Tag: Jazz
'Nike Commissions Jazz Pianist Robert Glasper for Kobe Bryant Retirement Tribute
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'H. Jon Benjamin Records Jazz Album, Releases 'Well I Should Have' via Sub Pop Records
Stand-up albums be damned, this is true comedy at its finest. Yes, H. Jon Benjamin is trying his hand at the piano in the form of an--er--avant-garde jazz album entitled "Well I Should Have." Released via Sub Pop Records, he doesn't even know how to play. Mind you, that detail may not even matter. -
'REVIEW: Jazz Pianist Tigran Hamasyan Proffers Armenian Hymns on 'Luys i Luso'
Genre fusion clearly knows no bounds in the 21st Century. In 'Luys i Luso' ('Light from the Light'), jazz pianist Tigran Hamasyan is peeling back the layers of the Soviet Union and "a hundred years of atheism" to reveal the most ancient, and so far, stagnant, motifs of Armenian hymns.