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If a sound intrigues him, he sets out to make it. If origins mystify him, he moves to trace them. If rules get in his way, he unapologetically breaks them. To Taj, convention means nothing, but traditions are holy. He has pushed music and culture forward, all while looking lovingly back.<\/p>\n \u201cI just want to be able to make the music that I\u2019m hearing come to me — and that\u2019s what I did,\u201d Taj says. The 76-year-old is home in Berkeley, reflecting on six decades of music making. \u201cWhen I say, \u2018I did,\u2019 I\u2019m not coming from the ego. The music comes from somewhere. You\u2019re just the conduit it comes through. You\u2019re there to receive the gift.\u201d<\/p>\n Taj is a towering musical figure — a legend who transcended the blues not by leaving them behind, but by revealing their magnificent scope to the world. \u201cThe blues is bigger than most people think,\u201d he says. \u201cYou could hear Mozart play the blues. It might be more like a lament. It might be more melancholy. But I\u2019m going to tell you: the blues is in there.\u201d<\/p>\n If anyone knows where to find the blues, it\u2019s Taj. A brilliant artist with a musicologist\u2019s mind, he has pursued and elevated the roots of beloved sounds with boundless devotion and skill. Then, as he traced origins to the American South, the Caribbean, Africa, and elsewhere, he created entirely new sounds, over and over again. As a result, he\u2019s not only a god to rock-and-roll icons such as Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones, but also a hero to ambitious artists toiling in obscurity who are determined to combine sounds that have heretofore been ostracized from one another. No one is as simultaneously traditional and avant-garde.<\/p>\n Quantifying Taj\u2019s significance is impossible, but people try anyway. A 2017 Grammy win for\u00a0TajMo<\/em>, his collaboration with Keb\u2019 Mo\u2019, brought his Grammy tally to three wins and 14 nominations, and underscored his undiminished relevance more than 50 years after his solo debut. Blues Hall of Fame membership, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association, and other honors punctuate his r\u00e9sum\u00e9. He appreciates the accolades, but his motivation lies elsewhere. \u201cIt\u2019s not a hunger, not a lust or even a thirst,\u201d Taj says of what drives him. \u201cIt\u2019s just more knowledge of self — to realize that almost everything is right here. We\u2019re so used to looking outside of ourselves for things, and it\u2019s right here.\u201d<\/p>\n Taj\u2019s exploration of music began as an exploration of self. He was born in 1942 in Harlem to musical parents — his father was a jazz pianist with Caribbean roots; his mother was a gospel-singing schoolteacher from South Carolina — who cultivated an appreciation for both personal history and the arts in their son. \u201cI was raised really conscious of my African roots,\u201d Taj says. \u201cSo I was trying to find out: where does what we do here connect to what we left there?\u201d In the early 1950s, his family moved to<\/p>\n Springfield, Massachusetts — a microcosmic melting pot for immigrants from across the globe: the Caribbean, the American South, Europe, the Mediterranean, Syria, Lebanon. \u201cMusic was everywhere,\u201d he says. \u201cThings were different in those days. There weren\u2019t a lot of places that African Americans had to go out to entertain themselves. So people did a lot of entertaining in their homes. Friday or Saturday night, you\u2019d move the furniture, mop and wax the floor, and set things up so people could pop over and hear all the music.\u201d Musicians and friends from around the world passed through, ate home-cooked feasts, and led neighborhood jam sessions and dance parties in cozy living rooms.<\/p>\n From the beginning, Taj found the blues magnetic, even as most artists around him in the Northeast were exploring other sounds. \u201cI could hear little strains of the blues coming through — you could feel that energy in the music that was being played,\u201d he says. \u201cI could also feel that energy of the blues inside myself.\u201d Piano lessons didn\u2019t stick<\/p>\n — \u201cI\u2019d already heard what I wanted to play\u201d — so when a blues guitarist from North Carolina moved in next door, Taj found an early mentor and was off.<\/p>\n For college, Taj attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He graduated after studying agriculture and animal husbandry. \u201cI knew I\u2019d like to connect myself to something on this planet that\u2019s meaningful,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s why I was interested in agriculture and music. Those were the two things that I recognized even as a very young child that people are never going to do without.