Tasty Tunes is the fifth CD by Ira B. Liss ' stalwart San Diego-based Jazz Machine, which was formed almost forty years ago, in 1979—a span that, when reckoned in big-band years, is much closer to a ...

Back in the late sixties, when rock musicians started to explore more complex things, the music became at the same time more interesting and, well, complicated at the same time. It was the advent of ...

The holiday season is upon us, which means it's a perfect time to name my choices for the best big band albums of 2010. Looking back, this was a better year for large ensembles than memory envisaged, ...

The Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine has been pumping up the Southern California scene since 1979, and "It’s About Time" features this large orchestra filled with top-flight soloists mining ...

And this album, “The Birth of a Band,” was made just before he went on that infamous European tour ... Big Band Jazz: Big bands were built in the 1920s and ’30s to blast dancers with layers ...

Goldmine's second quarter Jazz round up originally appeared on Goldmine. Visit the Goldmine store — it is a music collector's ...

Revive Big Band’s Vinyl Release Honors Jazz And Hip-Hop’s Shared Legacy Igmar Thomas’ ensemble bridges eras of Black American music with the soul-stirring project, ‘Like A Tree It Grows ...

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Ethan Iverson may be best known as the pianist in the Bad Plus, the trio that made a big splash in the early 2000s by fusing jazz idioms with pop tunes by Blondie, Nirvana, Aphex Twin, and ABBA ...

Even when a jazz group exhibits a certain amount of wit — think of the Bad Plus in their original incarnation, the version that covered “Smells Like Teen Spirit”; or Mostly Other People Do ...

Let me share with you the phoniest thing I’ve ever done. Not only did I, as a teenager, once attend a big band jazz concert at Mattoon High School, but I even bobbed my head up and down just so ...