Best known as the drummer in the barrier-breaking metal band Living Colour, Will Calhoun has quietly put together an impressive resume in jazz — notably performing with Wayne Shorter on the Grammy-winning effort High Life , while also appearing along side Jaco Pastorious, Pharoah Sanders, Jack DeJohnette, Marcus Miller and Herb Alpert, among others.
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Throughout his career, Bryan Ferry has always epitomized a sense of style, cool and sophistication both in his music and onstage persona.
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Pianist Herbie Hancock will celebrate the special connection between Turkey and jazz music forged decades ago when the Turkish ambassador opened his residence to white and black musicians at a time when segregation held sway in the U.S. capital.
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In the final piece of these exhaustive, four-part salutes to the top releases of 2012, the fusion jazz records are surveyed.
Read MoreFrom April 4 th to June 4 th The Ripple Effect ran a campaign on the excellent online music website ReverbNation ( www.reverbnation.com ).
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Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, Marcus Miller, Branford Marsalis Quartet, Neil Cowley Trio, Soweto Kinch, Phantom Limb and Zara McFarlanehave all been confirmed to perform next July at the Love Supreme Jazz Festival, the first major UK festival of its kind in over 20 years.
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Alto saxophonist David Sanborn has released dozens of albums in his own name, straddling jazz, R&B and pop.
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David, let's get into Then Again: The David Sanborn Anthology , your new doubledisc anthology.
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Another New Music Monday, another truckload of cool sounds — this time from the likes of John Hiatt, Lee Ritenour, Medeski Martin and Wood, Shemekia Copeland, Iron Maiden's Steve Harris and the Gaddabouts, among others.
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On Unfinished Business, veteran guitarist Dean Brown, whose scintillating six-string work can be heard on over 200 recordings, steps out with his fourth dynamic outing as a leader.
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"I love making albums!" declared super session guitar player Lee Ritenour, and he continues, "For me, creating a new project from beginning to end, is one of the most musically and spiritually rewarding things that I do in my life."
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The Nightfly came out during the time I attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA.
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Marcus Miller's newest release, Renaissance, directly references his time as a member of the Miles Davis band in the 1980s — even as the 52-year-old bassist continues to fuse jazz, R&B and rock after nearly three decades of work as a producer, sideman, composer and band leader.
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Another Monday, another chance to dive into fresh musical delights from the likes of Balsam Range, Branford Marsalis, Keith Jarrett, Marcus Miller and the Trishas, among others.
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A couple of years ago when bassist/composer/bandleader Marcus Miller revisited Miles Davis' Tutu , a late-period Miles album that was essentially a Marcus Miller album with Miles as the primary lead voice, Miller was revisiting himself, too.
Read MoreThe purchase also takes in works by French singer and songwriter Christophe, among them Les Morts Bleus, Aline, Success Fou and Les Paradis Perdus.
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Like another Cuban product Aruán Ortiz , Manuel Valera is a gifted piano player who is able to reconcile the rhythmically based Afro-Cuban jazz of his homeland with the harmonically complex modern jazz of New York. Valera is likewise an experienced composer and bandleader, with five albums under his belt since 2004.
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Chuck Brown, the legendary "Godfather of Go-Go" has passed away.
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Since its formation as the Len Paterson Trio in 2000, Bay Area funk-jazz outfit Flowtilla has been going against the grain when it comes to funk.
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The Cheltenham Jazz Festival announces a new addition to the 2012 line-up ' legendary singer and songwriter Steve Winwood!
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Your new album is Let It Be: Roberta Flack Sings The Beatles , so maybe we should start by talking about your early memories of The Beatles?
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May 2012 sees the return of the ever-popular and ground-breaking Cheltenham Jazz Festival, one of the country's most celebrated musical events and an absolute highlight of the arts calendar for spring this year.
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A look at five jazz albums with grooves in the pocket — even if they weren't much in the press.
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The Best of Aretha Franklin 1980-1998.
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I have to hand it to Periphery drummer Matt Halpern, he's actually doing it.
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"The Wayman Tisdale Story" is the larger-than-life tale of a three-time college All-American, Olympic gold medalist and 12-year NBA veteran who after he gave up hoops turned to his "first love" – music – and became a contemporary jazz star with several chart-topping CDs. But it's more than that.
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Credit, or discredit, the late Grover Washington Jr. with setting the template for the whole smooth jazz thing.
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Northern Ireland has always lit the music industry alight with little gems of artists breaking into the mainstream UK music scene.
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Find out how his time with Miles Davis not only touched off a dramatic period of experimentation in jazz, but also helped transform the way White approached reshaping familiar songs into new fusion forms.
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Called a "major new force in soul music" by Rolling Stone when he debuted in 1970, Donny Hathaway 's voice had the power to bring home a message and the tenderness to sell the sweetest ballad.
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Jazz's most famous son is given godly status for his work in the 50s – as in Kind of Blue – and the 70s – as in Bitches Brew. The 80s remains a dubious period of his discography.
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On a drizzly overcast evening in Manhattan, the jazz cognoscenti and fans of guitarist Eric Clapton descended onto the elegant Rose Theater, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, for an evening of uplifting "hot" jazz featuring the iconic blues and rock guitarist.
Read MoreThe late Don Grolnick made only one fusion record, but it was a real beaut.
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Bryan Ferry's studio/office complex, discreetly hidden away in the stretch of London known as Olympia which runs between Kensington and Hammersmith, is a beautiful thing.
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Perfect Way is the remnant of a planned six-CD box set, subsequently reduced to four CDs and then finally emerging as this more modest two-disc package.
Read MoreIf you were reading my stuff way back in the old Jefitoblog days, you know I have a sick fascination for smooth jazz — to the point that I ended up acquiring a bunch of the stuff for the late, lamented series Adventures in Smooth Jazz with Lance Mueller, Office Drone .
Read MoreGiven the average age of the readership of this site it wouldn't be surprising to find that some readers most readily think of Bryan Ferry as that former M&S model who covers Bob Dylan songs all the time, rather than the front man for one the most important and influential British bands of all time.
Read MoreVictor was hired as a bluegrass fiddler after older brother, Roy, convinced Busch Gardens' administrators that Victor could play.
Read MoreLike many of the greatest American musicians, Miles Davis has had a comeback---he's had four or five of them, actually---but only one where he came back from not playing at all.
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