Contemporary jazz saxophonist Matt Willard discovers a tropical sound in an unlikely locale: Nashville
His debut single, "Por la Orrilla del Mar," offers an enticing taste of what's to come.
NASHVILLE (6 May 2021): While Nashville is primarily known as a launch pad for country music careers, Music City also has a burgeoning jazz scene. Trekking south from his Virginia home, saxophonist Matt ...
(Published: May 06, 2021) [read more]
Composer and Pianist Cettina Donato Joins Forces with Actor Ninni Bruschetta on New Album I SICILIANI, Honoring Poet Antonio Caldarella
Cettina Donato, adept Italian pianist, conductor and composer has joined forces with renowned actor Antonio ‘Ninni' Bruschetta on I Siciliani, a brilliant new album due out May 14, 2021 on the AlfaMusic label. Their second collaboration together, this expansive musical portrait of Sicily ...
(Published: May 03, 2021) [read more]
New York Bassist ALMOG SHARVIT Releases Debut Album with Original Compositions GET UP OR CRY On Switzerland's Unit Records Label
Innovative composer and bassist Almog Sharvitannounces the release of his debut album as a leader, Get Up Or Cry, on May 28, 2021, via Unit Records. Together with his band members Adam O'Farrill (trumpet), Brandon Seabrook (guitar & banjo), Micha Gilad (piano, keys, synths) and Lukas König ...
(Published: April 27, 2021) [read more]
Aleks Izotov's new EP is lush, intimate
Aleks Izotov is an artist and composer with a focus on creating lush and beautiful piano compositions. His most recent release is titled Solo Piano. As the title of this new studio work might suggest, this EP actually focuses on intimate, minimalistic songs that are based on Aleks's piano ...
(Published: April 24, 2021) [read more]
David McLorren and Audley Reid collaborate on diverse, striking single
David McLorren and Audley Reid are two accomplished recording artists and performers who joined forces to match each other's creativity and focus. Their music sets the bar higher with a combination of different sounds and ideas. The pair's most recent studio release, "Into Da Night," is ...
(Published: April 24, 2021) [read more]
Domino Ensemble's new EP is creative, well produced
Domino Ensemble is a band with a focus on creating new music that values free-form aesthetics and creative thinking.
In fact, a lot of the band's material is based on pure improvisation. The Ensemble's work is all about each individual musician, but rather the sum of its part. What I ...
(Published: April 21, 2021) [read more]
Creativity, Community and Connection
May Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam
Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam will stream live on Sunday, May 9 at 3pm from Upper Manhattan.
New York City, April 19, 2021 - Jazz Power Initiative (JPI) continues its 2021 season of INTERGENERATIONAL JAZZ POWER JAM on Sunday, May 9, 2021 at 3 PM EST on Facebook Live and YouTube. In ...
(Published: April 19, 2021) [read more]
International Ensemble Focusyear Band 21 From Basel Presents Multi-faceted Album 'Bosque' - Out on Neuklang Records 4/29
The Focusyear Band 21 is an international group of students with an exciting new project. These musicians include: Vocalist Tatjana Nova (from Dresden by way of Moscow); saxophonists Joshua Schofield (England) and Gianni Gagliardi (Spain); trumpeters/flugelhornists/valve trombonists Yakiv ...
(Published: April 17, 2021) [read more]
Monika Stadler and Harald Peterstorfer join forces for deep, personal album
Monika Stadler and Harald Peterstorfer have joined forces to release a fantastic new project, Diary from Within. As the title of this release might suggest, the music that you can expect to hear on this album is incredibly personal and forward-thinking. There are so many intimate moments, ...
(Published: April 15, 2021) [read more]
Renowned Italian Composer Rossano Baldini Releases HUMANBEING on RareNoise at the End of May
Under his own name, Rossano Baldini has enjoyed a career as a renowned composer for film and television; a jazz pianist and keyboardist, who has recorded with the likes of Gianluca Petrella, Michele Rabbia and Pierpaolo Ranieri; and a performer with the revered, Oscar-winning composer Nicola ...
(Published: April 14, 2021) [read more]
Three-Layer Cake (Brandon Seabrook, Mike Pride, Mike Watt) with 'Stove Top' on RareNoise - Out in Mid-May
The past year's lockdown has proved undeniably challenging to improvising musicians who typically thrive on face-to-face interaction. But bassist Mike Watt, drummer/percussionist Mike Pride, and guitarist/banjoist Brandon Seabrook have all built their careers on kicking down the barriers ...
(Published: April 14, 2021) [read more]
Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam : A World Of Change
Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam will stream live on Sunday, April 11th at 3pm from Upper Manhattan.
New York City, April 5, 2021 - Jazz Power Initiative (JPI) continues its 2021 season of INTERGENERATIONAL JAZZ POWER JAM on Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 3 PM EST on Facebook Live and YouTube. In ...
(Published: April 06, 2021) [read more]
With Rat Pack Swagger and Elvis Era Instrumentation, Singer Paul Loren Delivers Modern Music with a Retro Vibe; A youthful old-school entertainer with a twinkle in his eye; Timely "Betwixt' Album out this Fall
For Immediate Release
April 5, 2021
With Rat Pack Swagger and Elvis Era Instrumentation, Singer Paul Loren Delivers Modern Music with a Retro Vibe
A collection of songs Dick Clark or Johnny Carson might've loved, yet crafted in and about the complicated times we find ourselves ...
