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<img src='https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2308/8505caf79a30a896ef15.jpeg' width='720' height='306'> Two Aotearoa Icons, One night of jazz and hip-hop Fusing the modern big band sound with Aotearoa-New Zealand hip-hop, ...
Ryan Youmans Son of a vocalist and a drummer, Ryan Youmans marries together sonorous melodies with soulful syncopation to create music that has been described as “impossible to ignore”. He is an ambassador of jazz, R&B, funk and all music demanding soul. His biggest musical influences include James Brown, Maceo Parker, Michael Brecker, Frank Sinatra and Dexter Gordon and his professional experience ranges from working as a music educator, street performer, freelancer, and an active duty US Army bandsmen. With material from 1920-2020, Ryan has something different ready for ever...
We put Metheny's blues motifs, subversion of genre, his use of slurs and slides, unisons and the targeting of crucial chord tones under the microscope – tabs and audio included
Fusing the modern big band sound with Aotearoa-New Zealand hip-hop, the Rodger Fox Big Band, featuring multi-award-winning Aotearoa hip-hop legend King Kapisi, and special guest, blues vocalist Erna Ferry, are heading south for four concerts in ...
Amazonas Green Jazz Festival, July 21-July 30, 2023, Manaus, Brazil. In this first of three reports, we welcome New York-based journalist Ted Panken to LJN. Ted reports for us from the Amazonas Green Jazz Festival, which ran from July 21 to July 30 in Manaus, the capital of the Amazonas State in Brazil. As this…