\u201d<\/p>\n In 1964, Taj packed up and headed west. In Los Angeles, he formed six-piece the Rising Sons with Ry Cooder. The group opened for Otis Redding, the Temptations, and more, and recorded an album, but it wasn\u2019t released until about 30 years later. \u201cI guess that\u2019s when they decided, \u2018Whoa. I guess this guy is real,\u2019\u201d Taj says, with a hint of a smirk. He\u2019s referring to record executives — a breed for whom he has little patience. \u201cFor me, playing the old music was a refuge from all the stupid stuff that was going on,\u201d he says, pausing for a moment to point out commercialization\u2019s limiting effects on what was both recorded and heard.<\/p>\n In 1967, Taj\u2019s self-titled debut announced the arrival of a bold young bluesman. The following year ushered in two milestones: sophomore album\u00a0The Natch\u2019l Blues\u00a0<\/em>dropped, and Taj performed in\u00a0The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus<\/em>, a film featuring performances from the Stones, The Who, Marianne Faithfull, Martha, and the Vandellas, and others meant for the BBC but pulled and kept from public eyes until 1996. In 1969, full of music and only just beginning, Taj released\u00a0Giant Step \/ De Ole Folks at Home<\/em>, a massive double album that hinted at Taj\u2019s refusal to be boxed in.<\/p>\n The 70s were a productive and ambitious recording period for Taj that included the Grammy-nominated soundtrack for the film\u00a0Sounder.\u00a0<\/em>He began experimenting with global fusions and flirtations, signaling to listeners his restless intention to discover both new and old and disregard commercially imposed boundaries. In the 80s, Taj moved to Hawaii and fell in love with sounds native to the island as he toured constantly, internationally. His gritty blues began to incorporate Latin, reggae, Caribbean, calypso, cajun, jazz, and more, all layered over a distinctly Afrocentric roots base he\u2019d been raised to rediscover.<\/p>\n For Taj, the 90s were incredibly prolific. Back-to-back Grammy wins for the Best Contemporary Blues Album recognized two dynamic projects with the Phantom Blues Band:\u00a0Se\u00f1or Blues\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Shoutin\u2019 in Key<\/em>. \u201cI noticed that when it came to complicated pieces of blues music, they\u2019d never get played,\u201d Taj says. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the reasons we put\u00a0Se\u00f1or Blues\u00a0<\/em>out — to say, \u2018You guys, you know there is more than just the same old [imitates a beat]\u00a0di da di di di da<\/em>.\u2019 It\u2019s good when you believe it when you\u2019re playing it. But just to play it as a cliche? That\u2019s real boring. And real tiring.\u201d Collaborations with Hawaiian, African, Indian, and other musicians helped define his decade.<\/p>\n Over the years, Taj had also emerged as a mind-boggling, multifaceted player. In addition to the guitar, he has become proficient on about 20 different instruments — and counting. \u201cThere weren\u2019t an awful lot of people still playing these instruments that came from my culture,\u201d Taj explains. \u201cNot that they didn\u2019t before, but nobody was playing them in the time I was. But I wanted to hear them. So I watched people play, got one, sat down, remembered the music that I was listening to, and started picking it out on the mandolin or banjo or 12-string.\u201d<\/p>\n Taj didn\u2019t slow down as he entered the 21st century.\u00a0Maestro<\/em>, marking the 40th anniversary of his recording career and featuring a global mix of voices ranging from Angelique Kidjo to Los Lobos to Ziggy Marley to Ben Harper, dropped in 2008. Last year, his highly anticipated collaboration with Keb’ Mo\u2019 —\u00a0TajMo —\u00a0<\/em>netted Taj his third Grammy. Several projects are currently in the works, as Taj remains excited by fresh young voices trying new things and exhumed treasures that have been buried too long.<\/p>\n As Taj thinks about the dozens and dozens of albums, collaborations, live experiences, and captured sounds, he finds satisfaction in one main idea. \u201cAs long as I\u2019m never sitting here, saying to myself, \u2018You know? You had an idea 50 years ago, and you didn\u2019t follow through,\u2019 I\u2019m really happy,\u201d he says. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t even matter that other people get to hear it. 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During his dazzling five-decade career, the fabled LA guitarist has taken his music to the outer limits, alighting on every genre and occupying every position in the rock \u2018n\u2019 roll firmament. He\u2019s been an enfant terrible of \u201970s fusion, a crossover star of the \u201980s pop chart, an honorary exponent of Brazilian jazz, and the fingers behind \u201990s supergroup, Fourplay. Ritenour\u2019s accolades include 45 albums,16 Grammy nominations, Alumnus of the Year at USC, Los Angeles\u2019 Jazz Society Honoree (2019), plus thousands of sessions with legends such as Frank Sinatra, Pink Floyd, B.B. King, and Tony Bennett, among others.<\/p>\n And yet, when he checks the rear-view mirror, the 68-year-old acknowledges he\u2019s never made a record like\u00a0Dreamcatcher<\/em>. \u201cPeople have been telling me for years: \u2018Rit, you gotta make a solo guitar record\u2019. In the past, I\u2019ve always been the band guy, the ensemble guy, the collaborative guitar player guy. So this was the one project I hadn\u2019t done. And this year, I knew it was time.