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News: Recording

Varese Sarabande To Release "Whiplash" Soundtrack

September 29, 2014

VARÈSE SARABANDE RECORDS TO RELEASE SOUNDTRACK FOR SUNDANCE GRAND JURY AND AUDIENCE AWARD-WINNING FILM WHIPLASH Including Original Score & Original Big Band Songs by Justin Hurwitz Original Big Band Competition Pieces by Tim Simonec And The Classic Cuts “Caravan” and “Whiplash” Los Angeles, CA – Varèse Sarabande Records will release WHIPLASH – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ...

News: Festival

Final Lineup Announced For 10th Annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival

September 29, 2014

Oct. 10-19 Festival Presents Wide-Ranging Program, with Jazz Prodigy, Documentary Film, National and Local Performers PITTSFIELD, MA – Berkshires Jazz, Inc. today announced the final lineup for the tenth annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, Oct. 10-19, 2014 throughout the City’s Upstreet Cultural District. A signature cultural event of the fall foliage season in western Massachusetts, the music ...

News: Performance / Tour

NYC Insider Secret - Vocalist/Songwriter Joelle Lurie - Debuts CD @ NYC's Subculture Tonight / Formerly Featured at Lincoln Center

September 29, 2014

Recently Featured At Lincoln Center, Vocalist Joelle Lurie Pops Up Jazz and Jazzes Up Pop on Her Debut Album Take Me There (September 30) CD Release September 29 @ Subculture, New York City “A magnificent voice and charming demeanor..." —Metro A favorite secret inside the New York City music scene, Joelle Lurie’s bright voice and effervescent ...

Article: Album Review

Cantus: A Harvest Home

Read "A Harvest Home" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
September 28, 2014

There are two major names on the block regarding male vocal ensembles: San Francisco's Chanticleer and Minneapolis' Cantus. The latter releases A Harvest Home, a collection of Autumn pastoral affairs celebrating the traditional season of Thanksgiving. This follows last year's release of Songs of a Czech: Dvorak and Janacek for Men's Voices (Cantus, 2013), a fine ...

Article: Album Review

Daniel Schlaeppi: Voices Live

Read "Voices Live" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
September 28, 2014

For what more could one ask? A live gig, excellently recorded; an appreciative audience; a band which is sharp as a tack that comes charging out of the gate smoking, playing music to which one cannot help but move. The previous live album of bassist Daniel Schlaeppi, was Dimensions Live, and he ...

Article: Album Review

Mark Meadows: Somethin’ Good

Read "Somethin’ Good" reviewed by Geannine Reid

by Geannine Reid
September 28, 2014

Mark Meadows is a multifaceted jazz pianist, composer and jazz educator. Besides regularly performing across the U.S, Meadows also teaches four courses as an adjunct instructor at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C. During the 2014-2015 season, Meadows is appearing alongside world-renowned musicians such as: Warren Wolf, Cyrus Chestnut, Dontae Winslow, Kris ...

Article: Live Review

Monterey Jazz Festival 2014

by Josef Woodard
September 27, 2014

Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey County Fairgrounds Monterey, CA September 19-21, 2014 Working the Numbers, and Young People Going Deep Numbers worked in mysterious, seemingly synchronistic ways at this year's Monterey Jazz Festival, which celebrated its 57th anniversary year partly by also respectfully toasting the 75th anniversary of the ...

Article: Extended Analysis

At Fillmore East: The 1971 Fillmore Recordings

by Doug Collette
September 27, 2014

At least initially, the announcement of the release of additional recordings of the Allman Brothers Band at the famed (and now defunct) New York venue Fillmore East was cause for celebration. Upon closer inspection of the content and, in turn, its accurate placement in the context of the seminal Southern rock band's history, the joy dissipates ...

Article: Album Review

Patrick Hall: Time Remembered: The Music Of Bill Evans

Read "Time Remembered: The Music Of Bill Evans" reviewed by John Ephland

by John Ephland
September 27, 2014

The unconventional inside a conventional skin. That's what we have here with trombonist Pat Hall's offering Time Remembered: The Music of Bill Evans. Playing it from the bottom up, so to speak, Hall's approach to the Evans corpus (along with two standards associated with the late pianist, Rodgers and Hart's “Spring Is Here" and Earl Zindars' ...

News: Performance / Tour

Ken Slavin At New York's Metropolitan Room on Saturday, Nov. 29

September 27, 2014

SAN ANTONIO, TX - The number-one male jazz singer in the home of the Alamo will return to the Big Apple Thanksgiving Weekend for his third performance at the popular Metropolitan Room, 34 W. 22nd Street. His new show, “I’ve Got a Crush on New York Town,” is slated for Saturday, November 29, at 9:30 p.m. ...