This album features pianist and composer Eric Muhler leading a band with Michael Wilcox on bass, Sheldon Brown on saxophones and Brian Andres on drums. The music has a modern mainstream feel to it, reminding me of the likes Don Grolnick, Bob Berg and Michael Brecker who began their careers as musicians in the 1970's. "Plunky" opens the set with a bouncy melody, then a swinging tenor solo...
Perennial - Rob Garcia 4 - BJU Records) - Part of the allure of drummer/composer's Garcia 3rd CD as a leader was the anticipation of hearing the young saxophonist Noah Preminger and pianist Dan Tepfer. Preminger, a Hartford-area native, had an excellent debut CD last year ("Dry Bridge Road")...
Because of – or perhaps in spite of – the fact that my musical tastes fall well outside of the mainstream, I have always been suspicious of something that has become the ‘latest critical darling’, even when it is from an artist I love. In recent years I remember buying ‘River: The Joni Letters’ [...] Related posts: Review: ivideosongs.com, The Website Every Budding...
From Data Breaker : Sun Circle, Story of Rats, Eric Ostrowski, Aures (Josephine) Sun Circle (Greg Davis and Zach Wallace) explore beatless space, but in a more expansive manner. Whereas Mem1 score the body's inner gurgles and expirations, Sun Circle, as their moniker implies, radiate solarized drones that wax and wane in intensity in subtle increments. The sound is akin to that of Davis's Kranky Records...
What better way to commemorate {{Michael Brecker = 5275}} than with a CD by a hard-driving big band playing his compositions. Brecker, the great tenor sax player died in 2007. His music and talent will be long remembered, and Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge have put together a wonderful selection of arrangements, starring some of today's best of players...
Consider, for a moment, the sideman. The best ones have strong ideas of their own. And those ideas just keep growing as the sideman works with strong leaders.
Author, photographer and radio host Dennis Owsley will teach another series of jazz history classes beginning at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, November 5 at the Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Rd.Owsley's topic this time is "The Great Jazz Soloists," and the course will cover the work of jazz grea...
THE LA JAZZ PRO CONNECTION will present FIVE HOURS with LARRY GOLDINGS - Piano and Organ (SET YOUR CLOCKS BACK ONE HOUR SATURDAY NIGHT)on Sunday 11a-4p November 1, 2009 Upstairs at Vitellos.The schedule will be 11a-1:00p Master Class and Improv all instruments welcome 1p-2p Networking lunch -2-4 Master Class and Playing with the PRO"S.Beginners, young professionals and working Pro's! Music fans...
In case you missed the last one ... Chuck Owen & The Jazz Surge , The Comet’s Tail: Performing the Compositions of Michael Brecker (MAMA Records) Joris Teepe Big Band , We Take No Prisoners (Challenge) Digital Primitives , Hum Crackle & Pop (Hopscotch) Steve Davis , Eloquence (Jazz Legacy) Dafnis Prieto , Si O Si Quartet: Live at Jazz Standard NYC (Dafnison) Keith Jarrett , Testament...
Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge The Comet's Tail MAMA Records 2009 On The Comet's Tail, {{Chuck Owen = 10047}}'s superb Florida-based Jazz Surge performs the compositions--yes, compositions--of the late great tenor saxophonist {{Michael Brecker = 5275}}. As Owen writes in the liner notes, "[Michael's] blinding brilliance as a performer / improviser...may have inadvertently overshadowed or simply...
Join us this Friday, October 2nd, for an in-store Barnes and Noble interview and performance session with legendary pianist, composer and accordian player Gil Goldstein Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm Barnes and Noble 150 East 86th Street New York, NY 10028 About Gil GoldsteinGil Goldstein (born 1950) is American jazz pianist and synthesizer player who started on the accordion...
Regular reader David Wells, a smoking tenor player who teaches at the University of Maine at Augusta, sent me some overtone exercises that Dave Dempsey adapted from Joe Allard's overtone routine. You can hear Michael Brecker demonstrating some of these exercises in the Berklee master class that I posted a while back. These exercises really force you to play with no pressure, and make you deal with...
Top-Selling Jazz : Jazz-Funk albums (#171 - #210) SUPA LOWERY BROS: Street Bop Live Instruments with an original Hip Hop/Jazz feel. Recommended if you like The Roots , A Tribe Called Quest , Jill, scott . CD price: $15.97 TONY ADAMO: Straight Up Deal "Like Lou Rawls fronting Tower of Power" Stuart Hamilton Amazon.co.uk "Think Lou Reed but funkified" Smoothjazz.com "Straight Up Deal" reveals the vocal...
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