Visiting maestro follows up master class with free concert
Ramsay Short
Daily Star staff
The last time Alex Wilson was in Lebanon he was stuck in a hotel band playing piano at a club in Kaslik. Contracted for three months, the experience was so bad he left after just one.
“The management of that place was terrible, we were stuck in a hotel on a hill, couldn’t really move around, everything that could go wrong went wrong,” he says.
Bluebird’s legendary Flying Dutchman catalog captured the musical zeitgeist of the late sixties and early seventies with gritty funk meeting driving rock and soulful jazz. This new language, now known as “rare grooves” by the musical cognoscenti, is driving DJ culture around the world.
The Nation;s Largest Free Jazz Festival!
May 1-26, 2003
What: Presented by the City of Atlantas Bureau of Cultural Affairs, the 26th Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival will celebrate 26 Days of Jazz featuring legendary jazz artists Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Eddie Palmieri, and Bobby Sanabria y Ascension, as well as hot, new jazz sensations Soulive, Maysa, and Metalwood.
On February 18th RCA/Bluebird will release Freak In, the latest CD from world-renowned trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas. Freak In (Douglas’ twentieth recording as a leader) is the follow up to the Grammy nominated CD, The Infinite, and a tireless pathfinder’s adventurous journey through the world of jazztronica.
Tony Adamo is a gifted jazz vocalist/songwriter, and his new CD release, DANCE OF LOVE, is a big winner in the smooth jazz and jazz vocals category. A wide listening audience of the jazz community will find these collections of original material both entertaining and enjoyable.
Tony Adamo has a fine singing voice, and at times, he sounds like British singer, David Bowie. Tony Adamo is the David Bowie of the smooth jazz set, and Adamo has quite the unique voice.
PRESENTA
ROSARIO GIULIANI QUARTET
ROSARIO GIULIANI – SAX
PIETRO LUSSU – PIANOFORTE
DARIO ROSCIGLIONE – CONTRABBASSO
MARCELLO DI LEONARDO – BATTERIA
Jazz Legacy, Inc.
In association with the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
(New York Public Library)
Present
LARRY RIDLEY
“Bassist Extraordinaire”
Schombur Jazz Artist-in-Residence
And the
Jazz Legacy Ensemble
Sunday, February 16, 2003 at 3 pm
Benefit concerts for the National Jazz Museum and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra
The Chicago Jazz Orchestra – w/Orbert Davis, Eddie Johnson and Frieda Lee
A quick reminder about the concert featuring Ajay Heble (piano) and Jesse Stewart (percussion) on Saturday January 25, 2:00 pm, at the Music Gallery, St. George the Martyr Church, 197 John Street at Stephanie in Toronto.
A quick reminder about the concert featuring Ajay Heble (piano) and Jesse Stewart (percussion) on Saturday January 25, 2:00 pm, at the Music Gallery, St. George the Martyr Church, 197 John Street at Stephanie in Toronto.
© Keith “MuzikMan” Hannaleck-http://www.muzikreviews.com
I took a walk on Lonely Street today courtesy of a great blues-rock band named The Dare Ya Blues Band. Well, ya gotta love the name of the band, its original and it tickles your funny bone. Although their name may make you chuckle, make no mistake, they are one serious blues rockin’ band.
John Gilbert
This is basically a trio ensemble, with the exception being the addition
of Toots Thielemans on track 7.
“My Happy Kids” is the highlight of this recording. This tune is done
up tempo with an almost boppish feel and a fine piano solo by pianist /
bassist Richard Drexler gives it a happy lilt.
