by J.R. Carroll
“Singer/songwriter” is not a description often applied to jazz musicians, and generally with good reason: Jazz instrumentalists have demonstrated again and again that as wordsmiths they are, well, outstanding instrumentalists. At best, the typically after-the-fact lyrics strive uneasily for either social uplift or hipster knowingness; at worst, they are just embarrassingly […]
To the up and coming DJs who may be reading this; this one is just for you. Part of being a true school DJ is knowing the fact that music as a whole is universal. You know how most people go around saying ” I don’t listen to white folks music!” or ” whatcha playing […]
An eight hour PBS documentary, ‘On Record: The Soundtrack of Our Lives,’ is in the works for broadcast in the fall of 2010. The enormous multi-media project, about the history of recorded music and it’s impact on society, is under the guidance of the legendary Sir George Martin.
Martin is working with PBS […]
Going through some old CD Backups, I found some images I took at the Jazz and Blues Festival in Montego Bay, Jamaica on January 15th, 2004. Among them were some of Alicia Keys performing. They were taken with a Canon Powershot G3.
It was just in time for me to test out some Lightroom presets I […]
Last night I did a recording for a wonderful singer/songwriter named Chris Koch. He’s a dad right here in my town of Montclair- our sons attend the same school - and has undertaken a massive recording project. He has tons of material and apparently has decided to get it all documented. He says he’s laid […]
The Jazzfest Wien is very generous. They invite artists to play and people don’t even have to pay to see them. Like yesterday, when we went and saw Melody Gardot, a 23 year old singer with quite a past.
The bluesy jazz she sang was betrayed by her rather witty, self-deprecating demeanor on stage. Her band, […]
Com data marcada no Allgarve Jazz Festival, a 11 Julho em Albufeira - Golfe da Balaia, Dee Dee, nasceu em Memphis em 1950, conhecida pela fusão com outros tipos de música, desde a pop ao soul, gravou um excelente album em 2007, “Red Earth. A malian journey” gravado grande parte no Mali com músicos […]
A post that’s not about WordPress but, hey, it’s about Jazz, so I’m not that far
One of my sisters works for the (French) National Jazz Orchestra and so I was invited to one of their concerts, featuring their album named Close to Heaven: A Led Zeppelin Tribute. Oh my. I know nothing […]
Tickets go on sale this weekend for Van Morrison’s two shows at the Hollywood Bowl in early November, and while a show by an aging star of the ’60s isn’t usually news around here, when the artist in question is doing the “play your critically acclaimed album front to back” and that album happens Astral […]
Check out this track entitled Alexandra And Gabriel from Natural Self’s latest album The Art Of Vibration available now through Tru-Thoughts Recordings. Natural Self is the solo work of producer Keno-1. The album also features contributions from Andreya Triana, Abdominal, Nostalgia 77, Jonny Spall, Fulvio Sigurta and Capstone Little. The entire album definitely has a […]