2nd – 7th May May 2012 sees the return of the ever-popular and ground-breaking Cheltenham Jazz Festival, one of the country’s most celebrated musical events and an absolute highlight of the arts calendar for spring this year. Always a hit with both audiences and artists, the Cheltenham Jazz Festival prides …
by Bill Donaldson Unusual, yes. Unknown, no. Lorraine Feather’s most recent album, Tales of the Unusual, with full-blown oddness takes listeners even deeper into spookiness than her previous ones suggested. Feather’s interests, which are explored endlessly in movies and novels but not so much in music, involve those known but …
Glenn Astarita These celebrated musicians offset the conventional or perhaps anticipated stylizations of jazz piano trio fare by personalizing, reconfiguring, and injecting a host of enchanting events into the grand schema. As the story goes, the premise for these compositions are based on the exchanges the musicians had with master …
IAN MARTIN BARGH (pianist) was born on January 8, 1935 in Prestwick, Scotland and passed away January 1, 2012. By the age of 17, he was playing classical piano and working with jazz groups and dance bands all over the Midlands, England and Scotland until 1957. It was then he …
By John Stevenson In a year of countless remarkable recordings, Radio Jumbo will be remembered as one of 2011’s most distinctive jazz recordings. London is known for its staggering array of cultures and genres of music. However, accomplished London-based, Dominican-born guitarist, Cameron Pierre, has certainly helped to place the French …
Glenn Astarita American trumpeter Russ Johnson and Swiss saxophonist Co Streiff certainly abide by the press release statements, indicating the musicians’ cross-cultural inferences and recurring use of melody within the progressive-jazz and improvisational realm. Recorded live, sans the final piece “Confession,” the quartet toggles between feathery light grooves and pulsating …
by: Geannine Reid Jazz with a twist, yes I would certainly qualify Brulee as exactly that. A jazz duo in nature, Julie Weiner shares the vocal duties with Doug Onstadt, the two of them team up and sing together on a few cuts, but overall alternate the vocal duties. They …
GRAMMY-WINNING COMPOSER TERENCE BLANCHARD COMPLETES SCORE FOR LUCASFILM’S RED TAILS, SET FOR RELEASE JANUARY 20TH BY TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX Film is Golden-Globe nominated Composer’s 52nd film score and stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Ne-Yo and more Los Angeles, CA— World-renowned film composer and musician Terence Blanchard has completed …
1 .Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra – Treelines – Justin Times 2. Corey Weeds – Just Like That – Cellar Live 3. Heavyweights Brass Band – Don’t Bring Me Down – Indie 4. Chris Andrew – Strange Days – Chronograph 5. Francois Bourassa Quartet – Idiosyncrasie – Effendi’ 6. Nightcrawlers – …
By: Edward Blanco Pianist Assaf Gleizner, bassist and guitarist Koby Hayon and drummer Nadav Snir Zeinker share many things in common: all Israeli-born, all eventually relocate to, and are now part of, New York and its vibrant jazz scene, and finally, together, they are Trio Shalva (the Hebrew word for …
By: Edward Blanco A well-travelled person who ventures beyond his home country, garners a wealth of experience having the benefit of exploring the different cultures, life styles and yes, music of the world. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, pianist Gabriel Palatchi decided to pack up his bags after graduation in …
by: Geannine Reid Pedigreed with degrees from Berklee College of Music and a Masters in Vocal Jazz Performance from Manhattan School of Music, Composer, Lyricist, Vocalist and Vocal Instrumentalist Jocelyn Medina serves up her sophomore release We Are Water with effortless intricacy and an international flavor. Her compositions are lyrically …
MARSALIS WILL CONTRIBUTE TO “CBS THIS MORNING” AND “CBS SUNDAY MORNING” MARSALIS’ FIRST CBS NEWS APPEARANCE WILL BE ON MONDAY, JAN. 16, AS THE NATION OBSERVES DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.’S BIRTHDAY Wynton Marsalis, internationally acclaimed musician, composer and educator, has been named Cultural Correspondent for CBS. It was announced …
by: Geannine Reid Hibbard and ever busy side-man is credited with appearing on albums by Joe Gransden’s Big Band, trumpeter Melvin Jones’, newest release Pivot, the Derek Trucks Band and Soul Stew Revival with Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi and winning a 2010 Grammy Award for his playing and horn …
By: Edward Blanco A stalwart of the Australian Jazz scene, drummer Andrew Dickeson decides to step out on his own after a 25-year career as a sideman to such legends as Mark Murphy, Lee Konitz, Red Holloway, Junior Cook and Johnny Griffin among others. He does so with a superbly …
Glenn Astarita Gone are the days when bassist/composer Kyle Eastwood may have relied on a name recognition boost via his famous actor father and staunch jazz advocate, Clint Eastwood. Simply stated, the technically proficient bassist has emerged as a significant composer within the broad realm of jazz while dividing his …
