Jul 31, 2020 | Charles Tolliver - Results, NPR
Podcast Includes Connect Among Featured Albums “NPR Music’s Bobby Carter, WBGO and Jazz Night in America’s Nate Chinen, NPR Music contributor Gavin Godfrey, NPR Music’s Tom Huizenga, Marissa Lorusso and NPR’s Ann Powers all join host...
Jul 31, 2020 | Charles Tolliver - Results, New York Times
NYT celebrates Tolliver’s “triumphant blues variations” “The trumpeter Charles Tolliver’s compositions tend to balance syncopated elements as if they were structural beams.” | Read More at...
Jul 30, 2020 | Vincent Cross - Results
This is an important Irish-American immigrant story that hasn’t been told “He was James ‘The Rooster’ Corcoran, and his turbulent, action-packed, controversial life, is the subject of a new album by the folk singer Vincent Cross, who himself is a...
Jul 27, 2020 | Charles Tolliver - Results
Blowing Down The Walls Of Trump’s Jericho “Tolliver’s long and distinguished career continues to flourish, with a new album, Connect, recorded in London in November 2019, set for release on the Gearbox label at the end of July 2020.” | Read More at...
Jul 24, 2020 | Charles Tolliver - Results
Self-Determined, Then and Now: A Focus on Charles Tolliver “Charles Tolliver has lived his share of jazz history. As a fiery young sideman with Jackie McLean and Max Roach in the 1960s, he joined a lineage of exalted post-bop trumpeters, more than holding his...
Jul 24, 2020 | KEXP, Xanthe Alexis - Results
Xanthe Alexis Celebrates the Supernatural Strangeness of the Cosmos in “Moon” “Colorado-based folk musician Xanthe Alexis also understands the powerful pull of the planets and the supernatural undertones of the cosmos.” | Read More at...
Jul 21, 2020 | Charles Tolliver - Results
Charles Tolliver, Connect (Gearbox Records) “Charles Tolliver is a legend not just for his fierce trumpet playing, but for his leadership.” | Read More at...
Jul 21, 2020 | Vincent Cross - Results
Vincent Cross preps concept album about Irish-American gang leader “There’s a clear influence of traditional Irish folk music on these songs, and Cross says that he learned a few new instruments to really get that style of music across.” | Read...
Jul 21, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Releases, Press Releases
Companion album to book of the same name (published on Bitter Southerner) on the guitars and artwork of Freeman Vines Music Maker Relief Foundation has confirmed the release of a new compilation album sacred soul and blues Hanging Tree Guitars, out September 25, to...
Jul 17, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Releases
Published by The Bitter Southerner, Out September 1 For over fifty years Freeman Vines has transformed materials culled from a forgotten landscape in his relentless pursuit of building a guitar capable of producing a singular tone that has haunted his dreams,...
Jul 16, 2020 | Chiminyo - Releases, Press Releases
Announces debut album “I AM PANDA” due out 25th September via Gearbox Records Nominated for: Jazz FM’s Digital Award 2020 Worldwide FM’s Track Of The Year Award 2020 Member of: Maisha + Cykada Collaborated and recorded with: Gary Bartz, Nubya...
Jul 14, 2020 | Charles Tolliver - Results
Jazz veteran Charles Tolliver preps first album in 11 years “NYC jazz trumpeter Charles Tolliver has been at it for over 50 years — as both a bandleader and a sideman for Roy Ayers, McCoy Tyner, Max Roach, Horace Silver, and others — and he’s...
Jul 12, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results
Collection of carvings, photographs paint a portrait of Greene County native’s life as a black man in the rural South “The sound that Freeman Vines heard more than 50 years ago so reverberated with this artist that he would spend much of the rest of his life...
Jul 9, 2020 | Xanthe Alexis - Results
Acts You Need to Know: Xanthe Alexis “Xanthe Alexis, sounds like a recovered postcard from World War II.” | Read More at American...
Jul 9, 2020 | Vincent Cross - Results
Cross retells Corcoran’s story with a “modern dark fairy tale.” “Cross, a descendent of Corcoran, delivers a subtle but powerful portrait with ‘King Corcoran.’ It’s a quiet meditation that speaks to folk’s narrative...
