…a sampling of Jazz news deserving of a post rather than a roll, a blogroll
July 2008 Buzzz:
Keyboardist Frankie McIntosh teamed up with a bunch of his music friends Sunday, July 20 for a rare Trinidad performance. The gig took place at Dawad Phillip’s 110 Jazz and Calypso Lounge in San Fernando.
It was not clear as to whether McInosh put on his Jazz or Calypso hat. But judging from the type of friends he associated with and from reading between the lines of a Trinidad and Tobago Newsday report advertising the event, a good guess would be that he made some Jazz statements at the club located on Cisero and Robertson Streets.
McIntosh’s Friends were Sean Thomas on drums, Michael Nysus on bass, Errol Ince on trumpet and special guest keyboardist Raf Robertson.
Hopefully, a J-Fan who attended the show will drop by and also drop a Comment about the gig.
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June 2008 Buzzz: Puerto Rico’s Miguel Zenón for Rochester International Jazz Festival on Monday, June 16
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May 2008 Buzzz: Jamaicans Dizzy Reece, Desi Jones et al entertain during an ‘Evening of Jazz’
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March 2008 Buzzz: The VI’s Reuben Rogers backs Charles Lloyd
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March 2008 Buzzz: Trinidad’s “Jazz Singer” Vaughnette Bigford
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Step aside Rihanna, Barbados has a new rising star on the horizon, Marisa Lindsay. Her stylings are well grounded in Jazz though she demonstrates a conspicuous relish for rhythm and blues that when brought together point her in the direction of Erykah Badu. Having sampled some of the tracks on Lindsay’s debut recording, Submit2Love, I have to agree that Lindsay does share a soundwith Badu. But as to whether this is intentional or coincidental is not for me to say.
Lindsay’s recording career did not come about by accident. Grenadian-born keyboardist, performer, songwriter, arranger and producer, Eddie Bullen, who has been living in Markham, Ontario, Canada since 1980 did not happen to be in Barbados for the 2006 edition of the Barbados Jazz Festivalyou see. (You think? Fate?) Anyway, after Bullen heard Lindsay sing The Girl From Ipanema during the festival’s local night he was sold!
A piece on Marisa Lindsay in 
(August 03, 2007) has Bullen’s take on Lindsay’s rendition of The Girl From Ipanema from a year and a half earlier: “She lit up the stage. It’s a song I’ve heard so many times and so many ways, but what she did was very interactive and spontaneous. She made it her own.”
Convinced of her unrealised potential, Bullen approached Lindsay after her festival set offering to work with her. Their chance would come four months later in Toronto, Canada. Lindsay was in Canada to perform at a charity ball on behalf of the Barbados Tourism Authority. Bullen invited her to his Thunder Dome Sounds home studio to discuss the prospect of recording a CD. I guess it was an ambush because Bullen had her cut the record then and there.
Lindsay told Ashante Infantry, Pop and Jazz Critic of The Star, that she was totally unprepared for that. But she was, I think. Back in 2004, she was doing standards with an acoustic trio at a Bridgetown, Barbados club when “a guy” approached her and with a music scholarship in hand. Within six weeks, her Barbadian benefactor had arranged a month-long piano and vocal training course for her at a Cuban music school. Lindsay returned to Cuba the following year for a follow-up programme of study.
Consequently, when Bullen approached Lindsay at Toronto, she had by then transcended from the level of singing only as a “physical aspect” to an “emotional and spiritual” plane where she was more aware of her voice on the one hand and the increased power that her training had facilitated on the other.
Now, Submit2Love is out on the market and ready for the listening room. The album has 11 tracks, 6 of which are Jazz Classics. There is also 1 Blues classic and a remake of Bob Marley’s ”Waiting In Vain” in the repertoire .
Lindsay has since performed her music at the annual Barbados on the Water Festival at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, Canada in June of this year. Also on the bill for that festival was Lindsay’s producer, pianist Eddie Bullen as well as Barbadian saxophonist Arturo Tappin. wemagonline.blogspot.com
The CD is available for purchase and track sampling at cdbaby.com. Come on. Buzzz offf there now.
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Come Sunday, August 12, Trinidadian trumpeter, Etienne Charles will take to the MoMa Garden stage as the featured artist for a free summergarden Jazz concert at sunset. According to freenyc.net, Charles will explore the idiom to the backdrop of African rhythms and the folk traditions of the Caribbean.
The Museum of Modern Art will, therefore, witness Charles’ Culture Shock Project, the highlight of which will be his interpretation of stories of West Indian folklore characters. Included in this repertoire will be the world premiere of a suite entitled “Encounter with La Diablesse.”
Etienne Charles recently performed with Barbados’ Arturo Tappin at Jazz on The Hill in Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands on May 23 and later on at Steelpan Jazz at the House of Jazz at Lincoln Center on June 16.
