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Beata Pater: Red

Read "Red" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 5, 2013

Polish vocalist/composer/violinist Beata Pater, as of late in San Francisco, releases Red, the third recording in her “colors" series following Black (B&B, 2006) and Blue (B&B, 2011). She specializes in the no-lyrics singing that is related to, but not exactly the same as scat singing. Much of this is present on Red where, an expressive and ...

News: Performance / Tour

Rescheduled: Janet Parrish At Westbeth Community Room In Westbeth On March 15

February 5, 2013

WESTBETH MUSICWORKS PRESENTS JANET PARRISH & FRIENDS THE HEART & SOUL ENSEMBLE WESTBETH COMMUNITY ROOM in Westbeth 155 BETHUNE STREET 8-10:30 PM $10 (suggested donation) Join vocalist, visual artist, performer, arranger, and vocal coach JANET PARRISH and her friends soul singer Bobby Harden, jazz stylist Eve Zanni, and cabaret artist Hal Miller ...

News: Recording

Randy Simon Jazz Project Releases "Nyhavn Live"

February 5, 2013

Nyhavn Live is a 2-CD set of new jazz tunes performed for a live audience by a stellar quintet of Upstate New York musicians. This is the fourth release by the Randy Simon Jazz Project, which features the original compositions and arrangements of Randy Simon. Nyhavn Live features a mix of upbeat Latin tunes, wistful ballads, ...

News: Performance / Tour

February Brings Homecoming Gigs for Quincy Troupe, Jeremy Haynes, Ronnie Burrage

February 5, 2013

Given what St. Louis weather usually is like in February, there may be better times to visit. But cold, snow and slush notwithstanding, there are three noteworthy St. Louis expats returning home this month with shows of interest to local jazz fans: Poet, author and teacher Quincy Troupe will lead another edition of his “SoundArt" project ...

News: Recording

"Roads & Codes," By Ian Carey Quintet+1, To Be Released By Kabocha Records Feb. 19

February 5, 2013

For the last decade, Bay Area trumpeter/composer Ian Carey has been developing his singular, post-bop-inflected music with a stable quintet of formidable improvisers, documented in the CDs Sink/Swim (2005) and Contextualizin’ (2010). In recent years Carey has wanted to explore more complex writing, and move further away from head-solo-head conventions. The result is Roads & Codes, ...

News: Radio

Riverwalk Jazz Whenever You Want!

February 5, 2013

By Mick Carlon The only drawback to my all-time favorite radio show, Riverwalk Jazz, was that I had to wait until Saturday mornings to listen. No longer! Thanks to Stanford University’s Archive of Recorded Sound, twenty five years of this exalted show—over 350 radio shows, over 4,000 song performances—are now available twenty four hours a day, ...

News: Recording

Soprano Saxophonist Marion Meadows Returns On February 26 With Whisper, His First New Album In Four Years

February 5, 2013

Label Debut For Shanachie Features Special Guest Bob Baldwin And Includes Soulful Renditions Of Jazz Classics By Freddie Hubbard And Dave Grusin Lead Single Is “Black Pearl” Albert Einstein once said “We all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” For multi-talented saxophonist and consummate creative spirit Marion Meadows, the ...

News: Radio

WBGO Is In The Mood For Love: Send Your Love Today!

February 5, 2013

WBGO is in the mood for love! CELEBRATE VALENTINE’S DAY WITH A LOVE LETTER TO WBGO JAZZ 88.3 NEWARK, NJ, February 4, 2013 – Valentine’s Day is coming, and WBGO Jazz 88.3 is in the mood for love. Listeners are invited to submit love letters via email to [email protected] (please write WBGO Love Letter in the ...

News: Music Industry

From Junk Bonds to Jazz: Pi Recordings' Yulun Wang

February 5, 2013

Yulun Wang thinks of himself as a guy who can solve complex problems. He did it frequently during his nearly two-decade career in investment banking. After working as a quantitative analyst at Security Pacific National Bank, he shifted to municipal bond re-financings at Dillon, Reed & Co. But once the Internet bubble burst, Wang—who was, by ...

Article: Album Review

Matthew Shipp: Greatest Hits

Read "Greatest Hits" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
February 4, 2013

It takes more than a degree of chutzpah for any modern day jazzer to title a collection Greatest Hits, let alone a doyen of the avant-garde. But pianist Matthew Shipp has never shied away from controversy--indeed, on occasion has actively courted it. Slightly apologetically, sleeve note annotator Tad Hendrickson points out that the selections were those ...