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Article: Big Band Report

Los Angeles Jazz Institute Festival - Woodchopper's Ball: Part 2-4

by Simon Pilbrow
September 23, 2018

Los Angeles Jazz Institute Festival “Woodchoppers' Ball" Four Points by Sheraton at LAX Los Angeles, CA May 23-27, 2018 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Concert 4: Keen and Peachy: Music of the Woody Herman Second Herd -Directed by Michael Berkowitz ...

Article: Catching Up With

Onaje Allan Gumbs: Dare To Dream

by La-Faithia White
September 23, 2018

Onaje Allan Gumbs is a New York based pianist, composer, lyricist, and bandleader. Gumbs' professional career began in 1971 when Leroy Kirkland introduced him to Kenny Burrell, by sharing a demo tape. The next day Gumbs received a phone call to play with Burrell at Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit. Onaje, (Gumbs) talks about the beginnings ...

Article: Live Review

The Magpie Salute At The Grand Point North Festival 2018

by Doug Collette
September 23, 2018

The Magpie Salute Grand Point North Festival Waterfront Park, Burlington VT September 16, 2018 The Grand Point North festival sound system didn't quite do justice to the multi-textured sound the Magpie Salute proffered late in the afternoon of Sunday September 16th, but that didn't undermine the verve, purpose and confidence the ...

Article: Live Review

Chris Isaak at The Paramount in Huntington, NY

by Christine Connallon
September 23, 2018

Chris Isaak The Paramount Huntington, New York August 29, 2018 Chris Isaak likes to make a splash. The perpetually youthful, now sixty-two year old musician burst onto the stage the way he burst onto the music scene over thirty years ago, when he signed to Warner Brothers and subsequently ...

News: Radio

Lenny White Podcast - He Hosts In-Depth Interviews With Ron Carter, Mike Clarke, DJ Logic And More! Listen And Learn!

September 22, 2018

IYOUWE Universe Podcast now available! Click here to hear the new IYOUWE Universe Podcast. The brand new interview podcast, IYOUWE Universe, is out now on all major podcast hosts! Hosted by Lenny White, the podcast delivers candid interviews with some of music's most influential figures. First three episodes: Ron Carter | Mike ...

Article: Big Band Report

Los Angeles Jazz Institute Festival - Woodchopper's Ball: Part 1-4

by Simon Pilbrow
September 22, 2018

Los Angeles Jazz Institute Festival “Woodchoppers' Ball" Four Points by Sheraton at LAX Los Angeles, CA May 23-27, 2018 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 The Los Angeles Jazz Institute (LAJI), under Ken Poston, has continued for some thirty years to ...

News: Recording

Joe Locke Discovers His Lingua Franca On Subtle Disguise

September 21, 2018

Available on November 16, 2018 from Origin Records CD Release Celebration: Nov. 17 @ Scullers, Boston, MA For several years now vibraphonist/composer/bandleader Joe Locke has had two musical purposes: one, to speak in a vernacular which reaches people, and two, to continue challenging himself as a player, writer and arranger. In 2013 Locke released ...

News: Recording

Guitarist Bobby Broom Introduces His New Group The Organi-Sation With Their Debut Recording "Soul Fingers," Due October 12

September 20, 2018

Virtuoso Chicago-based guitarist Bobby Broom has always embraced the rhythm and blues core of jazz music. On Soul Fingers, his 12th album as a leader and first with his new trio Organi-Sation, Broom mines the rich repository of ’60s and ’70s pop music, offering inspired versions of hits by the Beatles, Procol Harum, Steely Dan, and ...

Article: Live Review

Detroit Jazz Festival 2018

by C. Andrew Hovan
September 19, 2018

Detroit Jazz Festival Downtown Detroit Detroit, Michigan August 31-September 3, 2018 Over the course of its 39 year history, the largest free jazz festival in North America has seen its shares of up and downs. It once swelled to a five-day event starting on the Thursday evening before Labor Day and ...

Article: Live Review

Beethoven, Barber and Vivaldi at The Jazz Corner

by Martin McFie
September 18, 2018

Beethoven, Barber and Vivaldi The Jazz Corner Hiltonhead Island, SC September 9, 2018 For half a year, this writer has been working with Mrs Lois Masteller, owner of the Jazz Corner on Hilton Head Island SC, and Noel Freidline searching out a way to present classical music fully ...