The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra takes center stage for this tribute, bringing together a talented lineup of artists. Michael Bublé, known for his smooth voice and engaging performances, will be part of the celebration. He is joined by Cynthia Erivo, a powerhouse vocalist and actress, who is sure...
While Oscar Peterson paid instrumental tribute to Ellington, a Verve Records classic featuring the peerless voice ofElla Fitzgeraldbrought the best out of the accompanying words to some of his most brilliant compositions. Not only that, but the quality of the musicianship – featuring jazz greats su...
“Cherry Ocean” is, it’s the only thing remotely like it on this record. For the rest of the songs, which are all instrumental, Stillman communicates through layered jazz arrangements, playing most of the instruments himself but conjuring the sound of a full ensemble—one with the ability ...
Stay tuned, we have oodles of music to share with you all in coming weeks. In the meantime, you can also browse through the In Dee Mail series to pick up a lot of great tracks from talented artists and bands you probably won't hear about anywhere else. Labels: Himalaya, In Dee Mail...
“Comfy Place” find a halfway spot betweenFlat Earth-era Thomas Dolby and Detroit techno, and while the album’s release on Tigersushi places it in dialogue with a broad swath of contemporary electronic dance music, her jazz training shines through in her dazzlingly unpredictable chord change...
Hip Hop and Jazz. The perfect marriage – particularly during the Golden Age, with artists incorporating jazz music into their sound by either sampling the genre’s greats and lesser-known performers or using live instrumentation. Occasionally, it was a bit of both. Enter LA’s Mad Kap, compo...
Heralded as the pick of the bunch from his recent output, and for some ranking amongst his best of all time, Day Trip features compositions firmly rooted in the jazz tradition with dynamic improvising, and lilting folk-influenced ballads. ...
t respect his music enough. He also believed that jazz pianists demeaned themselves in the manner in which they carried themselves on stage. He complained in a 1982 New York Times interview that “They smoke while they’re playing, and they’ll put the glass of whisky on the piano, and ...
of other composers’ music, of which his 1922 version of Mussorgsky’sPictures At An Exhibitionis the best known. Ravel’s compositions incorporate elements of modernism, baroque, neoclassicism and, in his later works, jazz. He once stated, “The only love affair I have ever had was with ...
Combining blues, jazz and classical influences, with grand orchestration and regularly changing time signatures and tempos, King Crimson’s debut is one of the first and undoubtedly one of the most influential progressive rock albums ever recorded. Countless subsequent bodies of work in the genre ...