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Recording

Tenor Saxophonist Zan Stewart Debuts On CD With "The Street Is Making Music"

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
February 28, 2014

In the course of his prolific career as a jazz journalist, writing for the Los Angeles Times, the Newark Star-Ledger, and Down Beat magazine, among many other publications, Zan Stewart established himself as one of the best in the business. He won a prestigious ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for his notes to an Eric Dolphy boxed set, and kept up a busy pace over a span of 35 years profiling major jazz musicians and annotating over two hundred albums. On the ...

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Performance / Tour

Allison Crowe European Tour - May 2014

Source: Adrian du Plessis
February 28, 2014

Enriched by almost two years of focus on recording, film and theatre productions at home in Canada, Allison Crowe and the A-team, guided by the legendary road-meister Axel Dollheiser, resume international concert touring this Spring. First up – May 2014 brings a return to some favourite venues in Germany and Italy, alongside wunderbar new music rooms: 03.05 - Siebenklang Musikfestspiele - Bernau bei Berlin; 07.05 - Jazzlokal Mampf – Frankfurt; 11.05 - Jazzhaus – Freiburg im ...

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Music Industry

Culbertson Tunes Up The Pinot

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
February 28, 2014

Contemporary jazz hitmaker releases his own wine that he blended in partnership with Reata Wines and Jamieson Ranch Vineyards. Los Angeles, Calif. (27 February 2014): Chart-topping musician, producer, songwriter, wine and jazz festival founder and artistic director Brian Culbertson can add vintner to his burgeoning resume. The recording artist behind 26 No. 1 hits and the star-studded Napa Valley Jazz Getaway is now pouring his new custom-crafted wine, “Culbertson” Pinot Noir by Reata Wines, which he personally blended with Jamieson ...

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Award / Grant

Harry Belafonte To Receive Honorary Doctorate Of Music Degree At Berklee Tribute Concert

Source: Berklee Media Relations
February 27, 2014

Berklee College of Music president Roger H. Brown will present an honorary doctor of music degree to iconic musician, songwriter, and activist Harry Belafonte at a Berklee tribute concert, in recognition of Belafonte's inspiring musical and humanitarian achievements. Past recipients of Berklee's honorary doctorate include Duke Ellington (the first, in 1971), Dizzy Gillespie, Steven Tyler, Aretha Franklin, Quincy Jones, Juan Luis Guerra, David Bowie, Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Bonnie Raitt, George Clinton, and Carole King. The Life and Music of ...

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Radio

This Week On Riverwalk Jazz; New Orleans Jazz Pioneers And Their Legacy

Source: Don Mopsick
February 27, 2014

In the early 1960s cornetist Jim Cullum was a young man in his 20s. He made a pilgrimage to New Orleans to explore the roots of jazz, meet jazz greats and sit in on jam sessions. This week on Riverwalk Jazz Jim recalls a jam session with cornetist Johnny Wiggs and Mardi Gras parades when he played with drummer Paul Barbarin and his father Jim Sr. in clarinetist Pete Fountain's Half Fast Marching Band. The program is distributed in the ...

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Obituary

Renowned Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia dies at 66

Source: Michael Ricci
February 26, 2014

Paco de Lucia, the influential Spanish guitarist who vastly expanded the international audience for flamenco and merged it with other musical styles, died suddenly on Wednesday of a heart attack in Mexico. The 66-year-old virtuoso, as happy playing seemingly impossible syncopated flamenco rhythms as he was improvising jazz or classical guitar, helped to legitimize flamenco in Spain itself at a time when it was shunned by the mainstream. “I learned the guitar like a child learns to speak," the guitarist ...

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Recording

Debut Album From Bassist Tim Wolfe, Jr. Released March 25, 2014

Source: Tim Wolfe, Jr.
February 26, 2014

Topics of Conversation is the debut album from bassist and composer Tim Wolfe, Jr. The album is a nod to the great tradition of East coast hard-bop and features Wolfe’s original compositions. The band on the album is comprised of first-call talent in the Philadelphia area: guitarist Larry Tamanini (who lends an original composition to the album), vibraphonist Adam Pfannenstiel, saxophonist Thomas Razler, and drummer Bill Avayou. Wolfe’s compositional style is melody-driven, leaving lots of space for the band members’ ...

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Award / Grant

SFJAZZ Collective Wins Outstanding Jazz Album at 45th Annual NAACP Image Awards

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
February 26, 2014

The SFJAZZ Collective’s Album, Wonder: The Songs of Stevie Wonder, won Outstanding Jazz Album at 45th Annual NAACP Image Awards in Pasadena, CA on Friday, February 21, 2014. The 45th NAACP Image Awards is the nation’s premier multi-cultural awards show and celebrates the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts as well as those individuals or groups who promote social justice through their creative endeavors. The SFJAZZ Collective is the all-star award-winning jazz ensemble comprised of ...

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