GRandJazzFest in Grand Rapids, Mich., announces 2014 lineup for free third annual festival
Trumpeter Rick Braun headlines 3rd annual GRandJazzFest presented by DTE Energy Foundation
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. - APRIL 30, 2014 - On International Jazz Day, GRandJazzFest presented by DTE Energy Foundation announced the performance lineup for the third annual festival being held Saturday, Aug. ...
(Published: May 07, 2014) [read more]
REVIEW: ART OF COOL FESTIVAL: FIRST-CLASS HIT! by LARRY RENI THOMAS
If good music, fun, family and smiles is your cup of tea, then the Art Of Cool Music Festival in downtown Durham, North Carolina, on April 25 and 26, 2014 (Friday and Saturday), was the place to be! To say that it made an hip, swinging presence in the city that tobacco built, would be a ...
(Published: May 06, 2014) [read more]
All That Jazz: Conservatory Is Nation’s First Independent Degree-Granting Institute Devoted to Jazz
Some early New Orleans jazz trumpeters performed with a handkerchief draped over their fingers, to prevent anyone from stealing their hottest licks. Other musicians more generously shared their hard-won knowledge, but for most of the music's history, aspiring jazz players picked up information ...
(Published: May 06, 2014) [read more]
International Songwriting Competition (ISC) Announces 2013 Jazz Winners
Trumpeter Shunzo Ohno Is Awarded Overall Grand Prize
May 6, 2014 - - The International Songwriting Competition (ISC), widely recognized as the most prestigious and respected songwriting competition in the world, has today announced its 2013 winners.
ISC's highest distinction, the ...
(Published: May 06, 2014) [read more]
Mosaic Records Issues a Spectacular 9-Disc Set of
Live Performances by the Peerless Louis Armstrong:
The Complete Columbia and RCA Victor Live Recordings
of Louis Armstrong and The All Stars - Available May 20
Mosaic Also Set to Release Armstrong's Complete '56 and '58 Newport Jazz Festival Performances with Four LP Set: Louis Armstrong & The All Stars: Newport 1956 &1958
There has never been a more globally beloved figure from the world of jazz than Louis "Pops/Satchmo" Armstrong. His ...
(Published: May 06, 2014) [read more]
Kimmel Jazz Residencies Bring New Works to New Audiences
After a short set in the Kimmel Center's SEI Innovation Studio last week, the members of the Fresh Cut Orchestra fielded questions from the audience. Perhaps inevitably for a group of young local musicians, the issue of the health of Philadelphia's jazz scene arose.
Trumpeter Josh ...
(Published: May 06, 2014) [read more]
Brian Culbertson and Kompoz.com collaborate on “Another Long Night Out” contest
Kompoz artists to borrow elements from the hitmaker's "Beautiful Liar" to create a brand new song
Miami, Florida (5 May 2014): Jazz is collaborative by definition and contemporary jazz chart-topper Brian Culbertson is opening the door for users of the Kompoz site to utilize original tracks ...
(Published: May 06, 2014) [read more]
The Jazz Hole to feature the music of Joe Sample
The music of pianist Joe Sample will be featured on The Jazz Hole on Jazz Moods Radio. The Jazz Hole is a two-hour show which takes listeners on a concert style journey where one artist is featured.
Hosted by DJ Big Kahuna, the show airs this Wednesday May 7th, from 8pm-10pm EST.
DJ Big ...
(Published: May 06, 2014) [read more]
Berklee Senior Clifton Williams Wins Apollo Theater Theme Song Contest
Boston, MA. May 1, 2014 - Berklee College of Music senior Clifton Williams was named winner of the Apollo Theater Amateur Night Song Competition last night after his composition, "A Legacy Fulfilled: Welcome to the Apollo," was performed in front of a live audience at the famed Harlem venue. ...
(Published: May 06, 2014) [read more]
Usdan 5/18 Final Open House for 2014; Full Jazz Program
(PHOTO: Jazz star and Usdan alumna Jane Monheit performing at Usdan Center). Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts (www.usdan.com), the nationally acclaimed summer arts day camp, features a full jazz program for all levels. In addition, distinguished artists come to perform and teach ...
(Published: May 06, 2014) [read more]
New York Jazz Academy Offers a 50% Discount on its Online Improvisation Program
NEW YORK, MAY 6, 2014: The New York Jazz Academy (NYJA), a pioneer music school, is offering a 50 percent discount on registration for one of its online jazz programs. This offer is on the occasion of the ‘International Jazz Day' which is observed on April 30, 2014. Students who enroll for ...
(Published: May 06, 2014) [read more]
Spirojazz unifies progressive jazz with disco and electronica on futuristic new release
Given that music is essentially instruments in motion, it is odd that there aren't many albums focused on travel.
For Spirojazz, the process of going forward exists on multiple levels on Space and Alienation. While the title suggests rocketing to otherworldly regions, Spirojazz digs deeper, ...
(Published: May 05, 2014) [read more]
New England Conservatory Prep Presents The NEC Youth Jazz Orchestra Conducted by Ken Schaphorst
Tuesday, May 20 in NEC's Jordan Hall
New England Conservatory Prep presents the NEC Youth Jazz Orchestra conducted by Ken Schaphorst in a concert featuring a wide selection of music by composers Randy Weston, Ken Schaphorst, Donny McCaslin, Thad Jones, Dizzy Gillespie and more, all performed ...
