Jazz News

Vincent Ector Performs at The Baird in South Orange, NJ on March 28

Source: All About Jazz
March 5, 2009

Jazz at The Baird presents drummer Vince Ector Quartet on Saturday, March 28 at 8:00pm. The second of a four concert series held the last Saturday of each month, this event brings jazz greats up-close and personal. The Baird is located on 5 Mead Street, South Orange, NJ. As one of the most in-demand jazz drummers on the contemporary music scene, Ector has worked with jazz luminaries that include Freddie Hubbard, Gloria Lynne, Charles Earland, and Bobby Watson to name ...

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Fernando Huergo, Featuring Luciana Souza Now on BlueMusicGroup.com

Source: All About Jazz
March 5, 2009

Argentinean bassist and composer Fernando Huergo's debut album, Living These Times, featuring Grammy nominated Brazilian vocalist Luciana Souza, is now re-released on BlueMusicGroup.com In the original liner notes from 1998, drummer Bertram Lehmann notes: For Fernando Huergo, musical diversity doesn't come as a surprise. For all he remembers growing up in a musical household in Crdoba, Argentina, surrounded by music that his father, a professional singer, pianist and guitarist would encourage him to check out. “I was singing Chega de ...

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John Scofield "Piety Street" in Stores March 31st

Source: Special Ops Media
March 5, 2009

A principal innovator of modern jazz guitar, John Scofield has expressed himself in the vernacular of bebop, blues, jazz-funk, organ jazz, acoustic chamber jazz, electronically tinged groove music and orchestral ensembles with ease and enthusiasm. From early on, his versatility and technical mastery won him sideman gigs with Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker and Cobham/Duke among many. Regardless of the stylistic setting, his distinct guitar sound and compositions are unmistakably Scofieldesque, always coupled with an improvisational excellence ...

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Pianist/Vocalist Peter Cincotti Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
March 4, 2009

Don't think for one minute Peter Cincotti is just another handsome face combined with a captivating voice. Or merely the latest in a string of mellifluous musicians reaching for a fusion of soul, pop and jazz (though he did attract the attention of Harry Connick Jr. early in his career--forestalling the competition perhaps?).

Cincotti is attempting the altogether difficult task of dissecting human emotion through music, the significance of which ambition may seem less than a distinctive mission until you ...

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Composer/Pianist Barney McAll Releases "Flashbacks" with Kurt Rosenwinkel

Source: All About Jazz
March 4, 2009

Flashbacks is the fifth album by composer/pianist Barney McAll, and continues the exciting trajectory--begun with his debut, Exit--into his own distinctive sound world. Like its predecessor, Mother of Dreams and Secrets, it features both brilliant guitar innovator Kurt Rosenwinkel and some traditional sacred Afro Cuban rhythms. But the Cuban influence is fully subsumed here, and there is no way that this album could be categorized as World Music. In fact, other than “contemporary," it is hard to place any label ...

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Marta Gomez's "Musiquita" Now on BlueMusicGroup.com

Source: All About Jazz
March 4, 2009

Musiquita is the fifth recording from Colombian singer-songwriter Marta Gomez, now released on BlueMusicGroup.com. This new project reflects the steady growth of an artist who, while deepening her art, maintains her own strong identity. On Musiquita, Marta expands her vocal vocabulary, enlarging her unique sound to include percussive vocal improvisation and soaring vocalese. Her arrangements have become more sure and years of worldwide concert touring have solidified the sound of her band. But it’s Marta’s unique voice, the quality and ...

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Harris Eisenstadt's Woodblock Prints at Ibeam Every Saturday in March

Source: Improvised Communications
March 4, 2009

Drummer/composer Harris Eisenstadt will be in residence at Brooklyn's Ibeam Music Studio every Saturday night in March at 9:00 p.m.

This series of four concerts (March 7, 14, 21, 28) will feature the first-ever performances of his new nonet, Harris Eisenstadt's Woodblock Prints, featuring Mike McGinnis (clarinet), Jason Mears (alto saxophone), Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon), Mark Taylor (French horn), Brian Drye (trombone), Jose Davila (tuba), Jonathan Goldberger (electric guitar) and Garth Stevenson (bass). The group's music is inspired by depictions of ...

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George Wein to Negotiate to Produce Jazz and Folk Festivals in Newport

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
March 3, 2009

GEORGE WEIN TO NEGOTIATE TO PRODUCE 2009 JAZZ AND FOLK FESTIVALS IN NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND NEW YORK, NY, March 3, 2009 - George Wein, producer of the seminal Newport Jazz Festival in 1954 and the first Newport Folk Festival in 1959, announced that his application to negotiate a license with the Department of Environmental Management to produce a jazz festival and a folk festival has been approved by the Rhode Island State Properties Committee. Wein will ...

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