Gordon Hulbert

How Artificial Intelligence Could Distort The Music Industry

by Brian Eaton
July 17, 2024

In a dimly lit studio, where the hum of vintage amplifiers once mingled with the human touch of fingers on strings and keys, a new player has emerged--artificial intelligence. As the music industry races toward the future, AI has the potential to replace key personnel, including songwriters, producers, recording engineers, and session musicians. This technological revolution, ...

Jason McGuiness

Infused in LA's jazz scene, Jason was a regular at the Piano Bar & Blue Whale where LA's rising talent would come to celebrate the music they loved. It was here that Jason first met with prolific saxophonist Kamasi Washington. In 2014 Jason recorded with Kamasi on an EP called Masterpiece. The 3 track EP featured new arrangements of classic tracks from The Temptations and was dedicated to the songwriting/producing duo behind it, Norman Whitfield & Barret Strong. 

In 2019 Jason released his debut album, Empyrean Tones, an exploration of cosmic jazz featuring some of the greatest musicians of our times: Phil Ranelin, Kamasi Washington, Keyon Harrold, Randal Fisher, Mark de Clive-Lowe, and more. The following year he released his sophomore album, Passages, together with frequent collaborator Matthew Little, along with Keyon Harrold, Camila George, Phil Ranelin, and others.

Adrian Younge e Ali Shaheed Muhammad : Jazz Is Dead

by Angelo Leonardi
January 23, 2023

Hanno scelto un marchio provocatorio, Adrian Younge e Ali Shaheed Muhammad per l'etichetta discografica e la piattaforma di musica dal vivo che gestiscono a Los Angeles da alcuni anni. I due musicisti e produttori vengono dalla scena hip-hop: il primo ha lavorato con artisti di fama mondiale come Wu-Tang Clan, Souls of Mischief e ...

Kris T Reeder

Born: November 28, 1984

K T Reeder has been recognised as 'one of 25 of the artists who have engineered the cultural transformation of British jazz over the past four decades' in a seminal book on British Jazz by David Burke (Giant Steps: Diverse Journeys in British Jazz - 2021)

Emiliano Sampaio: Rising Transatlantic Star

by Kurt Ellenberger
April 5, 2021

In 2013, I was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to teach and to work on a research project at the Kunstuniversit?t Graz ("University of the Arts in Graz"). I taught a first-year course in jazz theory that was really a delight. These students were already extremely accomplished performers and composers. About half of the class was comprised ...

Jol Tai

Born: February 17, 1986

The Orchestra of Mirrored Reflections: 

Genre: Dark jazz, ambient, downtempo, noir

Origin: Dnipro, Ukraine

Active: 2014-present

Personnel:

• Jol Tai (composer, multi-instrumentalist)

Selected Albums:

• Tunnel of Eclipse (2017)
• Dead Beat (2018)
• Narrow Escape (2019)

Critical Reception:

The Orchestra of Mirrored Reflections has been praised for their unique blend of dark jazz, ambient, downtempo, and noir music. Their music has been described as "meditative," "hypnotic," and "cinematic."

Ognjen Savija

Born: March 19, 1971

Ognjen ?avija: Member of Cultural Association Ambrosia. Guitar player, musician, composer, producer, sound designer, art performance artist, multimedia artist & DJ �C the explorer of Infinity and its possibilities. Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 1971. He has taken classical guitar lessons from Mile Praljak. Simultaneously, he has worked with electronics and audio engineering, and has studied several other music instruments. 1986, together with his brother Neboj?a ?avija-Valha, he started experimenting with music and sound within contemporary music, new age, experimental, avant-grade jazz and ambient (See Ognjen ?avija and Neboj?a ?avija-Valha duo). At the same time he has played with several alternative rock bands. 1991-1996 he was a leader of a goth rock band the Invisible Fields. During 1993, together with his brother, he developed an audio-visual project ��Twilight Whisper�� that was performed at the beginning of 1994 involving several more people

Jazz Education In The Century Of Change: Beyond The Music

by David Liebman
September 26, 2012

Question: What values does a jazz education offer beyond the music itself? \Artists have always had a supply and demand problem. Since time immemorial there have been more people with creative ideas than an audience to communicate them to, especially if the art demands more than a cursory attention span. In the current world of jazz ...

Jamming For Dollars

by Bruce Klauber
September 19, 2012

The History, Care, Feeding and Booking of the Jazz Jam Session“Fusion and the new stuff? It doesn't offend me, but a lot of the soloists sort of sound alike, like they all learned the same licks from the same school. When I was coming up in the 1940s, it seemed that every corner bar had a ...