www.allaboutjazz.com Posi-Tone Records by Donald Elfman Posi-Tone Records is an extraordinary anomaly in these times, an independent, thriving jazz label that continues to find new and established musicians and works continually to improve each aspect of production to release a final product of superior quality. As the market has changed the company has sought and accepted new ways to do business ...Read More

www.yournabe.com Seeking to expand European travels infuse Astoria jazzman’s album with a world of intrigue By Morgan Rousseau Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:16 AM EDT Sean Nowell may be seeking truth in locations around the globe, but he’s still proud to call Astoria home. Tenor saxophonist Sean Nowell recently released his second album, “The Seeker,” an introspective compil ...Read More

www.allaboutjazz.com Meet Sean Nowell: Sean Nowell is a tenor saxophonist and composer from Birmingham, Alabama steeped in the southern traditions of blues, gospel, jazz, and funk fused with the complex harmonic and world rhythmic concepts that permeate the music of New York City. While in Alabama, he sang in cathedrals with a national touring a cappella choir and was exposed to vocal music from G ...Read More

www.jstandard.com Arts & Leisure Published: 10 July 2009 Yotam Silberstein A slender, wide-eyed young man entered the back room of an East Village wine bar called 10 Degrees on a recent Tuesday, lugging and unzipping a dark guitar case. With the burnish on his orange instrument absorbing the soft overhead lights, Yotam Silberstein uncorked a swirl of Hebrew. “Do my friends ha ...Read More

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www.allaboutjazz.com Meet Yotam Silberstein: Yotam Silberstein was born and raised in Tel-Aviv, Israel. He started playing guitar at the age of 10, focusing mostly on rock and blues. At the age of 15 Yotam was accepted to the prestigious Alon high school for the arts where he studied jazz with such great teachers as Walter Blanding and Amit Golan. During his high school years Yotam won many local ...Read More

nytheatremike.wordpress.com Jazz pianist and composer Jeremy Manasia has already had quite an accomplished career. Having trained at New York’s prestigious Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (i.e. the school that inspired the movie Fame) and been a finalist for the Thelonius Monk Competition, he has since toured the world as a musician and played with such ...Read More

www.jazzchicago.net Review by Brad Walseth Upon my first listen to young British pianist’s Consequences, I admit that I found the music to be of a strident nature and frankly quite obtuse. But I figured that any recording recommended by Jason Moran and featuring such fine players as alto saxophonist David Binney, bassist Matt Brewer, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and drummer Tyshawn Sorey ...Read More