Hugh Hitchcock delivers explosion of funk and fusion on new album
Hugh Hitchcock is back with an exciting new release that feels like a real explosion of groove and funk.
His most recent studio effort is a fascinating project titled Funkatology. The songs on this record are pure, unadulterated fun with a fantastic twist and a groundbreaking feel. Hitchcock is ...
(Published: December 25, 2019) [read more]
Zamar Ensemble covers "Just As I Am" with extraordinary beauty
Zamar Ensemble is a music project with a focus on creating spontaneous and one-of-a-kind music. The group set out to explore a wide variety of genres, including jazz, fusion, and more, crossing over between different styles with seamlessness and ease.
"Just As I Am," originally by J-US Ministry, ...
(Published: December 22, 2019) [read more]
Larry Reni Thomas Top Ten Jazz 2019
Jazzmeia Horn-Love And Liberation-Concord
Poncho Sanchez-Trane's Delight-Concord Picante
Herring/Watson/Bartz-Bird @100-Smoke Sessions
Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah---Ancestral Recall-Ropeadope
Betty Carter---The Music Never Stops-Blue Engine
John Coltrane-Blue ...
(Published: December 19, 2019) [read more]
International Jazz Icon Igor Butman Announces 2020 Winter Tour of the United States
International Jazz Icon Igor Butman Announces 2020 Winter Tour of the United States
Featuring Evgeny Pobozhly, winner of the 2019 Herbie Hancock Guitar Competition
And Oleg Akkuratov, runner up of the 2018 Sarah Vaughn Vocal Competition
Appearances include New York, Baltimore, Miami, Chicago, ...
(Published: December 19, 2019) [read more]
Gina Kronstadt's therapeutic self-expression
The jazz singer-songwriter's adult pop album, "October Comes Too Soon," drops March 20.
LOS ANGELES (18 December 2019): Jazz singer-songwriter Gina Kronstadt was in a vulnerable head space. Saddled with the physical challenge of an eight-month recovery from multiple shoulder surgeries that ...
(Published: December 18, 2019) [read more]
Special EFX eager to get into some all-star "Hanky Panky" on Valentine's Day
The world jazz collective is set to drop the "All Stars" album on February 14 preceded by the radio single "Hanky Panky Boys."
NEW YORK CITY (17 December 2019): Mainstay of the GRAMMY® nominated collective that is Special EFX, guitarist Chieli Minucci has spent a lot of time on the road the ...
(Published: December 17, 2019) [read more]
Blooming beautifully: urban-jazz pianist Kayla Waters tops the Billboard singles chart for the third time with "Full Bloom"
WASHINGTON (16 December 2019): Urban-Jazz pianist Kayla Waters is blooming into a consistent hitmaker. The Washington, DC-based musician-songwriter-producer-arranger went No. 1 on the Billboard national airplay chart dated December 14 with "Full Bloom," which became the third chart-topping single ...
(Published: December 16, 2019) [read more]
Kathleen Murray Band at Blues @ The Elks
Blues @ The Elks happens on the second Tuesday of the month from 7 pm to 10 pm at the Plymouth Ann Arbor Elks Lodge #325 in partnership with the Detroit Blues Society (www.detroitbluessociety.org). There is a $5 donation at the door and bring your dancing shoes.
Tuesday, January 14th, ...
(Published: December 16, 2019) [read more]
V. Shayne Frederick's new EP is beautifully timeless
Evergreen is a beautiful new collection of songs with a Christmas flavor.
V. Shayne Frederick is an artist with a passion for vintage jazz sounds. His style is synonymous with elegance, taste and style, and this brand new EP is a good example of what I am talking about. The project is aptly ...
(Published: December 15, 2019) [read more]
Uptown Nights: Brianna Thomas and Fa-La-La-La Funk! - Harlem Stage
Brianna Thomas and her band Fa-La-La-La Funk! will bring the funk to classic holiday tunes we know and love with her blend of jazz, R&B, and gospel. The concert will be peppered with songs from Brianna's eagerly anticipated sophomore album Everybody Knows.
Joining her on this holiday ...
(Published: December 11, 2019) [read more]
Juana Luna delivers vibrant Latin jazz on "Ocean Avenue"
Juana Luna is a talented vocalist with a passion for vibrant Latin jazz. Her stunning vocal performances on Ocean Avenue are particularly distinctive because she embraces rhythm and melody in her singing, almost enhancing the band's rhythmic patterns as opposed to only singing on top of the ...
(Published: December 05, 2019) [read more]
UPTOWN NIGHTS AND CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE: THE BAYLOR PROJECT AT HARLEM STAGE
Public support for this concert is provided by New York City Council Member Keith Powers
Lead support for Carnegie Hall Citywide is provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation
Additional support is provided by the A. L. and Jennie L. Lucia Foundation
When The Baylor Project performs, ...
(Published: December 05, 2019) [read more]
Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, 47th Christmas Concert
The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, led by founder and music director Mark Harvey, will present the band's 47th Annual Christmas Concert on December 14, 2019 at 7:30 pm, at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02116. Tickets are $20 at the door. For information: 617-776-8778.
The concert ...
