Jeff Richman, известный своими трибутами Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis и John Coltrane, выпустил очередной, на сей раз Steely Danу -"the Royal Dan". Состав: Ernie Watts, sax; Jeff Richman, guitars; Peter Wolf, keyboards; Jimmy Haslip, bass; Vinnie Colaiuta, drums. Солo гитаристы: Robben Ford "Peg", Steve Morse "Bodhisattva", Jay Graydon "Home at Last", Al DiMeola "Aja", Steve Lukather "Pretzel Logic", Mike Stern "Dirty Work", Jimmy Herring "The Fez", Frank Gambale "FM", Elliot Randall "Hey Nineteen" и сам Jeff Richman "Josie".
Re: Джаз-рок вообще, и The Mahavishnu Orchestra в частности. Автор:pempeДата: 27.06.06 21:42:45
любителям pok - джазa Bobby Previte "The Coalition of the Willing" Оформление, названия композиций, "line notes" основываются на культовой книжке George Orwell'а "1984". Да и сама музыка направлена на будущее, получается как бы джазовый прог рок. Состав Jamie Saft (electric guitar, organ, Mellotron, Moog synthesizer, electric bass); Charlie Hunter (electric guitar, electric bass); Skerik (tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Steven Bernstein (trumpet, slide trumpet).
Re: Кто слушает джаз? Автор:pempeДата: 25.06.06 16:17:25
диск британского ветерана Ray Russell "Goodbye Svengali" придумин как трибьют музике Gil Evans. (Svengali - один из лучших дисков Gil Evans, а также его ник и анограма). В диске основном вещи Russell'а и его кoманды, плюс стандарт Mingus'а "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” в котором играет и сам Gil Evans (1988 г.). В треке "Goodbye Svengali" играет сын Гиоа Miles Evans (нетрудно догадаться в честь кого он так назван).
Re: Кто слушает джаз? Автор:pempeДата: 25.06.06 12:18:27
любителям фанки-джаза Christian McBride "Live at Tonic" тройной концертник из двух выступлений в Tonic клубе New York. 1 диск - концерт Макбрайда с группой, 2 и 3 - настоящий джам сешины с гостями. Настоящая фиеста фанка, цена тройника как нормального диска.
Personel Christian McBride__acoustic & electric basses Ron Blake__tenor, soprano, baritone saxophones & flute Geoffrey Keezer__keyboards Terreon Gully__drums
Special Guests Charlie Hunter__guitar Jason Moran__piano Jenny Scheinman__violin DJ Logic__turntables Scratch__beat box Eric Krasno__guitars Rashawn Ross__trumpets
Songs _CD 1 _1. Techicolor Nightmare_(McBride)_12:48 _2. Say Something_(Terreon Gully)_6:04 _3. Clerow's Flipped_(McBride)_6:05 _4. Lejos De Usted_(McBride)_7:01 _5. Sonic Tonic_(Ron Blake)_11:44 _6. Hibiscus_(Geoffrey Keezer)_6:02 _7. Sitting On A Cloud_(McBride)_6:52 _8. Boogie Woogie Waltz_(Joe Zawinul)_14:54
_CD 2 _1. See Jam, Hear Jam, Feel Jam_(*)_29:23 _2. Out Jam/Give It Up Or Turnit Loose_(James Brown)_9:35 _3. Lower East Side/Rock Jam_(*)_6:26 _4. Hemisphere Jam_(*)_:3:36 _5. Bitches Brew_(Miles Davis)_4:51 _6. Out Jam/Via Mwandishi_(McBride)_7:57 _7. Mwandishi Outcome Jam_(*)_7:10 _8. The Comedown Jam(LSD Jam)_(*)_3:58
*Written by Christian McBride, Ron Blake, Terreon Gully, Geoffrey Keezer, Charlie Hunter, Jennifer Scheinman, Jason Moran and published by ToniChris Music
_CD 3 _1. E Jam_(**)_33:03 _2. Ab Minor Jam_(**)_12:59 _3. D Shuffle Jam_(**)_9:00 _4. D Shuffle Jam (part 2)_(**)_11:32
**Written by Christian McBride, Ron Blake, Terreon Gully, Geoffrey Keezer, Eric Krasnow, DJ Logic, Scratch and published by ToniChris Music
Re: А как Вам Grand Funk ? Автор:pempeДата: 24.06.06 15:04:12
>2Ken >Да не обращайте внимание на эти провокации и >не расстраивайтесь! Это всего лишь попытка некоторых >персонажей привлечь внимание к себе и к своим >кумирам, желание перевести разговор в иную плоскость. >А GRAND FUNK в свое время были просто потрясной >командой! У них был совершенно неподражаемый саунд, >который до сих пор пробирает до костей. Но все >хорошее когда-нибудь кончается, а жаль!