(Published: May 05, 2014) [read more]
New England Conservatory Presents
Jazz Vocalist and Pianist Vanessa Morris
In Concert on Friday, May 30 at NEC's Brown Hall
Join jazz vocalist and pianist and NEC faculty member Vanessa Morris as she performs a selection of original compositions, jazz standards, and spirituals from the African-American folklore tradition on Friday, May 30 at 8 p.m in NEC's ...
(Published: May 05, 2014) [read more]
Columbus Jazz Orchestra goes wild in ninth season of JazZoo!
Columbus, OH - This summer, the Jazz Arts Group will take jazz to a wilder place as the Columbus Jazz Orchestra takes center stage at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium for the ninth season of JazZoo!
The four-concert series returns to the Water's Edge Events Park at the Columbus Zoo providing a ...
(Published: May 05, 2014) [read more]
Laurie Pepper's Memoir, "ART: Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman," to Be Published May 16
Art Pepper told his sexy, sordid, and exciting true adventure stories to his lover, Laurie, who put them in a book. She quizzed him (and those who knew him) unrelentingly over seven years, editing and structuring a narrative to which she dedicated all her energy. Straight Life by Art and Laurie ...
(Published: May 05, 2014) [read more]
BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center Presents
Lost Jazz Shrines 2014: Mondays at Minton’s
BMCC Tribeca PAC's Lost Jazz Shrines series is dedicated to restoring the memory of legendary New York City jazz venues to the consciousness of the world with a thorough remembrance and celebration, led by Artistic Director Willard Jenkins. This year, join us on Saturday, May 10 at 7:30pm as we ...
(Published: May 05, 2014) [read more]
MoonJune To Release New Studio Album By Indonesian Guitar Master TOHPATI Featuring JIMMY HASLIP and CHAD WACKERMAN
NYC - With Tohpati's 3rd release (2nd as a trio) on MoonJune, recorded in Los Angeles in September 2013, we see the Beckian progressive metal riffing of 2012's Tohpati Bertiga 'Riot' supplanted by a pairing of compositional dexterity along with the unique guitar voice that is the ...
(Published: May 02, 2014) [read more]
MILES DAVIS MUSIC MARATHON ON SUNDAY NIGHT JAZZ WITH LARRY THOMAS ON WCOM-FM 5/18/14
Listen to The Miles Davis Music Marathon, on "Sunday Night Jazz with Larry Thomas," (9pm-12midnight) on WCOM-FM (www.wcomfm.org), Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina. The three-hour program will include interviews with his daughter, Cheryl Davis, his youngest son, Erin, and his nephew, VInce ...
(Published: May 02, 2014) [read more]
Steve Wilson to Record Long-Awaited Live Album at The Village Vanguard
Steve Wilson to Record Long-Awaited Live Album at The Village Vanguard
Upcoming May 20th-25th Concerts will Feature His Core Band ‘Wilsonian's Grain', with Orrin Evans, Ugonna Okegwo and Bill Stewart
On May 20 through 25, acclaimed jazz saxophonist Steve Wilson will ...
(Published: May 02, 2014) [read more]
Elio Villafranca & The Jass Syncopators - New Release - Motema
Elio Villafranca & The Jass Syncopators
All-Star Afro-Caribbean Band
CD Release Celebration
at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
June 13-15
Pianist Elio Villafranca is much-in-demand these days with a new CD release (Caribbean Tinge-Motema Music) some special dates at Jazz at Lincoln Center and a ...
(Published: May 02, 2014) [read more]
Jazz House Kids Annual Benefit Returns
With Contemporary Jazz Giants Al Jarreau & David Sanborn
Hosted by Christian McBride
Jazz House Kids Annual Benefit Returns With Contemporary Jazz Giants Al Jarreau & David Sanborn Hosted by Christian McBride
TD Bank will host Jazz House Kids' critically-acclaimed annual benefit, Inside the Jazz Note® on Wednesday, May 15, 2014 at the Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University, 7:30 pm.
GRAMMY Award-winning virtuoso of the bass Christian McBride returns to host the 2014 Annual Benefit ...
(Published: May 01, 2014) [read more]
Rising above the struggles, Butler is living his dream
Family, friends - including Marcus Miller and the late George Duke - and an "African Breeze" combine forces on "Living My Dream," coming June 24 from the R&B-jazz artist.
Sherman Oaks, Calif. (30 April 2014): It took a while for Jonathan Butler to feel comfortable saying it, but the South ...
(Published: April 30, 2014) [read more]
New England Conservatory Jazz Alumna Matana Roberts Receives Doris Duke
Impact Award
Program will give awards to 100 artists over the next five years
New England Conservatory jazz alumna Matana Roberts '03 M.M. is one of 20 individuals in the first class of Doris Duke Impact Awards, presented by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Roberts will receive an unrestricted cash ...
(Published: April 30, 2014) [read more]
"Margie Baker Sings with So Many Stars," 4th CD by Veteran San Francisco Vocalist, Due May 20
Margie Baker's storied career as a jazz and blues vocalist started late, when she was 39, but was long encouraged by her mentor Dizzy Gillespie and eventually took her to the world stage. Though the 80-year-old Baker came even later to recording, she's on a roll now, affiliated with ...
(Published: April 30, 2014) [read more]
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