Bryan Carter [-] ENCHANTMENT [Imaginate Records]

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African American, Bryan Carter, Drums, Jazz

Bryan Carter - ENCHANTMENT

Bryan Carter [-] ENCHANTMENT -(MP3)- [Imaginate Records, 2011]

Bryan Carter has already begun an incredible career with regular performances at jazz venues in New York and in his native cities of Chicago and St. Louis.

Beginning drums at the age of three, Carter quickly developed a strong passion for music, especially jazz, and by the age of eleven had already studied with jazz masters Louie Bellson, Harold Jones, and Ed Thigpen. Carter’s early performances with Chicago’s South Shore Jazz Ensemble directed by his father, famed educator, Ronald Carter and other conglomerate jazz ensembles served as a catalyst to his developing career. During high school Carter was accepted to the prestigious Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony, the Vail Jazz Workshop, and the Grammy Jazz Ensemble. – BIO

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Mark Rapp’s Melting Pot -][- GOOD EATS [Dinemec Jazz]

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Jazz, Mark Rapp, Trumpet

Mark Rapp's Melting Pot - GOOD EATS

Mark Rapp’s Melting Pot -][- GOOD EATS -(MP3)- [Dinemec Jazz, 2011]

Mark Rapp has played sold out shows at the Blue Note (NY), Joe’s Pub, Yoshi’s (San Fran) and such venues as Blues Alley (D.C.), the JVC Newport Jazz Festival, Dizzy’s at Jazz Lincoln Center, JazzTime Festival (Croatia), Jazzland (Vienna), Jazz Standard (New York) and more. Mark was named a “top emerging trumpeter” by Downbeat Magazine, featured on a Travel Channel documentary and has played with such diverse artists as Branford Marsalis to Hootie and the Blowfish.

Mark has 4 records as a leader including his critically-loved debut Token Tales (2009), Braden-Rapp: The Strayhorn Project (2010) with saxophone great Don Braden and GRAMMY-nominated pianist Gerald Clayton (bradenrapp.com The Song Project’s Art of the Song, vol.1 (2010) – including an industry first “Applum” (thesongproject.net) and most recently, Good Eats (2011), an engaging collection of arrangements of Lou Donaldson compositions. Disney’s CD Everybody Wants to be a Cat, which includes Roy Hargrove, Dave Brubeck, Esperanza Spalding, The Bad Plus, Joshua Redman and more, features Mark on its closing track.

Constantly performing in support of his various projects including Good Eats, Token Tales, The Strayhorn Project and The Song Project, Mark resides in Geneva, Switzerland and New York, NY. Mark plays a custom Monette Prana LTJ with a Monette B3 mouthpiece, a custom Monette Ajna I Prana trumpet with a Monette B2GS3 88 mouthpiece and a Kanstul flugelhorn with a Monette B2 mouthpiece. -BIO

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Branford Marsalis and Joey Calderazzo [|] SONGS OF MIRTH and MELANCHOLY [Marsalis Music]

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African American, Branford Marsalis, Jazz, Joey Calderazzo, Piano, Saxophone

Branford Marsalis and Joey Calderazzo - SONGS of MIRTH & MELANCHOLY

Branford Marsalis and Joey Calderazzo [|] SONGS OF MIRTH and MELANCHOLY [Marsalis Music, 2011]

Songs of Mirth and Melancholy

Few contemporary pairings of saxophonist and pianist have been as inspired and productive as that of Branford Marsalis and Joey Calderazzo. Since replacing the late Kenny Kirkland in Marsalis’ quartet in 1998, Calderazzo has blended seamlessly into the uncompromising creative atmosphere of the ensemble and revealed new facets of his own conception, while Marsalis in turn has been inspired by the pianist’s challenging instrumental support and growing strength as a composer. The relationship grows ever deeper, as documented on the new Marsalis Music CD Songs of Mirth and Melancholy.

Adding duo performances to their quartet collaboration is an idea launched on the golf course – or, more precisely, the 19th hole. As Calderazzo explains it, “The duo originated when Branford and I would play a couple of numbers at celebrity golf tournaments. But we really took it to another level at the 2009 Newport Jazz Festival, where we played four tunes in a short set and the interaction was really happening. That’s when we decided to record.” The session was a logical step for Marsalis, who has previously displayed his duo prowess in albums with his father Ellis (Loved Ones, Columbia, 1995) and Harry Connick, Jr. (Occasion, Volume 2 of Marsalis Music’s “Connick on Piano” series, 2005, and the complementary Marsalis Music DVD A Duo Occasion, filmed at the 2005 Ottawa Jazz Festival). —Torontojazz.com

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Tom Harrell -][- TIME OF THE SUN [High Note]

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Jazz, Tom Harrell, Trumpet

Tom Harrell - TIME OF THE SUN

Tom Harrell -][- TIME OF THE SUN -(MP3)- [HighNote, 2011]

On The Time of the Sun, Tom and his quintet confirm their place at the top of the post-bop mainstream. Of course, Harrell’s often beautiful, always rigorous solos are to the fore but he allows each member of his band to shine and nobody is relegated to second fiddle.

