Category contemporary jazz

Today’s Jazz Stars Interpret Disney Classics

Ever imagine The Bad Plus doing music from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast? How about Joshua Redman doing a cover of “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” from Toy Story? Those notable artists are among the dozen contributing to the…

John Hilderbrand
January 4, 2011

Torcuato Mariano Debut (1994)

From 1993-1994, I produced a newsletter to promote the late night “new music program” for KBIA-FM. Following is an article I wrote for one of the newsletters: Rarely do debut solo albums come to the station as solid as Torcuato…

John Hilderbrand
September 23, 2010

New Dimensions from Urban Elements

Urban Elements is a quintet of musicians from Sweden and Chile. I sampled this release simply based on the name of the group and was impressed. This is what contemporary jazz is about! Amazon.com Widgets

John Hilderbrand
August 26, 2009