если все хорошее постепенно кончается и взамен приходит "не совсем хорошее" то это есть регрес - следователь рок катится по наклонной, а это очень расстраивает.
Re: Hard rock & Heavy Metall Автор:pempeДата: 24.06.06 10:47:41
Aerosmith & Motley Cure Team Join Forces For a Tour
Rock-and-roll heavyweights Aerosmith and Motley Crue have announced plans to join forces for a massive fall tour that will touch down at amphitheaters throughout the US. Dubbed the "Route of All Evil Tour, " the trek gets underway with a cluster of mid-to-late-September shows scattered throughout the Northeast, and about two-dozen concerts are confirmed through late November.
Aerosmith fans who score seats some distance from the stage may find themselves closer to the band than expected, as the Boston-based rock vets plan to hit a stage outfitted with a ramp that will stretch 70 feet into the audience, according to a press release.
The upcoming tour marks Aerosmith's return to the stage after earlier this year canceling the last nine dates of a late-winter jaunt so that frontman Steven Tyler could undergo surgery to fix a vocal ailment. The band is currently working on its follow-up to 2004's "Honkin' on Bobo, " an all-blues album. The group's most recent rock set is 2001's "Just Push Play."
Motley Crue reunited in early 2005 to mount what turned out to be one of the most successful arena tours of the year. The run supported "Red, White & Crue, " a best-of set that also featured several new cuts. The group is in the early stages of recording a new studio collection with producer Bob Rock, who helmed the band's massively successful 1989 disc, "Dr. Feelgood."
Re: B.B. King - King Of The Blues Автор:pempeДата: 24.06.06 10:39:08
Blues legend B.B. King will commemorate "Black Music Month, " with a performance at the White House on Monday, June 26. A number of guests, including President George W. Bush, will gather on the South Lawn for the event.
In 1947, King launched his professional career, leaving the Mississippi Delta and heading for Memphis, where he enjoyed some early successes, before going to become one of the world's most beloved musicians.
In honor of his 80th birthday last September, King celebrated the occasion with a few of his musical compatriots on the new studio album of duets that won him a Grammy in February.
Featuring some of today's biggest stars -- from Eric Clapton, Elton John, Sheryl Crow, John Mayer and Gloria Estefan to Roger Daltrey, Glenn Frey, Mark Knopfler, Billy Gibbons, Bobby Bland and Daryl Hall -- B.B. King and Friends -- 80 is yet another landmark in the career of one of the most influential guitarists of the 20th Century.
King has announced that a museum in his honor is to be built in his home state of Mississippi and the first phase of the $10 million B.B. King Museum opens next year in Indianola, near his hometown.
Among King's many classics are "The Thrill Is Gone, " "Payin' the Cost to Be the Boss, " "Everyday I Have the Blues, " "You Don't Know Me" and "Why I Sing the Blues."
Re: Собачки на обложках Автор:pempeДата: 23.06.06 23:00:02
Легендарный джазовый саксофонист Сонни Роллинз (Sonny Rollins) получил главную награду на состоявшейся 19 июня в Нью-Йорке церемонии вручения премии Jazz Awards. 75-летний музыкант, записывавшийся со многими звездами джаза, назван «Музыкантом года» и, помимо этого, еще и «Саксофонистом года», сообщает music.com.ua со ссылкой на Jam Showbiz. По третьей категории, в которой номинировался Сонни Роллинз - «Джазовый альбом года» - лидировал диск «Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall», записанный еще в 1957-м году, однако утерянный и обнаруженный вновь только в прошлом году в Библиотеке американского Конгресса.
