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Keith L. Brown (musician)
Keith L. Brown (born August 13, 1983) is an American jazz pianist, educator, and composer. He is the regular pianist for Grammy nominated saxophonist Kenny Garrett, and has released three albums on Space Time Records. Early life and education Brown was born in Memphis Tennessee and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he developed a deep passion for music from a young age. Keith's father, Donald Brown, is a jazz pianist, composer, and educator, and producer. Keith's mother Dorothy is also a pianist and plays various woodwind instruments. Musical career Brown attended Pellissippi State and The University of Tennessee where he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in music, after which he moved to New York City. There he began touring and performing with artists such as Jazzmeia Horn, Charles Tolliver, Camille Thurman & the Darrell Green Quartet, Stefon Harris, Buster Williams, Lenny White, Dezron Douglas, Sherman Irby, Bill Saxton, Steve Turre, Endea Owens, Melanie Charle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. However, jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Gunn
Russell Gunn (born October 20, 1971, in Chicago) is an American contemporary jazz trumpeter. He grew up in East St. Louis, Illinois playing trumpet. As a kid his musical interest was hip hop, with LL Cool J being his first music idol. His projects include a large ensemble called Bionic, which released an album called ''Krunk Jazz'', and his smaller group Electrik Butterfly. Discography As leader * 1995 - ''Young Gunn'' (Muse Records, Muse) * 1997 - ''Gunn Fu'' (HighNote Records, HighNote) * 1998 - ''Young Gunn Plus'' (32 Records, 32 Jazz) * 1999 - ''Love Requiem'' (HighNote) * 1999 - ''Ethnomusicology, Vol. 1'' (Atlantic Records, Atlantic) * 2000 - ''Smokin' Gunn'' (HighNote) * 2001 - ''Ethnomusicology, Vol. ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJ3 Records
WJ3 Records is an American independent jazz record label owned by WJ3 Productions, LLC, registered in New York and based in Brooklyn. The principal is Willie Jones III, a jazz drummer based in Brooklyn. WJ3 Productions was founded March 14, 2000.''Willie Jones III'', ''JazzTimes'', Volume 37, Issues 1–5, 2007 Discography * Willie Jones III, ''Vol. 1...Straight Swingin (2001) : Sherman Irby (alto sax), James Mahone (alto sax), Eric Reed (piano), Billy Childs (piano), Gerald Cannon (bass), Tony Dumas (bass), Willie Jones III (drums), Dwight Trible (vocal) * Henry Franklin, Steve Katsuyama, Tony Austin, ''Sakura'' (2002) * Willie Jones III, ''Vol. 2...Don't Knock The Swing'' (2003) : Roy Hargrove (trumpet), Steve Davis (trombone), Greg Tardy (tenor sax), Eric Reed (piano), Gerald Cannon (bass), Willie Jones III (drums) * The Banda Brothers: Tony Banda (bass), Ramon Banda (drums), ''Acting Up!'' (2004) * Willie Jones III, ''Vol. III'' (2006) : Eric Reed (piano), Willie Jone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gearbox Records
Gearbox Records Ltd. is an independent music studio and record label founded in 2009 and based in London and Tokyo. Gearbox emphasizes vinyl records. They started out by releasing previously unreleased archival jazz recordings from their reel-to-reel tape library, and now publish mostly alternative jazz, folk, and electronic music. Many of their releases are all-analog. History Gearbox was founded by Darrel Sheinman; Hugh Padgham is one of its owners. Adam Sieff was head of sales and marketing. Work They have released music by Sarathy Korwar, Rick Laird and Yusef Lateef, Charles Tolliver, Amber Rubarth, Mark Murphy, Simon Spillett, Chihei Hatakeyama, Dwight Trible, Butcher Brown, Theon Cross, Thelonious Monk, Don Cherry, Nico, Binker and Moses, Abdullah Ibrahim, and Buddy Rich (posthumously). Their recording of Ana Silvera's ''Oracles'' with Bill Laurance, Jasper Høiby, Josephine Stephenson was listed by The Guardian as a Critic's Pick. They have re-released recordin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connect (Charles Tolliver Album)
''Connect'' is an album by trumpeter and composer Charles Tolliver. Arriving over a decade after 2009's '' Emperor March: Live at the Blue Note'', it was recorded during November 2019 at RAK Studios in London, and was issued on CD, vinyl, and via digital download in 2020 by Gearbox Records, Tolliver's first release as a leader for the label. On the album, Tolliver is joined by saxophonists Jesse Davis and Binker Golding, pianist Keith Brown, double bassist Buster Williams, and drummer Lenny White. Reception Giovanni Russonello of ''The New York Times'' stated that the album "stands out in large part based on the quality of olliver'scompositions," which "tend to balance syncopated elements as if they were structural beams." He wrote: "The drums, the piano and bass, the horns: Each scribbles out its own pattern, contrasting with the others and occasionally uniting." ''DownBeats John Murph praised the album's "rugged amalgam of hard-bop swagger, backbeat funk and steely Afrocen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darryl Hall (bassist)
Darryl Hall (born November 10, 1963) is an American jazz bassist. He was born in Philadelphia and won the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Bass Competition in 1995. He played on Ravi Coltrane's '' Mad 6'' and Carmen Lundy Carmen Latretta Lundy (born November 1, 1954) is an American jazz singer. She has been performing for over four decades, with a focus on original material. She has been positively compared with Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaugha ...'s ''Soul to Soul''. Discography Source: * ''Subtle Touch'' (Dreambox Media, 2000) * ''Swingin' Back'' (Space Time Records, 2019) * ''The Warmth of Our Songs'' (SwinginBack, 2020) * ''Life On Hold'' (SwinginBack, 2020) * ''Jazz Up Down and Straight Ahead'' (SwinginBack, 2021) References External links Discogs bio 1963 births Living people Jazz musicians from Philadelphia 20th-century American male musicians {{US-jazz-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaxsta
