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Wynton Marsalis: Driving the Jazz at Lincoln Center Engine
by R.J. DeLuke
Jazz became America's popular music during the big band era, where people with ears for music and feet for dancing heard national bands, regional bands, and local bands. Musicians that became jazz stars attained that status through their individual solo statements in small windows in songs, especially when they were lucky enough to get them on ...
New Vinyl-Only Company Uses Innovative New Model To Release World-Class Artists
Initial year's membership brings private material by Jack DeJohnette, Frank Kimbrough, Noah Preminger, Don Friedman, Ben Allison and Leo Genovese. Guests include Esperanza Spalding, Ted Nash, John Patitucci, Billy Hart and more. “A new kind of record label with a curated repertoire of world class musicians. Newvelle ships six impeccably produced and beautifully packaged vinyl LPs ...
Wes Montgomery: In The Beginning-Early Recordings from 1949-1958
by Hrayr Attarian
Guitarist Wes Montgomery, despite his tragically short life, was very prolific and immensely impactful. Equally adept at sophisticated instrumental virtuosity and lighter, more commercially appealing sounds, Montgomery influenced majority of guitar players who appeared on the jazz scene during the 1960s and after. Montgomery cut his first record Fingerpickin' for Pacific Jazz in 1958 ...
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: The Battle for Earth
by Doug Collette
The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey has been an adventuresome group since first initiated as an eight piece ensemble in its home of Oklahoma in 1994 But the group has quite possibly never lived up so fully to its moniker since realigning itself as a trio (again) in 2013. Keyboardist and charter member Brian Haas, guitarist/lap steel/synth ...
Jeremy Siskind: Housewarming
by Angelo Leonardi
Si apre con un'incantevole versione di “Whispering Grass" -una ballad degli anni '40 di Fred e Doris Fisher ripescata dal magazzino dei ricordi -il nuovo disco di Jeremy Siskind in trio con la cantante Nancy Harms e il talentoso multistrumentista Lucas Pino. Non potrebbe esserci migliore introduzione per questa formazione, che ha già dato più di ...
Jazz this week: Adam Larson, Lettuce, Youngblood Brass Band, March Fourth!, The New Mastersounds, and more
This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in and around St. Louis features a couple of different acts purveying instrumental funk, a saxophone phenom working in the modern jazz mainstream, a mutant marching band, and, as the saying goes, much, much more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, October 14 Up-and-coming saxophonist Adam Larson ...
Scott Colley: Staying In The Moment
by Mark Sullivan
Bassist Scott Colley was involved in three of the most well attended performances at the 2015 Detroit Jazz Festival: the Pat Metheny Trio with guest Kenny Garrett on opening night; the Pat Metheny/Gary Burton Quartet Reunion on Saturday night; and the grand closing performance featuring the North American premiere of Pat Metheny's “Hommage" to Eberhard Weber ...
Ryan Truesdell's Gil Evans Project: Lines of Color
by Maurizio Comandini
Ryan Truesdell continua nella sua opera di esplorazione dell'universo di Gil Evans con un secondo album che fa seguito all'ottimo Centennial: Newly Discover Works by Gil Evans pubblicato da ArtistShare nel 2012. Un album molto ben accolto dalla critica e dal pubblico, al punto di aver addirittura vinto un Grammy Award. Per questo Lines of Color ...
New England Conservatory Presents Too Marvelous For Words: Music Of Frank Sinatra
Thursday, October 15 at 7:30 p.m. New England Conservatory presents Too Marvelous for Words: Music of Frank Sinatra, a concert to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Frank Sinatra’s birth at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 15. The event, conducted by Jazz Studies Chair Ken Schaphorst, will feature the NEC Jazz Orchestra and student vocalists with the ...
CocoRosie, Dastan Ensemble, Arto Lindsay, Chick Corea, Béla Fleck, John Hammond, G.Love & Trio 3
by Martin Longley
CocoRosie Webster Hall September 25, 2015 The Casady sisters are one of the quirkiest teamings in... what? Rock, folk, hip-hop, reggae, electronica, performance art? All of these, and more, are present in their wildly gambolling songs, discernible as trace elements, but none fully emerging as what could be deemed ...
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