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Night School: An Evening with Stanley Clarke & Friends
by Woodrow Wilkins
Stanley Clarke Night School: An Evening with Stanley Clarke & Friends Heads Up 2007 Over the years, Jaco Pastorius has gained a lot of fame for delivering the electric from the bonds of background obscurity to solo freedom. However, about the time he was blazing a trail of ...
Shilts: HeadBoppin
by Woodrow Wilkins
Many may know Paul “Shilts Weimar by his fronting the British urban jazz funk group Down to the Bone. His solo release, HeadBoppin, is another side to this sax specialist from London. A musician since his early teens, Shilts has toured all over the world, backing such jazz artists as Nancy Wilson, George ...
Maynard Ferguson: The One and Only Maynard Ferguson
by Woodrow Wilkins
Throughout his sixty-plus year career, Maynard Ferguson featured numerous sidemen on varying arrangements of jazz standards, covers of pop hits and original songs. As a young man, he performed with such legends as Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Kenton. As a bandleader, his stage band and studio guests included a virtual who's who of jazz, ...
Rob Fried: Wind Song
by Woodrow Wilkins
Bassist and vocalist Rob Fried has some musical heavyweights attached to his resume. He has opened for Yes, The Manhattan Transfer and B.B. King. And he's performed with artists such as Arthur Lipner, Joe Beck and Jay Azzolina, among many others. A composer of about forty songs, Fried has performed at clubs and ...
John Pizzarelli: Dear Mr. Sinatra
by Woodrow Wilkins
There's something about John Pizzarelli that makes anything he does all right--or better than all right. The son of jazz guitar legend Bucky Pizzarelli, the 47-year-old guitarist and vocalist is that rare hybrid of a throwback to yesteryear and one who is contemporary. His music is as fresh as it is familiar. Pizzarelli ...
Hiromi: Time Control
by Woodrow Wilkins
Hiromi Uehara won't be pigeonholed. “I really don't have barriers to any kind of music, she says, adding that her tastes include heavy metal, classical music and “anything else. That might explain why her music can't be defined by genre. Of course, there are elements of jazz, but this Japanese-born keyboardist/pianist easily blends rock rhythms, classical ...
Karen Blitx: Spin This
by Woodrow Wilkins
It started when she was a little church girl. Listening to her organist mother sing the harmony parts of hymns, Karen Blixt soon developed a knack for improvising. The New York-born West Coast transplant has spent her life exploring different ways to present a song. After years of live performances in nightclubs, weddings, ...
Walter Beasley: Ready for Love
by Woodrow Wilkins
For Walter Beasley, the journey began in the 1970s with recordings by Grover Washington Jr. and the dynamic duo of Robert Flack and Donny Hathaway. The former opened his mind and ears to the boundless world of the saxophone. The latter offered Hathaway's voice as an icon for inspiration. With a nod to Earth, Wind & ...
Justin Hayford: It All Belongs to You
by Woodrow Wilkins
Covers can get old fast. That's especially true when it seems almost every vocalist--from established veterans to relative newcomers--does the same selections from The American Songbook. So it's delightfully refreshing when an artist comes along with musical treasures that aren't so familiar. Pianist, vocalist and arranger Justin Hayford presents It All Belongs to You, ...
Lee Ritenour: Smoke 'n' Mirrors
by Woodrow Wilkins
With a deep admiration for Wes Montgomery and a penchant for Brazilian music, Lee Ritenour is one of the most prolific guitarists in modern jazz. Whether as a front man, sideman or member of a group, “Captain Fingers can always be counted on for quality music. A Grammy winner, Ritenour has performed or recorded with several ...
