Jazz News

John Evans & Dream Take #1 Spot on CD Baby's Top Selling Jazz Albums Chart

Source: Michael Ricci
January 22, 2010

Continue Reading

Michael Wolff Calls Knickerbocker 'Home' for Feb & March

Source: Seth Cohen PR
January 22, 2010

Michael Wolff Calls Knickerbocker 'Home' for February & March; NYU Master Class Confirmed as Well Wolff Experimenting With New Style of Improvisation, with Bigger Arpeggios, “A Saxophone Approach to Piano" Acclaimed jazz pianist Michael Wolff follows his triumphant appearance at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. (a performance that will soon be broadcast on NPR,) with a return to his hometown of New York City and a multi-show stand at his beloved Knickerbocker club in lower Manhattan. Wolff has a ...

Continue Reading

Feinstein's Presents Jazz Band Braden-Rapp in Their Debut CD Release of "The Strayhorn Project."

Source: Miller Wright & Associates
January 22, 2010

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed Best of New York by New York Magazine, and an invaluable New York institution by The New York Post, will continue its star-studded Winter/Spring 2010 season with the debut of the new band led by world-renowned saxophonist, flautist and composer DON BRADEN and MARK RAPP, one of Downbeat Magazines top emerging trumpeters. Their show at Feinstein's will celebrate the release of their debut recording The Strayhorn Project a tribute to jazz composer, arranger ...

Continue Reading

Holding It Down: Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd with Maurice Decaul

Source: Michael Ricci
January 22, 2010

Acclaimed pianist/composer Vijay Iyer and celebrated poet/performer Mike Ladd (in collaboration with Iraq veteran Maurice Decaul) launch a new work of music and poetry commissioned by Harlem Stage's WaterWorks program. Building on their groundbreaking collaborations In What Language? (2003) and Still Life with Commentator (2006), Iyer and Ladd collaborate with young American war veterans of color from the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to create a new work (working title Holding it Down). Based on interviews with veterans of ...

Continue Reading

Feinstein's Presents Veteran Cabaret/Jazz Singer and Comedian, Sue Matsuki, in Her Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald.

Source: Miller Wright & Associates
January 22, 2010

Feinstein's presents multi-award winning singer and the 1st Recipient of the Julie Wilson Award, SUE MATSUKI, in her highly acclaimed tribute show to the First Lady of Song herself...Ella Fitzgerald! This show celebrates Ella's Verve and Capital Record Series when Ella was asked to sing all the great contemporary tunes of the day composed by the likes of: Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Sammy Cahn, James (Jimmy) Van Heusen, Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Johnny Burke and more. Ira Gershwin ...

Continue Reading

A Life in Music Portrayed by an NEA Jazz Master and His Legendary Friends

Source: Michael Ricci
January 22, 2010

I Walked with Giants: The Autobiography of Jimmy Heath Jimmy Heath and Joseph McLaren Foreword by Bill Cosby, introduction by Wynton Marsalis

Publication Date: February 26, 2010

A life in music portrayed by an NEA Jazz Master and his legendary friends

“I have long admired Jimmy's passion heard so clearly in his music; he is a soulful musician and a consummate educator. In these pages he gives a new voice to his love of life and ...

Continue Reading

Gerald McCabe Founder of Folk Music Venue McCabe's Guitar Shop Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
January 22, 2010

The Santa Monica store played an important role in the evolution of Southern California's folk music community.

Gerald McCabe, a furniture designer whose passion for woodworking and love of music led to the creation of the Santa Monica folk music institution McCabes Guitar Shop, died Sunday in Eugene, Ore., two days after suffering a heart attack. He was 82. McCabe left his namesake operation before it became celebrated for the intimate concerts that have been held there for decades, but ...

Continue Reading

Jazz Pianist Hiromi Travels Light on Her New Solo Album

Source: All About Jazz @ Spinner
January 22, 2010

By Tad Hendrickson

About a month ago, I reviewed an Oscar Peterson tribute that took place at Carnegie Hall. It was a night of wonderful music from pianists Kenny Baron, Roger Kellaway and Hiromi Uehara in solo performances. The darling of the night was the Japanese lady who came off as a sort of jazz artist as anime with her funky blouse, sneakers and a ponytail that whipped around as she played. More important, her chops were electrifying for their ...

Continue Reading