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Guitar in the Space Age!
by Ian Patterson
Though prototype electric guitar first appeared in the early 1930s, the instrument only became a staple of popular music in the 1950s and 1960s. As a musical revolution was evolving, so was a different type altogether -space exploration. Sixty years on, in an age when the challenge is just to keep abreast of technological innovations it ...
Paquito D'Rivera: Jazz Meets the Classics
by Maurizio Zerbo
Forte di una solida fama internazionale, il sassofonista cubano ci propone questo singolare CD ispirato dalla musica eurocolta. Dedicati ai più celebri compositori Bach, Mozart, Chopin) di tale tradizione, gli arrangiamenti mostrano la formazione classica del leader esaltandone il grande virtuosismo strumentale. Tanta è la tecnica messa in campo, dinanzi alla quale cedono il passo l'ispirazione ...
NYTC New York - Tokyo Connection: Precious Live at the B-flat
by Nicholas F. Mondello
It might be awkward and “punful" wordplay, but pianist and longtime Tokyo, Japan resident, Jonathan Katz--a scion of legendary Long Island music educator, Bill Katz--is and certainly will be by nature of this terrific recording--recognized as a very rising son. Fronting a swinging and well-communicating rhythm section and adding the superb talents of ...
Gabriel Espinosa/Hendrik Meurkens: Samba Little Samba
by Dan Bilawsky
The hundredth release on the Zoho imprint was the aptly-titled Celebrando (Zoho Music, 2012)--the debut collaboration between Gabriel Espinosa and Hendrik Meurkens. This follow-up date, arriving a little more than two years later, is cut from the same musical cloth, though a few minor personnel changes and role adjustments give this one its own identity.
Pandelis Karayorgis Quintet: Afterimage
by Glenn Astarita
Boston, MA area pianist, composer Pandelis Karayorgis brandishes his magic at a Chicago venue with some of the Windy City's finest improvisers. He shifts many concepts with odd-metered progressions while straddling the avant-garde spectrum amid a manifesto based on cohesive discourses, where the hornists may purposely lag behind the beat or bust out into commodious movements. ...
Ideal Bread: Beating The Teens - Songs of Steve Lacy
by Alberto Bazzurro
Nuovo tributo, stavolta doppio (e quindi ancor più meritorio), all'arte di Steve Lacy da parte del quartetto capitanato da Josh Sinton (suoi tutti gli arrangiamenti), in questo caso attingendo a un repertorio molto specifico, visto che vi sono interamente riproposti i cinque LP incisi dal grande sopranista fra il 1969 e il 1977 per la Saravah: ...
Jazzedelics - A Mashup Of New And Old
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Jazzedelics is the brainchild of singer/percussionist Tony Jones and guitarist Doug Perkins based on a simple premise: What if the seminal rock giants of the 60’s had written their songs in a jazz framework? With music from Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Animals and others, Jazzedelics is a mash-up band that ...
M.O.D. Technologies Presents Marter & Yony's Rhythm Matter As Part Of The Incunabula Digital Series
Marter & Yony is a sensational Japanese DUB duo featuring Masateru Yamauchi (Jazzy Sport, Japan) and Yoshio Kabayashi (Aokoya Afrobeat, New York). Intentionally recorded on cassette & ¼” tape to retain a unique, raw yet warm analog sound. Reminicient of Sly & Robbie, Basic Channel (German NEO DUB), yin-yang drum ‘n’ bass – perfect harmony of ...
Grant Presentation Video Helps Jazz Artists & Causes Obtain Vital Funding!
NEW YORK, NY - The Jazz for Peace Foundation Empowerment Grant Program rose from the ashes of the horrifying tragedy of 9/11 starting with a poem that was written witnessing those very events on a rooftop less than a quarter of a mile away from Ground Zero on that fateful morning. Since then they have set ...
Dave's Eight Track Mind
by John Ephland
Dave Stryker Crystal Run and Luna Stage Middletown, NY and West Orange, NJ November 2, 2014 It was a tale of two cities. Or two bands, to be more specific. Or two variations on a theme, to come that much closer to describing what went down on this first Sunday in ...
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