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Though veteran guitarist m: Thom Douvan currently splits his time between the Bay Area and Los Angeles, his heart is still deeply imbedded in the Motor City, where he gained invaluable bandstand experience during the a€~80s with a group of former Motown session men collectively known as The Funk Brothers. Those funk and soul-jazz roots run deep with the Ann Arbor native and come to the surface...
a€oeHaslanger is now a major talent, both as a composer and instrumentalist, whose future has almost unlimited potential and should be regarded in national terms.a€ - Michael Point, DownBeatCherrywood Records is proud to announce the release of "LIVE at the Gallery" (May 6, 2014 release) the latest recording from critically acclaimed jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger m: Elias...
LCO premieres new arrangements of McBride and Rosenwinkela€(TM)s works Rose Theater, May 23 and 24, 8pm New York, NY a€' On May 23a€'24, Jazz at Lincoln Center presents its second JLCO Hosts concerts featuring a collaborating between the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with m: Wynton Marsalis and two of contemporary jazza€(TM)s finest artists. Music director Wynton...
Ancient-Future.Com Records Presents: Yearning for the Wind By Ancient Future Yearning for the Wind is the first brand new m: Ancient Future studio recording released to the general public since 2002's Planet Passion. i It isn't that Ancient Future hasn't been active. Indeed, Ancient Future has recorded over three hours of music in this period, much of it live. But rather than release it all in a market...
Herbie Hancock a€' pianist, composer and maker of musical revolutions a€' is coming to San Francisco this week (May 16-18) for a series of sold-out shows at SFJazz. With his visit in mind, wheels began to turn: Why not create a list of the dozen greatest living jazz musicians? Hancock would be on it; that was a no-brainer. But who else would make the cut......
Widget? What's a widget? On the internet, it's instant content for your website or blog. All About Jazz offers both a jazz news widget and a jazz news RSS feed so web publishers can place up-to-the-minute jazz headlines on their website or blog. To add the widget, simply copy and paste this codea€'the process is as simple as embedding a YouTube video or a Soundcloud player. And the jazz news...
All About Jazz is celebrating Mark Sherman's birthday today! After nearly 30 years of recording, composing, and performing with countless orchestras, jazz artists, and vocal artists, vibraphonist /composer Mark Sherman a Yamaha performing artist and a Vic Firth artist, has a beautiful quintet featuring Joe Magnarelli on trumpet, Allen Farnham on piano, Dean Johnson on bass, and Tim Horner on drums....
2014 has seen the launch of a variety of crowdfunding platforms around the world suitable for music projects. The following three, Payola.fm, Crowdtivate and Crowdtilt Open, represent very different approaches including pledge-based music-specific crowdfunding, crowdfunding as a form of startup acceleration and a hosted DIY platform with open source self-hosting options......
The classical PRISM Quartet commissions six of today's most inventive jazz saxophonists to compose sax quintets and sextets and perform them with PRISM Heritage/Evolution 1: m: PRISM Quartet with m: STEVE LEHMAN and m: RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA Friday, April 11 at World Cafe Live, Philadelphia Saturday, April 12 at Symphony Space, NYC......
Performance by Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis on June 11 Features Compositions by Those Memorialized at Woodlawn and Commemorates the Cemeterya€(TM)s 150th Anniversary and Historic Ties to Jazz Greats Bronx, NY: On June 11 at 7:00pm, The Woodlawn Cemetery will partner with Jazz at Lincoln Center to present a free concert, featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra...
Before the Swing Era, when jazz was shaped by jny Kansas City's big-band dance beats, jny: Chicago's frantic small-group sound was hot. Among the Chicago greats was guitarist m: Eddie Condon , king of the rhythm-keepers. In 1964, ABC in New York broadcast a Carnegie Hall tribute to Condon featuring the cream of the Chicago gang......
A jazz-busy weekend followed by even more through the coming week. A The final three performances of Song of the Jasmine (Ragamala Dance and Rudresh Mahanthappa), the season finale of Jazz @ St. Barneys, a triple vocal treat at Hopkins Center for the Arts, some of the best avant-garde at Studio Z and the Icehouse, a rare visit by one of the living legends of vocal jazz, the return of one of our hottest...
Vocalist/Composer m: Kavita Shah is set to perform at Joe's Pub in New York on Tuesday, May 27 at 7:30PM in celebration of her debut album, Visions. The performance will feature renowned Benin-born guitarist m: Lionel Loueke , who co-produced the album, as well as special guest saxophonist m: Greg Osby . In addition, Shah will be joined by guitarist Michael Valeanu, pianist m: Guy Mintus , bassist...
All About Jazz is celebrating Jackie McLean's birthday today! John Lenwood (Jackie) McLean was an alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator, born in New York City. His father, John Sr., who died in 1939, played guitar in Tiny Bradshaw\'s orchestra. After his father\'s death, his musical education was continued by his godfather, by his stepfather, who owned a record store, and by several noted...
All About Jazz is celebrating Esbjorn Svensson's birthday today! e.s.t. is a phenomenon: A jazz trio, which sees itself as a pop band that plays jazz, which broke with the tradition of leader and sidemen in favor of equality within its members, which not only plays jazz- venues but also venues usually reserved for rock bands, which uses light effects and fog-machines in their live shows, which gets...
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the "Pete Robbins - Pyramid" giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on June 16th. Click here to enter the contest (Tracking Pete Robbins at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Pete Robbins on Pyramid......
The new jazz generation converges with its Afro-American roots this year at the Souillac Jazz Festival (Lot 46), to be held from 15 to 21 July 2013. SIX EVENING CONCERTS The Trio da€(TM)en bas will stage an entertaining and unusual spectacle in the Grottes de Lacave (16 July) The drummer Daniel Humair will lead his a€oeSweet and Soura€ Quartet (double-bassist JA(C)rA me Regard,...
"Fred Ho's style is a genre unto itself, a pioneering fusion of free-jazz and traditional Chinese music that manages to combine truculence and delicacy with such natural ease that it sounds positively organic." —Larry Birnbaum, Down Beat. After 8 years of a grueling cancer war, Fred Ho peacefully passed away the morning of April 12th, 2014. He was in his Greenpoint, Brooklyn home, surrounded...
Music blossomed in Newark when the Brick City Jazz Orchestra made its premiere under blue skies. With the opening notes of Kenny Dorhama€(TM)s a€oeBlue Bossa,a€ NJPACa€(TM)s Brick City Jazz Orchestra heralded its official debut in Newarka€(TM)s Branch Brook Park. The sun was hot, but the student musicians were the epitome of cool......