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Westchester Jazz Orchestra / Sandvika Storband / Band of Bones
by Jack Bowers
Westchester Jazz OrchestraMaiden Voyage Suite WJO2010 The heavy-hitting Westchester Jazz Orchestra, one of whose ambitions under artistic director Mike Holober is to broaden its musical horizons, devotes its second album to renovating for a sixteen-member ensemble the music of pianist Herbie Hancock's classic recording Maiden Voyage (Blue Note, ...
The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: Forever Lasting - Live in Tokyo
by Edward Blanco
The Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra, the New York big band founded in 1966, loved to tour Japan resulting in its popular 1974 release of Live In Tokyo (Denon). Continuing the tradition of playing Monday nights at New York's Village Vanguard, as well as performing in Japan, The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra--as the Thad Jones / ...
Walt Weiskopf Quartet: Live at Koger Hall
by AAJ Italy Staff
Documenta un concerto del 2008, alla Koger Hall della University of South Carolina, questo Live firmato dal Walt Weiskopf Quartet. Un disco che si snoda attraverso otto brani di media durata, che riescono a catturare l'attenzione di chi li ascolta per la genuinità di un jazz suonato con la giusta grinta, su tempi medio veloci e ...
2011 Cape Bank Jazz in Somers Point (NJ) Set for March 8-11
The Somers Point Jazz Society is proud to announce the partial line-up for Cape Bank Jazz @ the Point 2012, a 4-day jazz festival with 10 great groups performing March 8-11, at various venues in Somers Point, New Jersey. Once again, organizers are touting the annual March event as the 'greatest jazz festival value in the ...
Steely Dan | Santa Barbara | Review | Pics
By L. Paul Mann Steely Dan :: 07.06.11 :: Santa Barbara Bowl :: Santa Barbara, CA July 6th was an unusually crisp and warm evening in Santa Barbara with light Santa Ana winds buffeting the hillsides above the city. It was a perfect summer evening for a concert by the veteran jazz rock fusion band Steely ...
Walt Weiskopf's Quartet Captured Live and Fired Up
Walt Weiskopf occupies a place among the very best but perhaps lesser-known post-Trane tenors. That does not mean that he (or the others) sound like Trane in a direct way. They just have an essential quality to their playing that has some of the Trane hardness, speed of inventive thought and intensity. There's his first live ...
Walt Weiskopf: Walt Weiskopf: Quartet Live
by Edward Blanco
A technician with the tenor saxophone, when Walt Weiskopf plays, it's clear that it's him; his voice is sharp, crisp and totally unique. His style is dynamic and comparable, in some respects, to the late jazz icon, Stan Getz.. On Walt Weiskopf: Quartet Live, the tenor saxophonist leads his quartet on what happens to be his ...
Walt Weiskopf: Walt Weiskopf: Quartet Live
by Doron Orenstein
Besides being the tenor man onstage with Steely Dan, Walt Weiskopf is first and foremost a prolific solo artist. With over 15 critically acclaimed recordings as a leader, Walt is not one to rest on laurels collected over the course of years, playing alongside legends such as Buddy Rich, Frank Sinatra, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and The Vanguard ...
One Track Mind: Walt Weiskopf, "Love for Sale" (2011)
Saxophonist Walt Weiskopf's first-ever in-concert recording Walt Weiskopf Quartet: Live, issued earlier in the month on Colorado-based Capri Records, is special in another personal way. It's dedicated to drummer Tony Reedus, who died from a pulmonary embolism less than a year after this show was recorded in April 2008 on the campus of the University of ...
John Fedchock New York Sextet: Live at the Red Sea Jazz Festival
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There is a rugged elegance in the kinetic energy that propels the music played by John Fedchock's New York Sextet. The performances on Live at the Red Sea Music Festival hark back to the hard driving live bebop performances that powered on in the best venues during the '50s and '60s. This does not mean that ...