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After four years of hard work in an 8×10 home office, using a PC, sound card, software, speakers and microphones, Caribbean jazz saxophonist Andre Woodvine presents nine unique, original compositions in a package entitled “Some Assembly Required.“ Released on April 29 at a special live performance in Barbados’ Plantation Garden Theatre as part of the Notes to Notes concert series, this CD reflects the many diverse influences on Woodvine’s music, from jazz to Caribbean rhythms, science fiction to family. Woodvine is a Berklee College of Music graduate who plays alto, tenor and soprano saxophones as well as the flute.
Apart from “Some Assembly Required,” Woodvine has two CDs under his own name, Citronella (1997) and Voyager (1995). He also appears on a 1992 recording, New World Music by the West Indies Jazz Band, which featured another well-known Caribbean saxophonist, St. Lucian Luther Francois whom I had the pleasure of promoting to a Dominica Jazz Festival with Positive Jazz Inc. back in the 1980s.
Buzz off to CDBaby.com for A few notes on “Some Assembly Required“ including 2-minute song samples of all 9 tracks (and Other CDs you will love) as well as something about Andre Woodvine himself. Or you can go straight to Planet Woodvine, the artist’s home
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EARTHtimes.org reports that Barbadian saxophonist Arturo Tappin’s latest CD “Inside Out” is being officially released on Tuesday, July 24 2007.
The CD has been out on the market for several weeks now. Tappin premiered a number of tracks from it at Jazz on The Hill in Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands on May 23 of this year.
The event, organised by Antilia, Inc., an upscale Caribbean special event company based in NYC, is being held at the Chelsea lounge Room Service in Manhatten, New York.
Tappin is scheduled to interpret the hit songs of Barbadian pop diva Rihanna and Rupee among others.
Buzz off to the EARTHtimes.org for the press release
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reported in its Friday, July 06 edition that Dominica’s singing star, Michele Henderson, was due to give a benefit concert Saturday 07 in St. Kitts to assist the country’s Special Olympics organisation in its bid to send a team to the World Games in October 2007.
Henderson fronted the cruise ship Freewinds Band with whom she regularly performs on the water.
Buzz off to the for a short review of the St. Kitts concert, published July 09, 2007 and the Retro Caribbean Jazzpage for partial playlist of Michele and the Freewinds’ 2005 Tortola concert.
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SignOnSanDiego.com: “Jamaican-born pianist (Monty Alexander) has long been jazz’s most visible star from the British West Indies, but he’s quick to point out that there’s been a strong current flowing back and forth between the islands and the United States since jazz first coalesced in the early 20th century.”
(Alexander explains that) “A lot of guys in the early (Duke) Ellington band were from the islands. Later on, there was Wynton Kelly, who was born in Jamaica, and Sonny Rollins, whose parents were from the Virgin Islands. Oscar Peterson’s parents were from St. Kitts. Carmen McRae was a stone cold Jamaican. Roy Haynes’ people were from Barbados.”
Buzz off to SignOnSanDiego.com
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New York - In a little more than a week and a day New York residents were treated to a second healthy helping of top notch steelpan jazz. June 16 had marked the third such show at Lincoln Center in New York. This time it was at Afrika House located in Brooklyn, New York as headliners Garvin Blake and his ensemble, Jambalasi, the Andrea Rose Trio featuring Jason “Peanut” Isaacs and of course Utopia Pan Soul: the Next Generation, and more all treated the packed house to a very special show appropriately called “Carnival of Instruments III.” It was truly Steelpan Jazz, at times with a Caribbean flavor, with no additives, no faking the move, no artificial anything.
Buzz off to When Steel Talks
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Step aside Rihanna, Barbados has a new rising star on the horizon, Marisa Lindsay. Her stylings are well grounded in Jazz though she demonstrates a conspicuous relish for rhythm and blues that when brought together point her in the direction of Erykah Badu. Having sampled some of the tracks on Lindsay’s debut recording, Submit2Love, I have to agree that Lindsay does share a soundwith Badu. But as to whether this is intentional or coincidental is not for me to say.
Lindsay’s recording career did not come about by accident. Grenadian-born keyboardist, performer, songwriter, arranger and producer, Eddie Bullen, who has been living in Markham, Ontario, Canada since 1980 did not happen to be in Barbados for the 2006 edition of the Barbados Jazz Festivalyou see. (You think? Fate?) Anyway, after Bullen heard Lindsay sing The Girl From Ipanema during the festival’s local night he was sold!
A piece on Marisa Lindsay in
Convinced of her unrealised potential, Bullen approached Lindsay after her festival set offering to work with her. Their chance would come four months later in Toronto, Canada. Lindsay was in Canada to perform at a charity ball on behalf of the Barbados Tourism Authority. Bullen invited her to his Thunder Dome Sounds home studio to discuss the prospect of recording a CD. I guess it was an ambush because Bullen had her cut the record then and there.
Lindsay told Ashante Infantry, Pop and Jazz Critic of The Star, that she was totally unprepared for that. But she was, I think. Back in 2004, she was doing standards with an acoustic trio at a Bridgetown, Barbados club when “a guy” approached her and with a music scholarship in hand. Within six weeks, her Barbadian benefactor had arranged a month-long piano and vocal training course for her at a Cuban music school. Lindsay returned to Cuba the following year for a follow-up programme of study.