Квартет саксофониста Уэйна Шортера (Wayne Shorter), ранее в этом году получивший премию «Грэмми» за лучший инструментальный альбом года («Beyond the Sound Barrier»), признан «Лучшим джазовым ансамблем малых форм», в то время как награда в номинации «Лучший бигбэнд» досталась ансамблю под управлением бэндлидера Джеральда Уилсона (Gerald Wilson).
В числе других лауреатов церемонии Jazz Awards оказались Дайан Ривз («Лучшая сольная исполнительница»), Мария Шнайдер («Лучший аранжировщик»), Эндрю Хилл («Лучший композитор»), Дэйв Дуглас («Лучший трубач»), Фил Вудс («Лучший альт-саксофонист»), Курт Эллинг («Лучший сольный исполнитель»), Билл Чарлап («Лучший пианист»), Джим Холл («Лучший гитарист»), Кристиан МакБрайд («Лучший басист»), Пол Мотиан («Лучший ударник»), Дафнис Прието («Самый перспективный музыкант года») и другие. Премию за выдающиеся достижения на протяжении всей жизни получил 81-летний барабанщик Рон Хейз.
В этом году церемония Jazz Awards проводилась уже в десятый раз. Номинанты и лауреаты этой премии определяются голосованием 400 участников Ассоциации джазовых журналистов (Jazz Journalists Association) со всего мира.
This energetic November 2004 London concert was billed as “Lifetime and Beyond: Celebrating Tony Williams.” The trio's instrumentation—organ, electric guitar, drums—mirrors the late drummer’s seminal jazz-rock Lifetime outfit, but its name emphasizes what lies beyond.
Lifetime is not forgotten in the process, of course. Each of two long sets ends with a number from the trio’s explosive 1969 debut, and these new readings still echo some of the excitement and incomprehensibility that the music caused more than thirty years ago. Unlike most of the other jazz-rock fusion of the era, Tony Williams’ conception of rock embraced not only Sly Stone, James Brown and Jimi Hendrix, but also, on the aural evidence, the likes of Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes.
Larry Goldings, John Scofield and Jack DeJohnette play the uncompromising rock ’n’ roll of the ”Emergency” theme with great vigor, but quickly segue into a less frenetic (and sublime) post-bop vibe. Indeed, the record’s best moments draw more deeply upon music associated with Williams’ membership in Miles Davis’ classic mid-’60s quintet, before he left to form Lifetime: “Seven Steps to Heaven,” “Pee Wee” and a beautiful “I Fall In Love Too Easily” with a long blues coda. When Trio Beyond goes “beyond” Lifetime, they mean before Lifetime.
DeJohnette’s idiosyncratic gifts are especially suited to this setting. In the original trio, Larry Young and John McLaughlin liberated the organ/guitar aesthetic from the funky but narrow supremacy of the Lonnie Liston Smith/George Benson sound; for them, as for Goldings and Scofield, the organ does not always double for the missing bass. Thus DeJohnette thus finds plenty of space to thrash about in his preferred booming bottom range.
Likewise, the assertive loudness of the electric instrumentation stands up better to the drummer’s aggressive proclivities (though after all those years playing in Keith Jarrett’s Standards Trio, DeJohnette is much more at ease in the gentler passages, as on “Big Nick”). As a result, DeJohnette is the key ingredient in a very successful combination that might be called, improbable as it sounds, stadium chamber jazz.
Scofield is fluent, flexible, and thoroughly at home with the particular timbres of the electric instrument. He frequently opts for a cool, R&B-inflected understatement, an efficient contrast to the florid, almost hyperactive vocabulary of the trio’s other members. Listen in particular to his playing on the power ballad “As One” and the funky, trio-composed title track, whose short melodic line is purloined from Miles Davis’s “Spanish Key.” Goldings is the least mature voice in the the trio, but his proficiency, his inventiveness, and more importantly (given the company he’s keeping), his stamina never waver.
