Few can match Steve Turre’s skill as a trombonist. His technical mastery has seen him win five Down Beat magazine polls. Since his formative experience as a teenager playing alongside Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Turre has gone on to play with artists such as Ray Charles, B.B. King, Woody Shaw, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie and McCoy …
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Esperanza’s Chamber Music & a Marsalis Celebration – Bob
Centuries ago, chamber music was the music for the masses — the music in which people from nearly every segment of society could find meaning and relevance. A decade into the 21st century, Esperanza Spalding — the bassist, vocalist and composer who first appeared on the jazz scene in 2008 — takes a contemporary approach …
Reed Legends Unite – Bob
First meeting in the clubs of Los Angeles’ Central Avenue in the early 1960s, and following separate but superlative careers, tenor legends Hadley Caliman and Pete Christlieb reunited in the fall of 2009 to perform a couple of concerts and record a new studio CD — “Reunion” — taking up where they left off some …
Saxes Are Wild – Bob
Jimmy Amadie was a hot jazz pianist in the 1950s, playing for such notables as Mel Torme and Woody Herman. His career was seemingly on the fast track until 1960, when an extreme form of tendonitis in his hands derailed his playing career for decades. After several surgeries and plenty of physical therapy, the former …
New Music – Bob
A San Francisco prodigy known for fire and fluidity in his deep-groove guitar work, Barry Finnerty was one of the top players on the New York jazz scene from the ’70s through the ’90s. His brilliant playing with the Crusaders, Miles Davis and the Brecker Brothers put him on the international map. In the late-’90s, …
New Music from Washburne, Bonafede – Bob
Chris Washburne has been called “one of the best trombonists in New York” by the New York Times, and was voted as a “Rising Star of the Trombone” in the Downbeat Critic’s Polls of 2008 and 2009. He’s performed with numerous jazz and Latin groups, including Tito Puente, Anthony Braxton and the Duke Ellington Orchestra. …
Burrell Live at Dizzy’s – Bob
From the very start of his career in the early ’50s, Kenny Burrell has been described as a bop and hard bop guitarist. Some of his early recordings supported this description, but like all the great players, Burrell brings his own unique style and sound to his playing. The bop elements are there, to be …
Mintzer Organ Project – Bob
In the jazz world, Bob Mintzer is a household name, usually associated with being a reed man, composer, arranger, leader of a Grammy Award-winning big band, member of the Yellowjackets, and educator. For his new project, “Canyon Cove”, he was inspired by the rich sound of the Hammond B3 combined with the close-knit feeling of …