Consequently, when Bullen approached Lindsay at Toronto, she had by then transcended from the level of singing only as a “physical aspect” to an “emotional and spiritual” plane where she was more aware of her voice on the one hand and the increased power that her training had facilitated on the other.
Now, Submit2Love is out on the market and ready for the listening room. The album has 11 tracks, 6 of which are Jazz Classics. There is also 1 Blues classic and a remake of Bob Marley’s ”Waiting In Vain” in the repertoire .
Lindsay has since performed her music at the annual Barbados on the Water Festival at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, Canada in June of this year. Also on the bill for that festival was Lindsay’s producer, pianist Eddie Bullen as well as Barbadian saxophonist Arturo Tappin. wemagonline.blogspot.com
The CD is available for purchase and track sampling at cdbaby.com. Come on. Buzzz offf there now.
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Come Sunday, August 12, Trinidadian trumpeter, Etienne Charles will take to the MoMa Garden stage as the featured artist for a free summergarden Jazz concert at sunset. According to freenyc.net, Charles will explore the idiom to the backdrop of African rhythms and the folk traditions of the Caribbean.
The Museum of Modern Art will, therefore, witness Charles’ Culture Shock Project, the highlight of which will be his interpretation of stories of West Indian folklore characters. Included in this repertoire will be the world premiere of a suite entitled “Encounter with La Diablesse.”
Etienne Charles recently performed with Barbados’ Arturo Tappin at Jazz on The Hill in Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands on May 23 and later on at Steelpan Jazz at the House of Jazz at Lincoln Center on June 16.
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After four years of hard work in an 8×10 home office, using a PC, sound card, software, speakers and microphones, Caribbean jazz saxophonist Andre Woodvine presents nine unique, original compositions in a package entitled “Some Assembly Required.“ Released on April 29 at a special live performance in Barbados’ Plantation Garden Theatre as part of the Notes to Notes concert series, this CD reflects the many diverse influences on Woodvine’s music, from jazz to Caribbean rhythms, science fiction to family. Woodvine is a Berklee College of Music graduate who plays alto, tenor and soprano saxophones as well as the flute.
Apart from “Some Assembly Required,” Woodvine has two CDs under his own name, Citronella (1997) and Voyager (1995). He also appears on a 1992 recording, New World Music by the West Indies Jazz Band, which featured another well-known Caribbean saxophonist, St. Lucian Luther Francois whom I had the pleasure of promoting to a Dominica Jazz Festival with Positive Jazz Inc. back in the 1980s.
Buzz off to CDBaby.com for A few notes on “Some Assembly Required“ including 2-minute song samples of all 9 tracks (and Other CDs you will love) as well as something about Andre Woodvine himself. Or you can go straight to Planet Woodvine, the artist’s home____________________________
EARTHtimes.org reports that Barbadian saxophonist Arturo Tappin’s latest CD “Inside Out” is being officially released on Tuesday, July 24 2007.
The CD has been out on the market for several weeks now. Tappin premiered a number of tracks from it at Jazz on The Hill in Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands on May 23 of this year.
The event, organised by Antilia, Inc., an upscale Caribbean special event company based in NYC, is being held at the Chelsea lounge Room Service in Manhatten, New York.
Tappin is scheduled to interpret the hit songs of Barbadian pop diva Rihanna and Rupee among others.
Buzz off to the EARTHtimes.org for the press release
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Henderson fronted the cruise ship Freewinds Band with whom she regularly performs on the water.
Buzz off to the
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SignOnSanDiego.com: “Jamaican-born pianist (Monty Alexander) has long been jazz’s most visible star from the British West Indies, but he’s quick to point out that there’s been a strong current flowing back and forth between the islands and the United States since jazz first coalesced in the early 20th century.”
(Alexander explains that) “A lot of guys in the early (Duke) Ellington band were from the islands. Later on, there was Wynton Kelly, who was born in Jamaica, and Sonny Rollins, whose parents were from the Virgin Islands. Oscar Peterson’s parents were from St. Kitts. Carmen McRae was a stone cold Jamaican. Roy Haynes’ people were from Barbados.”
Buzz off to SignOnSanDiego.com
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New York - In a little more than a week and a day New York residents were treated to a second healthy helping of top notch steelpan jazz. June 16 had marked the third such show at Lincoln Center in New York. This time it was at Afrika House located in Brooklyn, New York as headliners Garvin Blake and his ensemble, Jambalasi, the Andrea Rose Trio featuring Jason “Peanut” Isaacs and of course Utopia Pan Soul: the Next Generation, and more all treated the packed house to a very special show appropriately called “Carnival of Instruments III.” It was truly Steelpan Jazz, at times with a Caribbean flavor, with no additives, no faking the move, no artificial anything.
Buzz off to When Steel Talks
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