Jazzed: Bonnie Watts Sails With City Reign Vocalist Brings Soulful Stylings To The Outpost Sometimes you just step in it.That’s what happened to soulful vocalist Bonnie Watts shortly after moving to Albuquerque from her native Chicago in [...] Mel Minter \ Aug 07, 2008 Read More Bonnie Watts
Patti Littlefield Goes Woof! Vocalist Heads Genre-Crossing Quartet At The Outpost On a recent Sunday evening, vocalist Patti Littlefield took a drive up NM 14 to Madrid to catch the Alpha Cats’ last set [...] Mel Minter \ Jul 31, 2008 Read More Patti Littlefield
Spotlight Ebullient Cubano Brings Grammy-Winning Crew To Second Week Of The 2008 New Mexico Jazz Festival On virtuoso clarinetist/saxophonist and award-winning composer Paquito D’Rivera’s most recent Latin jazz recording, Funk Tango, his omnivorous musical appetite provides a wide-ranging feast [...] Mel Minter \ Jul 24, 2008 Read More (Lane Pederson)
Allen Toussaint: In A Grooving Way New Orleans Legend Crowns The First Week Of The 2008 New Mexico Jazz Festival When asked who wrote vocalist Irma Thomas’ 1963 hit “Ruler of My Heart,” later covered by Otis Redding and The Rolling Stones as [...] Mel Minter \ Jul 17, 2008 Read More Allen Toussaint (Lee Crum)
Letters From New Orleans Tom Mcdermott & Connie Jones Creole Nocturne (Arbors Records) Tom Mcdermott All The Keys & Then Some (Parnassus Records) New Orleans pianist Tom McDermott has to rank among the most fluid, inventive and technically robust pianists radiating the 88s today in the [...] Mel Minter \ Jul 10, 2008 Read More
Zakir Hussain’s Masters Of Percussion Troupe Offers Rare Chance To Hear Classical And Folk Music Of India Played By Revered Performers In the United States, tabla master Zakir Hussain may be better known for his groundbreaking work in the World Music groups Shakti and [...] Mel Minter \ Apr 17, 2008 Read More The master in action: Zakir Hussain
Andy Milne And Dapp Theory Pianist/Composer’s Group Balances The Topical And The Musical Andy Milne is of two minds. On the one hand, he’s not particularly optimistic about the country’s prospects these days, given our dependency [...] Mel Minter \ Apr 03, 2008 Read More Andy Milne and Dapp Theory (Hal Horowitz)
A String Quartet Named Ethel Musically Omnivorous Group Plays With Itself And Its Audience Calling Ethel a string quartet is like calling Jimi Hendrix a blues guitarist. It’s perfectly accurate and almost completely misleading.The New York–based group [...] Mel Minter \ Mar 27, 2008 Read More Ethel
Ravi Coltrane Finds A Commanding Voice To Call His Own Saxophonist’s Quartet Brings New Music To Albuquerque And Santa Fe In the liner notes to his Grammy-nominated CD, In Flux (Savoy Jazz, 2005), tenor and soprano saxophonist Ravi Coltrane thanks his teachers at [...] Mel Minter \ Mar 13, 2008 Read More You know Ravi’s the man.
Jazz Is Just The Beginning Anat Cohen, Award-Winning Clarinetist/Saxophonist, Brings Her Quartet To The Outpost When she was busy mastering American jazz on her tenor saxophone, Anat Cohen gave little thought to the clarinet collecting dust in her [...] Mel Minter \ Mar 06, 2008 Read More Cohen and her clarinet (John Rogers)
