Posted May 1, 2024 at 8:55 am | No comments
One of New York’s top photographers and blues enthusiasts, Joseph A. Rosen, is developing his latest work of photographs. Joe has covered some of the most iconic artists of our time, including: Les Paul, James Brown, Muddy Waters and many many more. He’s also made it to the New Orlean’s JazzFest for over a decade, catching both intimate and significant moments of blues and jazz masters. Today, he announces his new book and crowdsourcing initiative to help preserve his vast array of music photographs.
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Posted December 7, 2023 at 10:38 am | No comments
Known for his compelling blend of Balkan, pop, classical music, and sprinkling of blues, Macedonian-born guitarist/composer Filip Dinev’s musical magic has been admired at celebrated international concerts in Paris, Budapest, Tallinn, and Hamburg, among many others.
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Posted December 2, 2023 at 1:16 pm | No comments
“First Fall” is New York City based guitarist and composer Shai Jaschek’s debut album. A combination of striking melodies and innovative arrangements of classic jazz standards, this album sets Shai apart as a promising up and coming artist on the New York jazz scene.
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Posted August 6, 2023 at 6:33 pm | No comments
Last night’s mesmerizing performance by The Dave Kline Band at the Creative Cauldron in Falls Church, Virginia gifted the audience with a diverse array of music brilliance by a five-star case line-up.
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Posted May 29, 2023 at 5:00 am | No comments
When Wes Montgomery, the most influential jazz guitarist of the 1960’s, introduced a new audience to his playing with the seminal jazz-pop album A Day In The Life, he received fanfare and criticism. Entering the golden age of AM radio with jazz versions of counter-culture favorites, the commercially savvy album presented jazz to a generation reared on transistor technology.
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Posted May 16, 2023 at 9:52 pm | No comments
By: Jason Young “I got to play behind Jeff a few hundred days a year for almost 15 or 16 years, and that alone was worth the price of admission.” Tom Stephen. In a brilliant display of legendary guitarist Jeff Healey’s career, 2018’s Best Seat in the House, written by former Jeff Healey Band drummer and manager […]
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Posted March 30, 2023 at 6:50 am | No comments
as Sandberg’s highly anticipated new trio album The Captain is out now. The album was recorded live at the legendary Doo-Bop Club, and showcases his unique blend of hard swingin’, groovy and soulful jazz with strong melodic writing, rhythmically playful improvisation
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Posted September 21, 2022 at 1:59 pm | No comments
A musical romp of a show of stunningly masterful blues guitar, storytelling and a fine array of vocals by an aficionado of guitar, Toby Walker, at the 37-year old Reston-Herndon Folk Club in Northern Virginia, kept the audience captivated, song after song, story after story. Offering up traditional old blues tunes and more contemporary blues of his own, Walker, plucked, bent and made his Huss & Dalton guitar shimmer with a full bag of tricks, honed over decades of playing the usual and unusual haunts in the States and overseas.
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Posted April 3, 2022 at 6:05 pm | No comments
“Getting lost in the writing, recording and mixing process was my own way of dealing with my personal grief. Me and my dad shared a deep relationship with music together, he took me to my first guitar lessons, gigs and was a key part of my musical journey. Songs For You is my way of saying thank you to him for exposing me to music in the way that he did”
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Posted May 30, 2021 at 4:03 am | No comments
While playing at a gig at the State Cinema in London, England, the legendary jazz guitarist, Django Rheinhardt (1910-1953), took the time to befriend an 18-year-old British lad just before the teenager joined the Army in 1940. Albert Offenbach served throughout the war as a radar man, keeping his Gibson guitar at his side until WW II ended.
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