Notes and tones: Jazz Appreciation Month feels different this year
[Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series on Jazz Appreciation Month. Part One is an overview; Part Two will offer some specific domestic and international highlights, including [...]
Quincy Jones On Bebop, Jazz And His Streaming Venture, Qwest TV
We know Quincy Jones as a music pioneer. He is a record producer, songwriter and multi Grammy Award-winning musician who has been in the music business for over 70 [...]
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The Undiscovered Dave Brubeck Quartet – Part 1
Dave Brubeck’s tunes and songs dotted the American musical landscape during the second half century of the [...]
Paul English – Mild Mannered Jazz Improviso Extraordinaire
One only needs to meet composer, arranger, artist extraordinaire Paul English to feel the instant friendli- ness [...]
Paula Cole Announces New Album, Shares New Song
Grammy-winning songwriter and producer Paula Cole has announced her upcoming album American Quilt. “I wanted this album [...]
RENOWNED SONGSTRESS SANDRA BOOKER RELEASES “UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN” WORLDWIDE MARCH 30TH
There is something beautiful about artists whose insight into the human condition allows them to create works [...]
Art of Life Records to release late guitarist/composer Scott Sherwood archive recording titled “Headin Home”
Scott Sherwood's Story Scott was a natural musician. It wouldn’t be going too far to say that [...]
‘Daddy’s Country Gold’: Melissa Carper on her new record, Nashville’s love affair with jazz and being gay in traditional country music
Leaving behind a landscape of shuttered venues, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Melissa Carper and her partner/bandmate Rebecca Patek, [...]
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ColaJazz Fest coming to Midlands May 1-2
COLUMBIA – The 2021 ColaJazz Fest will be coming to the Midlands Saturday, May 1-2, at the Koger Center for the Arts. A #supportlocal themed [...]
Jazz Standard Presents Fred Hersch Trio
JAZZ STANDARD, one of the nation’s premier jazz clubs, is keeping the music alive with “The Flip Side Sessions”, a virtual concert series broadcasting fully-produced, [...]
Forget labels, we’re all one, says Grammy nominee Jon Batiste
By Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) - American musician Jon Batiste says he set out to break the confines of genre in his new album, mixing [...]
Glastonbury Favorite Grainne Duffy Gains Chart Success With Sensational ‘Voodoo Blues’ Album
What started out as a slow burning, blues-rocking CD release last October, Voodoo Blues is deservedly achieving acclaim of incendiary proportions as word travels globally [...]
Indonesia’s jazz giant — still cool and still playing
JAKARTA -- Idang Rasjidi sits alone in the middle of the night, having been driven from his recording studio by one of the frequent and [...]
San Jose Jazz set to debut new jazz venue in downtown
San Jose Jazz is opening what it calls a state-of-art venue for jazz music in downtown San Jose. It’s a pop-up video recording and performance [...]
Nina Simone, Mary Lou Williams Celebrated in Healdsburg Jazz Event
For Women’s History Month, the Healdsburg Jazz Festival presents Convergence, a virtual concert event celebrating iconic musicians Mary Lou Williams and Nina Simone through an [...]
Athens Jazz Festival adapts with virtual programming, performance
The 2021 Athens Jazz Festival is taking the stage March 22-27 virtually this year due to COVID-19. Two main guests are presenting clinics and performing [...]
Smalls Jazz Club, Emblem of Pandemic Perseverance, Shifts Gears Yet Again
Through all the ups and downs of the coronavirus crisis, no independent music venue has been more of a bellwether than Smalls Jazz Club. And [...]
Melanie Charles is out to ‘make jazz fun again’
Jazz skeptics may have never heard Alice Coltrane and Pharaoh Sanders trade trippy harp and saxophone licks on “Journey in Satchidananda,” but they probably conjure [...]
Fair Grounds Race Course To Host New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival In 2021
NEW ORLEANS Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots (“Fair Grounds”) announced today its renewed commitment to hosting the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (“Jazz [...]
The Complete Lionel Hampton Quartets and Quintets with Oscar Peterson on Verve
“Even during his ten successful years with Decca Records from 1941-1950, Hampton claimed that “all the time I was tuned into what Norman Granz was [...]
News
Whitney Center Jazz Orchestra returns to Kinnison Hall
The Whitney Center Jazz Orchestra will perform in concert on April 10 in Kinnison Hall at Sheridan College’s [...]
Paul Jackson, Funk Bassist With Herbie Hancock, Dies at 73
He was an integral member of Mr. Hancock’s jazz-funk band the Headhunters, whose albums reached millions in the [...]
AN AMERICAN PRAYER, RENOWNED DOORS LEGACY GROUP, IN CONCERT AT TEXAN THEATER, FRIDAY MARCH 26, 7PM
(Greenville, TX) - An American Prayer, renowned Doors Legacy group, perform live in concert at Texan Theater, 2712 [...]
Music Business Owner On The Hook For $36,000 She Can’t Afford After Mixup With PPP Loan; I Feel That I Was Misled’
CHICAGO (CBS) — A woman who took out a loan trying to save her small business during the [...]
Jazz Bassist Paul Jackson 1947 – 2021
Acclaimed jazz bassist Paul Jackson, known for his association with Herbie Hancock and The Headhunters, died at the [...]
NEW MUSIC
Korby Lenker’s ‘Man In The Maroon’ Set for Release May 21
Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, road warrior, published author, screenwriter and storyteller, Korby Lenker, will release his eighth studio album, [...]
