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Festival

Kevin Eubanks Band, Walter Trout, Bela Fleck & The Marcus Roberts Trio and more Headline 2nd RiverJazz Presented By Concannon Miller

Source: Mark Demko
February 8, 2012

Walter Trout & the Radicals, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Béla Fleck and the Marcus Roberts Trio, and former Tonight Show band leader Kevin Eubanks and his band headline the second-annual RiverJazz presented by Concannon Miller, May 10-25 at the SteelStacks arts and cultural campus in Bethlehem. Tickets for these concerts, which will take place at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks' Musikfest Café presented by Yuengling, 101 Founders Way, will go on sale starting Tues., Feb. 14, 10 a.m., to ArtsQuest ...

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Recording

Trumpeter Tatum Greenblatt To Release Third Recording "Imprints" Available March 13, 2012

Source: Jennifer Kramer
February 8, 2012

BI-COASTAL CD RELEASE CONCERTS IN MARCH 2012: NEW YORK CITY'S DIZZY'S CLUB COCA-COLA MARCH 12 & SEATTLE'S TULA'S JAZZ CLUB MARCH 29 Tatum Greenblatt offers his third recording as a leader, Imprints, which will be released for digital and hard copy sales beginning March 13, 2012. Imprints is a follow-up to his two previous recordings; Break of Day (2008) was recorded with The Here and Now Quintet for Origin Records OA2 label, and Mance's Dance (2006) recorded with Tatum's quintet ...

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Performance / Tour

The Mossa Bildner Ensemble Performs New Work: T. S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" on February 29th

Source: Evangeline Kim
February 8, 2012

Cornelia Street Cafe, February 29, 6:00pm Musical Meditations on Time, Eternity, Temporality New York, NY: Brazilian American composer and vocalist, Mossa Bildner has developed a new improvisational work in 10 excerpt-parts inspired by T. S. Eliot's masterpiece set of four poems, the “Four Quartets." In concert with musicians, bassist Ken Filiano, together with Charlie Rauh, guitar, Mercedes Figueras, sax, and Christine Bard on drums, she will perform the piece Wednesday evening, February 29th, at 6 pm, $10.00 cover. Ms. Bildner ...

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Interview

Saxphone Colossus Sonny Rollins Interviewed at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
February 7, 2012

Making two trips to the White House within a calendar year, to receive two of the nation's most prestigious awards bestowed upon artists, is more than fairly momentous. Those are significant feathers in the ol' cap—surely reasons to crow or, at the very least, feel pretty satisfied about oneself. So it had to be a hell of a year for Sonny Rollins—had to be. But, with the ever level-headed, realistic and humble Rollins, one wouldn't really notice it. He doesn't ...

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Recording

Jim Hobbs Launches Aych on Relative Pitch Records

Source: Chris Rich
February 7, 2012

Relative Pitch Records couldn't be a prouder papa at the birth of its brand new release, As the Crow Flies from Aych, a trio dedicated to the potential for 'porch music' and the role of the letter 'H' in a surname. Thus we have a subtle, wry and sly convergence of guitarist Mary Halvorson and cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum with the irrepressible alto saxophonist Jim Hobbs for deepest delvings into the potentials of porch music the world has yet seen. ...

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Performance / Tour

Bay Area Jazz Vocalist Lisa Lindsley to Make NY Debut March 28, with Pianist George Mesterhazy

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
February 7, 2012

Lisa Lindsley's 2011 debut recording, Everytime We Say Goodbye, introduced jazz audiences to, as critic Ken Franckling described her, “a Bay Area singer we need to keep an eye on—and ears wide open for years to come." Lindsley is now preparing to make her New York debut—at the Metropolitan Room on Wednesday, March 28—and has put together a new show, “I've Got a Lot of Livin' to Do," which also features her frequent musical colleague George Mesterhazy. Mesterhazy, a premier ...

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Recording

Whalum to Romance the Web

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
February 6, 2012

Grammy winning saxophonist will launch his new Romance Language album by streaming a live concert on Valentines Day Portland, OR: Instead of dealing with crowded, overpriced restaurants on Valentines Day, stay home, light a few candles and let Grammy winning saxophonist Kirk Whalum set the mood for romance with a live two-hour concert streaming at 11:30 PM ET/8:30 PM PT in conjunction with the release of his 29th album, Romance Language. In partnership with Portland Prime, Hilton Portland & Executive ...

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Festival

Java Jazz Festival 2012: Where Jazz Finds a Home

Source: Widyasena Sumadio
February 7, 2012

Born and bred in the US, jazz has expanded its wings all over the world. Nonetheless, the notion that a city in Southeast Asia, located thousands of miles from the birthland of jazz, would develop to become a venue for one of the world's largest and finest jazz festivals, seemed inconceivable. Since 2005, Jakarta has become the host of a jazz festival featurinng more than 1,000 musicians and attended by more than 100,000 visitors in a three-day span. Jakarta International ...

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