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The Cyrus Chestnut Trio with Ekep Nkwelle at Smoke Jazz Club

by Paul Reynolds
August 1, 2024

Cyrus Chestnut Trio with Special Guest Ekep Nkwelle Smoke Jazz Club New York, NY July 26, 2024 When the formula works, a jazz set with a special guest is a twofer; you see a different musical side of the host while enjoying a tantalizing sample of the visitor's artistry. So it ...

Alex Dante

Born: May 12, 1983

Alexandros Dandoulakis (born 12th of May 1983), better known by his stage name Alex Dante is a Greek musician originally from the island of Crete. 

Since 2001 he lives and works as guitarist, music teacher, arranger and composer in Athens. He studied Mathematics and Physics at the National Technical University of Athens and Music at the University of West London which he graduated with the Licentiate of Teacher’s Diploma in electric guitar.

He has collaborated with many Greek artists and world class musicians like Bill Frisell, Alan Zavod (Zappa & the mothers), Monophonics and Jazz Soul Orchestra. His projects cover many music genres such as Jazz, Soul, Rock and Classical music.Alex Dante, with his electric guitar, redefines the aesthetics and sound over Frederic Chopin’s and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s pieces, describing a route from Wes Montgomerry and Joe Pass to Pat Metheny and Kurt Rosenwinkel.

Greg Osby e il Questionario di Proust

by Paolo Peviani
November 15, 2023

Il tratto principale della mia musica La mia musica �� una chiara rappresentazione dei miei interessi e delle mie priorit�� . La qualit�� che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me Nei musicisti cerco dedizione e integrit��. Prediligo anche i giovani musicisti che hanno spiccate capacit�� di memorizzare musica originale.

Charles Mingus: The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott's

by Mike Jurkovic
April 24, 2022

After the emotional and economic bankruptcies of the late 1960s that nearly took him out of the picture entirely, 1972 broke well for Charles Mingus. He had re-signed with Columbia and delivered the revered Let My Children Hear Music. (He would, a year later, be part of the great Clive Davis jazz purge of 1973 which ...

Yotam Ishay

Born: 1990

Brooklyn-based Grammy-nominatedInterdisciplinary composer, arranger, and pianist. With over 650k streams on Spotify, music from his debut album "Opus 1" was placed in Netflix shows, and his solo piano album "SEED" was praised by the Japanese magazine "JAZZ LIFE" and the French magazine "Djolo". His compositions express a unique dialect by blending Western classical music, Middle-Eastern music, and Jazz influences.

Yotam graduated from the prestigious Berklee College of Music, earning a composition degree with a full scholarship

Fire And Ice: Two Nordic Contrasts

by Gareth Thompson
March 14, 2021

The twin forces of ice and fire have long existed in Nordic mythology. In the twenty-first century, northern European music has offered stark contrasts too, with a scene as vibrant and compelling as any on earth. Labels such as Hubro, Odin, Rune Grammofon and Jazzland have brought us many artists with a common grounding in jazz ...

Quinsin Nachoff: Pivotal Arc

by Friedrich Kunzmann
August 18, 2020

Canadian saxophonist and composer Quinsin Nachoff's newest outing out on Whirlwind Recordings once again proves what was established long before: that nothing about his approach to jazz is common. As a matter of fact, if his name weren't almost exclusively mentioned in jazz publications, jazz wouldn't necessarily be the first thing that came to mind when ...

The Touch of Your Lips, Part 3: The Essential Touch in Jazz Piano

by Kurt Ellenberger
April 17, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 It would be nice and tidy if the development of tone color as a primary in jazz piano matched its development in the other instruments, but that is not the case. From early on in jazz's history, composers and bandleaders like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Cab ...

Yakir Arbib: My Name Is Yakir

by Don Phipps
December 30, 2019

Clever and entertaining, My Name is Yakir offers a diverse potpourri of jazz standards and original compositions performed by pianist Yakir Arbib. The music contrasts standards from the Dixieland, swing, bebop and hard bop eras with five originals that mix classical idioms with loose jazz structures. Arbib certainly has talent and his technical dexterity permits him ...