Marlow Rosado: Honoring the Timeless Traditions of Salsa Music
Marlow Rosado: Honoring the Timeless Traditions of Salsa Music By Susan Frances 2K earmarked a new millennium across the globe, opening people to new …
David Boswell: Creating Adventures with Music
David Boswell: Creating Adventures with Music By Susan Frances he way landscape artist John Constable transports audiences through the dales of England’s countryside in …
Amanda Tosoff: Music Made As A Vessel For Poetry
By Susan Frances he music of Canadian composer-pianist Amanda Tosoff is like a beam of light through the modern jazz landscape. She merges the …
Moore McColl Jazz Society: Partners in Excellence and Distinction
artners possess a magical quality that puts ego aside and champions excellence and distinction. Partners in music that have made such a lasting impression …
David Restivo: Home Is Where Music Comes From
cclaimed pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader David Restivo has called many different cities home, having lived in Lansing, Michigan then moving to Toronto, Canada. …
Wayne Alpern: Riding An Endless Creative Existential Journey
Wayne Alpern: Riding An Endless Creative Existential Journey By Susan Frances Composer and multi-instrumentalist Wayne Alpern has been on a proverbial magic carpet ride. …
Tal Yahalom: Jazz Music’s Duality of Individualism and Community
Tal Yahalom: Jazz Music’s Duality of Individualism and Community By Susan Frances Born in Isreal, guitarist-composer Tal Yahalom has been based in Brooklyn, New …
Christian Tamburr: Boundless Creativity
Christian Tamburr: Boundless Creativity By Susan Frances From Cocoa Beach, Florida to the world stage, composer, bandleader, vibraphonist and multi-instrumentalist Christian Tamburr is a …
Brian Kooken: Leading a Blues Trio with Soul
Brian Kooken: Leading a Blues Trio with Soul By Susan Frances The BK Trio are pros at creating harmony in their dialogue, using the …
Mark Lettieri: The Beauty of Instrumental Music
Mark Lettieri: The Beauty of Instrumental Music By Susan Frances If audiences can imagine one guitar that has traveled through the decades since its …
Jeff Reed: The Art of Musical Conversation
Jeff Reed: The Art of Musical Conversation By Susan Frances Few listeners would disagree that jazz allows musicians to practice their skills at holding …
Santiago Leibson: 9 Bars of Self-Expression
Santiago Leibson: 9 Bars of Self-Expression By Susan Frances Born in Argentina and based in Brooklyn, New York, jazz pianist and composer Santiago Leibson …
Amy Shook: The Power of a Trio
Amy Shook: The Power of a Trio By Susan Frances 3D Jazz Trio, where the D stands for Divas, is a swinging jazz ensemble …
Nubya Garcia: Expanding the Vision of Jazz
Nubya Garcia: Expanding the Vision of Jazz By Susan Frances The jazz spectrum is one of the few breeds of music that invite visionaries …
Nicholas Brust: Expressing Personality Through Music
Nicholas Brust: Expressing Personality Through Music By Susan Frances Frozen in Time, the latest offering from composer/saxophonist Nicholas Brust is more than merely an …
Mick Hayes: Philly Soul Meets Buffalo Blues
Mick Hayes: Philly Soul Meets Buffalo Blues By Susan Frances Singer-songwriter-guitarist Mick Hayes entered 2020 with the intention of resetting his recording career, forging …
Sherrie Maricle: Time Is The Stuff Life Is Made Of
Sherrie Maricle: Time Is The Stuff Life Is Made Of By Susan Frances The opening scene of the 1939 film Gone with the Wind …
John Santos: Drums Are the Voices of Our Ancestors
John Santos: Drums Are the Voices of Our Ancestors By Susan Frances Unknowingly, one of the first instruments children begin to play is the …
Eddie Paton: The Infinite Possibilities of Guitar Playing
Eddie Paton: The Infinite Possibilities of Guitar Playing by Susan Frances Multi-faceted guitarist Eddie Paton quickly discovered that the journey of a guitarist is …
Kevin Laliberté: Jazz Harmonies With No Limits
Kevin Laliberté: Jazz Harmonies With No Limits by Susan Frances Canadian born and bred guitarist, vocalist, and composer Kevin Laliberté is known for his …
