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The Tierney Sutton Band – American Road
December 6, 2011(BFM Jazz) For her latest release, singer Tierney Sutton and her band for the past 18 years dust off range of songs from the American compositional songbook and give them a new coat of paint. American Road has ...
For 25 years, the Storyville Jazz Band has roamed the Dome on New Orleans Saints game days
December 5, 2011By KEITH SPERA, The Times-Picayune Most days, an American flag and a modest “Who Dat” yard sign decorate the tidy red-brick ranch house in Metairie. On game days, the Stars and Stripes are swapped out for a Saints ...
John Scofield – A Moment’s Peace
December 2, 2011(Emarcy Records) Guitar-impressario John Scofield has taken just about every twist and turn a recording artist can maneuver in music, for his latest he takes a route less traveled by him. A Moment’s Peace ...
Enoch Smith, Jr. – Misfits
November 29, 2011(Music 4 My People Entertainment) Misfits is the fascinating sophomore recording from pianist/composer Enoch Smith, Jr. Smith’s engagingly melodic compositional work centers around a hauntingly beautiful ...
Paul Motian Passes Away at Age 80
November 23, 2011By BEN RATLIFF, New York Times Paul Motian, a drummer, bandleader, composer and one of the most influential jazz musicians of the last 50 years, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 80 and lived in Manhattan. The ...
Mitchel Forman – Sing Along with Mitch
November 18, 2011(Marsis Jazz) There’s something powerful about the marriage of piano and the human voice, and Mitchel Forman’s latest recording captures this magic so incredibly well. Sing Along With Mitch has the ...
Sonny Rollins – Road Shows 2
November 15, 2011(Doxy Records) Road Shows 2, is a snapshot of a legend who remains as dedicated to his craft as ever. Recorded in 2010 during a couple of his 80th birthday concerts shows in New York and Tokyo, tenor sax giant Sonny ...
Trombone Shorty – For True
November 11, 2011(Verve Records) Some critics have said that jazz declined when it lost its emphasis on dance, well New Orleans’ Troy Andrews, a.k.a., Trombone Shorty’s music brings back the dance in a way that is ...
Poncho Sanchez | Terence Blanchard – Chano y Dizzy!
November 8, 2011(Concord Picante) Percussionist-composer Poncho Sanchez and trumpeter-composer Terence Blanchard pay tribute to legendary percussionist Chano Pozo and the great trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, whom Sanchez credits as ...
JC Stylles – Exhilaration and Other States
November 4, 2011(Motema) JC Stylles is a fantastic jazz guitarist in the tradition of some of jazz’s great six string players. On his new release, he demonstrates this connection. Exhilaration and Other States is, much like ...
