Christopher Lehman Debuts at #28 on the CMJ Jazz Chart

Christopher Lehman debuts at #28 on the CMJ Jazz Chart issue #1140

"popjazzic"

28	-	-	28	1	CHRISTOPHER LEHMAN	PopJazzic
29	13	-	13	2	LORRAINE FEATHER	Ages	Jazzed Media
30	-	-	30	1	CARAVAN GYPSY SWING ENSEMBLE	Live At The Brink Lounge
31	-	17	4	9	WAYNE ESCOFFERY	Uptown	Positone
32	-	-	32	1	STEPHANIE NAKASIAN	Billie Remembered	INNER CITY

David Leonhardt Moves up to #13 on the Jazz Chart

David Leonhardt Moves Up the CMJ Jazz Chart and lands at #13 for issue #1140

12	-	-	12	1	ORRIN EVANS	Faith In Action	Positone
13	17	-	13	3	DAVID LEONHARDT TRIO	Bach To The Blues	Big Bang
14	29	14	14	5	MYRA MELFORD'S BE BREAD	The Whole Tree Gone	Firehouse 12
15	27	-	15	4	JOSH RZEPKA	Midwest Coast	Self-Released
16	6	7	6	9	NORAH JONES	The Fall	Blue Note
17	21	25	1	17	PONCHO SANCHEZ	Psychedelic Blues	Concord

Fat Cat Big Band #30 at CMJ this week!!

30	-	-	30	2	FAT CAT BIG BAND	Face
31	12	2	1	13	VIJAY IYER TRIO	Historicity	ACT
32	-	-	32	1	CIRCULASIONE TOTALE ORCHESTRA	Bandwidth	Rune Grammofon
33	-	-	33	1	VON FREEMAN	Vonski Speaks	Nessa
34	-	-	12	9	ELDAR	Virtue	Sony

David Leonhardt Charts at CMJ #17 Bach to the Blues

15	19	8	8	3	RON HORTON	It's A Gadget World	Abeat For Jazz
16	-	29	16	2	MATTHEW SHIPP	4D	Thirsty Ear
17	-	-	17	2	DAVID LEONHARDT TRIO	Bach To The Blues	Big Bang
18	-	-	18	1	GORDON GRDINA'S EAST VAN STRINGS	The Breathing Of Statues
19	15	-	15	2	JOE LOCKE	For The Love Of You
20	29	22	20	4	SOUNDS OF LIBERATION	Sound Of Liberation	Porter
21	25	21	1	16	PONCHO SANCHEZ	Psychedelic Blues	Concord

Fat Cat Big Band Reviewed by Jazz Times

FAT CAT BIG BAND - JAZZ TIMES REVIEW

The FCBB, founded and lead by guitarist/arranger/composer Jade Synstelien, is a compact and swinging crew that embodies the big-band tradition. The ensemble passages on these 10 original compositions are perfectly played, and the soloists, specifically pianist Jack Glottman, trumpeter Tatum Greenblatt and trombonist Jonathan Voltztok are first rate. A refreshing opus that should satisfy big-band fans past and present.

Jade Synstelien is interviewed at Downbeat Magazine

FAT CAT BIG BAND - FACE
After packing a couple of bags, guitarist Jade Synstelien drove a 1979 Cadillac Sedan de Ville cross-country from his home in New Mexico to New Paltz, NY. he dropped of the car and took a train to Manhattan, where he arrived just before Sept. 11, 2001. Systelien has come o fage workin g as a guitar-for-hire in a variety of bands, but shifted his focus almost exclusively to jazz composition with the goal of leading a big band.

WGLT interviews David Leonhardt

David Leonhardt interview, touching, informative and reflective

Leonhardt

www.wglt.org

David Leonhardt (mp3)

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 Run Time: 9:09 Pianist David Leonhardt spent 25 years with David "Fathead" Newman and was Music Director for vocalist Jon Hendricks for four years. His latest CD is a fusion of his two musical loves: Classical & Jazz. You can purchase "Bach to the Blues at https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/davidleonhardt

James Zollar - Interview at KSDS

This Is The New Jazz Thing on Jazz 88.3! Thursday, January 28, 2010 - James Zollar

January 28th, 2010

The New Jazz Thing is LIVE! Thursday, January 28, 6 to 8 PM PT on Jazz 88.3 FM, KSDS San Diego, Webcast at http://Jazz88.org!Quick Link: Jazz 88 Playlist Archive for Thursday, January 28, 2010(scroll to 6PM to see the tunes spontaneously mixed on Tonight’s show!)

Tonight on the show: James Zollar, former San Diegan, has a new disc out, “Zollar System”, and is playing with the Count Basie Orchestra in SD this weekend, so we’ll be chatting with him in Hour 2 of The New about all of that and more. Check out the links below to James MySpace (to listen to a few tunes), today’s UT article about James, and more…

Here’s MP3 Streaming and Download of Hour 2 of The New, featuring the James Zollar Interview, with a little bit of navigation aids..

MP3 File

(0) KSDS Station ID opening Hour 2 of The New Jazz Thing, Thursday, January 28, 2010 7PM PT.
James Zollar Interview Opening Blurb, quote from George Varga's UT article.
Tune: Chicago Preferred - James Zollar - Zollar Systems
(6:55) Welcome James and chat about the 1/29-30/10 dates at Anthology, the Basie Band and director, his experience in Ellington and Basie Big Bands, his time in San Diego, Daniel Jackson's "Chicago Preferred" and his wife's "Go-En".
Tune: Go-En, James Zollar, Zollar Systems
(22:15) Break, Latin Grooves Promo, KSDS Jazz Calendar at http://Jazz88.org.
James Chats about his new disc "Zollar Systems", it's genesis from different sessions, textural considerations matching a feeling of his, what he's trying to get to, how he's supporting this, a bit about the many layers to "Slick" and Goodbyes….
Tune: Slick, James Zollar, Zollar Systems
(38:25) Interview archive info, Anthology Basie Show Underwriting, Rug Cutters Swing Promo
(from start, to end)
(41:01, 14:08) Abdullah Ibrahim “Excursions” — Bombella
(48:30, 6:33) Joe Locke “Birds” — For The Love of You
(53:59, 1:10) TNJT Sign-off…
braden-rapp: The Strayhorn Project “Isfahan (Elf)” — The Strayhorn Project

Tonight’s disc that we featured music from…and some we didn’t get to…

Grammy Win - Ulysses Owens Jr., Drummer on Kurt Elling's Dedicated to You!

Ulysses Owens, Jr. Drummer on Dedicated to You

Winner of The GRAMMY for Best Vocal Jazz Album: Dedicated to You!

Kurt brings home his very first GRAMMY for the exquisitely beautiful, tasteful, and always swingin' Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman.

This was Kurt's ninth nomination -- each and every Elling album has been nominated. Laurence Hobgood was also nominated this year for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist for the title tune, "Dedicated to You," done lovingly with strings in a very hip arrangement. His solo on that tune is awesome, too.

Bravo and congratulations, Kurt! And congratulations, Laurence! And also to all the fabulous musicians on this album: the great and groovy Ernie Watts on tenor, bassist Clark Sommers, drummer Ulysses Owens, and the string quartet ETHEL with Cornelius Dufallo, Ralph Farris, Dorothy Lawson, and Mary Rowell.Well done and well deserved, everyone!