Derrick Hodge Releases New Single "Heartbeats" From "Color Of Noize" Out June 26
22 June, 2020
Bassist, composer, and producer Derrick Hodge has released "Heartbeats," the stunningly beautiful 2nd song to be revealed from his forthcoming album Color of Noize, which will be released June 26. Color of Noize is the band, the concept, and the album, and the project reflects a melting pot of influence ...
| Ezra Collective Rework Wayne Shorter's "Footprints" For "Blue Note Re:Imagined"
20 June, 2020
London quintet Ezra Collective has released their new version of Wayne Shorter's classic composition "Footprints," which was originally recorded on the legendary saxophonist's 1966 Blue Note album Adam's Apple. The track is the second single to be revealed from Blue Note Re:imagined, a forthcoming collection ...
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Derrick Hodge Releases New Single "Heartbeats" From "Color Of Noize" Out June 26
20 June, 2020
Bassist, composer, and producer Derrick Hodge has released "Heartbeats," the stunningly beautiful 2nd song to be revealed from his forthcoming album Color of Noize, which will be released June 26. Color of Noize is the band, the concept, and the album, and the project reflects a melting pot of influence ...
| Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile Reunite Grammy Award-Winning Group For Not Our First Goat Rodeo Album Available Now
20 June, 2020
Sony Music Masterworks today releases Not Our First Goat Rodeo, the long-awaited follow-up album to the GRAMMY Award-winning The Goat Rodeo Sessions, with Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile. Making its debut alongside the new album is a live performance video for the song "The Trappings," ...
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Unheard Thelonious Monk Recording Of A Surprise 1968 High School Performance Finally Set For Release
20 June, 2020
In the fall of 1968, a sixteen-year old high school student named Danny Scher had a dream to invite legendary jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk and his all-star quartet to perform a concert at his local high school in Palo Alto, CA. In a series of twists and turns, against a backdrop of racial ...
| Jazz Intensive, Theatre Workshops Go Virtual This Summer At Oakland University
19 June, 2020
Oakland University's School of Music, Theatre and Dance is offering virtual summer workshops this year, including a Summer Virtual Jazz Intensive featuring violinist Regina Carter, jazz drummer Sean Dobbins and flutist Nancy Stagnitta from July 20-24.
The OU Summer Virtual Jazz Intensive will focus ...
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World Jazz Band Special EFX Emerges From Quarantine Ready To Shine
17 June, 2020
GRAMMY nominated world music-contemporary jazz band Special EFX was in Denver one month into their concert tour promoting their 21st album, "All Stars," when the coronavirus pandemic forced their return home to shelter in place. For band leader Chieli Minucci, home is the epicenter of COVID-19 in the ...
| Gregory Porter Addresses Racial Prejudice On Soulful New Single "Mister Holland"
16 June, 2020
Gregory Porter has released "Mister Holland," a soulful new song with a pointed underlying message about acceptance and racial prejudice from his forthcoming album ALL RISE, which will be released August 28 on Blue Note Records.
Porter's version of protest can be worldly or down-home, as on "Mister ...
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Pianist Michael Silverman Releases First Album With Jeff Lorber
16 June, 2020
While you may have never heard his name, you've almost certainly heard his music. Michael Silverman is one of the most streamed and downloaded instrumentalists in the world, with over six billion streams on Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon. His classical recordings can be heard in hundreds of televisions ...
| Brad Mehldau's "Suite: April 2020" Out Now
15 June, 2020
While sheltering at home with his family in the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic this spring, pianist and composer Brad Mehldau wrote twelve new songs about what he was experiencing; he was able to record them safely in an Amsterdam studio, together with interpretations of three tunes that mean ...
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Burt Bacharach And Daniel Tashian Team For Blue Umbrella - A Collaborative EP Of Original Songs Out July 31, 2020
12 June, 2020
Burt Bacharach and Daniel Tashian have announced their Blue Umbrella EP (July 31 / Big Yellow Dog Music), a set of fresh original songs co-written by the three-time Academy Award-winning music legend and the writer/producer behind modern classics like Kacey Musgraves' Golden Hour(which earned Tashian ...
| Deborah Silver Presents A Silver Spin On 'That Old Black Magic'
12 June, 2020
Billboard chart-topping Jazz artist Deborah Silver announces the release of her brand new single "That Old Black Magic" from her upcoming full-length release Glitter & Grits (NTL Records).
The dynamic Silver, who is newly recovered from a 40-day battle with Covid-19, is excited to share her new ...
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Brazilian Jazz Pianist Ricardo Bacelar Makes A "Live" Statement With "Nothing Will Be As It Was"
11 June, 2020
Brazil is leading the world per capita in coronavirus cases making it unlikely that people will be cramming into a concert venue anytime soon to hear live music. Then there is the recent unrest that erupted in response to civil injustices in the US that bodes to spark meaningful change around the world. ...
| Announcing Blue Note Re:Imagined; Lead Single Jorja Smith "Rose Rouge" Out Now
11 June, 2020
Announcing Blue Note Re:imagined, a brand new collection of classic Blue Note tracks, reworked and newly recorded by a selection of the UK scene's most exciting young talents today. Representing a bridge between the past and future, the project will feature contributions from a rollcall of internationally ...
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John McLaughlin And The 4th Dimension Release First New Recording In Five Years - To Benefit The Jazz Foundation Of America
11 June, 2020
The blues may be the only thing even more universal than the current global pandemic we are all operating through. With this in mind, pathbreaking guitarist and bandleader John McLaughlin has convened his longstanding band the 4th Dimension - Gary Husband (keyboards), Etienne M'Bappe (bass), and Ranjit ...
| Jazz Power ON Honors Charlie Parker At 100
11 June, 2020
Charlie Parker 100: Jazz Power ON, hosted by Eli Yamin, musician, educator and Managing Artistic Director of Jazz Power Initiative, celebrates the bebop genius of saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker.
This live streaming special event features solo performances and iconic stories from Knoel Scott ...
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Jazz Clarinetist Eddie Daniels Captures The Heart Of Another Brazilian Great
09 June, 2020
"It's jazz, it's beauty and it opens the heart." That is how six-time GRAMMY-nominated horn player Eddie Daniels describes his forthcoming album, "Night Kisses: A Tribute to Ivan Lins." Slated to drop July 31 on Resonance Records, the new collection is the second chapter in a trilogy devoted to iconic ...
| Cory Smythe - 'Accelerate Every Voice' Out This Friday
09 June, 2020
Pianist and composer Cory Smythe evokes cyborg choirs and coastal floods on Accelerate Every Voice, his second release for Pyroclastic Records and the follow-up to 2018 album Circulate Susanna. Bringing together five vocalists from the a cappella, new and improvised music scenes, AEV cradles Smythe's ...
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Daniel Hersog 'Night Devoid Of Stars' Out Friday, June 12
09 June, 2020
Vancouver-based jazz composer Daniel Hersog wrote much of the music for Night Devoid of Stars, his debut big-band album, early in the morning before teaching, with news on the TV in the background.
So, the darker strain of events these days - extreme political polarization, escalating climate disaster, ...
| Contemporary Jazz Duo Vibes Alive Hope "Windchime" Rings In Healing
05 June, 2020
It had been twelve years between albums for contemporary jazz group Vibes Alive when their "Vibrasonic" disc dropped in early March. Only their third album in the 23-year partnership between vibraphonist Dirk Richter and guitarist Randall Crissman, each recording is an event record. The buzz started ...
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