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News: Performance / Tour

Resonance Jazz Ensemble Premieres Fearless Force Concert At SFJAZZ Center

September 19, 2014

Resonance Jazz Ensemble, the Bay Area’s one-of-a-kind jazz octet premieres new works pushing the jazz envelope in their Fearless Force concert at the SF Jazz Center’s Robert A. Miner Auditorium, 201 Franklin Street, San Francisco on Saturday, October 18th at 8 pm. The band will introduce new compositions by band members with arrangements of jazz and ...

News: Recording

Spirojazz's "City Of Dreams" Pays Homage To Chicago With Funk, Blues, And World Music Influences

September 20, 2014

Spirojazz's City of Dreams is not music to sleep on; after all, it reflects a city that doesn't sleep, so tough that one of its great men brushes snow days off. Here the dream is not just audacious but realized in all tracks. A strong Motown feeling is evoked by the rhythmic music, making a danceable ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, September 19-25

September 20, 2014

The fall jazz harvest is in full swing, and the coming week show no signs of a slow-down, from New York guitarist Joel Harrison at Jazz Central to Chick Corea and Vigil and The Cookers at the Dakota, as well as local highlights— the return of Monk in Motian, Connie Evingson at Parma, Mary Louise Knutson ...

News: Music Industry

Blue Note Records Welcomes Jamie Cullum to the Family

September 20, 2014

Blue Note Records Welcomes Jamie Cullum to the Family Special NYC shows September 29 to preview his upcoming album INTERLUDE Also opening for Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden Blue Note Records is proud to announce that they’ll be the new US home of British jazz star Jamie Cullum and all will have a chance to ...

Article: Live Review

The Meter Men at the Ogden Theater, Denver

by Geoff Anderson
September 19, 2014

The Meter Men Ogden Theater Denver, CO September 11, 2014 Funkify your life Get on down You can be the funkiest one In your town That pretty much sums up the philosophy of the Meters and now the Meter Men. In the song “Funkify Your ...

Article: Album Review

Chris Dundas / Arild Andersen / Bendik Hofseth / Patrice Heral: Oslo Odyssey

Read "Oslo Odyssey" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
September 19, 2014

What's up with Oslo, Norway? Two of the outstanding recordings by of 2014 have come out of the city: pianist Paul Bley's Play Blue (ECM Records), and now Los Angeles-based pianist Chris Dundas' Oslo Odyssey (BLM Records). Dundas' profile isn't exactly soaring through the stars. He has one previous recording as a leader to ...

Article: Album Review

Ernie Watts: A Simple Truth

Read "A Simple Truth" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
September 19, 2014

After sixteen albums as leader, two-time Grammy-Award-winning saxophonist Ernie Watts presents a concept album, a journey of sorts, a musical description of a “jazz day" beginning with a morning piece and ending with an evening song in declaration of A Simple Truth. Recorded in Cologne, Germany, with his touring European quartet--together for over fifteen years--Watts imagines ...

Article: Lyrics

I 10 CD nel CD-Player di.... Jeff Albert

by Vincenzo Roggero
September 19, 2014

01. Jason Roebke -High/Red/Center (Delmark -2014). Trovare un buon equilibrio tra forma e libertà in ensemble di medio/grandi dimensioni è veramente difficile. Jason c'è riuscito molto bene in questo disco con alcuni dei miei musicisti preferiti di Chicago. 02. Alvin Fielder/Dave Dove/Jason Jackson/Damon Smith -From-to-From (Balance Point Acoustics -2013). Vi è ...

News: Festival

Jazz This Week: Joe McPhee and Survival Unit III, Old Webster Jazz and Blues Festival, Snarky Puppy, and More

September 19, 2014

It should be another good weekend to get out and hear some live jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with several free shows featuring local performers, plus a couple of noteworthy touring acts coming to town. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, there are a couple of free concerts, as guitarist Vincent Varvel plays for ...

News: Obituary

Kenny Wheeler, contemporary jazz musician, dies aged 84

September 19, 2014

Trumpeter and composer became part of the free-improvisation movement after joining the London jazz scene Kenny Wheeler, one of the giants of British jazz, has died aged 84. Born in Canada in 1930, the trumpeter and composer joined the London jazz scene after moving to Britain in 1952. He played in groups alongside the likes of ...