Kurn Hattin Homes Annual Jazz Invitational To Feature Dick Nash, Trombone Legend And KHH Alum
05 April, 2013
Kurn Hattin Homes for Children welcomes the public to attend its Annual Jazz Invitational Wednesday, April 10th at 7:00 pm, with performances by the Bellows Falls Union High School Jazz Ensemble , Kurn Hattin Jazz Ensemble, Northfield Mount Hermon Jazz Ensemble, Vermont Academy Jazz Ensemble, and Vermont ...
| World Music's Badi Assad Back In The U.S. With A Modern Vocal Brazilian/Flamenco Guitar Release With Lush Arrangements & English Versions
05 April, 2013
Badi Assad is one of the most innovative, passionate and talented artists of her generation and listed by Rolling Stone as a top guitarist from Brazil. She transcends traditional styles of her native Brazilian music with a mixture of pop, jazz and ethnic sounds from around the world. As a result, the ...
| MJ, Rush, Mingus And A-Ha Like You've Never Heard
04 April, 2013
No BS! Brass Band's original tunes are a "sternum-rattling...hot, irrepressible blast of brass and canyon-like grooves" (SPIN), but the group may be equally beloved for their joyous brass-and-drums arrangements of songs by Michael Jackson, Rush, and even Yes. Watch the band--co-founded by Bon Iver trombonist ...
| DC Jazz Festival And Events DC Add Showcase Event Featuring The Roots In Concert To 2013 Festival Lineup
03 April, 2013
The Roots, the legendary, Grammy Award-winning hip hop band, will celebrate their 25th anniversary with a special concert on Saturday, June 15th at Kastles Stadium at The Wharf. The showcase event - DC Jazz Festival and Events DC Present: The Roots in Concert - will be held during the 2013 DC Jazz Festival ...
| Smooth Jazz New York Announces Its 2013 Smooth Cruise Schedule
03 April, 2013
Smooth Jazz New York is pleased to announce a star-studded contemporary jazz line up for the 2013 Smooth Cruise Series, now in its 16th year aboard The Spirit of New York cruise ship.
This summer's roster includes 10 shows featuring 16 of the world's greatest contemporary jazz acts in an intimate ...
| NJPAC's James Moody Jazz Fest details, new season & more
03 April, 2013
Jazz is at the heart of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center's 2013-2014 season. NJPAC announced today that renowned bassist, bandleader and composer Christian McBride has joined the Arts Center as its new Jazz Advisor. With his oversight, the new season features the second annual TD James Moody Democracy ...
| April Showers Bring "Summer Rain"
03 April, 2013
Spring has just sprung yet "Summer Rain" has arrived. The soulful urban-jazz album written and produced by saxwoman Jeanette Harris was released today by J&M Records and is winning new fans through growing radio airplay, including Sirius XM Satellite Radio, and enthusiastic reviews. With a fast-filling ...
| PJ Parker's Original Song 'Dreams Are Meant For Two' In Joe Basile's 'West End'
02 April, 2013
Jazz vocalist PJ Parker's original song, "Dreams Are Meant For Two," with music written by her late father, Jazz pianist Thomas E. Parker, will make its motion picture debut in Joe Basile's "West End," screening at the Garden State Film Festival on Saturday, April 6, 2013.
The screening takes ...
| "Melba!," A Tribute To Melba Liston By Saxophonist/Composer Geof Bradfield, To Be Released On April 16, 2013
02 April, 2013
Saxophonist/composer Geof Bradfield's new CD "Melba!," which Origin Records will release on April 16, has been a long time coming. Bradfield's suite for jazz septet, a tribute to the great yet underheralded arranger/trombonist Melba Liston (1926-1999), received its premiere performances last summer ...
| International Jazz Vocalist & Bassist Kristin Korb Releases New LP "What's Your Story?" And Announces Tour Dates
29 March, 2013
"WHAT'S YOUR STORY?," the sixth album from internationally recognized jazz artist KRISTIN KORB answers that very question with 12 timeless tunes that celebrate her story as a jazz vocalist and bassist. "What's Your Story?" will be released on Korb's own label, Double K Music, in the U.S. and Europe ...
