Sean Khan -][- SLOW BURNER – [Far Out Recordings, 2011] –

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Laurie Lowe, Mike Edmonds, Saxophonist, Sean Khan, Susan Allotey, Tim Lapthorne

Sean Khan, SLOW BURNER

Sean Khan -][- SLOW BURNER –Mp3– [Far Out Recordings, 2011] –

Alto/soprano saxophonist Sean Khan is a multi instrumentalist visionary mixing classic jazz and incredible improvisation skill. The band leader of cult British soul-jazz outfit SK Radicals, Sean Khan’s debut solo record ‘Slow Burner’ is soulful, eclectic, stand-out jazz. Paying homage to Khan’s jazz heroes the album comes packed with pulsating grooves that mix contemporary urban sounds with classic jazz.

‘Slow Burner’ features some of the best young jazz musicians on the London and European jazz scene Laurie Lowe (drums), Mike Edmonds (double bass), Susan Allotey (vocals) and Tim Lapthorne (piano).

..:: SOURCE: Far Out Greenbag.com ::..

Contemporary Jazz Greats GERALD ALBRIGHT and NORMAN BROWN Join Forces On New Concord Album 24/7 set for release on June 19, 2012

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African American, Byron Miller, Charles Streeter, Gerald Albright, Guitarist, Herman Jackson, Jay Williams, Norman Brown, Ramon Yslas, Rick Watford, Saxophonist, Tracy Carter

Gerald Albright and Norman Brown, 24-7

As listeners, we like to enjoy music 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So it’s a good thing that contemporary jazz greats Gerald Albright and Norman Brown have been working overtime to produce 24/7, their first album together. This June 19, 2012 release on Concord Jazz, a division of Concord Music Group, offers ten killer soul-jazz tracks of music that never sleeps.

Ever since the debut of Norman Brown’s critically acclaimed 2002 album, Just Chillin’ – which won a GRAMMY® in the prestigious Best Pop Instrumental Category – this innovative and original guitarist has been front and center in the fast evolving fusion of pop, R&B and jazz that has captured the imagination of true music aficionados across the country and around the world.

Listen to: Gerald Albright & Norman Brown – 24/7

Marc Myers Why Jazz Happened

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Author, Blogger, Marc Myers

Mar Myers, Why Jazz Matters

Why Jazz Happened is the first comprehensive social history of jazz. It provides an intimate and compelling look at the many forces that shaped this most American of art forms and the many influences that gave rise to jazz’s many styles. Rich with the voices of musicians, producers, promoters, and others on the scene during the decades following World War II, this book views jazz’s evolution through the prism of technological advances, social transformations, changes in the law, economic trends, and much more.

In an absorbing narrative enlivened by the commentary of key personalities, Marc Myers describes the myriad of events and trends that affected the music’s evolution—among them, the American Federation of Musicians strike in the early 1940s, changes in radio and concert-promotion, the G.I. Bill, the introduction of the long-playing record, the suburbanization of Los Angeles, the Civil Rights movement, the “British invasion” and the rise of electronic instruments.

Zhenya Strigalev -][- SMILING ORGANIZM – [Whirlwind Recordings, 2012] –

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Saxophonist, Zhenya Strigalev

“I like to be free, but to use the right language” – Zhenya Strigalev – London 2012

Zhenya Strigalev, SMILING ORGANIZM

Zhenya Strigalev -][- SMILING ORGANIZM –Mp3– [Whirlwind Recordings, 2012] –

Possessing fire, grace and edgy attitude alto saxophonist Zhenya Strigalev is a young virtuoso forging an increasingly high profile international presence. Graduating from the Royal Academy of Music in 2007, Strigalev has cut a dynamic path between the London and New York jazz scenes working with some of today’s most forward thinking musicians. He’s performed at many of the world’s leading jazz festivals, playing concerts in Russia, Finland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Poland, France and Britain. Now with four solo albums under his belt, Zhenya Strigalev is poised to reach a new level of artistic maturity on his superb latest solo album ‘Smiling Organizm’.

Mads Tolling Quartet -][- Celebrating Jean-Luc Ponty : Live at Yoshi’s – [Madsman Records, 2012] –

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Mads Tolling, Violin

Mads Tolling Quartet, Celebrating Jean-Luc Ponty (Live at Yoshi’s)

Mads Tolling Quartet -][- Celebrating Jean-Luc Ponty : Live at Yoshi’s –Mp3– [Madsman Records, 2012] –

Mads Tolling, internationally renowned violinist, violist, and composer, is a member of the two time Grammy Award-Winning Turtle Island Quartet. As a soloist, he regularly tours as jazz violinist with the acclaimed bassist Stanley Clarke and his touring band. Since 2007 Mads has lead his own group, Mads Tolling Quartet. His latest recording, “The Playmaker” released in the fall of 09, features bass legend Stanley Clarke and jazz greats Russell Ferrante & Stefon Harris.