AM Dandy and the Elements are a cinematic and rock fusion band based in Los Angeles, who have impeccably incorporated a wide amount of genres into their production. Improvisation, skills, soulfulness, a big variety of melodic, harmonic and rhythmic textures.
Montreux Jazz Festival have today announced the launch of “Summer Of Music”:, to mark the 54th edition of the annual festival in Montreux, Switzerland. From Friday July 3 to Sunday July 18, when the Montreux Jazz Festival was due to take place, Montreux will be bringing the magic of the festival alive to viewers at home with rare and never before seen performances
After 20 years of cultivating a reputation as one of New York’s most versatile, deft, and groundbreaking guitarists, Ben Tyree has made another daring move: stepping out as a singer-songwriter. Tyree is most known for his instrumental sci-fi/jazz/funk trio, BT3
45 years after his album debut, four-time Grammy® Award-winning bassist Stanley Clarke shows he is still unapproachable on both the electric and acoustic, wielding a vision of fusion and funk, breakbeats and bass-interpreted cello suites with a little help from friends like rapper/beatboxer Doug E. Fresh and trumpeter Mark Isham. Backed by a young versatile band and a collection of tunes written in the midst of a tumultuous tour of Europe, The Message (available June 29 via Mack Avenue Records) swells with an abundance of strength, soul and astounding musicianship.
Lisa Hilton’s blues inflected trans-genre or poly-genre style influences extend beyond jazz legends Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, Horace Silver and Duke Ellington, to include bluesman Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson, minimalists like Steve Reich, current rockers Black Keys or modernists Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Bartok. Originally from a small town on California’s central coast, Hilton studied classical and twentieth century piano formally from the age of eight, where she was inspired by her great uncle, Willem Bloemendall, (1910-1937), a young Dutch piano virtuoso.
Legendary GRAMMY award winning Latin jazz fusion guitarist and composer Al Di Meola just released his highly-anticipated full-length album OPUS which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Jazz Charts this week.
“I want a sound that has never been heard before,” Les Paul famously remarked, and during his life he really delivered–as a creative guitarist who came up with fresh licks, chord sequences and fretting techniques that blew away his peers, and as the pioneering developer of the solid-body electric guitar and many recording innovations, including multi-tracking, tape delay, phasing and reverb.
The Les Paul Foundation has announced the official “100th Birthday of Les Paul,” a year-long celebration to launch the famous inventor and musician’s 100th birthday – June 9th, 2015.
On 12/12/14, NYC guitarist Ben Tyree returns to The Blue Note Late Night Groove Series with his longstanding trio BT3.
As part of its continuing grassroots tradition, the Red Hook Jazz Festival (RHJF) is a 100% volunteer-run event that receives no major corporate sponsorship beyond in-kind donations from local businesses, nor any major grants this year.