| Reality Check - The Greg Hopkins Quintet + One
29 March, 2013
Reality Check on Un-Gyve Records features ten original tracks by superlative composer, arranger, and trumpeter Greg Hopkins plus a new take on the Rodgers and Hart "Spring is Here". Hear the humility and generosity of these master musicians performing these brilliant compositions, a musical dialogue ...
| "Piano Bar After Hours," 4th CD By Boston Jazz Vocalist Jan Shapiro, To Be Released April 9, 2013
26 March, 2013
Jazz vocalist and longtime Berklee College vocal professor Jan Shapiro chose to focus on the challenging - and revealing - duo format for "Piano Bar After Hours," her fourth CD and her first since 2007's "Back to Basics." Shapiro tapped six of her favorite pianists, with whom she'd worked in various ...
| "Feels Like Home" Thanks To Saxman MacArthur's Friends
26 March, 2013
"When are you going to let me make a record with you?" For years, Grammy-nominated bassist Brian Bromberg posed this question to saxophonist Mike MacArthur. Finally the saxman acquiesced. He grabbed his tenor horn, hopped a jet and camped out in Bromberg's Los Angeles-area home studio until the record ...
| Berklee Student Yakir Arbib, Blind Piano Prodigy Who "Sees" Tones As Distinct Colors, Teams With Visual Artist For Multimedia Concert At Kennedy Center
25 March, 2013
Berklee Student Yakir Arbib, Blind Piano Prodigy Who "Sees" Tones As Distinct Colors, Teams With Visual Artist For Multimedia Concert At Kennedy Center
- Berklee College of Music presents Israeli pianist and composer Yakir Arbib, premiering his new piece, Waves of Visions, at the John F. Kennedy ...
| John Beasley To Direct International Jazz Day
25 March, 2013
Jazz artist and Music Director for The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (TMIJ), John Beasley, will head to Istanbul to direct a global all-star list of 35 musicians at a gala concert to mark International Jazz Day including the likes of Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Al Jarreau, Robert Glasper and ...
| Singer Lindsay Mendez And Pianist/band Leader Marco Paguia Are First To Perform In Lincoln Center's "American Songbook In The Penthouse" Series; Vocal Jazz CD Set For Spring
25 March, 2013
Singer Lindsay Mendez and pianist/band leader Marco Paguia are first to perform in Lincoln Center's "American Songbook in the Penthouse" series, March 29th
Evening to Include Songs From their Upcoming Debut Album, Set For Spring
Singer Lindsay Mendez and pianist/band leader Marco Paguia ...
| Skope Reviews Henrietta Defreitas "I Wanna Know"
25 March, 2013
Henrietta Defreitas is a London-based performer with a love for 80s music and a résumé beginning in the late-90s, when she was backing singer for the jazz-funk outfit Khush.
Since that group's split, she has focused more on composition. Now comes the single, "I Wanna Know," which fuses the jazz ...
| Legendary Drummer Mike Clark Grooves With Hammond B3 Organist "CT" Thompson
25 March, 2013
Legendary drummer Mike Clark is cooken' up a musical storm these days. The Wolff & Clark Expedition on Random Act Records is @#15 on the Jazzweek jazz charts. Clark is the music producer and drummer on Tony Adamo's MILES OF BLU CD. Adamo is a new vocal/hipspoken word artist on Random Act Records. Adamo's ...
| Autumn Hill Jazz Fest Features Eric Marienthal
22 March, 2013
March 14, 2013 - Multi Grammy award-winning saxophonist Eric Marienthal teams up with St. Louis' Bach to the Future (BTTF) to headline a celebratory series of concerts during the first "Autumn Hill Jazz Festival."
The exciting mix of contemporary jazz and classical-jazz fusion highlights Marienthal's ...
| No BS! Brass Band Confirms Two New Albums Out This Summer Following Collaborations With Bon Iver, Megafaun, Feist, And Sharon Van Etten
22 March, 2013
The members of Richmond's No BS! Brass Band have performed with some of the biggest names in indie music-from Bon Iver and Megafaun to Feist and Sharon Van Etten-along with jazz, R&B, and reggae greats like Gladys Knight, Ozomatli, and the Wailers. But something magical happens when the 11 players step ...
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