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Author: TKA
Fresh off a five date tour of the east coast with Talib Kweli, The Soul Rebels performed three sold out shows this past weekend in Brooklyn, NYC.
Check out the amazing performance of Kweli’s hit “Get By” here.
The BRIT Awards paid tribute to David Bowie with a performance from Lorde and members of Bowie’s backing bands over the years, including Mike Garson, Gerry Leonard, Earl Slick, Gail Ann Dorsey, Catherine Russell, and Sterling Campbell. The segment kicked off with a medley of some of his most enduring hits before Lorde came out to sing “Life On Mars?”. Bowie was posthumously awarded the Icon Award at the show — Annie Lennox introduced Gary Oldman, who accepted the award on his behalf.
(2/25/16)
Over a career that spans well over five decades. Bettye LaVette has fashioned herself into quite the song interpreter. Always one to completely rip a song down to its bones and come back with an arrangement that makes it completely her own (YouTube her performance of The Who’s “Love, Reign o’er Me” at the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors if you need more proof), LaVette’s recent string of records in what she calls her fifth career find her cherry-picking quite the eclectic array of canons. Along with the usual suspects like Lennon/McCartney, Dylan and Jagger/Richards, she’s also put her stamp on songs by Lucinda Williams, Fiona Apple, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Elton John and John Hiatt. Here is a trio of songs that she’s covered that really resonate for her and why.
Read more at the Long Island Weekly.
The 2016 Grammys saw three TKA artists take home awards. Congratulations goes to:
Bill Charlap & Tony Bennett: Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn: Best Folk Album
Cécile McLorin Salvant: Best Jazz Vocal Album
We would also like to congratulate Bettye LaVette and Jamison Ross on their 2016 Grammy Nominations.
“Hot Club of Cowtown” has a sound that’s all their own — a blend of hot jazz and western swing, and it’s pretty catchy. They’re out now with a new album “Midnight on the Trail,” that’s described by Elana James as an album that’s a mix of western swing and cowboy ballads.
Jake, Elana, and Whit sit down with AFMW to talk about their start, their super-fans, their most memorable moments on the road, the new album, and much, much more.
PALMBEACHPOST.COM- Legendary Cuban jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval first picked up his instrument at age 10 because he loved its versatile “personality.”
As he said a couple of years ago, “A trumpet can whisper very soft, very tender — and it can create a huge noise.”
IF YOU GO
What: The Arturo Sandoval Sextet
When: Wednesday, Feb. 24, 8 p.m.
Where: Society of the Four Arts (Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium), 2 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach, 33480
Tickets: $40 (balcony)/$45 (orchestra)
Contact: Visit fourarts.org or call 561-655-7226.
(2/3/16)
Read more at PalmBeachPost.com
PHILLY.COM –
You could have seen a lot of shows all over Philly on Friday night, but you couldn’t have heard better music – or had a better time – than at Chris’ Jazz Café, when Joey DeFrancesco, one of the greatest organists in jazz, held forth with his trio.
JAZZWISE MAGAZINE- Peter Quinn
Sony/OKeh Records. 4-star review ****
This intimate 12-track collection is Stacey Kent’s first standards album since her 2003 recording, “The Boy Next Door.” It sees the US-born, London-based vocalist team up with the legendary Brazilian composer and guitarist, Roberto Menescal, one of the founders of Bossa Nova and winner of a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2014 Latin Grammy Awards.
Menescal and Kent have teamed up before, on her previous album, “The Changing Lights” (2013) but hearing the fruits of their close musical relationship unfold over the course of an entire album is a real joy. Whether it’s the profound sadness of ‘There Will Never Be Another You’ or the mid-tempo swing of ‘No moon At All’, these spare and sparse arrangements, with only Kent’s husband, Jim Tomlinson on tenor sax and flute, and bassist Jeremy Brown for company, go right to the heart of the song. From the scene-setting ‘Only Trust Your Heart’ to the title track, tempos are, on the whole, extremely slow, allowing the listener to fully appreciate the mellifluous dovetailing of voice and guitar. This is an extremely beautiful meeting of minds.
JAZZWISE spoke to Stacey Kent and Jim Tomlinson about the album:
ELMORE MAGAZINE-
Bettye LaVette is a force to be reckoned with. In 2015, the R&B queen celebrated 50 years in the music industry with the release of both a new album, Thankful N’ Thoughtful, and an autobiography, A Woman Like Me, in September.
This January, as part of the annual Association of Performing Arts Presenters, LaVette graced the City Winery stage in New York City, bringing with her a talented host of friends, including Catherine Russell, Davina and the Vagabonds and Jack Broadbent.
(1/22/16)