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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Grégoire Maret's harmonica jazz

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Grégoire Maret's harmonica jazz

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

Harmonica players are rare in jazz. Many fans could recognize and name the late Jean “Toots" Thielemans (who also played guitar) and Howard Levy, who first earned fame playing harmonica and keyboards with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (and St. Louis music fans in the know might tout our town's Sandy Weltman as deserving of being mentioned in the same company), but beyond that, not many harp players have been able to make a living over the years exclusively playing ...

Video / DVD

Larry Adler's Harmonica

Larry Adler's Harmonica

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

The late Toots Thielemans was one of the first chromatic harmonica players to play swing and bop on the instrument. And no one could touch Toots or even sound like him. But he wasn't the first harmonica star. That title belong to Larry Adler, who died in 2001. Born in jny: Baltimore, he taught himself to play before running away to New York, where as a kid he got a job in vaudeville. Adler was so proficient on the harmonica ...

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Performance / Tour

Jazz this week: J.D. Parran & George Sams, "New World Harmonica Jazz," Chapter:SOUL, Chick Corea Trio, and more

Jazz this week: J.D. Parran & George Sams, "New World Harmonica Jazz," Chapter:SOUL, Chick Corea Trio, and more

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

This week's calendar of jazz and creative music in St. Louis offers some early summer eclecticism, including a homecoming performance by one of our city's exemplars of the avant-garde; a couple of free, multi-venue festivals featuring a variety of local talent; sold-out shows featuring two touring pianists, and, as the saying goes, much, much more. Let's go the the highlights... Wednesday, June 15 Saxophonist Doug Lawrence leads a quartet in a free show at Saxquest; Cabaret Project St. Louis presents ...

Performance / Tour

Fretless Brothers Bring Harmonically Tuned Jazz To Shapeshifter Lab In Brooklyn

Fretless Brothers Bring Harmonically Tuned Jazz To Shapeshifter Lab In Brooklyn

Source: Jon Catler

FreeNote Records is pleased to announce a live performance by the Fretless Brothers on Sunday, March 23rd at 8:15pm at ShapeShifter Lab, 18 Whitwell Place, Brooklyn, NY ($10). The Fretless Brothers are the world's first Harmonic Series jazz group, using specially fretted guitars to stretch the language of jazz to 36 notes per octave. The group has just released their debut CD, Footsteps, which features Jon Catler (La Monte Young) and Dane Johnson (Hangmen) on 12-Tone Ultra Plus guitars, Hansford ...

Event

Quincy Jones Presents Young Jazz Talent at The Broad Stage, Santa Monica

Quincy Jones Presents Young Jazz Talent at The Broad Stage, Santa Monica

Source: Chris M. Slawecki

As part of The Broad Stage’s Jazz Council Initiative, the Quincy Jones Presents series kicks off this fall with an astonishing array of musical talent. The series starts with a concert with Justin Kauflin on November 22nd. Kauflin, a talented young pianist who lost his sight due to a rare eye disease at 11, will be the subject of Academy-Award winning producer Paula Dupre Pesmen’s upcoming documentary, Keep on Keepin' On. The series continues into 2014 with performances by Singapore-born ...

Performance / Tour

Jazz Pianist George Kahn Performing At Santa Monica College October 18th

Jazz Pianist George Kahn Performing At  Santa Monica College October 18th

Source: Imaginary Friends

JAZZ PIANIST GEORGE KAHN BRING HIS “SECRETS" TO THE WEST SIDE PERFORMING AT SANTA MONICA COLLEGE OCTOBER 18TH Los Angeles Favorite, Jazz Pianist George Kahn, brings his “Secrets" Quintet to Santa Monica College for a rare Westside performance, on Friday October 18. It will feature an incredible International Band of All-Stars: The lineup is George on piano, Justo Almario on Sax, Bobby Rodriguez on Trumpet, Lyman Medeiros on Bass and Euro Zambrano on Drums. SPECIAL GUEST VOCALIST will be Professor ...

Performance / Tour

Hamonica Master James Cotton to Perform in Galloway October 22

Hamonica Master James Cotton to Perform in Galloway October 22

Source: Chris M. Slawecki

Grammy Award-winning harmonica master James “Mr. Superharp" Cotton and his band will perform at the Stockton Performing Arts Center in Galloway on Monday, October 22, 2012. Cotton's latest CD, the Grammy-nominated Giant, is his long-awaited return to Alligator Records. Cotton, who in 2012 is celebrating his 68th year as a professional musician (starting at the age of nine), has recorded almost 30 solo albums, including two highly-regarded releases for Alligator in the 1980s and the famed Harp Attack! with Junior ...

Performance / Tour

Blues Harmonica Icon Curtis Salgado Brings 'Soul Shot' to Sellersville, PA

Blues Harmonica Icon Curtis Salgado Brings 'Soul Shot' to Sellersville, PA

Source: Chris M. Slawecki

Award-winning vocalist/songwriter/harmonica icon Curtis Salgado will celebrate the release of his blistering Alligator Records debut CD, Soul Shot, with a live performance at the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville on Wednesday, August 29, 2012. Winner of the 2012 Blues Music Award for Soul Blues Artist Of The Year, Salgado effortlessly mixes R&B, funk and blues with a delivery that is raw and heartfelt. He moves with ease from the tenderest ballads to the most full-throated stompers. Concert information follows: Date: Wednesday, ...

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Performance / Tour

Harmonica Master Charlie Musselwhite to Perform in New Hope

Harmonica Master Charlie Musselwhite to Perform in New Hope

Source: Chris M. Slawecki

Harmonicist/vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Charlie Musselwhite, touring in support of his Grammy-nominated Alligator Records CD, The Well, will perform live at The New Hope Winery in New Hope on Friday, May 4, 2012. The Well is an authentic slice of Charlie's deep blues roots with musical flavors from Mississippi to Chicago to California, including help on one song from legendary vocalist and friend Mavis Staples. Amazon included The Well in its Top Ten Blues CDs of 2010, and Musselwhite won two 2011 Blues ...

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Recording

Matthias Broede, Harmonica Player, Pianist & Composer From Germany With New CD

Matthias Broede, Harmonica Player, Pianist & Composer From Germany With New CD

Source: Matthias Broede

LINER NOTES by Karsten Mützelfeldt (Jazz Journalist, Germany, WDR, Deutschlandfunk, Jazz Thing) for the new CD “Space Between Intervals" recorded by Matthias Broede's SPEAK TRES: It's a matter of fact that in the history of Jazz the harmonica plays a role as small as its size and had to share its place in the polls with other “miscellaneous instruments". These reasons make it inevitable to write some introductive words. Even though Toots Thielemans isn't anymore the only name who ...

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