Whether it be on ballads or driving pieces, the group’s expositions, interactions and song development is exuberant and extensive, devoid of gimmicks and are delivered in an energetic, yet disciplined and sophisticated manner.

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Young, Powell & Vespestad -][- Anthem [PVY Records Corp]

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Jazz, Organ, Roy Powell

Greeting’s everyone, it’s great to be among the living. I know it’s been awhile but things have been considerably slow lately in the music business, hopefully things will pick up very soon. –Rob Young

Young, Powell & Vespestad - Anthem

Young, Powell & Vespestad -][- Anthem – [PVY Records Corp., 2011]

Organist and pianist Roy Powell is originally from England but after success with his first CD has been living in Oslo for some time. He has released 7 CDs under his own name (one of which Solace received 4 stars in Downbeat). He is a world-class pianist/organist with virtuosity as a key ingredient; at home in clubs such as Ronnie Scott’s (where he has performed many times) or at festivals in Europe such as Maijazz, London and Jazz Baltica.

“A compelling beautiful series of performances, authoritative, disciplined and full of warmth” – Ray Comiskey, The Irish Times

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(RIP) Gil Scott-Heron, Called Godfather of Rap, Dies at 62

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African American, Gil Scott-Heron, Jazz, Poet, Rap, SInger

Gil Scott-Heron

Gil Scott-Heron, the poet, singer and author who rejected the title often given him as the “Godfather of Rap” because he said rap “is aimed at the kids,” has died in New York City. He was 62.

He had spent much of the last two decades battling drug addiction and in and out of prison before releasing an album last year, “I’m New Here,” that brought him something of a comeback.

Doris Nolan, a friend of Scott-Heron’s told The Associated Press, “We’re all sort of shattered.”

From his first album, “125th and Lenox,” released in 1970, Scott-Heron was a unique and powerful voice in American music.

At a time when popular music was moving away from the anthems of protest of the ’60s, Scott-Heron, with his hard-edged but somehow tender, aching voice, gave an unflinching yet poetic look at the realities of inner-city life at a time when the hopes of the civil rights movement were battered in the anger of riots and the ravages of spreading drug addiction. –By LAUREN VANCE and DEAN SCHABNER

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extemp’ore – AUSPICIOUS DEBUT FROM PEAR FOLLOWS SAGE ADVICE FROM MILES DAVIS

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CARL VERHEYAN, Jazz, JENNIFER LEITHAM, JIMMY JOHNSON, PRINCE DIABATE

RELEASE INCLUDES CARL VERHEYAN, JIMMY JOHNSON, JENNIFER LEITHAM, PRINCE DIABATE, CINDY WONDERFUL

Pear - Extempore

On the opening strains of “Dewey Miles,” the mysterious lead-off track from Pear’s extemp’ore, the voice of Miles Davis intones (in that oft-imitated gruff demeanor): “Don’t play what you know, play what you hear.” Later in that groove-heavy piece, Miles declares: “I don’t want to be labeled anything. I’m a musician.” Those two mantras serve as sage-like guidance for the duo of pianist Nick Pierone and percussionist Rick Milne (the core of Pear) on their auspicious debut. Given license to paint vivid colors on a blank canvas, this could be a soundtrack to a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting. Pear dives headlong into a pool of provocative sound where the freedom principle prevails and the results are wide-ranging and genre-defying. Drawing on a wealth of musical influences, the audacious duo has concocted a striking pastiche where Miles and Cecil Taylor sit comfortably beside Brian Eno, Medeski, Martin & Wood, the Bad Plus and Jaco Pastorius, with touches of minimalism, lyricism and spoken word experimentalism thrown into the subversive mix.

LISTEN TO EXCLUSIVE STREAMING TRACKS FROM extemp’ore

Marius Neset -[]- GOLDEN XPLOSION

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Jazz, Marius Neset, Saxophone

arius Neset - GOLDEN XPLOSION

Marius Neset -[]- GOLDEN XPLOSION -(MP3)- [Edition Records, 2011]

Marius Neset? This is a name you are going to hear a whole lot more. This astonishingly gifted 25 year old saxophonist/composer is releasing his second album on Edition Records and it will simply blow you away. Golden Xplosion, also the title of Marius’ band, features one of the hottest quartets anywhere. Pianist Django Bates needs no introduction – the names Human Chain, Loose Tubes and Storm Chaser, his latest project, will suffice.

His playing here lends the music an orchestral quality and the textures he adds even on acoustic piano are just gorgeous. Bassist Jasper Hoiby’s own Edition CD Phronesis Live was one of the jazz hits of 2010. Swedish drummer Anton Eger is another astonishing young musician with great time and explosive power yet capable of great subtlety too.

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New JAZZ Releases for the Week of 5/24/2011

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Jazz, New Releases

Greeting’s jazz aficionados, as always I’m delighted to present the latest jazz releases this week. With each visit, you’ll discover a montage of new jazz recordings featured at Amazon.com that encompasses a generous diet of nuances which includes a wealth of complex and distinctive styles, textures, melodies, and rhythms exalted by a host of definitive and creative voices in the world of jazz.

For more details, please visit Amazon.com for a complete list of jazz releases for Tuesday (5/24/2011)!

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Yellowjackets -][- WILDLIFE (Video]

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Jazz, Yellowjackets

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