Posts tagged with "Wayne Shorter"
LESLIE ANN JONES Web-Exclusive Interview
LESLIE ANN JONES TO RECEIVE THE NAMM TEC HALL OF FAME AWARD
Leslie Ann Jones is a renowned recording engineer and pioneering producer and mixer who helped redefine the craft of engineering in the 1970s and 80s. She is well known for her long list of successful and award-winning projects. Starting her career at ABC Recording Studios in Los Angeles in 1975, she moved to Northern California in 1978 and joined David Rubinson and Fred Catero at The...
Video & Web-Exclusive Interview Steve Weingart
Video Feature & Web-Exclusive Interview
Musician: STEVE WEINGART
Video: “Smile”
STEVE WEINGART & RENEE JONES DEBUT NEW ALBUM OASIS AT 2018 WINTER NAMM
Steve Weingart’s musical journey began when his parents recognized his gift at the age of three, and sought out the best piano teacher in their home town of Dayton, Ohio. A critical foundation of classical studies followed. It allowed him to appreciate the complex compositions...
Video and Exclusive Interview Peter Erskine
VIDEO FEATURE & WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Musician: PETER ERSKINE
Band: DR. UM
Song: “Eleven Eleven”
Recorded at Sweetwater Studios
Critically acclaimed and celebrated drummer Peter Erskine has played the drums since the age of four and is known for his versatility and love of working in different musical genres. He has appeared on over 600 albums and film scores, and has won two Grammy Awards, as well as an honorary doctorate from the Berklee...
EXPERIENCE VINYL—BRAD HAMMONDS & JAKE FISHBEIN
VIDEO FEATURE & WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
EXPERIENCE VINYL
Experience Vinyl is more than a record a month club. It’s a total customer experience with special concerts and unique member-only benefits. Each month, members will receive a selection of the featured artist-curator’s essential “Desert Island Disc.” Accompanying the record will be a personal description written by or for the artist about why the record is so important. In addition...
TRACK FEATURE EXCLUSIVE MICHAEL WOLFF
TRACK FEATURE & WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Musician: MICHAEL WOLFF
Track: “Madimba/St. Thomas”
Writers: Michael Wolff / Sonny Rollins
Jazz Pianist Michael Wolff Releases First-Ever Solo Piano Album Zenith Today.
Michael Wolff was propelled into popularity with the masses when he became the musical director for The Arsenio Hall Show. He was also a part of one of political history’s biggest moments when candidate Bill Clinton, the day after...
WAYNE SHORTER
WAYNE SHORTER
The trailblazing saxophonist waxes philosophical about the future of jazz
By Jeff Tamarkin
Those who’ve heard Wayne Shorter blow a solo know the legendary jazz saxophonist seems to reside in a world of his own creation. Burrowing deep inside of a melody, he finds a nugget that intrigues him, grabs it and runs with it—the music twisting, turning, climbing, falling and ultimately journeying to a place far from where it began …...
MILES DAVIS QUINTET
MILES DAVIS QUINTET
Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2
[Columbia/Legacy]
What a difference a couple of years makes. The Miles Davis Quintet documented on the first volume of this series—recorded in 1967 in various European locales—was, by many accounts, the quintessential Miles Davis outfit, as well as one of the most incendiary and innovative jazz ensembles ever. With Wayne Shorter on saxophone, Herbie Hancock on keyboards, Ron...