\u201d<\/p>\n Weaving tapestries of instrumental guitar and conjuring eclectic moods, the 12 tracks of\u00a0Dreamcatcher<\/em>\u00a0rank amongst the most melodic and tinglingly beautiful in Ritenour\u2019s catalogue. But there\u2019s a power and purpose here, too, hinting at the darker circumstances that sparked this new record. \u201cOur house and my studio in Malibu, California burnt down in 2018,\u201d he recalls. \u201cAbout 100 of my guitars went up in the fire, plus 40 amps, lots of music, the history of my whole career, pretty much. A week after the fire, I went to the hospital, which I\u2019d never had to do before, for surgery to replace an aortic valve. So those incidents and the support from my family and friends absolutely went into this music. Making this record was a lifesaver for me.\u201d<\/p>\n Dreamcatcher<\/em>\u00a0might have been born from personal challenges, but the record took shape against the global tragedy of COVID-19. Ritenour had already written several key tracks before shutdown. But as he settled into the makeshift studio at his new home in Marina Del Rey, equipped with little more than seven guitars, a computer interface, and good intentions, the guitarist let the context flood into the music he was tracking. \u201cIt was an important album for me,\u201d he notes. \u201cEspecially now, with everything going on in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Even without lyrics, every track tells a story. Take the molten blues licks of \u201cAbbot Kinney\u201d, named for the fabled boulevard in Venice, California. \u201cOne day when everything was shut down,\u201d says Ritenour, \u201cI drove my bike there and was just devastated to find it completely empty. But then I heard this rock guitar start up. I don\u2019t know if it was a kid, but somebody nearby had just turned it up to 10 and said, \u2018Fuck it, I\u2019m gonna have some fun\u2019. It brought a huge smile to my face and inspired me to write that song on my Les Paul.<\/p>\n Likewise, anyone living through the age of COVID-19 will feel a deep affinity with \u201c2020\u201d: a three-part symphony in which Ritenour takes the pulse of the times. \u201cThe three parts were a reflection of what was going on this year,\u201d he nods, \u201cwhen all of a sudden everybody\u2019s life shut down. I was thinking about the young musicians that were out of work \u2013 and people in every walk of life.\u201d<\/p>\n Elsewhere\u00a0Dreamcatcher<\/em>\u00a0delves beyond the pandemic. While Ritenour strived to switch up musical styles \u2013 from the title track\u2019s dovetailing classical guitars to the Taylor baritone that drives \u201cStarlight\u2019s\u201d tumbling folk, and the mad scientist multi-tracking of \u201cCouldn\u2019t Help Myself\u201d \u2013 he also ran the gamut of mood. \u201cBecause even I get tired,\u201d he reasons, \u201cof solo guitar albums when it pretty much all sounds the same.\u201d<\/p>\n As such, \u201cFor DG\u201d salutes the harmonic sensibilities of the great producer, pianist, and long-time comrade, Dave Grusin. But it couldn\u2019t be further from \u201cCharleston\u201d, whose mellow slink is laced with bittersweet thoughts on the ebb and flow of US race relations. \u201cA few years ago, I played in Charleston, South Carolina,\u201d recalls Ritenour, \u201cand it was charming and the people were warm, and it was a very mixed, soulful audience. Charleston has a history of the beginnings of slavery, but this was modern-day Charleston, y\u2019know? But then, a few years later, I\u2019m writing this tune while watching the continuation of the struggle. As musicians who travel all over the world, we go, \u2018What? This shit is still going on in the US?\u2019 So it was appropriate to dedicate that song to Black Lives Matter.\u201d<\/p>\n Dreamcatcher<\/em>\u00a0not only confronts the here-and-now: it also slips back into Ritenour\u2019s rich history. Long-standing fans will recognize \u201cMorning Glory Jam\u201d as a rework of the guitarist\u2019s classic 1977 tune. \u201cOn 2015\u2019s\u00a0A Twist Of Rit<\/em>, I had revisited a lot of older material, so I wanted to keep this record fresh. But one day, I remembered when I did sessions for Barry White and how there had been four or five guitar players all playing these incredible rhythm parts. That\u2019s the kind of groove I had in my head for this new version of Morning Glory.\u201d<\/p>\n Casting his mind still further back, The Lighthouse shares its name with the storied LA jazz club where the teenage guitarist was to be found most nights in the mid-\u201960s. \u201cI\u2019d started playing guitar at eight, and by 12, I was very serious. Everybody\u2019s number was in the phonebook back then, right? So my dad \u2013 who was an amateur piano player and always very supportive \u2013 called up Joe Pass and Barney Kessel and asked them to give me a guitar lesson. Barney ended up recommending this incredible teacher, Duke Miller, and that was the foundation of all my playing. The Lighthouse was this very funky jazz club where I met Wes Montgomery. By the age of 16, I\u2019d take the car over there in the late afternoons and just watch the bands soundcheck.