Showing posts with label Kevin MacKenzie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kevin MacKenzie. Show all posts

Monday, May 18, 2015

Kevin MacKenzie & Loren Stillman - Revenge Of The Hammer Ladies

Size: 115,7 MB
Time: 49:49
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Jazz: Post Bop
Art: Front

01. Revenge Of The Hammer Ladies (5:39)
02. Big Cat (5:40)
03. Fearless Dreamer (5:49)
04. Butterfly (7:45)
05. Her Love Was Like Kryptonite (6:29)
06. Gone (5:53)
07. The Brothers Breakfast (7:30)
08. The Nuckins (5:01)

A collaboration between Kevin MacKenzie and Loren Stillman recorded at castle sound studios Edinburgh during the 2012 Edinburgh Jazz Festival. Featuring Loren Stillman: Alto Sax, Kevin MacKenzie: guitar , Dave Ambrosio: Bass Martin France: Drums

Kevin MacKenzie:
Kevin Mackenzie lives in Scotland. He has toured extensively and has recorded on many albums in a variety of styles.
His groups have been featured along side guitarist Robben Fords power trio, Bob Berg and Mike Stern, the Crusaders and Seminal Jazz figure Ornette Coleman.

In 2001 Kevin received the prestigious ‘Creative Scotland Award’, which he used to write and record music for his nine-piece band ‘Kevin Mackenzie’s Vital Signs’. The CD gathered great reviews including album of the month in The Observer and CD of the week in The Guardian.

Loren Stillman:
The music of Brooklyn-based saxophonist and composer, Loren Stillman, has found acclaimed reviews in such publications as The New York Times, Downbeat Magazine, Jazziz, Jazz Times, and National Public Radio, marking him as an innovative voice of modern jazz.

With his training stemming from Lee Konitz and David Liebman to Harvey Pittel, Stillman has performed, recorded, and educated throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan.

Alongside an impressive record of performances, recordings, and master-classes with his own ensembles, Stillman has performed alongside Charlie Haden, Paul Motian Trio 2000+2, Carla Bley, John Abercrombie, Greg Osby, Ralph Alessi, Andy Milne’s DAPP Theory, Michele Rosewoman Quintessence, Eivind Opsvik, John McNeil, Brad Shepik, Russ Lossing, Vic Juris, and The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.

An early start to his musical career found Stillman as recipient of two Outstanding Performance Awards (1996 &1998) and the Rising Star Jazz Artist Award (2004) from Down Beat Magazine. Stillman attended Manhattan School of Music (1998) and The New School (2002) on full music scholarship, and was a semifinalist in the 2002 Thelonious Monk Saxophone Competition. In 2005, Stillman received the CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming and the ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award.

Stillman’s original recordings, Winter Fruits (Pirouet 2008) It Could Be Anything (Fresh Sound, 2005), The Brothers’ Breakfast (Steeplechase, 2006), and Blind Date (Pirouet, 2006), received critical acclaim from The New York Times and four star recognition in BBC Jazz Review, Jazz Man Magazine and Downbeat Magazine. Stillman has been featured on WKCR, Weekend America Public Broadcasting, and LIU Radio programming.

Revenge Of The Hammer Ladies