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Echoes Of Tradition: New Documentary By Award-winning Director Ben Makinen Honors Native American And LGBTQ+ Contributions To Jazz – Watch Free On Patreon
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Ben Makinen
ECHOES OF TRADITION A Film by Ben Makinen “Echoes is beautifully shot and edited with a relaxed feel that flows like water.” —Bruce Boyd Raeburn, former Curator, Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University “Ben Makinen’s latest documentary is a comprehensive and absorbing work that breaks tradition by highlighting exceptional and groundbreaking musicians while calling for change.” —The Sleepless Critic “All the credit's gone to the Africans for the wonderful rhythm in jazz, but I think a lot of it should go ...
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Israeli Native Pianist Nuphar Fey, Introducing Her Debut Album "Serenity Island." Available Now On Hypnote Records.
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Nina Feri
In the past three years, Israeli born musician Nuphar Fey has been raising interest in the international jazz scene with her cristal- like piano touch, wide range of dynamics and a rich palette of colors. Her compositions are characterized by strong lyrical themes, richness of sound, and contemplative solo piano sections. Bringing a strong female presence to the current scene she is free spirited and abundant, radiating charisma and ease with which she draws the listener in with both elegance ...
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Katerina Brown Places Songs Of Her Native Russia Alongside Pieces From The Jazz Repertoire On Her Debut, "Mirror," Due Oct. 18
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Vocalist Katerina Brown explores her recently minted identity as a Russian immigrant to the United States with the October 18 release of Mirror, her remarkable debut album, on Mellowtone Music. Accompanied by a band of San Francisco Bay Area musicians that includes her husband, bassist Gary Brown (who also produced the album), pianist Adam Shulman, and drummers Akira Tana and Timothy Angulo along with a number of special guests, Brown offers interpretations of three classic Russian songs (first in her ...
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Guitarist Jeff Golub dies at 59; Copley Township native played with rock stars
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Michael Ricci
Guitarist Jeff Golub, a versatile contemporary jazz artist who also spent years as a sideman with rockers Billy Squier and Rod Stewart, died Thursday at 59, JazzTimes reported Monday. Though the exact cause of death has yet to be disclosed, Golub, a Copley Township native, had been suffering from a rare disease called progressive supranuclear palsy. It caused him to lose sight in both eyes in 2011 and caused physical problems that recently left him unable to perform. Golub began ...
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Paul Adams Album Sleep The Dreaming Flute Chosen Native Flute Album Of The Year By The Zone Music Reporter
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Asheville, NC: Paul Adams album SLEEP The Dreaming Flute was voted Native Flute album of the year at the Zone Music Awards show in New Orleans on May 11th. He has made a career building instruments for some very well known musicians, and composed 10 critically acclaimed albums as a guitarist, Flute Player, and Multi Instrumentalist. SLEEP was recorded for gentle spirited man dealing with Parkinson,s Disease, and sleepless nights. “I created slow dreamy songs using Native American Flutes and ...
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Jazz at Lincoln Center's Jazz Hall of Fame Opens Voting to Fans; St. Louis Native Clark Terry Eligible for Election This Year
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Jazz at Lincoln Center's Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame is asking jazz fans to help select its next set of inductees through online voting, and legendary trumpeter and St. Louis native Clark Terry (pictured) is one of this year's nominees. Started in 2004, the Hall currently has 34 members, including former St. Louisan Miles Davis. If elected, Terry, who's now 92, would be only the third musician (along with Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman) to be honored with induction ...
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Jazz Pianist and Philadelphia Native Kenny Barron Kicks Off the Annenberg Center's Jazz Series
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AAJ Staff
Philadelphia, PA: Nine-time Grammy-nominated hometown jazz legend Kenny Barron will kick off the 12/13 jazz series at the Annenberg Center. An inductee in the Jazz Hall of Fame, Barron’s piano skills have led him to be called “one of the top jazz pianists in the world” by the Los Angeles Times. Barron will be joined by Kiyoshi Kitagawa on bass and another Philadelphia native, Johnathan Blake, on drums. This performance will take place on Saturday, October 20, 2012 at 8 ...
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Stephanie Jordan, Germaine Bazzle, Betty Shirley featured in Jazz Journey concert with Virginia native Rene Marie
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Sylvain Music Notes
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation presents a Jazz Journey concert featuring the legendary song stylist Rene Marie, along with three of New Orleans' greatest female jazz singers: Germaine Bazzle, Stephanie Jordan and Betty Shirley. The concert takes place on Friday, Jan. 13, at Dillard University's Lawless Memorial Chapel in New Orleans, Louisiana. Admission is free. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the show starts promptly at 7:00 p.m. René Marie, the award winning singer and Virginia native whose ...
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Rockwired.com's Latest Edition Of Jazzed And Blue Presents: Native American Jazz Combo Red Hot & Red And Music From Curtis Stigers, The Dangling Success And Hulon
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Rockwired Media LLC
The latest edition of Jazzed and Blue: Profiles in Blues and Jazz is now available for download at Rockwired.com and features music and an exclusive interview with drummer Louie Speaking Eagle of the New Mexico-based jazz combo Red Hot and Red. In this opening segment, Speaking Eagle discusses working with pianist Steve Figueroa and bassist Rob “Milo" Jaramillo of Red Hot and Red, connecting with the audience and their plans to cut an official release on their terms. The second ...
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Down-Home Funk and Hard Bop on Native Soul's "Soul Step"
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
A soulful way is what the Native Soul quartet brings to the table. Their second release Soul Step (Talking Drum 2010) gives the listener a generous 70 minutes of originals and standards that cover a kind of updated approach to the funk (in the Horace Silver sense) and late hard bop current as part of the scene in the late '60s-early '70s. In there too is a little of the electricity of the earthy forms of fusion from that time ...
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