All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
The jazz world has never given the flute the star status enjoyed by the saxophone or trumpet. There's a precedent for the instrument's presence; several musicians have taken the instrument to impressive avenues in traditional jazz. From Count Basie flautist Frank Wess to modern virtuoso Herbie Mann...
illRoots (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Download/Stream Here. Tre Williams at one time was on Nas’ Ill Will Records and was featured on Nas’ acclaimed “Hip Hop is Dead” Album. Him along with one time Roc-A-Fella crooner Rell, guitarist Wes Mingus (Bilal, Leela James), drummer Gintas Janusonis (Erykah Badu, Branford Marsalis), bassist Josh Werner (Matisyahu, Sly and Robbie), keyboardist Borahm Lee (Wyclef [...]
Soulbounce.com (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
If you're anything like us here at SoulBounce and wince each time a so-called soul singer surfaces with all the depth of a paper plate, you'll be happy to know that a new, true soul singer has emerged in the...
The Smoking Section (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
I really wanted to put up this video when I told my Memphis story but it didn’t really fit. So I’ll use it for these Shots. I still laugh like it’s the first time, especially when he starts walking on the tables. I think I’m gonna have to pull out this DVD next [...]
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Flutist Dave Valentin is slated for a rare handful of small venue shows at Dazzle on Thursday and Friday.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
"You sound good, man." Badal Roy is imitating the sandpaper voice of Miles Davis, who was commenting on the set Roy had just played during intermission at a Davis concert at New York's Village Gate in 1970. That was Davis' introduction to the Pakistani tabla...
PCL LinkDump (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Herbie Mann 's "The Beat Goes On" is available thanks to Licorice Pizza Boomp3.com
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Chuck Leavell is one of the world's premier blues rock pianists--a veteran musician who has recorded and toured with many of the best-known names in the business. He is perhaps best known for his work with the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Black Crowes, and most of all, his legendary years with the Allman Brothers Band in the '70s...
RegnYouth Archives (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
When compiling a list of the most essential jazz albums, the same, basic titles from Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and other legends usually top the list. While these are, indeed, the most accessible recordings and masterpieces of the genre, they are also the most known, making it difficult to expand your [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
For Our final Concert of this Season, We Present; one of the only remaining Latin Kings of Jazz on the scene today, who came up in that tradition with Tito Puente, and Mario Rivera and the Salsa Refugees. He has taken Latin Jazz to a new level, following in the paths of both Jazz and Latin Jazz greats...
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
“Juicy” Willie Bobo. Verve. Another great one from 1967. Includes the title tune and funky Latin soul/jazz covers of sixties hits including “Music to Watch Girls By,” “Knock On Wood,” “Ain’t to Proud to Beg,” “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy”. Bobo played bongo, timbales, conga, and trap-drum and after stints with Machito, Mongo Santamaria, Perez Prado, Tito [...]
Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
Woody Herman Herbie Mann “Listen -Woody Herman - Kid Charlemagne - MP3″ “Listen -Herbie Mann - Do It Again - MP3″ Greetings all. I come you forlorn, as my vacation – during which much family fun was had (all within a 100 mile radius) was had – has come to an end and I must return to the [...]
BookClubClassics.com (Free subscription) | 22/06/2008
Ellington Boulevard by Adam Langer Release Date: 2008 / 333 pages First Line: On the evening when he will learn that his apartment is being sold out from under him, Ike Ambrose Morphy finds a good parking space on Central Park West, then walks north toward home beside his dog, Herbie, through the early-December snow. Synopsis: Clarinetist [...]
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 29/05/2008
This week saw the passing of the great Earle Hagen . His name may not be a household word, but his music is burned into your brain. He was a TV theme writer extraordinaire, whose credits include catchy ditties for The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, That Girl, and The Mod Squad to name a few. A bunch of his themes are available at AM Then FM's Hagen tribute post. Hagen is also...
Landcroft House (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Flora Macneil: Craobh Un Ubhal (Tangent, 1977) I found this bag of LPs I used to DJ with downstairs. When I say "DJ", I think it's clear from the records themselves that I was never going to get a gig at, well, anywhere really. Perhaps a very lenient pub on a particularly quiet Tuesday lunchtime, but that's about it. I mean, there's some Herbie Mann in there, there's Jimmy Ponder's Mean Streets,
