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Contest

Enter the "Okan Ersan - A Reborn Journey" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: Michael Ricci
July 1, 2011

Radio

The Gershwin Legacy This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
July 1, 2011

This week, frequent Riverwalk Jazz guest artist Dick Hyman—a brilliant pianist, composer and arranger of film scores, ballet and Broadway shows—joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to celebrate George Gershwin's works. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on- demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. The music of George Gershwin has “Made in the USA" stamped all over it. Coming of age in the 1920s and '30s in ...

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Recording

Soren Dahl Jeppesen's "Red Sky" (Dog Day Music) CD Release set for July 1

Source: Michael Ricci
July 1, 2011

"A somewhat underexposed talent on the Danish jazz scene is Soren Dahl Jeppesen. With Route One, Dahl Jeppesen has succeeded in making a blissful oasis of sound." —All About Jazz All About Jazz was among the first to compliment the 30-year old guitarist Soren Dahl Jeppesen's debut album Route One, when it was released in 2010. Since then, several Danish media followed suit. On July 1st 2011 the new album Red Sky is released. Once again the Icelandic saxophonist Oskar ...

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Recording

The PVR-Jazz Quartet pays homage to legendary saxophonists on debut album

Source: Lauren Rogers
July 1, 2011

If the PVR-Jazz Quartet's Jake Epstein could have his own Field of Dreams, he'd probably fill it with the saxophone legends of his youth, icons like Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Stitt, Charlie Parker, and Johnny Hodges. They are among the ghosts who haunt the PVR-Jazz Quartet's debut album, Reunion. Epstein, who plays alto saxophone with the PVR-Jazz Quartet, wanted to pay homage to his earliest and most beloved influences. However, the result is less of an adoring tribute than an impressive ...

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Recording

Pianist Maureen Girard's new CD exudes tranquility and evergreen beauty of Pacific Northwest

Source: Lauren Rogers
July 1, 2011

There is a rain-soaked ambience that haunts the piano jazz of Portrait in Four Colors, the debut album from Maureen Girard. Girard recorded the album in South Whidbey Island in the Pacific Northwest, and it exudes the tranquility and evergreen beauty of that region. This is one of the few records that you could see as well as hear. Girard didn't use the word portrait in the title for its poetic touch; her music unreels like photographs in the mind. ...

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Event

Recording Artist Ruth Aguilar Live at Miles Jazz Cafe

Source: Carol Green, Redwood Entertainment
July 1, 2011

New York, NY—In support of her latest CD release An Invitation, Ruth Aguilar will be performing live on Saturday, July 23, 2011 from 7:00 to 8:30 PM at the Miles Jazz Café in NYC. At Miles Jazz Café Ms. Aguilar will be performing with Jazz veterans David Epstein on keyboard, Steve LaSpina on bass and Samuel Torres on percussion. Ms. Aguilar is an accomplished singer with classic Jazz sensibilities and a refreshingly unique vocal sound who delivers soulful interpretations with ...

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Recording

Jazz Guitarist Roger Chong Releases Latest Album

Source: Michael Ricci
July 1, 2011

Classic jazz guitar-playing with a youthful edge—that's what jazz guitarist Roger Chong does. A graduate of music from York University in Toronto, Canada, Roger has a solid musical know-how courtesy of his mentors—jazz musicians and educators Roy Patterson, Matt Brubeck, Casey Soko, and Mike Cado. While there, he honed his guitar skills as part of the university jazz orchestra led by its founder, renowned jazz bassist Al Henderson of Time Wrap. With Roger's debut album In the Beginning, he puts ...

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Career

Taking Note: Artist Employment Projections

Source: Michael Ricci
July 1, 2011

By Sunil Iyengar, NEA Director of Research & Analysis This summer, the National Endowment for the Arts is piloting its 2012 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA). The SPPA underwent major surgery this year, in the wake of a November 2010 meeting with arts organizations, study methodologists, and social science researchers. At the meeting, participants proposed strategic changes to the questionnaire. Indeed, the goal of the meeting was to find ways to make the survey more relevant to ...

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