Not rigidly constrained to a literal rendering of Williams’ music, the members of Trio Beyond instead sample the late drummer’s musical universe, bringing their own perspectives into the mix. Saudades is a fitting tribute to Williams’ considerable legacy, but it is also a part of that legacy.
Track Listing: If; As One; Allah Be Praised; Saudades; Pee Wee; Spectrum; Seven Steps to Heaven; I Fall In Love Too Easily; Love in Blues; Big Nick; Emergency.
Personnel: Jack DeJohnette: drums; John Scofield: guitars; Larry Goldings: Hammond organ, electric piano, sampler.
Re: Blues. Buddy Guy - everybody's buddy! Автор:pempeДата: 19.06.06 22:56:23
Buddy Guy has received five Grammy awards, 23 W.C. Handy Awards (more than any other blues artist), Billboard Magazine's prestigious Century Award, the title Greatest Living Electric Blues Guitarist, and the Congressional Medal of Arts awarded by the President. Still, when it came to creating a Martin Signature Edition with his name on it, Buddy Guy showed himself to be anything but traditionalist. The JC Buddy Guy Blues Guitar may well be the most distinctive Signature Edition Martin ever.
Buddy Guy is a musician's musician. Not only has he had a fundamental impact on the blues and on rock and roll, but he's influenced new generations of artists. Known for his showmanship, playing guitar with drumsticks, walking into the audience while performing, picking the guitar with his teeth and playing it over his head (influencing a young Jimi Hendrix), Guy performed flamboyant live concerts, predating the 1960s blues rockers.
The JC Buddy Guy Blues Guitar combines Martin's J (jumbo) body style with a cutaway for big sound and easy access to the upper frets. The guitar features an Adirondack spruce top; the sides and three-piece back are richly colored East Indian rosewood. The low profile neck is carved from genuine mahogany. But it is the appointments that really set the JC Buddy Guy Blues Guitar apart. Buddy likes polka dots on his guitars and polka dots he got. The unique rosette features a ring of turquoise composite dots. Turquoise composite dot inlays also accent the black ebony belly bridge and the ebony bridge pins. The black ebony fingerboard provides the palette for a random "splash" of turquoise composite polka dots. Buddy Guy's "BG" initials serve as the position marker at the 12th fret. The black ebony headplate showcases the block letter "C.F. Martin" logo, also inlaid in turquoise composite.
The JC Buddy Guy Blues Guitar is factory-equipped with Fishman VT electronics. To simplify "on the fly" adjustments in the tradition of electric blues, the volume and tone knobs are mounted on the top, just below the bridge and the polished and beveled black pickguard. Buddy Guy is as unique as the Martin guitar that bears his name. Delivered in a Geib style hardshell case, each Martin JC Buddy Guy Blues Guitar bears an interior label individually signed by Buddy Guy and Martin Chairman C.F. Martin. IV and numbered in sequence with the edition total.
Carlos Santana to Perform at ’Opening Night At The Bowl’
Carlos Santana will be honored with another milestone induction on Friday, June 23 when he becomes part of the Hollywood Bowl Hall Of Fame during their Seventh Annual ceremony.
The June 23 date also marks "Opening Night At The Bowl, " one of the world famous venue's biggest evenings all year. Carlos will perform on a special bill that includes Andre Watts, Blue Man Group and John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. The gala event, which begins at 8:30PM, benefits Music Matters, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's educational initiative, dedicated to creating innovative music education programs for people of all ages and backgrounds. Recently, Music Matters has added extra focus towards supporting Los Angeles public schools and their renewed commitment to restoring arts education for all students.