DUFFMUSIQ – Sidewalk Sequel
DUFFMUSIQ Sidewalk Sequel To draw from the title of his 2017 debut SOULLEASH, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and award-winning Canadian [...]
AJ Fullerton Album Release Listening Party Today
To celebrate his new album dropping on the Vizztone label group today, AJ Fullerton will be hosting a [...]
World Premiere Video: Tomislav Goluban Feat. Kelly Zirbes ‘Shoestring Blues’
After a 20-year music career and 11 studio albums, the proverb “The older – the crazier” definitely applies [...]
Grammy-Winning Songwriter/Producer Daniel Lanois Releases New Album, ‘Heavy Sun’
Grammy-winning songwriter and producer Daniel Lanois has released his new album, Heavy Sun, through eOne — the first [...]
Exclusive World Premiere Video: Rosedale Junction’s ‘The Blizzard of ’73’
Americana blues band Rosedale Junction preserves the idea of the album format and what it represents — a [...]
“The Sixth Sense” – standard for XXI century fusion guitar
When one listens to the powerful guitar playing of Roman Miroschnichenko, it is easy to be reminded of [...]
Damon Fowler Is a Very Lucky Man
Guitarist/singer/songwriter Damon Fowler is a product of Florida’s Gulf Coast. Over the years he has absorbed the music [...]
Smooth Christian jazz trailblazer Michael Canaan is ‘Caught Up In The Clouds’
Michael Canaan (Image courtesy of Turning Point Media Relations) EP to bow March 29 Composer, keyboardist and former Christian [...]
Paula Cole Announces New Album, Shares New Song
Grammy-winning songwriter and producer Paula Cole has announced her upcoming album American Quilt. “I wanted this album to [...]
Allison Russell Announces Debut Solo Album ‘Outside Child’
On May 21st, Allison Russell will release her first ever solo project, Outside Child (produced by Dan Knobler) [...]
Prepared Piano Albums from Benoît Delbecq and Satoko Fujii
The Weight Of Light by Benoît Delbecq was released on February 13th and Beyond, the debut recording of [...]
Articles
Glastonbury Favorite Grainne Duffy Gains Chart Success With Sensational ‘Voodoo Blues’ Album
What started out as a slow burning, blues-rocking CD release last [...]
Jaco Pastorius, An Introduction To The Jazz Legend
Jaco Pastorius often told people that he was the greatest bass [...]
‘The Pure Musical Grace of Self-Confidence’ — Professional Instructor and Internationally Celebrated Pianist Matthew Xiong Teaches Musicians How to Battle Through Performance Anxiety
ALLSTON, Mass., Concert Pianist Matthew Xiong announced he was currently teaching musicians [...]
Thinking in Jazz – “Seeing Out A Bit”
“It all goes from imitation to assimilation to innovation. You move [...]
Pinheiro Ineke Cavalli – Turn Out The Stars – The Music of Bill Evans
“I can recall quite vividly the very first time I heard [...]
More To Discover
Ex-Middletown deputy police chief picks up sax late in life; now playing with jazz legends
MIDDLETOWN — With less than 10 years of saxophone training under his belt, retired Middletown deputy chief of police [...]
Notes and tones: MU event brings Mary Lou Williams’ greatness to the fore again
An email last week from the University of Missouri School of Music had me at the mere mention of an [...]
Vincent Herring | “Preaching to the Choir” | Available April 30 Smoke Sessions Records
Saxophonist Vincent Herring Battles Back From Bout with Coronavirus and Career-Threatening Side Effects with Optimistic New Album Preaching to [...]
AVAILABLE NOW: Yohan Giaume | “Whisper of a Shadow”
AVAILABLE NOW: French Composer/Trumpeter Yohan Giaume Presents Whisper of a Shadow Opus 1, a Sonic Celebration that Traces the Musical Lineage Between [...]
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Porch jazz sessions bring dancing to Kerrytown
Ann Arbor is never entirely quiet. But of the many sounds you hear drifting through the city, those of [...]
Dwana Smallwood Performing Arts Center Reopens on April 5 in Preparation for the Heart of Brooklyn Spring Dance Series
NEW YORK, After enduring a mandatory year-long studio closure due to the pandemic, the Dwana Smallwood Performing Arts Center [...]
Student Musicians Explore the Recording Process
This process transcends rehearsing and recording to the level of distributing music on a broad scale. These musicians can [...]
Indianapolis’ Black music scene comes to life at NCAA men’s basketball tournament
The melody danced through the floorboards, swirling all across the moody Indianapolis apartment unit. It was a Wednesday afternoon, [...]
COVID-19 vaccine was available to anyone 18 and older at jazz event in Orlando, commissioner says
ORLANDO, Fla. – While people were seen enjoying live music at Bill Fredrick Park at Lake Thorton on Saturday, [...]
Well-known jazz guitarist Wayne Wilkinson kept the music alive all year, now live on YouTube
There’s always a special smile on the face of famed jazz guitarist Wayne Wilkinson, a peaceful joy when he [...]
Music Moves Presents the Fayetteville Jazz Festival
Music Moves presents the third annual Fayetteville Jazz Festival on April 23, 24 and 25. The University of Arkansas [...]
Philadelphia Women in Jazz: Continuing a Legacy of Inspiration and Mentorship
Jazz has featured women contributors from its inception. Yet beyond vocalists, female composers and instrumentalists are disturbingly underrepresented across [...]
Queen City Jazz Band set to perform in Colby
Back to Western Plains Arts Association is Queen City Jazz Band. The traditional jazz band was founded in Denver [...]
