Top global jazz musicians to play in Delhi
Times of India (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The 100 Pipers Jazz Utsav 2009 on Saturday and Sunday will feature some of the biggest names in international jazz.
Jaco Pastorius
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Wally Voss: gone but not forgotten
Truth In Shredding (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Look what happens when you make friends with Jaco Pastorius :) Wally also passed away at a young age. He had Hodgkins disease and died in November 1992. Wally was an inspiration to many. This was early footage of Wally from the early to mid 80s (1985?) with his band, Front Runner. Thank you to Wally's family for giving us permission to post videos, images, and Wally's music on these tribute... This...
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Richard Bona @ Luxembourg (2009/09/27)
Sylvain Zimmer (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
The program of Den Atelier continues to be the best around Luxembourg, this time inviting bassist Richard Bona. Yesterday night he delivered, again, an intense set full of sounds from Cuba, India, Cameroon, and even a special “Luxembourg tune parody”. Loved it. Below is a cover from Jaco Pastorius he often plays live, Liberty City. I’m [...]
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SL staff face an anxious wait
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
STAFF at the Standard Life Bank in Edinburgh were today awaiting news of their future, after parent company Standard Life agreed to sell its banking arm to Barclays.
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Jazz Don’t Hurt: Joni Mitchell, Jazz Musician
Popdose (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
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 [...]
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Miles Schlock
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Do the words "schlock" and "Miles" even belong in the same sentence? I saw Miles play in 1988 at the Hollywood Bowl. He was among the most charismatic men I have ever seen in my life. Right up there with Ronald Reagan, Jaco Pastorius, and Mick Jagger. Charisma has nothing to do with what is right. It is only about personality. (Barack Obama is also a very charismatic person). The...
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DCist Preview: Stanley Clarke Trio @ Wolf Trap
DCist (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
The Stanley Clarke Trio (l-r): Hiromi, Clarke, Lenny White Bassist Stanley Clarke was not long out of high school in 1971, when he moved to New York from his native Philadelphia. In the Big Apple, his virtuosic talent made an immediate splash and landed him stints with jazz legends such as Horace Silver and Joe Henderson . But it wasn't until the following year that Clarke's career really took off....
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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Recent Listening: Martin, Strickland, Felten
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Brand New: In Brief Joe Martin, Not By Chance (Anzic). Martin is a versatile and rounded bassist who has collaborated with a wide range of musicians at the heart of the 30-something generation of jazz players in New York. Here, he enlists two fellow members of that generation's elite, pianist Brad Mehldau and saxophonist and clarinetist Chris Potter. The drummer, several years younger, is Marcus Gilmore,...
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Recent Listening: Martin, Strickland, Felten
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Brand New: In Brief Joe Martin, Not By Chance (Anzic). Martin is a versatile and rounded bassist who has collaborated with a wide range of musicians at the heart of the 30-something generation of jazz players in New York. Here,...
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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Alex Cuba Releases "Agua Del Pozo"
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
The New Face of Cuban Soul Rock from the North: Alex Cuba's Agua del Pozo Breaks the Language Barrier Mangoes sprouting in the tundra. The new face of Latin soul thriving in a hamlet a day's drive north of Vancouver, British Columbia. This is the story of guitarist, singer, and songwriter Alex Cuba, who came into his musical own in the Canadian north and whose Cuban soul rock power trio flies in the...
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Chasing Jaco
GHOSTBUSTERS (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
Check out the sign under the Late Show "welcome foreigners" In your face Guardian Readers. After 3 hours in ER we head down to Music Row to gaze at Jaco Pastorius' Hartke Bass Cabinet. Go & ask your Jazz loving uncle kids..... We then pop over to see our friend Matt and get some Snow Patrol tickets for tonight. Time for shakes, disco fries and grilled cheese.
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Cranky Large Medium reading, 21 September
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
Go away. Why are you still here, now? Didn't I just tell you to go? This is not a request. I did not invite you to my mountaintop, I do not wish for you to be here, I do not give you polite requests. Shirley you can find your way to the exit path. Do I throw another Barb at you? Why are you still here? I see. You are adamant, Eve. You want me to be Sharon my gifts with you. If I give you a reading,...
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R.I.P. — Jaco Pastorius (1951-1987)
Musical Stew Daily (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
Dying young with the actual events shrouded in mystery, Jaco was certainly heard loud and clear in the music industry, leaving no question to his talent. Here’s some music from his Word Of Mouth band (’82). Download Download2
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PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Victor Bailey Band in Jim Thorpe (Pa) on September 26
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
For Jazz Bassist Victor Bailey, It Just Comes Naturally Though Philadelphia native Victor Bailey is one of the greatest jazz bassists ever, its not easy to sum up his music. Firmly established in the long lineage of extraordinary Philly bassists such as Tyrone Browne, {{Alphonso Johnson = 8070}}, {{Stanley Clarke = 5737}}, and {{Jaco Pastorius = 10148}}, one might call Bailey's music jazz fusion or...
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Joni Mitchell - Forest Hills, NY, August 25, 1979
Zero G Sound (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
. This Joni Mitchell live recording dates from just after the release of "Mingus". So this bootleg gives us the chance to listen to Joni performing with some of the crazy-talented jazz/fusion masters she worked with in the later 70s and early 80s. Joni Mitchell : vocals, electric guitar Jaco Pastorius : bass Don Alias : drums, congas Pat Metheny : lead guitar Lyle Mays : keyboards Michael...