Audiophiles crowded the first "One Stop Record Fair" for this year which kicked off at the new Greenhills Mall in San Juan City on March 16. The quarterly music event "One Stop Record Fair" featured over 30 vinyl record sellers, such as Bunnygod Records, Tambai Records, Lennox Records, Kapitan Plaka,…
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As a saxophonist, composer and the Lamont School of Music’s new director of Jazz & Commercial Music Studies, Remy Le Boeuf has always had “big ideas” about music ideas that have led to a successful career as a jazz innovator and, most recently, as composer and arranger of two Grammy-nominated albums. In mid-November, his album, “Architecture of Storms,” was nominated for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, and his arrangement of the song “Minnesota, WI” for indie rock musician Bon Iver garnered a second nomination in the category of Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella. Called a “big record” in terms of ambition, scale and degree of difficulty, “Architecture of Storms” is the second album Le Boeuf has produced with his 20-plus-person jazz orchestra. His 2019 debut album, “Assembly of Shadows,” earned Grammy nominations for Best Instrumental Composition and Best Arrangement. Le Boeuf’s music is rooted in traditional jazz but influenced by contemporary
Great albums are recorded and released every year, but I can make a very strong argument that 1972 saw more truly great albums released than any year before or since.