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Boing Boing tv's UK-based music correspondent Russell Porter interviews the young experimental jazz band EMPIRICAL, from London. Today's episode includes an extended musical interlude, to ensure the mellowest possible Monday for all the peeps out there in BBtv-land. The band's "influences" roster says it the best: Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Booker Little, Miles Davis,...
"This music says so much, particularly in revealing the warmth these musicians feel for each other, their interest in experimentation, and their love of their craft. In their choice of fine songs, performed in new and different settings, they invite you to become involved. Listen, and you will understand and appreciate the shade of difference here." - Marian McPartland, liner notes...
CARNAVALITO TUPAC AMARU Gato Barbieri Fenix Flying Dutchman: 1971 GB, tenor sax, flute; Lonnie Liston Smith, keyboards; Joe Beck, guitar; Ron Carter, bass; Nana Vasconcelos, percussion, conga, berimbau; Lenny White III, drums. While Gato Barbieri’s Fenix is a fine example of rhythmic free jazz, we’ve mostly been spinning this platter because its best tracks have a lazy, sticky, summer vibe. These tunes...
Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 6pm Legendary jazz musician Herbie Hancock, known for playing with the likes of Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter and Chick Corea. An audacious pianist renown for harmoniously mixing in elements of Jazz into soul,...
Reese's Peanut Butter cups work because, as the old ads used to say, they're two great tastes that go great together. Felicitous blending isn't limited to chocolate and peanut butter. I love jazz and I'm fascinated by all things Indian...
Jazz legends of both the past and the present will be added to the ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame at a Lincoln Center celebration next Tuesday, June 17th. The 2008 recipients of the ASCAP Jazz Living Legend Award to have their names inscribed on the wall include bassist Ron Carter, composer-arranger and saxophonist Bill Holman and tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins. Three ASCAP inductees will be honored posthumouslytrumpeter...
ASCAP President and Chairman Marilyn Bergman announced that ASCAP will add six music greats to the ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame The invitation-only event will be hosted by Ms. Bergman in The Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center in Manhattan Tuesday June 17th beginning at 6:30 PM...
The multi-lap event is expected to attract most Wessex Centre experts, including champion Colin Crease, Lee Hassall and Jon Bees.The North Somerset club are staging an evening timed and observation trial tomorrow at Fairy Hill, Compton Dando.The hour-long battle against the clock is expected to attract upwards of 40 starters, including regular award winners Shane Lovall, Tom Smith, Martin Lawford,...
Miles From India (Four Quarters/Times Square) is an exultant two-CD meeting of Eastern and Western musicians covering the India in Miles Davis — mostly the open-road drones and raga-funk collages on his 1969-75 electric records but also earlier, modal landmarks such as “So What” and “All Blues,” from 1959’s Kind of Blue. At New York’s [...]
