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St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest: * In the latest Miles Davis -related news, Lucid Jazz Lounge in Seattle just put on a multi-show tribute to Miles and the different...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/27/2010
I have found that with forward-thinking artists, their music can be a direct reflection of who they are. That's largely my interest in these very creative individuals--in how they think and how they view the world through their own eyes. Greg Osby is fearless in expressing his convictions, and I think you'll find that his compositions reflect that very character. He is a creator and a fresh voice in...
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St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Students from Jazz St. Louis ' JazzU program will perform in an end-of-semester showcase concert to be held at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, December 14 at Jazz at the Bistro . JazzU is a series of weekly workshops geared towards emerging middle and high school student musicians, and it serves as a companion program to the Jazz St. Louis All-Stars . In addition to weekly instruction from local faculty members,...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Award-winning Drummer and Canadian Jazz Icon Terry Clarke releases his FIRST recording as a leader, It's About Time (BlueMusicGroup.com - CD #7023) Featuring Phil Dwyer, Don Thompson, Jim Hall, Joe Lovano and Greg Osby ...and celebrates his first fifty years in Jazz!!! "It's About Time is a series of intimate and emotionally compelling jazz conversations between friends and colleagues...my sole...
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The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Today has been a different kind of day, with a good deal less time in it, so I'm posting later, and I'll be brief. More on the issues tomorrow, but today I think I'll just yammer about an album and...
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RVAjazz (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
RICHMOND JAZZ SOCIETY’S GUEST EDUCATORS SERIES Presents Award winning Pianist/Composer MICHELE ROSEWOMAN And Virginia saxophonist MARK SHIM With Mike Hawkins on bass and Billy Williams on drums Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 7PM Doors open at 6PM Capital Ale House, Downtown Music Hall 623 East Main Street Free Deck Parking at 6th & Main Advance Tix: $15 with valid RJS, Altria or Student I.D....
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what light already light (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
Tomorrow I’ll be flying to New York City for a 10 day visit. Besides going to see a saxophone orchestra, the Greg Osby 6tet, and possibly the Colbert Report (cross your fingers), I’ll be visiting Adam Parrish’s Digital Writing with Python course on its final day. Afterwards, there will be a final performance of their [...]
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Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Filed under: Jazz Part of jazz's next wave, guitarist Mike Moreno has already amassed a significant résumé recording with other emerging artists, including pianist Aaron Parks (whose ' Invisible Cinema ' (Blue Note, 2008) was widely acclaimed as one of last year's best releases), saxophonist John Ellis , trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and drummer Kendrick Scott . A native of Houston, the New...
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St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interes * On the Miles Davis beat, Howard Mandel had a couple of pertinent posts recently on his Jazz Beyond Jazz blog - one covering an NYC...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009
A native of Houston Texas, guitarist Mike Moreno has been making waves. After graduating from the famed Houston High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Moreno received a scholarship to study jazz at the New School in New York. Moreno first paid his dues playing gigs around New York, and has since been able to perform with some of the biggest names in jazz, including the {{Joshua Redman = 10606}}...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
This is indoor music: music for contemplating, sitting and smoking, letting it smolder in the ears and grow. Paul Motian, the veteran drummer whose mature, idiosyncratic percussive language has been shaped by years of playing with {{Bill Evans = 6592}}, {{Paul Bley = 5083}}, {{Keith Jarrett = 7984}} and others, shines on this album: he seems completely at home, considered, even slow at some points....
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Jazz@Rochester (Free subscription) | 05/09/2009
Still out here with the parental units in S.E. Kansas and another Friday is coming (and going). So....Take Five (more jazz links): Jazz Video Guy recently did an interesting video interview of one of my favorite jazz bloggers, Marc Myers,...
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