Jazz News

Ubiquitous Drummer Eric Harland Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
January 6, 2010

Drummer Eric Harland is between gigs, just back from a dates and clinics in Japan and getting ready to head to Europe. He's got new recordings out with several bands--including the Charles Lloyd Quartet, The Monterey Quartet with Dave Holland and Jason Moran--and a handful of compositions to get recorded with his own group.

But then, in a way, this was foretold by an eight year-old Harland to his mother.

“She said I told her I would travel the world, ...

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The Underground Story of Photographer W. Eugene Smith and the Jazz Loft is Told in a New Multimedia Exhibition at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Source: Michael Ricci
January 6, 2010

New York, NY -- The story of a little known five-story loft building in New York City's wholesale flower district that was a popular late-night haunt for some of the biggest names in 1950s and '60s jazz is told in The Jazz Loft Project, a new multimedia exhibition opening February 17, 2010, at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The exhibition features never-before-displayed vintage black and white prints and rarely heard audio recordings by photographer W. Eugene ...

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"The Audience," New CD by Saxophonist Ralph Lalama, Due Jan. 26 from Mighty Quinn Productions

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
January 6, 2010

Ever since arriving on the New York scene in the mid-1970s, tenor saxophonist Ralph Lalama has been widely recognized as a Most Valuable Player. He's been a key soloist with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra for more than 25 years, and a member of Joe Lovano's Grammy-winning Nonet since its inception in 1999. But it was only in 2008 that Lalama made his first U.S. recording as a leader, the well-received Energy Fields for Mighty Quinn Productions. Now he's produced a ...

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Announcing the Winners of the "Vijay Iyer - Historicity" Contest

Source: All About Jazz
January 6, 2010

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Joe Locke - "For the Love of You" @ Dizzy's Club Coca Cola

Source: Michael Ricci
January 6, 2010

Joe Locke and his band will launch “For The Love of You" with a week-long engagement at New York's world-famous Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center, January 26th through January 31st, 2010. Please come join us! VIBES: Joe Locke VOCALS: Kenny Washington PIANO: Geoffrey Keezer BASS: George Mraz DRUMS: Clarence Penn For Reservations please call: 212.258.9595 Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola Jazz at Lincoln Center Broadway ...

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Mort Weiss Releases First Solo Jazz Clarinet Recording, Raising the Bar, on February 16th

Source: GoMedia PR
January 6, 2010

Boy meets clarinet. Boy falls head over heels for clarinet. Boy spends every available minute with clarinet. But then the fast life, drugs and alcohol, slowly seduces, then pries the boy from his true source of devotion. Early passions die. The clarinet is abandoned. Four decades pass. Finally, one day, the dreams of youth are resurrected and the clarinet, once again, takes center stage. This is Mort Weiss' love story. The culmination of that love affair can be heard on ...

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Miles Brown Trio CD "Share My Life" Available on iTunes

Source: Michael Ricci
January 6, 2010

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Trumpeter Joey Pero Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
January 6, 2010

The great lead and jazz trumpeter Bobby Shew tells his students that “talent is a matter of breaking barriers." While trumpeter Joey Pero might have brilliantly selected and covered “Defying Gravity" from Broadway's Wicked on his breakthrough CD, Resonance (Resonance Music Group, 2009), Pero has been defying and utterly smashing performance barriers all his life. What would you expect from a man who, still in his mother's womb no less, was given the chance to “witness" and leap in response ...

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