NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Before he got to work with Chaka Khan, Prince, Billy Cobham and Stanley Clarke, jazz musician Jerome Najee Rasheed cut his performing chops in city schools and clubs.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Stanley Clarke Trio Catalina Bar and Grill Hollywood, CA October 7, 2009 When bassist Stanley Clarke gathered drummer {{Lenny White = 11316}} and piano phenom {{Hiromi = 13940}} together last December to do his first-ever trio album, Jazz In The Garden (Telarc, 2009), no one knew quite what to expect...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Stanley Clarke Trio Blue Note Jazz Club New York Oct. 13, 2009 Playing before a sold-out crowd on the first of their two-night engagement at New York's Blue Note Jazz Club, the Stanley Clarke Trio got things going with "Three Wrong Notes," a straight-ahead ragtime-inspired tune. The tune at first featured {{Hiromi = 13940}} Uehara, who attacked the keys of her piano with gusto, often leaping...
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
"Pedal Up" by Rahsaan Roland Kirk After the intro, Kirk feels around for the mikes, to make sure they’re in the right place, and starts playing both saxophones slung around his neck. During this tune, he remembers a few of his favorite things for a few moments, like a seemingly random thought that pops up in the middle of a conversation. At the end, he’s gone full blown and his...
Destination: Out (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
HEALING SONG Pharaoh Sanders Live at the East Impulse : 1972 PS, tenor sax; Joseph Bonner, piano, harmonium; Lonnie Liston Smith, piano, flute, percussion; Marvin Peterson, trumpet; Carlos Garnett, flute, vocals; Harold Vick, vocals, sax; Stanley Clarke, bass; Cecil McBee, bass; Lawrence Killian, congas and bailophone; William Hart, drums. Maybe it’s the encroaching winter, maybe it’s the...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
He's been around for a few years as a member of the Turtle Island Quartet, but for some he's best known for his work on Stanley Clarke's welcome return to fusion, The Toys of Men (Heads Up, 2007). Either way, The Playmaker isn't the violinist's first release as a leader--that would be Speed of Light (Self Published, 2008)--but it's the first to expand his trio, featuring guitarist Mike Abraham and...
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Here's the second of our previews, picking out gigs from the London Jazz Festival. These are two choices from Rob Mallows, who runs the 500-strong London Jazz Meetup Group . The perspective of an unashamed fan. Thanks Rob! "What I'm looking forward to: Corea, Clarke, White's Power of 3/ Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, November 15th, Barbican Three quarters of Return to Forever hit London in a new...
NewBlackMan (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
‘Hearing’ Meshell Again by Mark Anthony Neal Part of the initial appeal of Meshell Ndegeocello, one off the first artists signed to Madonna’s Maverick label, was her effortless exoticism. Arriving on the scene in 1993 with Plantation Lullabies and seemingly from a nether post somewhere between Trey Ellis’s “new black aesthetic” and Biggie’s “Big Poppa,”...
Matrixsynth (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
"Jazz, Funk and R&B Legend George Duke and Quartet To Perform Benefit Concert for the Bob Moog Foundation and the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, CA CARSLBAD, CA/ASHEVILLE, NC On Friday, November 6, 2009 at 7 PM, George Duke —whose very name is synonymous with funk, R&B, pop, soul and jazz and who is heralded as a world class keyboardist, synthesizer pioneer, composer and Grammy...
DCist (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
The Stanley Clarke Trio (l-r): Hiromi, Clarke, Lenny White Bassist Stanley Clarke was not long out of high school in 1971, when he moved to New York from his native Philadelphia. In the Big Apple, his virtuosic talent made an immediate splash and landed him stints with jazz legends such as Horace Silver and Joe Henderson . But it wasn't until the following year that Clarke's career really took off....
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Bassist Stanley Clarke has explored many musical genres throughout his storied career, crossing and re-crossing musical boundaries to collaborate with everyone from {{Art Blakey = 5069}} and {{Joe Henderson = 7574}} to {{Chick Corea = 5920}} and {{Al Di Meola = 6282}}. So it's surprising that Jazz in the Garden is his maiden voyage as the leader of an acoustic band...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Will Austin Camilo Estrada: Not a String Boiler Do bass players really boil their strings? It has been said that boiling bass strings in water can bring them back to life. If your bass strings are sounding dull and muddy, you can boil them up and they will play like new. Is this a myth? We all know how important bass strings are to survival. For answers, let us turn to bass master, Camilo Estrada...
St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Bassist Bernard Harris will headline a concert of "inspirational smooth jazz" at 7:30 p.m., Friday, October 16 at the Hilton Regency Conference Center , 400 Regency Park Drive in O'Fallon, IL. Citing influences such as Larry Graham, Stanley Clarke, and Louis Johnson of The Brothers Johnson, Harris is a left-hander who plays in a "lead bass" style that also invites comparison to...
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Long lost material is unearthed in this collection of the great Scott Lafaro's music.
Biased BBC (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
For those still interested in the ongoing saga, this comes from the Daily Mail's Charles Sale column: Saboteur hunt at 5live The BBC are mounting a top-level probe, using CCTV and computer information, to find who was responsible for tampering with an early Saturday morning 5live sports news bulletin featuring a pre-recorded Jacqui Oatley interview with Wigan manager Roberto Martinez. The Martinez...
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rocarmani | 02/17/2009
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drummer40 | 05/05/2008
For Immediate Rhythmic Release Traps Magazine Cues Up Lenny White's Return To Forever; Historic Hit Man Drum Battles; Progressive Percussionists Of The 70's; Moments with Miles Davis Discography And Much More! San Jose, Calif., -- Enter Music Publishing, publishers of hip, drum/percussion magazines worldwide, today released its Summer Issue of Traps Magazine . Committed to covering “The Art of Drumming”,...
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This Issue of Traps Covers Lenny White and much more
This release is really just a preview of what should be considered one of the greatest written. edited view of the evolution of jazz-fusion drumming. All...
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