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Matthew Rybicki – Driven
February 15, 2011(Matthew Rybicki Music) After many years working behind the likes of Wynton Marsalis, Terrell Stafford, Nneena Freelon and host of others, 37-year old Cleveland-born, New York-based Matthew Rybicki offers an ...
Esperanza Spalding Is Grammy’s 2011 Best New Artist
February 14, 2011In the past decade there has been a steady movement away from presenting jazz at the Grammy Awards primetime telecast, so it came as a shock to many people when bassist/composer Esperanza Spalding was presented the ...
Kurt Elling – The Gate
February 8, 2011(Concord Records) You’d be hard-pressed to find a more inventive vocalist in music today than Kurt Elling. On The Gate, produced with Don Was, Elling finds the gem in songs most music lovers have heard ...
Grace Kelly – Phil Woods – Man With The Hat
February 1, 2011(Grace Kelly Music) This recording is a great musical conversation between two generations of saxophonists. On Man With The Hat, alto saxophonist/vocalist Grace Kelly teams up with saxophone legend Phil Woods for ...
Luther Hughes and The Cannonball-Coltrane Project – Things Are Getting Better
January 14, 2011(Primrose Lane Music) The fourth release from bassist Luther Hughes and his Cannonball-Coltrane Project, Things Are Getting Better, is the work of a band at its best. While mining the genius of the greats for which ...
Michael Dease – Grace
January 7, 2011(Jazz Legacy Productions) Trombonist Michael Dease was hooked when he heard a J.J. Johnson album from his father’s record collection. What’s resulted is a 28- year old musical progeny who has played on ...
Shimrit Shoshan – Keep It Movin’
January 4, 2011(Shimmya Music) While studying at a prestigious performing arts school in Israel, music prodigy and pianist Shimit Shoshan was drafted into the Israeli army as part of its required service. With her commitment ...
Helio Alves – Música
December 28, 2010(Jazz Legacy Productions) Growning up in Brazil, pianist Helio Alves was more interested in the classical music he was studying, than the more rhythmic forms associated with his country. His latest recording, Música ...
Norma Winstone, Klaus Gesing, Glauco Venier – Stories Yet To Tell
December 24, 2010(ECM Records) Together, the multi-national trio of British vocalist Norma Winston, Italian pianist Glauco Venier and German bass clarinetist and saxophonist Klaus Gesing make hauntingly beautiful music. On Stories ...
Myron Walden – In This World: To Feel
December 17, 2010(Demi Sound Records) The companion piece to saxphononist Myron Walden’s In This World: What We Share, To Feel is another chapter in the prolific, productive career of this talented musician. Walden says in a ...