(Published: April 05, 2021) [read more]
Virtual Film Screening: Digging For Weldon Irvine April 8-9, 2021 on BLKDOCS.com. by Larry Reni Thomas
The year was 1969, and although the Civil Rights Movement was at its tail end, its most profound anthem, Nina Simone's electrifying "Young, Gifted and Black," would light up the airwaves, and the hearts and minds of a Black populace anxious for greater change and uplift. The prolific musician ...
(Published: March 31, 2021) [read more]
Columbia University's Center for Jazz Studies
in conjunction with The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, Presents THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG INTERNATIONAL CONTINUUM
Columbia University's Center for Jazz Studies in conjunction with The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, Presents THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG INTERNATIONAL CONTINUUM, A Free Virtual Symposium and Concert Highlighting Art in a Time of Emergency Thursday, April 8, 6:00 pm - 10:30 pm ET and Friday, ...
(Published: March 30, 2021) [read more]
Musicians Wolfgang Muthspiel and Christian Muthspiel Celebrate Their Father's Life with Video Premiere Super8Music - A Musical Legacy, Remembered...
SUPER8MUSIC
PREMIERE ON MARCH 18, 2021
https://youtu.be/YOaZKWK-BN8
"Twenty years ago, on March 18, 2001, our father Kurt Muthspiel passed away. We remember with great joy a man who instilled in his four children a passion for music," explains Wolfgang Muthspiel, accomplished Austrian ...
(Published: March 18, 2021) [read more]
Save the Date: DC Jazz Festival Announces 2021 DC JazzFest - September 1-5, 2021
The DC Jazz Festival (DCJF) today announces the official dates for this year's edition of the DC JazzFest as September 1-5, 2021. Due to the ongoing pandemic, DCJF will postpone this year's festival to September as a celebration of all things jazz in DC, with a tentpole weekend at the ...
(Published: March 16, 2021) [read more]
Logan Richardson Releases 'AfroFuturism' Today with Whirlwind
'AfroFuturism', the fifth album by alto saxophonist, producer, and composer Logan Richardson, is out today in physical form thanks to Whirlwind Recordings.
Richardson's career has been marked by his deep engagement with the Black American improvised music tradition as much as by his ...
(Published: March 12, 2021) [read more]
Chicago's Paul Bedal Releases Third Album 'Cerulean Stars'
On 'Cerulean Stars', classical leanings and jazz formalism intersect with the post-freedom aesthetic of Chicago's storied avant-garde. Pianist Paul Bedal and company - alto saxophonist Nick Mazzarella, bassist Matt Ulery and drummer Charles Rumback - have seamlessly blended their ...
(Published: March 12, 2021) [read more]
New Charlie Rauh EP is beautiful, mesmerizing
Charlie Rauh is back with a fantastic new release: The Silent Current From Within. Besides this poetic and highly evocative title, this EP is filled to the brim with fantastic performances, which highlight Charlie's passion for folk, jazz, and fusion, among other styles.
The release ...
(Published: March 11, 2021) [read more]
Joe Chambers interview on Sunday Night Jazz with host Larry Reni Thomas, WCOM-FM, March 14, 2021
Tune in to Sunday Night Jazz with host Larry Reni Thomas, on WCOM-FM, (https://wcomfm.org/) Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina, March 14, 2021, from 9:15 pm to 10 pm, for an interview with Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and educator Blue Note Records recording artist ...
(Published: March 11, 2021) [read more]
Recorded at Joe's Pub, JANA HERZEN:LIVE is out March 12 on Motéma, with full video version to follow and vinyl slated for summer - upcoming jazz/pop/world fusion concert album captures a pre-Covid moment in time
For Immediate Release
March 4, 2021
With joyful band interplay, the spark of a live audience and the quiet beauty of Jana Herzen's vocals and guitar, upcoming jazz/pop/world fusion concert album captures a pre-Covid moment in time
Recorded at Joe's Pub, JANA HERZEN:LIVE is ...
(Published: March 05, 2021) [read more]
SWING INTO SPRING: Celebrate the Experience of Improvisation featuring dancers Mickey Davidson, Shireen Dickson, Ximena Salgado and Max Pollak
Jazz Power Initiative (JPI) continues its 2021 season of INTERGENERATIONAL JAZZ POWER JAM on Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 3 PM EST on Facebook Live and YouTube, in collaboration with The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, with "Swinging Into Spring Dance Jam," showcasing the art of improvisation, and ...
(Published: March 03, 2021) [read more]
Todd Clouser's Magnet Animals (feat. Maoz, Blumenkranz, Servin) with 'Fake Dudes' out on RareNoise March 26
If ever a moment in history called for the caustic, corrosive rantings of guitarist-composer-poet Todd Clouser and the abstract grooves of his combustible beat-skronk band Magnet Animals, it's this one. With our collective headspaces dizzied by a nearly yearlong pandemic induced isolation and ...
(Published: March 03, 2021) [read more]
SAXOPHONE GREAT MICHAEL LINGTON FINDS THE SILVER LINING IN LOCKDOWN!
ASSEMBLES ARTIST FRIENDS FOR INNOVATIVE STAGEIT WEEKLY CONCERTS RESULTING IN UNIQUE NEW ALBUM ALONE TOGETHER SET FOR MARCH 26, 2021 RELEASE ON PEAK RECORDS/BFD/THE ORCHARD
Album of Duets Features Dave Koz, Boney James, Brian Culbertson, Kenny Lattimore, Chris Walker, Sy Smith, Nick Colionne, ...
(Published: February 26, 2021) [read more]
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318