Jaxsta is an Australia-based database of official music credits, including performers, artists, engineers, producers and songwriters. Jaxsta's data is content-owner supplied rather than crowd-sourced. History Jaxsta was founded in Sydney in 2015 by former movie and music industry professional Jacqui Louez Schoorl and her husband Louis Schoorl, a producer and songwriter. Jaxsta has offices in Sydney and Los Angeles, with representatives in London and New York. The idea for Jaxsta was first formulated by Louez Schoorl in 2006 when she was transitioning from the film to the music industry and noticed music credits metadata was becoming lost with the transition to digital music, as the credits that had once populated vinyl record sleeve and CD booklets were vanishing as downloading was becoming more prevalent. Jaxsta derives its name from the credits on vinyl "jackets" (covers) – the stars of the jackets – i.e. liner notes. The company was launched in beta mode on June 13, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Slagle
Steve Slagle (born September 18, 1951) is an American jazz saxophonist. Biography Slagle was born in Los Angeles and grew up in suburban Philadelphia. He received a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music and received a master's degree in Music From Manhattan School of Music. He came to New York in 1976, first working with Machito and his Afro-Cuban orchestra, and then recorded with Ray Barretto, Steve Kuhn, Lionel Hampton, Brother Jack McDuff, and Carla Bley. He also performed with Woody Herman and Cab Calloway. In the mid-1980s, he began leading his own combos, first with Mike Stern and Jaco Pastorius, and then with Dave Stryker. During the 1990s, he was featured in the Charles Mingus Big Band and did twelve arrangements for the Mingus band which were nominated for and received Grammy Awards. He also played frequently with Joe Lovano and featured on several of Lovano's albums, including the Grammy-winning '' 52nd Street Themes''. In the mid-1980s, global and especial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SteepleChase Records
SteepleChase Records is a jazz record company and label based in Copenhagen, Denmark. SteepleChase was founded in 1972 by Nils Winther, who was a student at Copenhagen University at the time. He began recording concerts at Jazzhus Montmartre, where many American musicians performed, and was given permission by some of the artists to release the material commercially. SteepleChase became a haven for many artists who were without contracts with larger labels at the time. In 1987, the company started a subsidiary classical music label, Kontrapunkt. Discography 1000/31000 Series The main series of albums released on the SteepleChase label beginning in 1972 had catalog numbers starting at SCS 1001. When compact disc The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. It employs the Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA) standard and was capable of hol ...s were introduced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Tardy
Gregory Tardy (born February 3, 1966) is an American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist, who has released albums for the record labels WJ3 Records SteepleChase Records, J Curve Records, and Impulse! Records.Allmusic discography/ref> He has played with Elvin Jones, Avishai Cohen, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Aaron Goldberg, Brad Mehldau, and Joshua Redman, among many others. Early life and education Born in New Orleans on February 3, 1966, Gregory John Tardy's parents were both opera singers. His mother, Jo Anne Tardy, also recorded as a jazz singer. He trained at Carroll College and the University of Wisconsin as a classical clarinetist. In order to fund his college education he played tenor saxophone in a funk and fusion band. He pursued further studies in jazz harmony at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and later studied at the University of New Orleans. Selected discography With Tom Harrell *''The Art Of Rhythm'' (RCA Bluebird, 1998) With An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canal Street (film)
''Canal Street'' is a 2018 American drama thriller film directed by Rhyan LaMarr. The film was distributed by Smith Global Media and opened over Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend. It was filmed in Chicago. ''Canal Street'' was screened at the American Black Film Festival. Plot Kholi Styles, a young black teenager, is wrongfully accused of the murder of his white classmate from Winnetka. His father, Jackie Styles, is an up-and-coming lawyer who goes to court to fight for his son's innocence. Cast * Bryshere Y. Gray as Kholi *Lance Reddick as Jerry Shaw *Michael Beach as Ronald Morgan *Jamie Hector as Pastor Sam Billings *Mykelti Williamson as Jackie Styles *Jon Seda as Detective Mike Watts *Will Yun Lee as Officer Hank Chu *Harry Lennix as DJ Terrance Palmer *Mekhi Phifer as Prosecutor A.J. Canton *FERN as (himself) FERN *Reed Shannon as Joe *Jacqueline Pinol as China *William R. Moses as Bill Sudermill *Nora Dunn as Marge Sudermill *Tawny Newsome as Kai *Yancey Arias as DJ Wado ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DownBeat
''DownBeat'' (styled in all caps) is an American music magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm that it covered exclusively in previous years. The publication was established in 1934 in Chicago, Illinois. It is named after the " downbeat" in music, also called "beat one", or the first beat of a musical measure. ''DownBeat'' publishes results of annual surveys of both its readers and critics in a variety of categories. The ''DownBeat'' Jazz Hall of Fame includes winners from both the readers' and critics' poll. The results of the readers' poll are published in the December issue, those of the critics' poll in the August issue. Since 2008, the Hall of Fame also includes winners from the Veterans Committee. Popular features of ''DownBeat'' magazine include its "Reviews" section where jazz critics, using a '1-Star to 5-Star' maximum rating system, rate the latest musical recordings, vintage recordings, and books; arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
