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Resilience! New Orleans' Trombone Shorty, Linda May Han Oh, Ambrose Akinmusire show us how to thrive in tough times. Also unreleased tunes from Victoria Williams!
by Hobart Taylor
New music from Trombone Shorty, Victoria Williams and Behn Gillece, and a remastered classic solo work from Thelonious Monk Playlist Trombone Shorty & The New Breed Brass Band “Under the Bridge" from Second Line Sunday (Self-Produced) 00:00 Sarah Buechi “The Bird that Talks the Truth" from Pink Mountain Sagas (Intakt) 4:18 Bob Schlesinger “It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" from Falling From Earth (Self-Produced) 10:13 Victoria Williams “Kids" from Songs and Snippets (Self-Produced) 16:33 Host Speaks 20:40 Ben ...
Continue ReadingDeborah Silver: Deborah Silver with the Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Rocks!
by Jack Bowers
Basie Rocks! A great idea? One best left on the cutting-room floor? Or perhaps a little of both? There are reasonable arguments to be made on all sides of the equation. On the one hand, this is the one and only Count Basie Orchestra, swinging in its own exceptional way. On the other, the orchestra has joined forces on every number with Mississippi-bred pop-rock singer Deborah Silver, the latest in a series of acclaimed guest vocalists that includes Ella Fitzgerald, ...
Continue ReadingDeborah Silver: Deborah Silver with the Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Rocks!
by Kyle Simpler
Jazz musicians frequently cover popular songs, but few do it quite like vocalist Deborah Silver. With Basie Rocks!, Silver teams up with the iconic Count Basie Orchestra for a genre-crossing collection that you truly have to hear to believe. This is a groove-charged big band album that reimagines classic rock and pop classics through the swinging lens of traditional jazz. While that premise might sound gimmicky on paper, the result is total sonic satisfaction. Produced by ...
Continue ReadingStuttgart Jazz Open 2017
by Jean-Fran?ois Kalka
Over the course of ten days, the Stuttgart Jazz Open (SJO) played host to 40 performances across six venues, in and across greater Stuttgart. An outstanding cast of performers from the likes of Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Norah Jones, Wayne Shorter, Lee Ritenour, to the young and talented Isabella Lundgren, recognized by the Swedish Daily News as “one of the greatest things that the Swedish jazz scene has ever happened" and the likes of Kamasi Washington, this ...
Continue ReadingTrombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue at the Space at Westbury
by Mike Perciaccante
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue The Space at Westbury Westbury, NY June 16, 2017 Troy “Trombone Shorty" Andrews is New Orleans musical royalty. His grandfather was R&B and blues singer Jessie Hill, who is known for the classic tune “Ooh Poo Pah Do." Shorty's older brother is trumpeter James Andrews (also known as “Satchmo of the Ghetto") with whom he performed “Ooh Poo Pah Doo" on the HBO series Tremé. James Andrews made his ...
Continue ReadingTrombone Shorty: Parking Lot Symphony
by Geno Thackara
Troy “Trombone Shorty" Andrews is the kind of player that's taken Duke Ellington's philosophy of genres truly to heart--the outlook that “there are two kinds of music, good music and the other kind." His jazz and New Orleans roots run throughout most everything he does, though they often share equal space with modern rhythm and/or blues, pop, hip-hop and anything else that gets hips shaking. Guests from the rock and roll world (Lenny Kravitz, Warren Haynes, Jeff Beck or Kid ...
Continue ReadingTrombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue at The Space at Westbury
by Mike Perciaccante
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue with special guests The Pimps of Joytime The Space at Westbury Westbury, NY June 12, 2015 The new, young ambassador of the New Orleans sound stormed the stage at Westbury, NY's The Space on Friday, June 12. Troy “Trombone Shorty" Andrews is a member of one of New Orleans' most royal musical families. His grandfather was Jessie Hill, the R&B and blues artist most famous for the ...
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