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 night will showcase Columbia’s best in jazz with artists who have struggled through the pandemic. Four diverse bands will take to the stage at The Senate on Saturday, May 1. [...]
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, pre-recorded shows every Friday from March 26-May 14, 2021. Co-sponsored by The Boston Beer Company and Davos Brands. All shows are recorded from the South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) [...]
NEW YORK, After enduring a mandatory year-long studio closure due to the pandemic, the Dwana Smallwood Performing Arts Center (DSPAC) will reopen its doors on April 5, 2021 in preparation for its highly-anticipated Heart of Brooklyn Spring Dance Series. The Series spans from April 5 to June 26 and offers a hybrid schedule of in-person [...]
ALLSTON, Mass., Concert Pianist Matthew Xiong announced he was currently teaching musicians of all levels, and specializes in the skill of helping pupils work through performance anxiety issues. Matthew began learning the piano at age five and went on to an internationally celebrated career after his debut performance at the North Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the [...]
Michael Canaan (Image courtesy of Turning Point Media Relations) EP to bow March 29 Composer, keyboardist and former Christian radio broadcaster Michael Canaan is set to release his solo debut, “Caught Up In The Clouds,” on March 29. A trailblazer in the smooth Christian jazz genre, Canaan’s seven-song EP is hallmarked by easy-listening grooves and peaceful melodies [...]
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 its experience over the past week reveals just how challenging the situation continues to be, even with a vaccine rollout underway and new indoor capacity guidelines in effect for New [...]
There is something beautiful about artists whose insight into the human condition allows them to create works that meet our collective moment at a time we most need their inspiration. Marking a dynamic transition and stylistic expansion from her years mastering the Great American Songbook as a popular jazz singer in the 90s and 2000s, [...]
(Greenville, TX) - An American Prayer, renowned Doors Legacy group, perform live in concert at Texan Theater, 2712 Lee St., Friday, March 26. Showtime: 7:00pm. Tickets are $99. Info: (903) 259-6360 or visit https://texantheatergreenville.com. An American Prayer...Some Background An American Prayer are Rick Lisak, vocals; Kevin Branagan, guitar; Andrew Stump, bass; and Grant Niebergall, drums. [...]
“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 doing and he was doing it right.” “We were playing the Boogie Woogie, which is the mother and father of Rock - you know with that heavy beat - and [...]
A fascinating solo album from the Swiss pianist and composer, Entendre offers deeper insight into pianist Nik Bärtsch’s musical thinking, illuminating aspects of his playing and the nature of his modular pieces. As its titles implies the new album, recorded at Lugano’s Auditorio Stelio Molo studio, considers listening as a dynamic process. In these solo [...]