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News: Recording

Trombonist Nick Finzer Releases Debut Album Exposition

January 23, 2013

TROMBONIST NICK FINZER TO RELEASE “EXPOSITION” HIS RECORDING DEBUT AS A LEADER 22 JANUARY 2013 New York City Based Composer, Instrumentalist, Bandleader & Educator To Showcase Album At CD Release Gig and The National Sunday Feb 10 With the January 22, 2013 release of “Exposition” (Outside In Music OIM 1201), trombonist Nick Finzer delivers a debut ...

News: Interview

Interview: Australian Blues Vocalist Dee Lavell

January 23, 2013

Q: When did you begin to sing? Who were your musical inspirations? A: It wasn't until I was in my 20s when friends started to tell me that I had a good voice and ought to go and get with a band. I loved soul and funk music, especially the black female singers, so I listened ...

News: Festival

Whitaker Music Festival Announces 2013 Schedule of Free Summer Concerts

January 23, 2013

The Whitaker Music Festival has announced their 2013 schedule of free concerts to be presented on Wednesdays this summer at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Although over the years the series has expanded from its origins as “Jazz in June" to include various other musical genres, this year's schedule does feature several acts that will be of ...

News: Book / Magazine

Girls To Get Their Groove On For Second Annual "Hit Like A Girl" Drum Contest Enter Music Publishing, Tom-tom Mag And Major Drum Companies Participate

January 23, 2013

San Jose, Calif., — Hit Like A Girl 2013, the second annual global contest for female drummers, today announced that the official launch for entries will be February 1. The event is produced by DRUM! Magazine in conjunction with TRX Cymbals and Tom Tom: The Magazine for Female Drummers, with the support of major drum equipment ...

News: Recording

Motéma Music Will Release Nilson Matta’s Black Orpheus On February 12, 2013

January 23, 2013

Bassist’s Inspired Re-imagining of Classic Brazilian Music Includes Contributions from Leny Andrade, Kenny Barron, Randy Brecker, Anat Cohen and Gretchen Parlato When Nilson Matta was a young child in his native Brazil, his father brought home an LP of the music from the play Orfeu da Conceição, by the playwright Vinicius de Moraes, which retells the ...

Article: Live From New York

Barry Altschul, William Hooker, Bobby Previte & Andrew Cyrille

by Martin Longley
January 22, 2013

Barry Altschul Roulette January 8, 2013 Another 70th birthday to celebrate, another musician who commands the appearance and vitality of a much younger player. New York drummer Barry Altschul actually hit 70 two days before this celebratory gig at Roulette. The long-established experimental music venue is now settling in ...

Article: Album Review

Rudresh Mahanthappa: Gamak

by Mark Corroto
January 22, 2013

Did saxophonist John Coltrane have any idea of the consequence of dipping his toes into the music of India in the 1960s? Not only did he introduce jazz to new harmonic structures, but he marshaled the forces of jazz, perhaps, to ingurgitate world music. While the repercussions of Coltrane's spiritual journey are still being felt, what ...

Article: Album Review

Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Slippery Rock

Read "Slippery Rock" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
January 22, 2013

Mostly Other Peopele Do the Killing is back! And with it the rightly slandered genre of smooth jazz. This quintet's fifth studio album was penned by MOPDtK bassist Moppa Elliot after a lengthy immersion in the smooth jazz recordings of the late 1970s and '80s. Elliott extracted certain idiomatic phrases, harmonies and embellishments from this superficial ...

News: Recording

"Lonely & Blue" Is A Lost Otis Redding Album, Due Out March 5

January 22, 2013

Available on CD and blue vinyl, packaging evokes the look and feel of a late ’60s Stax/Volt album that Redding might have released at the height of his career LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Otis Redding’s Lonely & Blue: The Deepest Soul of Otis Redding could pass for a title Stax/Volt might have released in the late ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz at Holmes Series Returns This Thursday, January 24 with Brian Vaccaro Trio

January 22, 2013

The Jazz at Holmes series of free concerts at Washington University will begin their winter/spring 2013 schedule of shows with a performance by guitarist Brian Vaccaro's organ trio at 8:00 p.m. this Thursday, January 24. Vaccaro (pictured) and his group will play some of their jazz/funk interpretations of music by The Beatles. Usually by this time ...