Jazzed: The Tierney Sutton Band The Tierney Sutton Band Finds The Mystic In The Great American Songbook Gender has nothing to do with cojones . Anybody can have them. Two-time Grammy-nominated vocalist Tierney Sutton has ’em. That’s how she explains [...] Mel Minter \ Oct 28, 2010 Read More Tierney Sutton (tierneysutton.com)
Jazzed: The New Mexico Django Festival Returns For A Fourth Installment Producer John Sandlin Gives Us The Lowdown On The Low-Down Sounds Of His Django Festival The New Mexico Django Festival returns to Albuquerque in its fourth, nearly annual edition after a layoff in 2009 in deference to the [...] Mel Minter \ Oct 21, 2010 Read More Django Reinhardt and co.
Hug The Tarbaby Rambunctious, swinging, in-your-face jazz music is what Tarbaby—pianist Orrin Evans, bassist Eric Revis, and drummer Nasheet Waits—is all about. Tonight, in the core [...] Mel Minter \ Oct 14, 2010 Read More Tarbaby the band
Jazzed: Nii Otoo Annan’s Ghana Sea Blues Nii Otoo Annan And Friends Beguile With Old Styles In A New Setting Famed Ghanaian percussionist Nii (Mr.) Otoo Annan has wowed audiences in the States with a polyrhythmic mastery that has earned him the moniker [...] Mel Minter \ Oct 07, 2010 Read More Nii Otoo Annan plays palm wine in high spirits. (Steven Feld)
¡Globalquerque! Music Festival Packs Six Continents Into Two Days Abundant Music, Food, Crafts And Merch Even after five successful years with ¡Globalquerque!, festival co-founders Neal Copperman and Tom Frouge are still hearing the same thing from attendees: “It’s [...] Mel Minter \ Sep 23, 2010 Read More Bill Miller (Mohican Tribe)
Rahim Alhaj Plays For Peace At ¡Globalquerque! Six Continents And A World Premiere In Two Days Oud player Rahim AlHaj will take the stage Saturday night at the ¡Globalquerque! world music festival to premiere works from his new album, [...] Mel Minter \ Sep 23, 2010 Read More (Douglas Kent Hall)
Jazzed: One Yoga Studio Becomes A Center For Grooviness New Series At The Center For Grooviness Welcomes Creative Music And Arts Trombonist Christian Pincock, curator of the new series at The Center for Grooviness, and his partner, Deian McBryde, are dedicated to helping people [...] Mel Minter \ Sep 16, 2010 Read More Euro duo ige*timer
Sonic Extra: Felix Y Los Gatos On Green Chile Gumbo, the third release from Albuquerque’s Felix y los Gatos, just about every track is another good argument to stop [...] Mel Minter \ Aug 19, 2010 Read More
Spotlight: The Roost Creative Music Series Flies In The Face Of Convention The Roost’s Creative Music Series Blows The Doors Off Convention Last year, when composer / tuba player / series curator Mark Weaver inaugurated The Roost, he wasn’t certain an audience existed in Albuquerque [...] Mel Minter \ Jul 29, 2010 Read More
Jazz Here And There, Then And Now: A Look At New Mexico Jazz Festival 2010 New Mexico Jazz Festival Spreads Out The fifth annual New Mexico Jazz Festival has a gaggle of big names that will make jazz fans’ ears prick up in expectation—Toshiko [...] Mel Minter \ Jul 08, 2010 Read More Thelonious Monk as photographed by W. Eugene Smith—this and more images like it are part of author Sam Stephenson’s The Jazz Loft Project . (W. Eugene Smith)