That’s right. As the heading states, Miles Okazaki played from memory all 66 of Thelonious Monk’s compositions at The Jazz Gallery on Broadway and 27th Street in New York. Without accompaniment. After two years of work and planning. The responsibility for preparing and performing such an event was entirely Okazaki’s. …
Having established a reputation as an innovative jazz guitarist throughout his 30-year career, Rez Abbasi continues to polish his style as his music reflects his thoughts about changing life events. The event that led to the recording of his seventeenth album, Sound Remains, was the passing of his mother. Abbasi’s …
The mission of Resonance Records encompasses not only first-time releases of forgotten recorded performances by acknowledged jazz masters like Sonny Rollins or Wes Montgomery. It also provides opportunities for the current generation to discover jazz greats who didn’t attain comparable levels of public awareness. Guitarist Emily Remler eminently deserves appreciation …
NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. – Guitarist and composer Phil Sargent is a name to be reckoned with in the Boston and New York music scenes. Described as a musician who “is cognizant of the tradition but thinks outside of the box” (All About Jazz) and who “incorporates melodic hooks into …
Calvin Keys celebrated his eightieth birthday in San Francisco’s Ruth Williams Memorial Theater in the Bayview Opera House on March 6, 2022. Due to concerns about the Omicron variant of COVID, the date of the concert was postponed for a month after Keys’s birthday on February 6, 1942. Thankfully, occur …
This is the third offering by Laurent Medelgi as a guitarist, composer and arranger of all the tracks on this album entitled Versature, with his Paris-based band the Medeljazz Quartet. The title: Versature comes from the Latin versatura meaning “Sheturns”. A neologism emphasizing a definite departure from a more straight …
It is indeed gratifying to hear generation after generation of musicians continuing the revitalization process that maintains an appropriate edge to jazz recordings and whose uniquely refined perspectives keep jazz relevant. For after all, jazz is a never-ending process of regeneration, constantly absorbing new ideas as it democratizes music in …
How did the Blue Note record label’s most recorded musician fall into near-obscurity without a recording contract a decade later? Or just as intriguing is what he did to regain his popularity. Resonance Records did it again! That intrepid label has discovered more obscure recordings, tucked away and almost forgotten …
Following the June 2017 release of their first Ep “Yesternow”, Guitarist and composer Laurent Medelgi signs all the titles on this new album. Jacaranda Jazz brings haunting melodies and cool arrangements to non Jazz listeners, bridging the gap in an effort to spread Jazz to the masses. A cool chill …
The excitement of contemporary jazz masters for the discovery of the tapes restored for Smokin’ in Seattle confirms the unique status that this new release has already attained. Seattle radio announcer Jim Wilke recorded these 1966 sets of the Wynton Kelly Trio with the addition of Wes Montgomery at a …
Scandinavian guitarist Torben Waldorff has enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship with ArtistShare for ten years. The label was founded in 2003 as a pioneer in crowdfunding for jazz artists while entertainment producers were still trying to sort out the transition from corporate contracts to artists’ self-promotion. Now ArtistShare can enjoy …
“A modern Jazz cocktail infused with tradition” says Laurent Medelgi The illegitimate would-be child born of Pat Metheny, Martino and Kenny Burrell, composer and guitarist Laurent Medelgi leads the Medeljazz Quartet with brand new compositions in the Extended Play offering Yesternow. This musical offering his an admission of his own …