\u201d<\/p>\n Whatever genre you were into, recalls Ritenour, the guitar scene at that magical juncture in the mid-\u201960s was hard to beat. \u201cIn every field, there were legends. In jazz, you had Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessel, Howard Roberts, Jim Hall, Pat Martino. In Blues, B.B. King, Albert King, John Lee Hooker. In Rock, Jimi Hendrix was coming, Clapton and Beck were already there. In Country, you had Chet Atkins, and the all time great classical guitar master, Segovia, and Sabicas, and Paco de Lucia for Flamenco! Great guitar playing was everywhere you turned, and I loved them all…How could you not?<\/p>\n Those eclectic early tastes served Ritenour well. The jazz giants at The Lighthouse had a passion for life: just check out his love letter to the great Mr Montgomery on 1993\u2019s Wes Bound. But from the day he lucked into his first session for The Mamas And The Papas at age 16, Ritenour had the widescreen musicality to forge a career as one of LA\u2019s busiest session men. \u201cI remember John Phillips had this incredible studio in his Beverly Hills mansion and I just thought, \u2018This is what I want\u2019. As for my favorite and memorable sessions, I remember getting called by Bob Ezrin to record on \u201cOne Of My Turns\u201d and \u201cComfortably Numb\u201d on Pink Floyd\u2019s,\u00a0The Wall<\/em>…incredible. And then there was Quincy Jones producing George Benson\u2019s, \u201cGive Me the Night\u201d album, and all of us waiting \u2018til 4 am for Stevie Wonder to show up and play a song he\u2019d written for George\u2019s album…Ha! Too many memories!\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cWho do Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock and an extensive list of rock icons have in common? Bill Evans, that\u2019s who.<\/p>\n Evans is a world-class saxophonist and producer who made his debut on the international music scene in the 1980s with Miles Davis (at the age of 21) and recorded 6 records with Davis. This led to touring and recording with the likes of John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, and Mick Jagger to name a few. Today, with 26 solo albums to date, Grammy nods, and countless collaborations and tours, Evans has continued to explore a dazzling variety of adventurous musical settings as a pioneering bandleader, consistently winning fans in the worldwide arena.<\/p>\n Recent highlights include touring and\/or performing with his own Bill Evans Band,\u00a0Robben Ford<\/a>\u00a0(Soulgrass meets Blues), Phil Lesh & Friends, The Mike Stern\/Bill Evans Band, Medeski Martin & Wood, and\u00a0Zen Amadeus<\/a>\u00a0– the group Bill and drum icon Simon Phillips put together. There were countless sit-ins with The Allman Brothers Band, Warren Haynes, and a collage of others. Evans spent much of 2016 and 2017 touring the world with the Bill Evans Band in support of his album \u201cRise Above<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n Bill toured extensively with the Randy Brecker\/Bill Evans Soulbop band (formed in 2003) for over 15 years, which incorporated the many influences they both have had in their careers in the Jazz arena. This cooperation produced a live recording called the \u201cSoulbop Band Live<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n Deeply intrigued and ultimately inspired by Jazz, as well as American roots music, Evans wrote, produced and recorded \u201cSoulgrass<\/a>\u201d in 2005, garnering a Grammy nod in the process.( his 2nd one to date ) Soulgrass was a breakaway new fusion of jazz and American roots music, blending the banjo, fiddle, mandolin and Dobro, combining the best musicians from Jazz and Americana together. According to Bill \u201cThe music and soundscape change, but it\u2019s still me and my saxophone!\u201c Three more CDs followed in the Soulgrass genre, \u201cThe Other Side of Something<\/a>\u201d, \u201cDragonfly<\/a>\u201d, and the 2014 release of \u201cLive in Moscow<\/a>\u201d recorded during the first of two sold-out U.S. State Dept-sponsored tours of Russia. Each subsequent release found Bill pushing the musical boundaries of Jazz and Improvisational groove. Says Evans \u201cMiles always told me to write and play what inspires me. I\u2019ve kept true to his advice from the very beginning regardless of the challenges they may create. Miles gave me the confidence to believe in myself as a player and a composer.\u201c<\/p>\n After 10 years of touring and breaking new ground with Soulgrass, in 2015 Bill introduced the \u201cBill Evans Band\u201d, a hard-hitting montage of Contemporary Jazz. The \u201cBill Evans Band\u201d featured Bill on saxophone\/vocals as well as drummer\/singer Josh Dion. This band represented a seamless blend of Jazz and groove. Evans was also seen singing on stage for the first time. \u201cPeople really relate to this band. The Bill Evans Band takes people on a musical journey. For me, that\u2019s the definition of jazz \u2013 improvisation and exploration that people can still relate to. It doesn\u2019t have to be mass confusion. I like to connect with the audience and inspire people with new kinds of music you can feel as well as hear.