Up Jumped Three: Music With Permanence
by Susan Frances The digital age has proven to have a wide range of benefits and also disadvantages. One benefit allows listeners the opportunity …
Paul Shaw: From Military Bands To Being A Bandleader
by Susan Frances Every artists journey is truly their own with no journey identical to one another. For drummer, composer, and bandleader Paul Shaw, …
Curtis Hasselbring: Building Relationships with Musicians for Curha-chestra
by Susan Frances Trombonist, guitarist, composer, and bandleader Curtis Hasselbring has found a vehicle by which his music will continue to be fresh sounding, …
Ernesto Cervini: Finding Balance with Tetrahedron
by Susan Frances Canadian-born drummer Ernesto Cervini has performed and recorded with a handful of groups, some led by him and others contributing as …
Bob Baldwin: Voices of the Past Spring New
by Susan Frances Like a daffodil bulb that contains numerous buds in its single capsule, so too does Bob Baldwin’s brand of Jazz. A …
Ferenc Nemeth: One of a Kind
by Susan Frances Drummer, bandleader, improviser, collaborator, and instructor of Drum School, a master class sold at the Mac App Store and Google Play, …
Simon Thacker: Discovering the Music within Him
Simon Thacker: Discovering the Music within Him by Susan Frances Jazz trumpet player Miles Davis was once quoted as saying, “Man, sometimes it takes …
Igor Willcox: The Thrill of Playing in the Moment
Igor Willcox: The Thrill of Playing in the Moment by Susan Frances The Igor Willcox Quartet led by Brazilian born and bred drummer/composer Igor …
Emilio Solla: Letting Music Find Its Own Path
Emilio Solla: Letting Music Find Its Own Path by Susan Frances Grammy nominee pianist, composer, and bandleader Emilio Solla has embarked on a new …
James Hill: Trailblazer of Electric Jazz
James Hill: Trailblazer of Electric Jazz by Susan Frances Electrifying the instruments used in jazz music isn’t a part of the music form’s origins …
Michal Martyniuk: From Poland To Going Global
Michal Martyniuk: From Poland To Going Global by Susan Frances Jazz improvisation is one of those musical styles that reach across borders of nations. …
Alex Cuba: A Flare for Contemporary Music
Alex Cuba: A Flare for Contemporary Music by Susan Frances Having a continental mind was imperative for musicians through the 20th century. Meaning, they …
Vincent Duhaime Perreault: Keeping Tertio Spontaneous
Vincent Duhaime Perreault: Keeping Tertio Spontaneous by Susan Frances Founded by guitarist and Montreal’s homegrown Vincent Duhaime Perreault, Tertio straddles the thin line between …
Brenda Earle Stokes: Finding Her Way
Brenda Earle Stokes: Finding Her Way by Susan Frances inding one’s way to fulfillment can be a struggle and perhaps never achieved in one’s …
Yvette Norwood Tiger: Open Mind and an Open Heart
Yvette Norwood Tiger: Open Mind and an Open Heart by Susan Frances Singer-songwriter Yvette Norwood-Tiger is known by her audiences as a woman with …
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool from the Perspective of Vince Wilburn, Jr.
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool from the Perspective of Vince Wilburn, Jr. by Susan Frances orn on May 26, 1926, trumpet player Miles …
Sara Gazarek: The Always Changing Story of Life
Sara Gazarek: The Always Changing Story of Life by Susan Frances he story of life has been represented in books like John Steinbeck’s The …
Wayne Wallace: Seizing Moments of Epiphany
Wayne Wallace: Seizing Moments of Epiphany by Susan Frances any people have experienced an epiphany. They come while alone with one’s thoughts, doing a …
Spaga: Think Globally, Act Locally
Spaga: Think Globally, Act Locally by Susan Frances Spaga’s founder, frontman, co-collaborator, and pianist Aron Magner instills in the band to think globally and …
Allison Miller: The Magic of Collective Negotiation
Allison Miller: The Magic of Collective Negotiation by Susan Frances Traditionally, drums have been thought to require brawn and stamina, qualities that people attribute …