2012 sophomore album from the Wisconsin-based Jazz vocalist. The album was produced by Michael Buble and features his touring band as her backing unit. What A Life is more than just "the next album." It's also the next chapter in the evolution of an artist who took her first steps in front of the entire world at a young age and continues to discover the richness and potential of her own voice and her own muse. "The album's exploratory nature is propelled by Bublé's touring band, which serves as her backup unit throughout the ten tracks. The roster includes pianist Alan Chang (who was also a co-producer on the project), guitarist Dino Meheghin, bassist Craig Polasko and drummer Robb Perkins. An added string section brings a stirring emotional layer to some of the more intimate songs in the set." Concord Music
ESPOO
24–28/4/2013
Andy Emler Trio & Dave Liebman
April Jazz goes Vintti
Big Blue
CaboCubaJazz
Charles Lloyd New Quartet
Ebeli in Concert
Fabrizio Bosso Quartet
Fiestecita
Gregory Porter
Hildegard Lernt Fliegen
Hiromi: The Trio Project
Hoedown
Ibrahim Maalouf
Ice Loving Animals
Jarmo Saari Trubamolli Trio
After party
José James
Joyce & Band
Jukka Perko Streamline Jazztet
Jussi Lehtonen Quartet
Live Jazz at Cafe Mezzo
Mikko Innanen & Innkvisitio
Mikko Pettinen & The Happy People
Mopo
Oddarrang
Ricky-Tick Big Band
Severi Pyysalo
Steve Turre & Espoo Big Band
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An exciting debut album coming from a skilled young musician with a broad and open mind to what modern jazz is today.
On "Midnight Cafeine" French composer and bass player Olivier Babaz voices a sensibility of his own, tastefully expressed in ten compositions joined by two excellent musicians Sylvain Ransy, piano and Mark Nelson on drums.
The songs seems united by the fluid melodicity of an unconventional movie score where darker episodes alternate with bursts of joy and exuberance with the bass driving the story from behind or diffused within the texture, always instilling a warm feeling into the stage.Olivier Babaz playing acoustic and electric bass takes the lead at the right moment, he knows when to add accents or come forward, he wraps piano and drums in a sonic velvet aura that can be sophisticated or powerful without overpowering. Free form and melodicity flow hand in hand as a kaleidoscope of soundscapes, blues themes and sparkling improvisations.
"Midnight Cafeine", "The Road to Hearst"(superb arco touches) and "Frenetik" are among the most seductive tunes, but to name a few highlights is not enough, the album as a whole has a cohesive beauty to be appreciated over and over again.
This live album captures Grammy-winner's now legendary prowess on the trumpet - while simultaneously playing the Fender Rhodes. This is #BAM: Black American Music. The evolution of Grammy-winning trumpeter Nicholas Payton continues on February 26 with the release of Nicholas Payton XXX #BAM Live at Bohemian Caverns on BMF Records.
Recorded at the historic Washington, D.C. club, Bohemian Caverns, on November 3, 2012, the album captures Payton's now legendary prowess on the trumpet – while simultaneously playing the Fender Rhodes piano. Featuring Vicente Archer on bass and Lenny White on drums, the Nicholas Payton XXX band's burning set includes compositions by Payton (The Backward Step, The African Tinge), the classic traditional "Frankie And Johnny," and Miles Davis (Drad Dog), Lenny White & Mike Clark (Catlett Out Of The Bag), and Thelonious Monk (Pannonica).
An accomplished multi-instrumentalist (in addition to the trumpet, piano, and keyboards, Nicholas plays bass, drums, tuba, trombone, clarinet and saxophone, etc.), Nicholas Payton adds another dimension to his musical achievement with the launch of his own imprint, BMF Records.
After years on major labels, Payton is bypassing the traditional label system for BMF Records. BMF Records is a natural extension of Nicholas Payton's musical journey, following the release of last year's studio set, Bitches. The 15-song, original vocal and R&B album laid the groundwork for the revolutionary, yet evident, idea that that music of the Black American diaspora are more similar than dissimilar. Black American Music, coined by Nicholas Payton, describes his and all music descending from the Black American experience, including spirituals, gospel, soul, blues, and R&B. Black American Music was created by Black people, but it belongs to everyone.
Nicholas Payton is the founder of the growing Black American Music awareness movement (#BAM). The genesis of #BAM is the public's reaction to 'On Why Jazz Isn't Cool Anymore' and subsequent ingenious posts published on his blog (http://nicholaspayton.wordpress.com) in November of 2011.
#BAM is the synthesis of Payton's entire collective musical history – a prodigious talent who began playing professionally at age nine, made his major label debut at 21, won his Grammy at 24, wrote a full symphony orchestra and is credited on over 120 recordings as a composer, arranger and/or special guest. An all-around musician, Nicholas Payton is widely considered one of the greatest artists of our time. His unmistakable musical genius is on wide display on #BAM Live at Bohemian Caverns.
Payton's "clarion trumpet, as well as his genre-defying solos, stood at the center of the music making...No descriptive label or category could be affixed to Payton's solos, which were as brashly original as they were technically imposing." - Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune (December 1, 2012) http://www.nicholaspayton.com
Day dream, night dream, nightmare, short dream, ideal dream...
These are the topics, the group MELANOIA is about, founded in the summer of 2012 by the drummer and composer Dejan Terzic.
The highly active drummer has been since long part of the top acts of the European jazz scene. During the last years he has presented his highly acclaimed project “Underground”. ENJA RECORDS has also released his last CD “Diaspora”.
The newly founded ensemble deals with musical linkages, integrations, kind of dreams, day dreams, nightmares, multilayered structures and free implementations. MELANOIA focuses mostly on the dream and all its many intense and non tangible aspects. The quartet featuring four strong individualists that are part of Europe’s top-jazz-musicians swings between those structures and implementations. Those four artists create their music and compositions creatively. They all have drawn attention to themselves with diverse projects and recordings. The first CD of that bass-less quartet will be released in March 2013 by ENJA RECORDS.
This ensemble has been nominated for the “BMW-Welt Jazz-Award 2013 – Leading Drums” Enja
