Saxophones were first invented in the 1840s by Adolphe Sax, an instrument designer from Belgium. The Alto Saxophone is by far the most popular Saxophone and is used in almost every relevant musical genre and category you can think of from classical and concert to swing, jazz, soul, and fun...
There have also been several excellent jazz documentaries over the years, which, unsurprisingly, have spawned their own entries among the best jazz soundtracks ever recorded. At the top of most people’s list is Bert Stern’s colorful and impressionistic film of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival,Jaz...
Alto sax, piano, cello/electronics, and drums/percussion. Group was put together to focus on Harnik, who plays outstanding free jazz here, wrapped in complex layers of sound. ** 40. Tyshawn Sorey Trio: Continuing (Pi) Drummer-led piano trio, with Aaron Diehl (piano) and Matt Brewer ...
Before this satin-voiced “jazz cat in a hat” became a household name in America and Europe after his 2013 album Liquid Spirit broke him into the mainstream, Bakersfield-born Porter was largely a cult figure who only figured on the radar of the jazz cognoscenti. Even though his debut album...
South African drummer, second album, credit info hard to come by, but looks like: Nduduzo Makhathini (piano), Simon Manana (alto sax), Nhlanhla Radebe (bass). Early on barely hints at township jazz heritage, but as the album develops, first the piano then the sax come into focus. Man...
—Jazz Monroe Listen on Apple Music 198. A Certain Ratio: “Shack Up” (1980) Manchester’s A Certain Ratio followed the post-punk dictum of finding common ground between contrasting styles. On "Shack Up", they landed on a magnetic three-way split between funk, old soul, and the long-...
Come Together: Incredibly enough, Kinks frontman Ray Davies originally envisioned the tune “more laid back,” as a “jazz-type tune” with its signature riff played on sax. Brother and lead guitarist Dave Davies “ended up playing the sax line in fuzz guitar and it took the song a step ...
Come Together: Incredibly enough, Kinks frontman Ray Davies originally envisioned the tune “more laid back,” as a “jazz-type tune” with its signature riff played on sax. Brother and lead guitarist Dave Davies “ended up playing the sax line in fuzz guitar and it took the song a step ...
jazz relatively unknown to him previously. The recording is split between Marsalis’ authentic period music, scene-setting incidental music and a few signature songs of the ‘Mother of the Blues’ Ma Rainey, sung by Maxayn Lewis. Maxayn Lewis is as good as it gets when it comes to ...
The funk of astro jazz has come down to earth with the ever-forward-zooming group, The Comet is Coming. Their latest rocket of an album,Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam, pleases with wild sax and electronic disturbances. But for all the blur and noise, there is a search for the stars, ...