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Luc Burgelman: How Jazz Music Prepared Me for Life as a CEO
July 26, 2015Last week, I found myself in an Italian restaurant playing improvised jazz music with a few other musicians. Despite what it might sound like, I’m not a full-time musician. I’m actually CEO of a big data startup, a ...
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Joe Porter & Joel Goodfellow – Detours
July 14, 2015(Big Round Records) Percussionist Joe Porter and pianist Joel Goodfellow present a unique take on some well-known compositions in their recording debut. Detours showcases Porter and Goodfellow’s renditions of ...
Bob Mintzer Big Band – Get Up!
July 10, 2015(MCG Jazz) Saxophonist, composer and arranger Bob Mintzer changes things up again for the 20th recording of his big band unit. Get Up! takes an R&B turn, featuring tunes inspired by the music the New Rochelle ...
UK Telegraph: Blue Note to open jazz club in China
July 4, 2015The great jazz trumpeter Buck Clayton would fondly recall his time in China in the 1930s, when jazz was the soundtrack to Shanghai. Although jazz was massively popular in China during the 1920s and 1930s, it ...
Lucky Peterson – July 28th, 2014 (Live in Marciac)
July 3, 2015(Jazz Village) Guitarist and vocalist Lucky Peterson delivers an outstanding live performance in this recording. July 28th 2014 is a fantastic documentation of the gifted blues man’s virtuousity and ...
Jazz at Lincoln Center and Sony Music Team Up for Blue Engine Records
June 30, 2015Jazz at Lincoln Center has shelves upon shelves of recordings from concerts it has presented since its founding in 1987, including a studio recording featuring the pianist Chick Corea, a musical Mass with a gospel ...
Aaron Diehl – Space, Time Continuum
June 30, 2015(Mack Avenue) Composer-pianist Aaron Diehl continues to amaze on his second recording for Mack Avenue. Space ,Time Continuum is as an apt title for this expansive and refreshing production. In a lot of ways, the ...
Brian Charette – Alphabet City
June 19, 2015(Posi-tone) By now, we have enough of a sampling of Brian Charette’s work to know that he’s one of the truly outstanding practitioners of the Hammond organ today. On Alphabet City, he shows a willingness ...
Brianna Thomas – You Must Believe In Love
June 16, 2015(Sound On Purpose Records) Brianna Thomas is an incredibly exciting new voice on the scene and her debut recording is simply extraordinary. You Must Believe In Love not only showcases the versatility of Thomas ...
