Welcome to The Jazz Lounge. Summer is here, and so is the sizzle. There’s lots of new music, but this session will focus on a few new CDs that you might want to consider adding to your collection. These are random selections from both smooth and traditional jazz.
Welcome to the Jazz Lounge. My guest for this session is smooth jazz guitarist, composer, and teacher Eric Essix. This multi-talented gentleman – native of Birmingham, Alabama and Alabama Jazz Hall Of Fame Inductee – is also co-founder of the annual Preserve Jazz Festival, which takes place at The Preserve, in Hoover, Alabama, on Sunday, June 2, 2013, with gates opening at 3:00 PM, and showtime at 4:00 PM. Grammy award-winning jazz fusion group Spyro Gyra is this year’s headliner. Also performing is flutist Kim Scott (who has a new album Rite Of Passage); contemporary jazz pianist and composer Alex Bugnon, and The Good Times Brass Band. For more information on the 2013 Preserve Jazz Festival-www.preservejazz.com.
by Jackie Anderson
Welcome to The Jazz Lounge. I do like to keep things interesting, and this time around is no different. My guest for this session is a very special lady. Linda Purl is a class act, who has contributed some very fine work as an actress, which many of us are very familiar with. If for some reason you can’t place the name, as soon as you see her face on the screen, you make the connection.
by Jackie Anderson
Welcome to the Jazz Lounge. For this session, the focus is on an event which will be here before you know it.
Smooth jazz guitarist Eric Essix is quite a busy guy, who happens to be very talented. This native of Birmingham, Alabama consistently delivers great music. He is also co-founder of the world-class Preserve Jazz Festival, held annually the weekend after Memorial Day - at The Preserve, in Hoover, Alabama. The 2013 Preserve Jazz Festival is set for Sunday, June 2nd, 2013. Gates will open at 3:00 PM, with showtime starting at 4:00 PM, and what a lineup!
by Jackie Anderson
Welcome to the Jazz Lounge. This session brings you some artists with new albums out that you might like to check out and add to your collection on the straight ahead jazz side.
Lenny White – Lenny White Live (BFM JAZZ) - Grammy Award-winning artist Lenny Williams’ new album has 6-tracks. This dynamic drummer, producer, and longtime member of the fusion supergroup ‘Return To Forever’ has an all-star lineup that includes: Fellow Miles Davis alumnus Foley on lead bass, with former Weather Reporter Victor Bailey on low-end bass; former Herbie Hancok Headhunters saxophonist Bennie Maupin; late trumpeter-vocalist Mark Ledford; pianist Patrice Rushen; and Lenny’s former Twenty-Nine band mate Donald Blackman on synth. This album is a documentary of a memorable night during a tour of Japan in 1997. Lenny White, Chick Corea, and Stanley Clarke won a Grammy Award for their album “Forever” (“Best Improvised Jazz Solo And Best Jazz Instrumental”) in 2012 (lennywhite.com)