Wes Montgomery: Live in �65 (All About Jazz)
Pub. Date - Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:24:16 GMT
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many pages equate to the feeling that you get from a video? As the saying goes, �It�s the next best thing to being there.� Jazz legends return in 'Icons' (The Record)
Pub. Date - Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:47:52 GMT
Jazz still lives, yet the collective visual memory of its most legendary practitioners recedes with each passing year. When people first encounter the music's glories these days, it's mostly through recordings. October 23, 2007 (Arts Journal)
Pub. Date - Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:03:18 GMT
Belgian gypsy Reinhardt (1910 - 1953) and Oklahoma City-raised Christian (1916 - 1942) are the most recent inductees into the Nesuhi Ertegun Hall of Fame at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the first players of the guitar to be so honored by Wynton Marsalis's "House of Swing," though that instrument is by far the most popular musical device in America, and has been for more than 50 years. Dhafer Youssef / Wolfgang Muthspiel | Material Records (2007) (All About Jazz)
Pub. Date - Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:08:16 GMT
Although it's a dual-leader album, in which oud player Dhafer Youssef's performance is at least as important as that of guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel, one of Glow 's chief causes for celebration is Muthspiel's on-form presence. Sarah Vaughan: Live in '58 & '64 (All About Jazz)
Pub. Date - Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:09:06 GMT
With the camera on Sarah Vaughan and the microphone picking up every pearly note from her performance, these three black and white sessions work wonders for the soul. She was one of the best. No one could deliver a ballad the way she did, and many singers followed in her footsteps. Frisell as deft with guitar as with a pen (The Capital Times)
Pub. Date - Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:19:47 GMT
The list of the things Bill Frisell has done and the people he has played with runs so long in his artist bio that at some point you assume somebody is pulling your leg. Can the same jazz guitarist really have played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and provided public radio's "This American Life" with one of its most iconic pieces of music? Can he really have played with Suzanne Vega, Jan ... Hot picks: Peabody Trio, D.L. Hughley (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Pub. Date - Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:26:37 GMT
Guitarist Randy Napoleon is more than willing to tackle the demanding aspects of what he calls his "labor of love." Fusion guitarist Matt Hudson brings his quartet to two area venues (Pittsburgh City Paper)
Pub. Date - Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:59:59 GMT
"We really want to make an attempt to reach people who aren't just fusion heads." By Manny Theiner. October 18�Smooth jazz musician returns to the EQC (Puyallup Herald)
Pub. Date - Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:52:18 GMT
Ed Taylor of �TaylorMade� is gearing up for another performance at the Emerald Queen Casino. The sounds of smooth jazz will fill the Bridge Nightclub room starting at 5 p.m. on Oct. 21. The Independent Voice of the University of New Mexico since 1895 (University of New Mexico Daily Lobo)
Pub. Date - Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:25:48 GMT
Like jambalaya, Felix y Los Gatos boast a blend of flavors. Based in Albuquerque, Felix y Los Gatos feature Felix Peralta on guitar and vocals, David Barclay Gomez on the button accordion, Terry Bloom on bass, Carlos Cortez on drums and Nate Tearfeather on mandolin. | 
