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August Is Vocalists Month At The Sunday Renaissance Jazz Brunch In Harlem

August 2, 2014

Vocals Month at Harlem's Renaissance Jazz Brunch The weekly Harlem brunch that has a reputation for fantastic food and top notch music, the Renaissance Jazz Brunch, features a month of singers: Tony Jefferson, Lainie Cooke, Whitney Marchelle, Nat Adderley Jr. (and a special Motown Revue), and Dennis Jeter. For reservations: 866-317-1152. TONY JEFFERSON AUGUST 3 As ...

Article: Album Review

Simon Phillips: Protocol II

Read "Protocol II" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
August 2, 2014

Protocol II arrives fourteen years after drummer Simon Phillips' last leader date--the hard bop and post-bop based Vantage Point (Jazzline Records, 2000). And it comes approximately a quarter century after the original Protocol (Music for Nations, 1988)--a true solo date that had Phillips covering all the instruments, filling in the space around his calling-card drumming.

Article: Live Review

Tedeschi Trucks Band at Red Rocks

by Geoff Anderson
August 2, 2014

Tedeschi Trucks Band Red Rocks Denver, CO July 25, 2014 Never underestimate the power of a cover. A cleverly selected and well executed cover tune can be like a firecracker with a too-short fuse, a shot of vodka when you expected water, a lightning bolt out of a clear, blue sky. ...

Article: Album Review

Jim Stranahan Little Big Band: Migration to Higher Ground

Read "Migration to Higher Ground" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
August 2, 2014

The big band sounds gets an infusion of swing and swagger on Migration to Higher Ground, a session of high-octane straight ahead jazz from Jim Stranahan's dynamic Little Big Band. The album has Denver-based saxophonist and educator Jim Stranahan leading a twelve-piece ensemble comprised of some of the best players in Colorado gyrating through six big ...

Article: Jazz Poetry

The Fire in Coltrane’s Lungs

by Larry Jaffe
August 2, 2014

When the horn sounds the jazz begins Unity rediscovered A crisscross divergence of souls Coltrane steals the birthright of his heritage makes it into music The horn blasts loud and not so pure-- Life lives between the notes not at the end of the song Painfully hidden tones magically appear ...

Article: Album Review

Paul Marinaro: Without A Song

Read "Without A Song" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
August 2, 2014

There are tribute albums and then, there are musical homages that have far more personal meaning for an artist then dedications to other musicians. Such is the case for Chicago-based singer Paul Marinaro whose debut album Without A Song is a heartfelt tip of the hat to his 85-year old father Joseph, whose unfulfilled dreams of ...

News: Recording

Victoria Blythe Releases James Brown's I Feel Good On New Five-song Ep

August 1, 2014

On August 1, Universal Pictures released the James Brown biopic “Get on Up.” In recognition of this event and for airplay in connection with it, acclaimed SF Bay Area singer Victoria Blythe released her new cover of James Brown's “I Got You (I Feel Good)”. Blythe slows down and heats up Brown's classic track with just ...

News: Performance / Tour

Vocalist Nicolas Bearde & Special Guest Nat Adderley Jr. To Perform At Yoshi's San Francisco, Sept. 13

August 1, 2014

Nicolas Bearde is a San Francisco Bay Area treasure. As a charter member of Bobby McFerrin’s Voicestra ensemble as well as the innovative vocal sextet SoVoSó, he’s long been internationally recognized as a versatile and fearless vocal improviser, charismatic performer, and distinctive jazz and soul stylist. Bearde will bring it all to Yoshi’s San Francisco on ...

News: Radio

Sophisticated Ladies & Red Hot Mommas This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

August 1, 2014

Heartbreakers, man-takers, vamps, tramps and the girl next door—through the decades they've all shown up in song. Songwriters are forever trying to decipher the feminine mystique, and singers never tire of crooning about the many aspects of the female spirit. In the spotlight this week on Riverwalk Jazz, New Orleans' Topsy Chapman joins The Jim Cullum ...

Article: Album Review

Mitch Shiner And The BloomingTones Big Band: Fly!

by Dan Bilawsky
August 1, 2014

"Hoosier Jazz" isn't an actual sub-genre of music, but that geographical tag fits this album so well. Drummer/Percussionist Mitch Shiner, a graduate of Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, put together a Bloomington-based big band built around his IU chums, be they students, alums, local hotshots or professors. Then he simply fed them some killer arrangements ...