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cRISE ABOVE<\/a>\u201d was Bill’s 2016 release and his most accessible release to date. On this, his 24th solo offering, Evans explores rich and haunting vocals from special guest singers, including legend Gregg Allman, Warren Haynes, JJ Grey, Anders Osborne, Murali Coryell, and Josh Dion. Says Bill, \u201cThis recording was an epic journey for me. My vision from the beginning was to record with some of my favorite singers and co-write music with each one of them. The goal was to still make a cohesive and solid performance out of all this music. It went far beyond my expectations. A sheer pleasure from start to finish!\u201d<\/p>\n February 2019 and beyond\u2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n Evans once again teamed up with legendary Blues guitarist Robben Ford, drummer\u00a0Keith Carlock<\/a>, and bassist James Genus, to record \u201cThe Sun Room<\/a>\u201c which was just released by Ear Music on July 25th, 2019, and rose to the top of the iTunes download charts.\u00a0 As if all of that is not enough, Bill created yet another group with good friend and star drummer Wolfgang Haffner called \u201cBill Evans and the Spykillers! with Wolfgang Haffner\u201d. This group toured the European jazz festivals in July 2019. The Spykillers! released a live CD in 2019 recorded in November 2018, in Melbourne Australia. \u201cThis is a very special group of musicians. Everyone pushed the envelope of jazz, soul, and funk.. Wolfgang Haffner is a true master of the drums. Rounding off the rhythm section are bassist Gary Grainger and 21-year-old keyboardist Simon Oslender. ( now 24 haha )<\/p>\n The new \u201c live in the studio \u201c CD with Bill and Robben, called \u201c Common Ground \u201c is finally released! October, 2022. Recorded in January 2020 but because of COVID-19, the release was held up until some of the smoke cleared. It was recorded in Nashville with Keith Carlock on drums and Darryl Jones on Bass. Bill brought the amazing singer Max Mutzke from Germany to guest on the recording’s only vocal track, which was co-written by Bill and keyboardist Clifford Carter. Clifford is a lifelong friend of an incredible composer. Says Bill \u201cI had the honor of being a guest at a festival hosted by Wolfgang Haffner in September 2019 in Nuremberg Germany Max was also a guest on. This is where I first heard Max Mutzke for the first time. He completely blew me away on every level. I was really excited to have Max guest on this CD. He is truly amazing and a vocal tour de force! We plan on creating more music together in the future!\u201c<\/p>\n NEWS !! Max Mutzke, Thomas Quasthoff, and Nils Landgren will guest with \u201c Bill Evans and the Spykillers with Wolfgang Haffner \u201c in the summer of 2023 on select dates! Very special summer 2023 !!<\/p>\n Robben Ford\/Bill Evans, \u201cBlues, Miles and Beyond\u201d with Keith Carlock and Darryl Jones is on schedule to perform at the Tokyo Bluenote, in April 2023.<\/p>\n A seasoned jazz veteran, virtuosic trumpeter, and prolific composer, Randy Brecker\u2019s horn has graced the bandstands and recordings of Horace Silver, Art Blakey\u2019s Jazz Messengers, Charles Mingus, Clark Terry, Joe Henderson, Duke Pearson, Frank Foster and Thad Jones\/Mel Lewis Orchestra. As a first-call studio player, Brecker\u2019s trumpet has also energized innumerable studio sessions by artists ranging from James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Parliament-Funkadelic to David Sanborn, Jaco Pastorius, and Frank Zappa.<\/p>\n In the realms of cutting-edge jazz-rock fusion, Brecker has been a major contributor to Blood Sweat and Tears, Larry Coryell\u2019s Eleventh House, and Dreams, a group he co-founded with his brother Michael and drummer Billy Cobham.<\/p>\n After departing BS&T in 1969, Randy appeared with Horace Silver and many other jazz acts feeling a need to stretch his desire to improvise freely. By 1973, Randy and his sax-playing brother, Michael had become the most in-demand studio players in New York City. In 1975 they decided to form their own band, \u201cThe Brecker Brothers\u201d.<\/p>\n The Brecker Brothers became a band of immeasurable influence and impact. Hailed by pop and jazz critics alike, their first album, which Randy produced, was nominated for four Grammy awards. The Brecker Brothers went on to record a total of 6 albums and received seven Grammy nominations between 1975 and 1981. In the late \u201970s, Randy also recorded on Charles Mingus\u2019 last album, Me Myself an Eye. He has since performed on various incarnations of Mingus Dynasty and the Mingus Big Band.<\/p>\n After the Brecker Brothers took a hiatus in 1982, Randy toured and recorded extensively as a key member of Jaco Pastorius\u2019 Word of Mouth. Several more solo projects followed with numerous tours around the world with many different artists.<\/p>\n A ten-year break from the Brecker Brothers ended in 1992 with the release of the GRP project \u201cReturn of the Brecker Brothers\u201d and \u201cOut of The Loop\u201d in 1994 which received 2 Grammy awards and resulted in both USA and European tours.<\/p>\n Randy has been heavily influenced by Brazilian music. For the 1998 Concord Jazz release \u201cInto The Sun\u201d Randy received the Grammy award for best \u201cContemporary Jazz Performance\u201d.