6. "Ready for Take Off" (4:47) opens like something from an RTF album--that hasn't come out yet--before dialing in on a bluesy-teasy jazz-lite tune. Klaus once again shows his wonderfully flamboyant mastery of so many tricks one can play on a saxophone. The "flute" synth melody ...
After that show I started paying more attention to jazz shows around town. School prevented me from attending most, but I made it a point to see who had played and check out their music from the library. I also started paying more attention to Kansas City’s role in jazz history. As I...
“After many years of working with Romero, and my love for Brazilian music, because I think that every recording that I’ve ever done, there’s some part of Brazil that shows itself in my work,” says Dianne. “We’ve, for years, done duo concerts, and we (have) a lot of fun ...
Then George picked up his guitar for a soulful “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight.” Benson’s fine guitar licks started “Love Times Love,” and the accompanying musicians kept up marvelously. Things slowed down for the sentimental “Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love for You,” with the ...
s sudden and unexpected death on 9 February 2021. On it, Corea contributes liner notes where he refers to a two day whirlwind when the trio was reconvened in January 2018 after a long break for a quick rehearsal and two shows the following evening. This two-CD set is the result.Stuart...
A picture of Fitzgerald mid-scatter surrounded by musical symbols and whimsical swirls shows how joyful she was when she performed. ALSO READ: Exploring the Fusion: How Jazz Enthusiasts Can Enhance their IPTV Experience Charlie Parker’s Saxophone Charlie Parker, popularly nicknamed Bird, is a jazz...
For a recent graduate she shows enormous promise and her own gig (to follow this) will be one to catch. I have put up the clip ‘Afro Blue’ (Mongo Santamaria) as it has a modernist feel about it. Her take being closer to the Robert Glasper/Erykah Badu version than the original....
The video, which was captioned "Zaddy coded," promptly went viral, helped along by an amused Apollo reposting the clip to his own Instagram Story. "It was so funny," he adds. "And it's so accurate; that's literally how my shows go. It made me look so glamorous, I ...
Tonight his version of Django’s celebrated anthem of occupied France, “Nuages,” brings down the house. Up to this point, all the players on stage have been Gadje, or non-Gypsies. With the introduction of Samson Schmitt and his younger brother Jean Baptiste, we are about to hear the ...
Redd Foxx starting referring to Reese and Lena Horne on the show as the ultimate black super stars, so of course Reese made a few cameos on the show. She guest starred in other TV shows, did a few pilots, landed a role in the showChico and the Manin 1976, and finished out the fin...