Results for "Weather Report"

Wayne Shorter: An Essential Top Ten Albums

by Chris May
August 26, 2023

At the start of September 2021, trumpeter Terence Blanchard released Absence (Blue Note), dedicated to saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter, who for health reasons had recently been obliged to retire from performing, at least temporarily. Some people celebrating their eighty-eighth birthday, as Shorter did the previous month, might not welcome being the dedicatee of an album ...

Flow Festival 2023

by Rob Garratt
August 25, 2023

Flow Festival Suvilahti, Helsinki, Finland August 11-13, 2023 The stark quantity and sheer quality of improvised and instrumental music on offer at Finland's Flow Festival only starts to make sense when you dig into its roots. Once loudly crowned by Vogue as “the Nordics countries' coolest festival"--a fact the event's ...

Manuel Valera Quintet: Vessel

by Chris May
August 7, 2023

Cuban born and raised, pianist and composer Manuel Valera moved to the US in 1994, attending high school in Florida before moving to New York City in 2000 to study at the New School. His classmates included Robert Glasper, Mike Moreno, Michael Rodriguez, Marcus Strickland and E.J. Strickland. Fast company. Valera's career as ...

Jack DeJohnette: Sorcery

by Scott Gudell
August 7, 2023

Jack DeJohnette gets around. The Chicago born drummer was drawn to R&B and bebop in the late 1950s and eventually toyed with a more avant-garde jazz sound when he spent some time with the esoteric Sun Ra. It seems like DeJohnette played in the big leagues almost from the beginning since, by the time he moved ...

Weather Report, Joe Zawinul, Mark Isham and Aki Rissanen

by Len Davis
July 28, 2023

Music from Weather Report and Joe Zawinul and trumpeter Mark Isham paying tribute to Miles Davis. New music from German band Metrik System featuring Richard Hallebeek. Also, the John Irvine Band, the latest from Michael Formanek, Anthony Pirog and Mike Pride and from Finland, pianist Aki Rissanen.Playlist Weather Report “Boogie Boogie Waltz" from The ...

Tribute recordings for Mahavishu Orchestra, Miles Davis and John Coltrane

by Len Davis
July 21, 2023

A feature on tribute releases from The Mahavishnu Project, Yo Miles with Wadada Leo Smith and Henry Kaiser. Steve Morse with a tribute to Steely Dan. Steve Lukather pays tribute to John Coltrane and Mike Stern plays Miles Davis. The music of Jeff Beck from Eric Johnson and and the band Trinity pay tribute to Weather ...

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2023

by Mark Sullivan
July 19, 2023

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec June 29-July 3, 2023 The 2023 festival continued the broad offering of free shows that was so prominent last year. They were frequently strong enough to vie with the ticketed concerts (which were also quite diverse and featured marquee artists from jazz and adjacent ...

Shakti At Hammersmith Eventim Apollo

by Ian Patterson
July 4, 2023

Shakti Hammersmith Eventim Apollo Hammersmith, London June 27, 2023 All things must come to pass. Still, it came as a shock to learn that Shakti's two concerts in London would be their last in the UK. Earlier dates in India, a summer tour of Europe and North American dates through August ...

Dom Um Romao

Born: August 3, 1925

Dom Um Romao - percussion (1925 - 2005)

A legendary name in bossa nova, and one of the premier drummers who introduced Brazilian percussion and rhythms into jazz, Dom Um Romão began his career playing drums at balls and cabarets in Rio De Janeiro at the end of the 1940s. He also worked at Rádio Tupi supporting singers and formed, in the late 1950s, the group Copa Trio, playing at Beco das Garrafas in Copacabana.

In 1958 Romão and another great drummer, Juquinha, participated in the recording of the record "Canção do Amor Demais" by Elizeth Cardoso, with musics by Tom Jobim and guitar by João Gilberto - the album is considered a landmark in bossa nova. In the 1960s Dom Um Romao joined Sergio Mendes' jazz ensemble. His first album, Dom Um, came out in 1964. The next year he moved to the United States and continued to work with Sergio Mendes. He became more globally known in 1971, when he replaced Airto Moreira in the legendary fusion band Weather Report.

John Apelgren: Jazz, Resilience, and the Forbidden People

by Nenad Georgievski
June 26, 2023

With a career spanning 30 years in the music scene, John Apelgren can boast experiences like few others. As an integral part of what is called the jazz scene or jazz culture in Macedonia, he has performed with various jazz ensembles, ranging from the old Radio Television Skopje (RTS) Big Band to performances with the new ...