<\/p>\n In the past few years he has made recordings and concert appearances with The Trumpet Summit band (featuring Jon Faddis, Lew Soloff, Terrel Stafford), The Jazz Times \u201cSuperband\u201d (featuring organist Joey DeFrancesco, drummer Dennis Chambers and tenor saxophonist, Bob Randy is now signed with ESC Records. First CD on this label was \u201cHangin\u2019 in The City\u201d which was released worldwide in April 2001 to considerable commercial and critical success. The release included all-new funk\/hip-hop and jazz compositions featuring the cream of the crop of NYC players.<\/p>\n Randy\u2019s latest two CDs as a bandleader won both a Grammy:<\/p>\n In 2003 his CD \u201c34th<\/sup>\u00a0N Lex\u201d for the ESC label featuring Michael Brecker, David Sanborn, Fred Wesley, Ronnie Cuber and his regular working band won a Grammy\u00a0 as \u201cBest Contemporary Jazz Album\u201d.and the newly\u00a0 released CD \u201cSome Skunk Funk\u201d featuring Michael Brecker and the WDR Big Band just won this past February another Grammy as \u201d Best Large Ensemble CD\u201d.<\/p>\n Randy Brecker is a true musical pioneer who continues to perform extensively around the world in a variety of settings. His quest for musical excellence while constantly expanding his trumpet style and encyclopedic catalogue of compositions are unparalleled.<\/p>\n Like close friend and fellow session ace, Toto\u2019s Steve Lukather, Ritenour was always more than a gun-for-hire. In \u201976, he launched his own solo career with\u00a0First Course<\/em>, and managed the magic trick of following his muse while finding enviable commercial success, especially in the \u201980s. \u201cOn the West Coast, fusion was just starting,\u201d he remembers, \u201cand we were beginning to combine the melodies of pop music, but with the sophistication of jazz. We were listening to people like John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, and then at the same time, Grover Washington Jr, David Sanborn, Bob James. So it was really a natural evolution for my own records to evolve out of that. When I finally did win a Grammy in 1985 \u2013 for \u201cEarly A.M. Attitude\u201d \u2013 I think I was actually stuck on the freeway. But awards aren\u2019t the reason we\u2019re making music.\u201d<\/p>\n Likewise, while the jazz supergroup Fourplay scored a commercial hit with their eponymous 1991 debut album. For Ritenour, the attraction was all about the chemistry between the band members. \u201cThe magic was immediate between me, Bob James, Harvey Mason and Nathan East. You can\u2019t draw that sort of thing up on a chart \u2013 it either works or it doesn\u2019t. We did three albums, but then the business got so complicated that I took a pass in 1997. But there was always friendship and musical respect, and we are talking about doing one last reunion project together.\u201d<\/p>\n Respect was palpable, too, when Ritenour made the 2010 album,\u00a0Lee Ritenour\u2019s Six String Theory<\/em>: an all-star album that drafted many of the famous friends he\u2019d picked up along his path. \u201cIn the early days, you could never put country, jazz, rock and all these styles on the same record. The record companies would say, \u2018No, you\u2019ve got to have one theme\u2019. But by 2010, the labels weren\u2019t as powerful as they were, and they were looking for interesting projects. I went to my buddy Steve Lukather, and George Benson and B.B. King, and they all said yes. We opened it up to players like Joe Bonamassa and John Scofield \u2013 and everyone played their ass off\u201d<\/p>\n Collaboration might be a constant, but in a career full of left-turns,\u00a0Dreamcatcher<\/em>\u00a0is another thrilling detour for Lee Ritenour. Both by necessity and design, this latest album represents music in its purest form: one man, channelling his headspace and the history unfolding around him, using the instrument that has sustained him all these years. There is a first time for everything and there has never been a better time for \u201cDreamcatcher\u201d. \u201cI\u2019ve never done anything like this before and it\u2019s an important missing piece in my guitar history. It was inspiring and it was meant to happen this year, in these times \u2013 after a lifetime of playing the guitar,\u201d he considers, \u201cthis project reaffirmed just how much I love the guitar.\u201d<\/p>\n Bonus Tracks (Japan release): \u201cMore Stories\u201d and \u201cThank You Dreamcatcher\u201d?<\/p>\n \u201cMore Stories… There were a series of songs that I wrote on the Yamaha classical guitar \u2013 Via Verde, More Stories, and Dreamcatcher. Some of the harmonies and the way I was interpreting playing solo guitar was somewhat similar on those three songs. So that was the first time where I wanted to make sure there was going to be enough variety on the record. Because even I get tired of great solo guitar albums when it pretty much sounds the same. So that was very much the challenge I gave myself. That\u2019s why there are different sounds on the record, the different approaches, and the different compositions \u2013\u00a0and even a different way of playing sometimes. 