Recently I heard a smooth jazz trumpet star “do” Miles Davis. He captured Miles’s distinctive muted tone, getting every note right, and, more surprisingly, even the spaces between. The trouble was ...
On three Saturdays in July, music lovers congregated in Alexander Square at San Ramon’s City Center Bishop Ranch to take in the jazz stylings of artists like guitarist Jonathan Butler, ...
WE’LL KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON IT. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. MARK. THAT’S THE JASMINE IN MILWAUKEE BASED GROUP RECENTLY MAKING BILLBOARD’S SMOOTH JAZZ CHARTS. JOINING ME NOW IS THE GROUP’S FOUNDER AND TRUMPET ...
Summer Concerts on the Hudson continue with another evening of music on Wednesday, Aug. 24, with world class trumpet player Benny Benack III and special guest vocalist Anaïs Reno. Known for his ...
One might wonder what might have drawn the great Miles Davis to record melodically verbatim covers of Michael Jackson's “Human Nature" and Cyndi Lauper's “Time After Time," in a smooth jazz format.