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       THE ALL NEW JAZZED AND BLUE PRESENTS:
THE JEFF HAMiLTON TRiO AND THEiR NEW RELEASE RED SPARKLE AND RUSSiAN TELEViSiON PERSONALiTY OLEG FRiSH AND HiS LATEST RELEASE BRiNG ME SUNSHiNE!!!  MARCH
4, 2012 - The weekly
online radio series Jazzed and Blue: Profiles in
Blues and Jazz is back and is now available for download at
Rockwired.com and features exclusive interviews with Jeff Hamitlo of
the Jeff Hamilton Trio regarding their brand new release Red Sparkle
and with Russian television personality Oleg Frish regarding his latest
release Bring Me Sunshine. In the opening
segment, Hamilton discusses the
inspiration behind the tracks of his new project, collaborating with
bassist Christopher Luty and pianist Tamir Hendelman and the
creative process that he and his band share. The second
half of of this edition of Jazzed and Blue will feature music and an
exclusive interview with Russian televesion personality Oleg
Frish. In the interview Frish discusses his latest release
Bring Me Sunshine,
working with The Patrick Williams Big Band and plans for future
recordings.
“After being gone for about three months, it is great to finally be
back and doing this show again. " says Jazzed and Blue host Brian Lush.
“It's a real treat to end a long week with a show like this and to kick
back and listen to some great music." After
more than three decades
as one of jazz's elite drummers, Jeff Hamilton
still plays with
the enthusiasm and passion of a wide-eyed rookie. Whether he's
co-leading the Grammy-nominated Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra,
accompanying Diana Krall or leading his superlative trio, he embodies
tasteful musicality and probing intelligence. Featuring his long-time
band with bass virtuoso Christoph Luty and the
prodigious
Israeli-born pianist Tamir Hendelman, his new Capri
album
Red Sparkle is the work of a master at the
top of his game. After a
decade together, the Jeff Hamilton Trio plays with the
precision, poise and attention to detail one would expect from an
ensemble led by a veteran who made his reputation with Oscar Peterson,
Monty Alexander and Ray Brown. The album opens with "Ain't That A
Peach," a sassy, loving tribute to Snooky Young, who passed away
last May at the age of 92. In much the same way that the title was a
Young catch phrase, Hamilton wove the tune together the piece from
musical phrases associated with the great lead man, who anchored the
Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra trumpet section from its
inception.Whether interpreting a modern jazz classic or a 1970s pop
tune, the
trio puts its own rhythmic stamp on every piece in its book.
Hamilton's arrangement of "Bye-Ya" sets Thelonious Monk's
Caribbean-inflected theme to a Brazilian groove, and he re-imagines
Stephen Bishop's 1977 hit "On and On" with the buoyant beat
from Ahmad Jamal's ineffably swinging "Poinciana," a hat tip
to the great New Orleans drummer Vernel Fournier. Oleg Frish
is
probably one of the most famous men in America that you’ve never heard
of. Of the five million Russians living in the United States,
Frish is one of the best known personalities and is often described as
the Merv Griffin of Russian-American entertainment--a versatile and
well regarded TV and radio host and a singer, too--in multiple
languages. His debut CD in the United States, “Bring Me
Sunshine,” was released on August 9th.A passionate and rabid fan of
American
music and the Great American songbook in particular, Oleg’s wildly
successful Russian-American Television Show, “Time Out,” was
broadcast weekly on the Russian-American Television Network NTV across
the U.S. and featured his celebrated interviews with many American
music and celebrity icons including the late James Brown,
Donna
Summer, Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Anka, Neil Sedaka, Nancy Wilson, B.B.
King, Connie Francis and many others. At the height of its
popularity, the “Time Out” program reached millions of people in 19
countries across the globe and ranked as the top Russian-language
entertainment show, the “Entertainment Tonight” of Russian TV. In 2010
Oleg took some time off from his TV duties to record his ode to the art
of timeless music, the English-language CD project, “Bring Me
Sunshine,” debuting August 9th. In the same studios used by
Frank
Sinatra and Nelson Riddle, Frish teamed with Patrick Williams, who was
also the arranger-conductor for both of Sinatra’s “Duets” albums, the
singer’s final recordings Featuring vocals by himself and the music of
the A-list Hollywood musicians who form The Patrick Williams Big Band,
“Bring Me Sunshine” was recorded at the legendary Capitol Records
Studio in Hollywood California. 20—time Grammy Award winner
Al
Schmitt, who has engineered or produced records for Frank Sinatra,
Diana Krall, Jefferson Airplane, Eddie Fisher, Glenn Yarborough,
Jackson Browne and Neil Young and engineered Ray Charles' Genius Loves
Company, which won eight Grammy® Awards in 2004, is the engineer on the
lushly-orchestrated CD.DOWNLOAD PART ONE - THE JEFF HAMiLTON TRiO PROFiLE HERE!!! DOWNLOAD PART TWO - THE OLEG FRiSH PROFiLE HERE!!! RELATED LiNKS: WWW.HAMiLTONJAZZ.COM WWW.OLEGFRISH.COM ABOUT THE HOST:  BRIAN
LUSH holds a BA in Creative Writing from the UNIVERSITY OF
NEW MEXICO. He established ROCKWIRED on New Years of 2004 and hasn't
looked back
since. He is currently the host of all of ROCKWIRED.COM's programming
which includes such shows as ROCKWIRED RADIO PROFILES and ROCKWIRED
FREE FORM RADIO. As
program producer for ROCKWiRED.COM, LUSH is hands-on when it
comes to
interviewing and building a lasting rapport with the artists that come
ROCKWiRED's
way. As a youngster, BRIAN LUSH had no idea what kind of seed was being
planted
by reading magazines such as HIT PARADE, HIGH TIMES, SPIN, REQUEST
(remember
that one?) and even ROLLING STONE. "Those were the days before the
internet and being a rock journalist
looked
like the coolest job imaginable." says LUSH "But reading these
magazines had me
imagining that one day I'd be the artist giving all of the clever
answers to
some poor guy with a tape recorder. Well, life has a way of surprising
you.
Now, I'm the poor guy with the tape recorder and asking all of the
questions."CONTACT
BRiAN LUSH
AT: djlush@rockwired.com
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