Subtitled, “Plays the Music of Marilyn Mazure-Clarla Bley-Palle Mikkelborg-Carl Nielsen-Miho Hazama”, this album celebrates the 60th anniversary of the venerable Danish Radio Big Band by playing five commissioned pieces from as many composers. The five vinyl record box set is…
Month: November 2024
THE BIRTH OF JAZZ…Jelly Roll Morton: A Career Anthology, Vol 1 1923-28, Vol 2 1929-40
If you don’t believe me, you could have checked on Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton’s business card that read “Inventor of Jazz”. Ok, so argue with him! These two boxed sets, each of 3 discs, consisting of 70 and 72 songs…
Trygve Seim/Frode Haltli: Our Time
Duets by Trygve Seim on soprano and tenor saxes with accordionist Frode Haltli create ethereal clouds of Byzantine meditations on this release. Seim’s tenor goes from sub-tones on the dainty “Madana Mohana” to high pitched sighs that compete in tone…
Pritesh Walia CD release @ Sam Fist Bar 10.31.24
Instead of delving into the Halloween world of ghosts and goblins, jazz fans were given the chance to hear the debut album of a different kind of spirit, that coming from the guitar of Indian born, LA local Pritesh Walia.…
JOE LA BARBERA: BROTHERS, BIG BANDS AND BILL
IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT IF YOU DON’T KNOW JOE LA BARBERA, YOU DON’T KNOW JAZZ DRUMMERS. ONE OF TODAY’S L IVING LEGENDS, HE IS BEST KNOWN AS BEING A MEMBER OF BILL EVANS’ LAST TRIO, WHICH IS ARGUAGLY THE…
A MONTH OF GIVING THANKS
Yes, I agree with you…THIS YEAR WAS TOUGH! Everyone is angry at everyone! The election is nasty, and no matter who wins, half the country will be angry. Everything cost more. Travel is still tough. You can’t trust the media. …
PAT AND JOHN LABARBERA: A BAND OF BROTHERS, BIG BANDS, BUDDY RICH AND BEYOND
RARE THESE DAYS IS A ‘MUSICAL FAMILY” IN WHICH, LIKE JS BACH, A GROUP OF SIBLINGS CAN FORM THEIR OWN BAND. LAST YEAR, LA BARBERA BROTHERS JOE AND PAT JOINED FORCES WITH TONY AND PETER LEVIN TO TOUR AROUND AS…
JOE LA BARBERA: OF BROTHERS, BIG BANDS AND BILL
IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT IF YOU DON’T KNOW JOE LA BARBERA, YOU DON’T KNOW JAZZ DRUMMERS. ONE OF TODAY’S L IVING LEGENDS, HE IS BEST KNOWN AS BEING A MEMBER OF BILL EVANS’ LAST TRIO, WHICH IS ARGUAGLY THE…