From January 1951 to March 1956, trumpeter Miles Davis and tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins played together on five recording dates for the Prestige label. Historically speaking, these were important, formative sessions, especially the ones in the early ’50, when both artists were busy assimilating the fundamental elements of bebop and [...]
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Mariachi Real de San Diego: Flame Keepers
Monday, July 20th, 2009“The mariachi tradition goes back over a hundred years,” says Mariachi Real de San Diego’s guitarron player Mauricio Gonzalez. “It came from the people, it came from the hills, from the ranches. It was a different lifestyle back then.”
Mauricio is one of six musicians in Mariachi Real de San Diego, [...]
Soulive – Available Now
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009Up Here, the latest album from the funk-groove trio Soulive, has been available as an MP3 download for a while now. Last week, the album was released on both CD and 12″ vinyl on the band’s newly formed label, Royal Family Records. The CD includes a bonus DVD of footage [...]
Read more >>The Microscopic Septet – Lobster Leaps In
Saturday, June 20th, 2009The Microscopic Septet
Lobster Leaps In
(Cuneiform)
The concept of separating music into serious and not-so-serious categories is anathema to the men of the Microscopic Septet. Since the band’s nascent days, circa the early 1980s, the players have fought against the notion that fun and art are mutually exclusive by creating genre-defying mélanges [...]
Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra – We Are MTO
Saturday, June 20th, 2009Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra
We Are MTO
(MOWO)
Trumpeter Bernstein’s big band plays post-modern jazz with infectious enthusiasm and unmistakable affection. An entertaining and insightful mix of genre-mashing, high spirits and a healthy dose of humor keeps the album perking along at an effervescent clip.
Delivered with a knowing wink, incongruities in Bernstein’s [...]
Jim Hall/Bill Frisell – Hemispheres
Saturday, June 20th, 2009Jim Hall/Bill Frisell
Hemispheres
(ArtistShare)
The disc of duets between Jim Hall and Bill Frisell, included in a double-album set that finds the distinctive stylists alone together and in a quartet setting, is quite simply a masterpiece, featuring some of the most searching and beautiful music ever made on guitar. Each man is [...]
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