Jazz News

Esperanza Spalding is Turning the Jazz World on Its Ear

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

Back in January, when the phenomenal Portland-raised bassist-vocalist Esperanza Spalding played at Experience Music Project, I said we'd be hearing more from this remarkable young woman. Boy, are we hearing more. Since the May release of Spalding's major label debut, “Esperanza" (Heads Up), which debuted at No. 3 on the jazz charts and remains there, Spalding has appeared on “The Late Show with David Letterman" and “Jimmy Kimmel Live." To give you an idea of just how ...

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Pardubice Islands Festival: A Fresh Blast of Brass

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

A cool ride to hot music and family fun in Pardubice. Pardubice Islands Festival June 11-14 Bucinatores When: Friday, June 13 at 4:30 Where: Tyrovy Gardens(Tyrovy sady) Admission: 100 K; full festival pass, 350 K; children under 10 free For more information, check ostrovy-islands.cz (Czech only) If you've been looking for an excuse to try the Czech Republic's high-speed Pendolino train, and pick up some cultural fun along the way, ...

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Dave Matthews Band Lighting Strikes

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

Lightning Strikes In More Than One Way At DMB Gig

The Dave Matthews Band, by nature, does a big show. But for the seventh show of its North American summer tour, Mother Nature added even more drama to the mix. With flashes of lightning that rivaled the DMB's own opulent light show -- spurring spontaneous fan reactions that had nothing to do with the group's onstage performance -- and plenty of thunder and rain, the weather added a bit more ...

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Freewheeling: A Skateboard Jamsession

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

Concert review from Trondheim Jazz Festival, June 2008 Two skateboarders, five musicians. A cacophony of rolling wheels and jazzy tunes. The jump. Brief pause of silence. Audience gasping at the hurricane like blend of sounds, quickly learning that this is actually the needlework of a brilliant musical mind, sowing together what no one has ever thought up before. Skateboard and jazz. Of course, come to think of it, a man grown up partly on a piece of wood mounted on ...

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Herbie Hancock at the Playboy Jazz Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
June 13, 2008

The 30th Playboy jazz Fest at the Hollywod Bowl Saturday and Sunday. The pianist-composer continues his banner year with a headling performance at the fest.

HERBIE HANCOCK'S performance at the Playboy Jazz Festival this Sunday comes in the midst of a bountiful year. Yes, the veteran jazz pianist/composer's Hollywood Hills home glistens with the an impressive collection of Grammys, an Oscar and other awards.

But Hancock has never received a statuette with as much cachet as the Album of the ...

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Village Vanguard to Launch Live Webcast

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

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Bill Charlap's Trio to Open for Steely Dan

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

Pianist Bill Charlap, bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny Washington will open for Steely Dan at New York's Beacon Theatre on June 13 and 14. Charlap previously worked with Steely Dan in 2003, playing piano on two tracks--"Pixeleen" and “Godwhacker"--of the group's 2003 release, Everything Must Go.

About Bill Charlap Bill Charlap was born in New York City into a musical family. His father, Moose Charlap, was a Broadway composer and songwriter whose credits included the scores to Peter Pan, ...

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Prashant Aswani at CMI Frontrunner 2008

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

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