Jazz News

Jason Moran: NPR "Exclusive First Listen," WNYC "Soundcheck Live," WBGO "The Checkout," Indaba Remix Contest, and More!

Source: Michael Ricci
June 15, 2010

JASON MORAN SET TO LAUNCH NEW ALBUM “TEN" WITH NPR “EXCLUSIVE FIRST LISTEN," WNYC “SOUNDCHECK LIVE," WBGO “THE CHECKOUT," INDABA REMIX CONTEST & MORE

ACCLAIMED PIANIST'S FIRST ALBUM IN FOUR YEARS TO BE RELEASED JUNE 22 ON BLUE NOTE CELEBRATING A DECADE OF TRAILBLZING WITH THE BANDWAGON

On June 22, EMI's Blue Note Records will release Ten, the remarkable new album from jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran that celebrates the 10 year anniversary of The Bandwagon, Moran's trio featuring ...

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Continuum, a Journey Through Jazz - "Summer Groove" Part 2

Source: Michael Ricci
June 15, 2010

SoulandJazz.com Presents: Continuum - A Journey Through Jazz Episode 10: “Summer Groove" Part 2 Hosted and Produced by Scott Fugate, “The Jazz Evangelist" Available to download NOW--absolutely free, completely legal, and offered in rich CD quality stereo right here. Welcome back fellow travelers as we continue our journey through the Jazz Continuum... this leg of the journey involves a little cruise around the world in search of the perfect groove. We start with a beautifully energizing ...

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Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes to Perform at SOPAC Benefit This Saturday 6/19

Source: AMT Public Relations
June 15, 2010

South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) proudly presents SMALL TOWN, BIG TALENT An all-day celebration of South Orange/Maplewood arts and community, todays top artists join hands to help benefit SOPAC Celebration starts June 19th @ 11:00AM with a Community Sing-Along, followed by an Afternoon of Editing Workshop & Rachel Getting Married Film Screening with award-winning editor Tim Squyres, and Class of 93 Artist Talk with Zach Braff & AJ Calloway, and ends with SOPACs Benefit Gala Hosted by NY1s Budd ...

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All-Star Record 'It Ain't My Fault' Aims to Assist the Gulf Coast

Source: All About Jazz
June 15, 2010

Playing to ease the pain: An all-star gathering including rapper Mos Def, Lenny Kravitz, Trombone Shorty, Tim Robbins and members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band recently recorded “It Ain't My Fault," a single that is being released to aid the Gulf Coast oil disaster.

The high-level finger-pointing in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil catastrophe has inadvertently inspired some goodwill at the grass-roots level.

A benefit single and video called “It Ain't My Fault," recorded by Lenny ...

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Canadian Drummer Tyler Hornby Releases Second Solo-Project Album

Source: Michael Ricci
June 15, 2010

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Playboy Jazz Festival, Day 2

Source: All About Jazz
June 15, 2010

It's dangerous to speculate which program of the two-day Playboy Jazz Festival will be the better one just by glancing at the lineup. Most of the time, you will be wrong.

Someone might be having an off-day, one act doesn't flow comfortably into the next, an overlooked veteran or a newcomer will suddenly get hot, the partying crowd might be distracted or drunk or obsessed with the Lakers game. Case in point: the Saturday concert outpointed Sunday's in musical interest ...

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Pipe Organ Returns to Alice Tully Hall

Source: Michael Ricci
June 15, 2010

Skepticism stirred when Lincoln Center spirited the pipe organ out of Alice Tully Hall before the building's renovation in 2006, promising its eventual return. The skepticism only grew when the renovated hall reopened in early 2009 with no sign of the organ.

But Lincoln Center promised all along, and now it has delivered. The 19-ton instrument, 4,192 pipes strong, returned to Tully Hall on Monday morning aboard two semitrailers. Employees of the manufacturer, Orgelbau Th. Kuhn of Mnnedorf, Switzerland, and ...

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Sting's Classical Effect

Source: Michael Ricci
June 15, 2010

The former Police front man is touring with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. Unlike his former band's reunion tour, he is enjoying himself.

As the afternoon sun poured through the living room window of his grand apartment overlooking Central Park, Sting was calmly reflecting on his trying reunion with the Police, and anticipating, with genuine excitement, his current tour with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, performing imaginative new versions of his solo and Police hits. Sitting on a stately sofa ...

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