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Inspired in part by her mother, a classical violinist, Laufey took up piano and cello early on. But it wasn’t until deep-diving into her father’s record collection, consisting of jazz artists Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, that she launched into her musical journey.<\/p>\n “I’m definitely very influenced by composers like Ravel and Chopin,” the 24-year old musician explains, “but when I discovered the Great American Songbook and the music of George Gershwin and Richard Rodgers, it felt like this middle ground between jazz and classical that suited me perfectly.”<\/p>\n In 2020, while still a student at Berklee College of Music, Laufey released her debut single, \u201cStreet by Street,\u201d which went on to top the Icelandic radio charts. Following the release of her 2021 Typical of Me EP, Laufey hosted her own show on BBC Radio 3\/BBC Sounds. Her debut full-length, Everything I Know About Love, debuted at #1 on Billboard\u2019s Alternative New Artist Album chart, and the lead single \u201cValentine\u201d peaked at #1 on the Spotify Jazz Chart. In 2022 Laufey was the most streamed jazz artist on Spotify, with 425 million streams across all platforms.<\/p>\n Laufey dove headfirst into the musical canon, captivated by the lush arrangements and dreamy vocals, and by her early teenage years, she was turning heads with a mesmerizing style that belied her young age. Attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Laufey began cementing her distinct blend of tender jazz melodies and slow-burning R&B grooves.<\/p>\n As a classically-trained musician, Laufey’s songs are produced and performed as jazz tunes, but the songwriting follows a more modern and relatable blueprint, one taken straight from her own intimate experiences in life and love. Her debut lead single, “Street by Street,” is an empowering declaration of intent to reclaim her relationship with the city of Boston, as jeopardized by the associated memories of a painful breakup. \u200bThrough free-form scatting and reposeful vocal styling, Laufey transforms her heartfelt truths into a revived classic sound for contemporary audiences to resonate with.<\/p>\n Unable to tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Laufey instead took to Instagram and TikTok, performing a mix of originals and classic jazz standards. Within a year, she found herself garnering an impressive Gen-Z social following propelling her work to a newfound audience. Her songwriting has seen her gain new fans in Billie Eilish, Willow Smith, V from BTS, dodie, Ricky Montgomery, and Alexander 23, the latter two of which Laufey went on to support on their sold-out fall 2021 tours.<\/p>\n After a standout year since releasing her highly-acclaimed debut EP,\u00a0Typical of Me<\/em>, Laufey made her television debut with a captivating performance on Late Night with Jimmy Kimmel, and performed a soft medley of tracks from her debut for KEXP’s first\u00a0live session<\/a>\u00a0back in-studio. 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He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The American Songwriters Hall of Fame, and recipient of the prestigious BMI Icon Award as well as numerous American Music, MTV awards, and multiple Grammy nominations.<\/p>\n Since forming his creative partnership with Daryl Hall in the early 1970s, they have gone on to record 21 albums, which have sold over 80 million units, making them the most successful duo in rock history. They have scored 10 number-one records, over 20 Top 40 hits, and have toured the world for decades. Their involvement in the original “Live Aid” concert and the groundbreaking “We Are The World” charity recording have further established them as legendary artists, who have personally and through their music, stood the test of tim<\/p>\n Since embarking on a solo career in 1999, John has recorded seven solo albums: Phu Phunk Shui\/ 1000 Miles of Life\/ Mississippi Mile\/ The Bluesville Sessions\/ Good Road To Follow\/ Arkansas and Live from Nashville with the Good Road Band. In addition, his 2017 autobiography \u201cChange of Season\u201d released by St. Martin\u2019s press, became an Amazon best seller.<\/p>\n In 2023 he released a series of new original digital singles distributed by<\/p>\n \u201cThe Orchard\u201d in a wide variety of eclectic styles as well as penning another series of songs for the feature film \u201cGringa\u201d. His most recent recording project is titled \u201cFolk-esque\u201d and is scheduled for release in early 2024. 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Her voice, rich and velvety yet precociously refined, has already earned her fans like Anita Baker and Regina King and appearances on the TODAY Show, The Tonight Show w\/Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show w\/Stephen Colbert, CBS Mornings, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, and more, in addition to millions of likes on TikTok \u2014 cementing her status as perhaps the first Gen Z jazz singing star. The New York Times praised the \u201csilky-voiced rising star\u201d for \u201chelping jazz take a youthful turn\u201d while NPR All Things Considered named her a \u201cclassic jazz singer from a new generation.