(Published: December 03, 2019) [read more]
Celebrate Christmas with King of Salsa WILLIE COLON & Orchestra @ Lehman Center, 12/14
Lehman Center for the Performing Arts and GOYA FOODS is proud to presents the return to "La Casa De La Salsa" the Legendary Son of the Bronx, WILLIE COLÓN and his ORCHESTRA for a special concert full of Christmas songs to celebrate El Espiritu de La Navidad on Saturday, December 14th, 2019 at 8pm. ...
(Published: December 01, 2019) [read more]
Interview: Jorge Variego of Domino Ensemble
Q: What initially sparked your interest in music and how old were you?
A: Many, many years ago, when I was 11 or 12 years old, I wanted to play the saxophone because it was extremely shiny J but in the music school where I went there wasn't a saxophone teacher so I got stuck with the ...
(Published: November 28, 2019) [read more]
Chairman Bao takes jazz to next level on new EP
Chairman Bao takes jazz music to the next level; that is the first thing that will come into your mind once you start listening to his new EP wittingly entitled, Jazz Ambigrams.
This record consists of six individual tracks that are unique but seemingly are parts of a single entity all at the ...
(Published: November 25, 2019) [read more]
Acclaimed Jazz Pianist Michael Wolff Sets Exuberant ‘Bounce' for February 7th - Eminently Listenable, Joyful Album Follows Wolff's Miraculous Recovery from Aggressive Cancer
For Immediate Release
November 21, 2019
Acclaimed Jazz Pianist Michael Wolff Sets Exuberant ‘Bounce' for February 7th - Eminently Listenable, Joyful Album Follows Wolff's Miraculous Recovery from Aggressive Cancer
Acclaimed jazz pianist Michael Wolff has ...
(Published: November 22, 2019) [read more]
Book Review by Larry Reni Thomas: Jazz and Justice; Racism and the Political Economy of the Music.
Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music by Gerald Horne, an eminent scholar and a well-known, well-appreciated historian, is an excellent, easy-to-read, well-researched, highly-recommended book whose main theme, lesson and message is that gangsterism pays, especially if you ...
(Published: November 21, 2019) [read more]
Singer Neshama Carlebach Sets First Tour in Years, with Performances Confirmed Through May 2020; Tablet Magazine Interviews Carlebach and Rabbi Angela Buchdahl for Redemptive ‘Unorthodox' Segment
For Immediate Release
November 19, 2019
Singer Neshama Carlebach Sets First Tour in Years, with Performances Confirmed Through May 2020
Tablet Magazine Interviews Carlebach and Rabbi Angela Buchdahl for Redemptive ‘Unorthodox' Segment
"Neshama...believes in hope, love and the ...
(Published: November 20, 2019) [read more]
GRAMMY® NOMINATED RECORDING ARTIST RAUL MIDÓN RECEIVES FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC'S DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD DURING HOMECOMING WEEK PERFORMANCE NOVEMBER 7, 2019
(Coral Gables, FL) Dean Shelly Berg surprised alumni Raul Midón at his Frost Music Live performance Thursday, November 7, 2019 with the schools most prestigious honor, the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award. Midon, (B.M. '90), returned to perform in celebration of University of Miami's ...
(Published: November 19, 2019) [read more]
Laion Roberto explores wildly different guitar styles on new release
Laion Roberto's music is all about capturing the true essence of composition, with a focus on creating instrumental rock-inspired songs with the guitar at the forefront of the music. The artist just released a killer new record titled A Taste for Mojo The album features five tracks, and the ...
(Published: November 15, 2019) [read more]
Guitarist Lawson Rollins returns with the familiar yet noticeably different "True North"
His tenth album drops January 17 preceded by the single, "Bluewave Bossanova."
SAN FRANCISCO (13 November 2019): Lawson Rollins' recordings have always possessed a grand sense of travel, exoticism and adventure, narrated by the global guitarist's prodigious and alacritous classical ...
(Published: November 14, 2019) [read more]
RareNoiseRecords Presents a New Release by SONAR with Avant-Guitarist Legend DAVID TORN, Tranceportation (Volume 1)
Swiss band Sonar announces Tranceportation (Volume 1), their fifth studio album and the second by them to feature American avant-guitarist legend, David Torn.
"Had MC Escher made music instead of drawing impossible and perplexing perspectives, it would sound like Sonar" is how writer Sid Smith ...
(Published: November 13, 2019) [read more]
Munyungo Jackson Release's New Debut CD Morning Sun
Los Angeles, CA September 20th 2019 - Los Angeles CA born and raised Munyungo Jackson has produced Morning Sun a transcending 15 tune set bound to be a favorite for all lovers of great music!
Born into a musical and creative surroundings his parents, Arthur Jackson Jr. & Genie Jackson, both ...
(Published: November 11, 2019) [read more]
NYC Readers Jazz Awards At Birdland Theater, November 24
VOTES ARE IN for the 6th New York City Readers Jazz Awards Presented by Hot House Magazine and Jazzmobile
at Birdland Jazz Club on November 24th, 2019 at 4PM
Celebrating 55 Years of Jazzmobile, 37 Years of Hot House
Mark Ruffin, Host of Real Jazz on Sirius XM will be honored and Cobi ...
(Published: November 09, 2019) [read more]
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