Here’s a cool video alto saxophonist Logan Richardson shared via Facebook the other day. The tune is “Soundtrack,” which also appears on Richardson’s CD Ethos, out now on Greg Osby’s Inner Circle Music label. The framing focuses on vibraphonist Mike Pinto (it’s his YouTube clip), and the performance really shows off the nice interplay Pinto and Richardson have developed. Pinto also has a disc out on Inner Circle, and Richardson plays on that disc as well. Both young artists are very much worth checking out.
Also in the band are Christopher Tordini on bass and Tommy Crane, drums. Enjoy!
I don’t get out as much as I’d like, but if I could drag my butt to one music event in the San Francisco Bay Area every day this week, this is what I’d choose. Just sayin’…
Monday, July 20
Frederick Harris & Friends @ Stanford Jazz Festival – 7:30pm
or… Amendola vs. Blades @ Main Street, Redwood City – 6pm
Tuesday, July 21
Julian Lage Group @ Stanford Jazz Festival – 7:30pm
I have a hellish project due for work at noon today, so Decca very graciously agreed to fill in for me this morning. “No Cover No Minimum” will return next Friday on KZSU 90.1 FM!
My favorite new tune at the moment is “Falling” by Tigran Hamasyan, a stunning young pianist originally from Armenia. You can find it on Tigran’s new CD, Red Hail (Plus Loin Music).
“Falling” is a pulse-quickening blend of hyperkinetic rhythm and dreamy exoticism. This live version from French television runs a bit long in the introduction, and you may need to avert your eyes from the seizure-inducing cross-cutting. But Tigran’s piano and vocal percussion are thrilling, and singer Areni Agbabian’s haunting rendition of the melody will stick with you. Enjoy!
“Salaried employees threaten to make jump their factory”
“The revival, it is not simply the concrete and the motor”
“It is necessary to prepare the sector of the media to behavioral changes”
“Crispations with the National Assembly on Sunday work”
and my personal favorite: “A carpaccio of sturgeon of dream to the “Coffee Plum tree”
According to an article from AFP (also a French news-gathering organization, but one with actual humans doing some of the work), the four La Tribune translations are all being overseen by a single person. But the paper “plans to soon hire another person to tweak the English-language articles.”
Hopefully they’ll also hire someone to tweak the Japanese and Chinese articles when those sites go live later this year. Until the hiring spree begins, have yourself a chuckle at La Tribune’s website!
arezze1: @fojazz love the movies that come on at midnight... spent many a fri night seeing whats on tcm 10 hours ago
fojazz: who needs 500 channels? I could get along pretty well with nothing but TCM, thank you very much. 10 hours ago
fojazz: RT @kbad At least this NYT's photo-caption mix-up didn't make it into print, where it would have lived forever. http://bit.ly/ctlNVu 2010/03/03
fojazz: Brown (again), Whitman, Poizner... is this the best we can do, California? Really??? 2010/03/02
(Plus Loin Music).