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Take Five with Leslie Odom Jr.
by AAJ Staff
Meet Leslie Odom Jr.: Television, film, and Broadway star, Leslie Odom, Jr. Most recently terrified fans of the CBS drama Person of Interest as Peter Collier, the leader of a home grown terrorist cell. Other Television and Film work includes notable turns on House of Lies, Supernatural, Grey's Anatomy, Law & Order: SVU, SMASH, and ...
Laura Dreyer: Vida. Arte. Amor.
by Dan Bilawsky
Life, art, and love are all intertwined in the latest work from multi-instrumentalist Laura Dreyer--a fourteen song collection that finds her plying her trade in Brazilian-based settings and contemporary scenes. For this album, Dreyer went the wholly authentic route, traveling to Brazil to record in Rio De Janiero. The music that was born ...
Gerald Wilson dies at 96; multifaceted jazz musician
Gerald Wilson, a bandleader, trumpeter, composer, arranger and educator whose multifaceted career reached from the swing era of the 1930s to the diverse jazz sounds of the 21st century, has died. He was 96. Wilson, who had been in declining health, died Monday at his home in Los Angeles, two weeks after contracting pneumonia, said his ...
Plymouth: Plymouth
by Claudio Bonomi
Decisamente affascinanti le trame policrome, acide e vintage dei Plymouth, inedito combo dedito all'improvvisazione radicale animato dal tastierista Jamie Saft e dal chitarrista Joe Morris e che in questa nuova avventura associa una solida sezione ritmica formata dal bassista Chris Lightcap e dal batterista Gerald Clever. Dulcis in fundo i Plymouth si avvalgono in questa occasione ...
Arch Stanton Quartet To Release Egypt-inspired Second Album On Oct. 25 In Albany
Arch Stanton Quartet to Release Egypt-Inspired Second Album on Oct. 25 in Albany ALBANY, NY: The Arch Stanton Quartet will release a nine-song second album of original music, Blues For Soli, on October 25 at the Parish Public House in downtown Albany (formerly Red Square, at 388 Broadway). The performance starts at 9 p.m. A $10 ...
Lissy Walker: Wonderland
by Bruce Lindsay
Alice had many adventures in Wonderland: they could be fun, they could be touching, but they were seldom musical. Lissy Walker's second album, Wonderland, also provides lots of adventures--some fun, some touching, all musical.A quick glance at the song titles--"Something Wonderful," “Where Or When," “Isn't It Romantic?"--put this album fairly and squarely into American ...
Jeff Bridges & the Abiders At the Paramount
by Mike Perciaccante
Jeff Bridges & the Abiders The Paramount Huntington, NY August 29, 2014 Most people know Jeff Bridges because of his films, from his Ocsar-winning turn as down-and-out country music singer-songwriter Otis “Bad" Blake in Crazy Heart to his roles in The Fisher King, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Tron, True Grit and ...
Take Five With Mike Brannon
by AAJ Staff
Meet Mike Brannon: Having been born in Atlanta and then lived in North Carolina growing up, those Southern roots were likely to blame when I started playing blues/rock guitar. But I soon discovered Wes Montgomery, Hank Garland, Joe Pass, Tal Farlow and finally Pat Martino. After attending Jackie King's Guitar Conservatory of the Southwest, where ...
The 2014 Retro Futura Tour at the Pennysaver Amphitheatre at Bald Hill
by Mike Perciaccante
Katrina (ex-Katrina & The Waves), China Crisis, Midge Ure, Howard Jones & Tom Bailey from the Thompson Twins Pennysaver Amphitheatre at Bald Hill The 2014 Retro Futura Tour Farmingville, NY 11738 August 23, 2014 On a pleasant Saturday evening in late August, The Retro Futura Tour, featuring five ...
Siné Qua Non: Simple Pleasures
by Geannine Reid
In most cases the sum is greater than the parts, the Washington, D.C. based quintet called Siné Qua Non is a fine musical example of musical synergy. Led by bassist Michael Bowie, Siné Qua Non draws from many styles to create their group sound. Bowie's vision for the group is in building musical community from the ...
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