Drummer and bandleader Terri Lyne Carrington’s latest recording, Waiting Game, reflects a multiplicity of sonic concepts—r&b, jazz and hip-hop among them.
Carrington’s Latest Recording Makes a Broadly Sourced Statement on U.S.
With her new band’s debut, Waiting Game, drummer Terri Lyne Carrington now dons another hat as an activist. Consisting of keyboardist Aaron Parks, guitarist Matthew Stevens, multi-instrumentalist Morgan Guerin and Carrington, the group…
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A stellar trumpeter who organically has straddled the inside-outside aesthetic for nearly 30 years, Dave Douglas regularly has undertaken ambitious works, like his “50 States…
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Long before Nina Simone told a Carnegie Hall audience in 1964 that she meant every word of “Mississippi Goddam,” artists had been engaging in activism, creating music that…
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Among artists receiving multiple nominations for the 62nd Grammy Awards are bassist Christian McBride, bassist/vocalist Esperanza Spalding, multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Jacob…
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Local musicians met jazz promoters from around the globe and bridges were built at the third annual Jazz Across Borders conference in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The brainchild…
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BY Dave Cantor
“Freedom Rider,” the second cut on veteran drummer William Hooker’s Symphonie Of Flowers, likely was intended to invoke Art Blakey as much as civil-rights activists. Of course, Blakey was both.
But on this album—just as he has done through decades…
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BY Bobby Reed
The leader clearly had a famous precedent in mind when he recorded his new album, Adrian Cunningham & His Friends Play Lerner & Loewe. Cunningham, an Australian reedist now based in New York, has crafted a gem in the spirit of 1956’s Shelly Manne & His…
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BY J.D. Considine
Drummer Nick Fraser is a longtime staple of the Toronto jazz scene—and for good reason. Not only is he a tremendously creative player, equally at home with free-form improvisation and standard bop-style jazz, he’s also a remarkably attentive listener.…
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BY J.D. Considine
Back in the early ’60s, when tenor saxophonists Johnny Griffin and Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis teamed up to record a series of albums, they were dubbed the “Tough Tenors,” no doubt in appreciation of the rough-and-tumble nature of their dueling solos. But…
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BY Dave Cantor
She has songs about ragweed, green ants, sunflowers and dead flowers.
New York-based pianist Marta Sánchez distills the natural world, taking in small vignettes and turning them into springy compositions for her quintet. And most of the band from 2017’s…
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BY Ed Enright
Brian Lynch’s first big band album connects the trumpeter’s lifelong passion for reading with his expansive vision as a composer/arranger. And while the dedications on The Omni-American Book Club: My Journey Through Literature In Music reveal Lynch’s…
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BY Dave Cantor
Saxophonist Avram Fefer has developed a rapport that’s held for about a decade with the tandem of bassist Eric Revis and drummer Chad Taylor. The relationship has been flexible enough to endure some downtime; the trio’s last album was released in 2011.…
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BY Bobby Reed
John Lennon and Paul McCartney created such a rich body of work that nearly every new tribute to The Beatles generates a healthy dose of musical joy—regardless of the genre. Even though tributes to the lads from Liverpool are diverse and commonplace,…
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BY Bobby Reed
In recent years, among the vibraphonists who have raised their profiles as bandleaders are Joel Ross, Behn Gillece and Matt Moran. Joining their ranks is Los Angeles-based Lolly Allen, whose cohesive new album, Coming Home, features two original compositions,…
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Kyra from Waldorf Music is a hardware virtual analog synthesizer capable of creating a wide range of contemporary sounds for live performance and studio recording. The 128-voice, field-programmable synth features eight independent “parts” with up to 32 notes per part, each effectively…
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Evans has introduced the UV2 drumheads, an expansion of the UV-cured coating technology in a two-ply format. The drumheads are made using two plies of extremely durable 7-mil film. They offer a slightly punchier tone than the company’s traditional G2 drumheads, but have the same depth and attack…
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M-Audio’s Air series audio interfaces give musicians the ability to produce 24-bit/192kHz studio-quality computer-based recordings. The series includes five models tailored for recording everything from a solo performer to a large ensemble, each featuring an intuitive, easy-to-use interface.
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The Recording King Songwriter 60 is a two-channel acoustic instrument amplifier with balanced studio-monitor clarity and detail. Compact and lightweight, the Songwriter 60 has the capacity to amplify an acoustic instrument and voice, without the complications of excessive bells and whistles. The…
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Roswell Pro Audio’s Mini K87 is an all-purpose studio condenser mic that’s designed as a neutral and uncolored counterpart to the company’s Mini K47. The signature sound of the Mini K87 comes primarily from its namesake K87 capsule, which is specially tuned for the mic and is coupled to a…
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This highly-anticipated 6th Annual Charleston Jazz Festival is a four-day festival in Charleston, SC that will take place January 23–26, 2020. The lineup will include Regina Carter, the Monty Alexander Trio, Jane Monheit, Freddy Cole and the Charleston Jazz Orchestra. The Festival will also showcase some of our most exciting jazz groups on Local Band Night (Acts to include: Offramp, Cameron & the Saltwater Brass, and the Lee Barbour Quartet, featuring Justin Stanton from Snarky Puppy), as well as up-and-coming student performers from around South Carolina on Family Jazz Day. See you in Charleston, SC January 23 - 26, 2020!
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by Frank Stacy // March/1/1945
New York—“Woody Herman has the greatest ofay swing band in the country—bar none!”
That’s what all the band popularity contests said this year and that’s just the way I feel about it. Out of the 1,606 swing fans who named the Herman Herd their favorite dispenser of jive in DownBeat’s annual contest, undoubtedly some (the…
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