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Soul Jazz

Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Filthy McNasty;
Too Blue;
Mean Greens;
The Chicken;
Driftin';
Slow Drag;
Strasbourg/St. Denis;
Naima.
Umbria Jazz Festival 2024

by Giulia Bianchi
Umbria Jazz FestivalVarious VenuePerugia, Italy July 14-20, 2024 Nestled in the picturesque city of Perugia, Umbria Jazz has become renowned for showcasing extraordinary talent and musicianship. For more than 50 years, the festival has preserved its vibrant spirit and tradition of hosting historic performances by some of jazz's most iconic figures, ...
Filthy McNasty

Album: Soul Jazz
By Vincent Herring
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 04:57
Something Else! Festival 2019

by Mike Chamberlain
Something Else! St. John the Evangelist Church Hamilton, Ontario June 20-23, 2019 I must confess that I spend very little time in churches, so I would not normally be inclined to spend the first weekend of summer in one. But sometimes exceptions must be made, and such an exception ...
Appreciations: Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill (1986)
I’m not going to tell you, in the wake of Adam “MCA” Yauch’s death on Friday, that I was a huge Beastie Boys fan. The truth is, I haven’t thought about them in years. But for people of a certain age, and I happen to be of that age, the act’s 1986 breakthrough album Licensed to ...
Randy Hoexter Group - Fromage (2012)
When John Stetch led a piano trio through interpretations of television theme songs on a CD released a few years ago, I was intrigued, and ultimately, charmed, by this originative collection of covers. TV Trio, as this record is called, even wound up on my year-end “best of 2009″ list for mainstream and modern jazz, because ...
Something Else! Interview: Allen Toussaint, Hall of Fame Singer-Songwriter and Producer

Allen Toussaint, fonky-fonky pianist, writer and producer of untold hit songs, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and first-chair favorite son, makes his annual appearance this week at the 2012 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival – a tradition, he says, “which I dearly, dearly love.” Then, he plans to resume a completely revitalized solo recording ...
Eddie Gomez - Per Sempre (2012)

Always an impressive technician, Gomez has an identifiably soulful soundsometimes from the very first plucking of his bass. That has carried him through an impressive array of settings, from traditional trios and fusion-infused amalgams all the way over into the delicate lyricisms of chamber jazz. The forthcoming Per Sempre fits squarely into the latter category, as ...
Lyle Lovett - Release Me (2012)

If you know anything about Lyle Lovett, the tongue-firmly-in-cheek title of his forthcoming releasehis last for Curb Records, the only label he's ever recorded forwill come as no surprise. Neither will the fact that, by pure force of intellect, personality and humor, the Texas singer-songwriter is able to mold what can only charitably be called an ...