As Latin-jazz legends go, saxophonist Ray Santos ranks high on the list. Few living Latin-jazz artists today can claim to have played in and arranged for the bands of Machito, Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez. To give you an idea of what this trifecta means, it would be akin to a saxophonist playing in the Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Woody Herman bands. In addition, Ray is one of only a handful of...
Every once in a while another 100 Best Jazz Recordings list pops up. A new one is batting about the ethernet. This time the source is the UK newspaper the Telegraph. The compiler is Martin Gayford, an art critic,...
Rowles, the daughter of pianist and composer Jimmy Rowles, was a fixture in the L.A. jazz scene. She had built a following in Europe, where she regularly toured. Stacy Rowles, a jazz trumpet and fluegelhorn player and vocalist who was the daughter of pianist and composer Jimmy Rowles, has died. She was 54.
Listening to the Customs House Big Band in an auditoreum is quite an experience; listening to them in the confined space of the New Crown Hotel is positively mindblowing! Imagine being dropped into a massed band session by the Stan Kenton, Count Basie and Woody Herman Bands and it gives you an overall impression of the sound. Simply incredible. Not than I'm suggesting that the CHBB is equal to all...
I was (briefly) in college in 1992. My best friend was a very talented drummer name Mike. We played in a jazz group together called, for no apparent reason, the Pre-Flattened Cats. One day I was in Mike’s room, high up in one of the dorm towers, sitting on the windowsill and looking out over [...]
With his new quintet, Joe Lovano takes a multicultural approach American saxophonist and composer Joe Lovano is touring with his new quintet, Us Five, and their upcoming show in Prague is the highlight of this season's Agharta Jazz Festival. Born in 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio, Lovano is a powerhouse on the tenor and straight alto saxes, as well as assorted woodwind instruments. He ranks among the top...
Alicia Keys - Alicia Keys Smooth Jazz Tribute (CC Entertainment ) Aram Shelton - Two Cities (Delmark ) Art Blakey - Jazz Messengers (LP W/Tshirt) (Phantom ) Charlie Parker - Bird On 52ND Street (Original Jazz Classics ) Collage - Fifty-Four Minutes Twenty Seconds (Wool ) Crane River Jazz Band - Storming Session (United States Of Distribution LTD. ) Crane River Jazz Band - Storming Session: Germany...
Guitarist Joel Harrison and percussionist George Schuller have put together an impressive sextet to honor and perform the works of Jimmy Giuffre (1921-2008.) They call their program "Whirrr - the Music of Jimmy Giuffre" and are bringing it to Firehouse 12, 45 Crown Street in New Haven on Frida...
For over a decade, brass master Dan McMillion, an alumnus of the {{Woody Herman = 7596}} and {{Buddy Rich = 10668}} ensembles, has been maintaining the legacy of {{Maynard Ferguson = 6679}} to a very high standard in the Central Florida region, winning a Grammy nomination for Up Your Brass (Sea Breeze, 2002). This sixth release--dedicated to the memory of McMillion's wife Lillian, who passed away earlier...
On October 12th, the night before his 80th birthday, alto saxophonist Lee Konitz will join Eastman School of Music Jazz Studies Chair Harold Danko for a night of music in Kilbourn Hall at 8:00 pm. The concert is free. During...
The beauty of jazz is that there's always a great musician you've never heard of lurking in the e-bins of online jazz stores. One of these fabulous phantoms was trumpeter Dick Collins, whose horn had a pert, lyrical sound that wasn't too hot or too cool. During the 1950s, Collins recorded as a sideman with various San Francisco artists and with Woody Herman and Les Brown up until 1962, when he presumably...
Trumpeter, composer, and arranger Mark Buselli leads a talented big band through a set of enjoyable classics and original compositions. Indiana-based trumpeter Mark Buselli's latest album is an elegant, subdued collection of 11 big-band arrangements featuring vocals and strings. An Old Soul, as the title suggests, serves as a contemporary tribute to the classic big bands of Woody Herman, Artie Shaw,...
Day in the Life 2009 watch hollywood movie Online Day in the Life 2009 latest hollwood movie Online Day in the Life 2009 hollywood movie Online Day in the Life 2009 review hollywood movies Day in the Life 2009 watch online free Day in the Life 2009 hollywood movie english movie Day in the Life 2009 download Day in the Life 2009
Videos
