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Recording

Prolific Pianist/Composer To Release Epic, Medieval, Progressive/Jazz Masterpiece, 'Scenes From The Dark Ages,' March 28th On L&h Production

Source: Yelena Eckemoff
March 19, 2025

“I dreamed about being born in medieval times,” says composer Yelena Eckemoff. Yelena’s newest album is not a rendering of early-music tropes in modern jazz feels. Rather, in her writing on this album Yelena synthesizes classical music constructs and her original melodies with the varied rhythmic and stylistic innovations of jazz, fusion, and world music from the 21st century. Beyond this, she invests each moment of the album with her own sense of delight in leading and performing this unique ...

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Recording

Veteran Drummer/Composer Chris Parker Releases 'Heart Of Mine' May 14th!

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations
March 18, 2025

Drummer and composer, Chris Parker, has dug deep into his musical history to honor composers, he grew up with including Ralph Burns, Nat Adderley, Bobby Timmons, Lalo Schiffrin, Thelonious Monk and Bob Dylan too, with the Quartet’s version of the title track, “Heart Of Mine.” For nearly fifteen years, the connection and empathy has grown stronger between the members and original compositions from Parker and Oyobe add to that musical spontaneity on this recording, their fourth. The Chris Parker Quartet

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Recording

Boyce Justice Griffith Displays The Beauty And Necessity Of Being Grounded In One’s Principles With 'The Point'

Source: Outside in Music
March 17, 2025

Saxophonist and composer Boyce Justice Griffith emphasizes the beauty and necessity of being grounded in one’s principles with his concept album, The Point. No matter one’s age, demographic, nationality, religion, or political affiliation, each human being undeniably has some treasured personal tenets that are held dear and are paramount to one’s definition of self. Likewise, each individual’s central values have in some way been informed by a series of experiences, relationships, and ideologies that have uniquely and organically played out ...

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Event

Grammy Award-Winner Catherine Russell To Host Celebration21 - Jazz Power Initiative's Annual Fundraiser

Source: SM Communication Solutions
March 16, 2025

Celebration21, the Jazz Power Initiative (JPI) annual fundraising event, will take place on May 21 at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Peter Norton Symphony Space (250 West 95th Street, Manhattan), from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. The event will pay homage to the long and rich, pioneering history of Jazz and the transformative power of jazz arts/music education. By using the foundational traditions of jazz music and its improvisational roots, JPI has been helping generations of young people to develop ...

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Festival

Lineup Announced For Rochester International Jazz Festival 22nd Edition

Source: Dalmath Associates Inc.
March 15, 2025

Marc Iacona and John Nugent, producers of the Rochester International Jazz Festival, in partnership with Rochester Regional Health, today announced the lineup for the festival’s 22nd edition. The nine-day festival, one of the world's leading jazz festivals, runs June 20 to June 28. It will feature more than 285 shows at 18 venues with more than 1,750 artists from nine countries, plus the United States. The annual event draws more than 200,000 people to downtown Rochester for ticketed and free ...

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Music Industry

The Recording Industry’s Music Performance Trust Fund Projects Grants of More than $1 Million to Communities Celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month in April 2025

Source: Michael Ricci
March 14, 2025

Month-long investment throughout North America intends to benefit individuals and communities sharing this treasured American art form The recording industry’s Music Performance Trust Fund (MPTF), a leading non-profit organization enriching lives and uniting communities through the power of music, is on track to distribute over $1,000,000 in grants for admission-free live concerts this April for Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM). This is the second consecutive year that the dollar value of the grants, which pay professional jazz musicians to perform, will ...

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Performance / Tour

Double Vision At Supple Music Series On March 31: A Jazz & Visual Art Fusion

Source: Hank Hehmsoth
March 13, 2025

Double Vision’s Landmark Performance at Supple Music Series A Multidisciplinary Jazz & Visual Art Experience That Showcases a Year of Innovation Double Vision, the groundbreaking jazz ensemble led by Hank Hehmsoth and Dr John Mills, will present its most ambitious performance to date at the Supple Music Series on March 31, 2025. This regionally significant event blends original jazz compositions with abstract visual art, showcasing a year of artistic innovation supported by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music and the ...

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Recording

Announcing '恋愛至上主義 / Love Supremacism' By Pianist Alexander Dubovoy

Source: Alexander J Dubovoy
March 12, 2025

Following his first solo album, Portraits Drawn Without You, Alexander Dubovoy is proud to release his new solo album 恋愛至上主義 / Love Supremacism on Adhyâropa Records. It features innovative reinterpretations of jazz standards recorded by recording engineer (and frequent musical collaborator) Hans Bilger in February 2024 in Berlin. The starting point for the album is 恋愛至上主義 (renaishijoushugi), a concept which Alexander first encountered in the Japanese television drama 「恋せぬふたり」(“Koisenu Futari”), a show that radically examines consent in relationships. 恋愛至上主義 translates ...

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