Next, Carlos Santana and the Santana Band -- fresh off their first tour of South America in over two decades and an initial leg of European dates this spring -- will take to the road again for an itinerary stretching through September. As their global circuit continues, the 2006 World Tour picks up in early July with shows in Europe and Japan. Santana's Stateside sweep commences in late July with West coast dates through mid-August, followed by East coast concerts spanning most of September. Besides Carlos Santana on guitar, the Santana Band's current line-up includes (alphabetically): Tommy Anthony (guitar, backing vocals), Dennis Chambers (drums), Jeff Cressman (trombone), Bill Ortiz (trumpet), Karl Perazzo (percussion, timbales), Raul Rekow (congas, percussion), Benny Rietveld (bass), Chester Thompson (keyboards) and Andy Vargas featured on vocals.
The July European dates begin with two shows in Germany -- Oberhausen and Liepzig -- on the 5th and 6th, respectively, that are make-ups for concerts previously scheduled in May. From July 9-12, Santana will perform the last four days of the renowned Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, followed by three dates in Italy: July 14 in Lucca (with John Mayer opening), July 15 in Naples (with Robert Plant opening), July 17 in Perugia and July 18 in Udine. From there, Santana travels to Japan for shows in Shizuoka (July 22) and Osaka (July 23).
Santana's domestic 2006 World Tour itinerary kicks off with West coast U.S. dates beginning on July 27 in San Diego, CA at Viejas Concerts at Bayside. The schedule features shows in Phoenix, AZ (July 27) and Las Vegas, NV (July 29) in addition to concerts spanning the length of California, concluding with an August 6 show at the Sacramento Valley's Sleep Train Amphitheatre in Marysville. Neo-soul star Anthony Hamilton, who belts out the memorable track "Twisted" on the new Santana album "All That I Am, " will be featured as the opening act for all the West coast tour dates.
The East coast leg of Santana's 2006 World Tour -- featuring the Salvador Santana Band opening and Los Lonely Boys as the second act -- launches with a September 15 concert at Mansfield, MA's Tweeter Center. Other highlights include September 16 at Nikon at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, NY, September 23-24 at the Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa Event Center, and September 28 at the Sound Advice Amphitheater in West Palm Beach, FL.
Santana's 38th and latest album "All That I Am" -- their third for Arista Records in partnership with music legend Clive Davis -- spotlights a diverse mix of stellar guest artists including Steven Tyler, Mary J. Blige, Michelle Branch, Sean Paul, Big Boi, Joss Stone, Los Lonely Boys, Bo Bice, Anthony Hamilton, Kirk Hammett and more. The disc follows up 2001's GRAMMY-winning "Shaman, " and 1999's 25X platinum "Supernatural, " which won a record-tying best of nine GRAMMYs for a single recording project. Over the course of his extraordinary career, 11X GRAMMY winner Carlos Santana has performed live for over 100 million people worldwide, a number that grows this year as myriad more fans have the opportunity to embrace the celebration of music and spirit that is the essence of a Santana concert.
That same sublime music and spirit has led to countless honors and awards over the years, including Carlos' forthcoming induction into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame. Earlier in 2006, Carlos received the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame Award which, in addition to Santana's musical legacy, honored the work of the Milagro Foundation, established in 1998 by Carlos and his wife, author Deborah Santana, as well as their many other humanitarian endeavors. Ms. Santana's first book, the acclaimed memoir "Space Between The Stars: My Journey To An Open Heart, " published by Random House's One World/Ballantine Books, has just been released in a soft cover edition featuring a newly created personal discussion and reading group questions section (the hardcover and audio editions were published in 2005). Deborah Santana is currently working on future works of both fiction and non-fiction.
Recently, she visited New Orleans' Katrina-devastated 9th ward, and in a piece featured (in its entirety) on Santana.com wrote, "My father was born in Louisiana. The people struggling there are my relatives, as is every person in the human family...2000 children still have no schools, playgrounds or libraries. Charity Hospital has been operating in tents that the Army loaned from Iraq and Afghanistan, which reminds me -- why are we spending $60 million per hour on destroying and rebuilding Iraq when we cannot rebuild one great American city?" Deborah and Carlos Santana encourage all Americans to participate in a call to action in support of New Orleans.