Miles Davis, James Taylor Sidemen Form New Touring Band - The Ringers

February 15, 2013

Los Angeles, CA: Talk about one of the most amazing group of musicians playing together, debuting in early 2013 – they are THE RINGERS featuring three top notch Rock-Blues Guitarists Jimmy Herring (Widespread Panic, The Dead, Phil Lesh) Wayne Krantz (Steely Dan, Donald Fagen, Michael Brecker), Michael Landau (James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis) , drummer ...

Article: One LP

Robert Glasper: Slum Village, Fantastic Vol. 2

by William Ellis
February 15, 2013

Robert Glasper: Glasgow Jazz Festival, 28th June 2012 The reason this album is special to me is because the producer of the album--J Dilla is my favorite hip hop producer and I got the privilege to actually work with him before he passed away in 2006. To work with him--watch him make ...

Article: Album Review

Kendrick Lamar: good kid, m.A.A.d city

Read "good kid, m.A.A.d city" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
February 15, 2013

Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar's hit album good kid, m.A.A.d city is subtitled “a short film." Lamar's ambition mirrors that of saxophonist Bob Belden, who derided the narrow conceptual vision of too many musicians in a recent All About Jazz interview, saying: “Modeling music along the lines of film narrative ... should be a logical evolution of ...