\u201d In February 2023, Samara Joy took home two Grammys – Best Jazz Vocal Album and the auspicious Best New Artist award.<\/p>\n Samara is still relatively new to jazz. Growing up in the Bronx, it was music of the past \u2014 the music of her parent\u2019s childhoods, as she put it \u2014 that she listened to most. She treasures her musical lineage, which stretches back to her grandparents Elder Goldwire and Ruth McLendon, both of whom performed with Philadelphia gospel group the Savettes, and runs through her father, who is a singer, songwriter and producer who toured with gospel artist Andra\u00e9 Crouch. \u201cSometimes I catch myself when I\u2019m singing \u2014 I’m like, \u2018Whoa, that was a dad moment\u2019,\u201d Samara quips. Eventually, she did follow in the family tradition, singing in church and then with the jazz band at Fordham High School for the Arts, with whom she won Best Vocalist at JALC\u2019s Essentially Ellington competition. That led to her enrolling in SUNY Purchase\u2019s jazz studies program, where she fell deeply in love with the music.<\/p>\n Though she\u2019s young, she relishes the process of digging through the music\u2019s history. \u201cI think maybe people connect with the fact that I’m not faking it, that I already feel embedded in it,\u201d Samara says. \u201cMaybe I’m able to reach people in person and on social media because it’s real.\u201d The gatekeepers of the jazz world tend to agree: in 2019, she won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, and she\u2019s since performed with legends like Christian McBride and Bill Charlap. Legendary late pianist Barry Harris was a particularly important influence and mentor. \u201cYou inspired me as well as many others with this fire for teaching and playing that couldn\u2019t be dimmed by anything or anyone,\u201d Samara writes in Linger Awhile\u2019s liner notes, dedicating the project in part to Harris\u2019 memory.<\/p>\n On\u00a0Linger Awhile<\/em>, which was produced by Matt Pierson and recorded by Chris Allen at Sear Sound in NYC, Samara is accompanied by esteemed veterans: her former professors, guitarist Pasquale Grasso and drummer Kenny Washington, form the core of the band, which also includes bassist David Wong and pianist Ben Paterson. With ease and a preternatural assurance, Samara swings right alongside them through understated yet powerful renditions of this creative collection of standards.<\/p>\n There are burnished, gleaming versions of chestnuts in \u201cMisty,\u201d \u201cLinger Awhile\u201d and \u201cSomeone To Watch Over Me,\u201d transporting listeners to some romantic, long-lost supper club. Those familiar tunes are listed alongside some more unusual, if equally vintage selections: \u201cSweet Pumpkin,\u201d a Ronnell Bright tune performed by the likes of Blue Mitchell and Gloria Lynne, and \u201cCan\u2019t Get Out Of This Mood,\u201d which Samara uncovered on a collection of Sarah Vaughan rarities, add a lilting, upbeat bent to the album\u2019s selections.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I heard the lyrics, I was like, \u2018OK, this is positive \u2014 it’s not as much about heartbreak,\u201d Samara says of \u201cMood.\u201d \u201cI liked the way I felt after hearing her singing it, and hopefully I can create the same feeling for people when they hear that song.\u201d<\/p>\n Samara aims for the opposite on a spine-tingling version of \u201cGuess Who I Saw Today,\u201d originally popularized by Nancy Wilson. This gently grieving rendition showcases the young singer\u2019s exceptional control and range, as well as her refined, distinctive style.<\/p>\n Marrying Samara\u2019s interest in classic standards as well as crate-digging is her take on the iconic Thelonious Monk tune \u201c\u2018Round Midnight\u201d \u2014 instead of the traditional lyrics, Samara sings those written by Jon Hendricks, which she had only heard in a vintage TV performance by Carmen McRae. \u201cThose lyrics haven’t been recorded that much \u2014 so even though it\u2019s a song that a lot of people know, this is a different take on it,\u201d Samara says. It\u2019s the only song on the album that includes a horn section, including trumpeter Terell Stafford, trombonist Donavan Austin, and finally tenor saxophonist Kendric McCallister, who is responsible for the arrangement, a transformation of Cootie Williams\u2019 original.<\/p>\n A concept that will likely be foreign to Samara\u2019s TikTok following is that of vocalese, a jazz technique showcased across Linger Awhile. \u201cNostalgia (The Day I Knew)\u201d was the product of a jazz transcription class she took with trumpet master Jon Faddis at SUNY Purchase, in which she took down Fats Navarro\u2019s solo from the original 1947 recording and wrote her own lyrics to that melody \u2014 inspired, she quips, by the teen romance novels she was reading. She went through the same process with \u201cI\u2019m Confessin\u2019,\u201d combining that song\u2019s original lyrics with her own, set to Lester Young\u2019s 1952 solo. 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