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Performance / Tour

The Grandmothers Of Invention "Roxy And Elsewhere And More" US Tour To Begin April 2

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
March 30, 2012

Los Angeles, CA - Much to the elation of music fans on the US East Coast, for the first time in America, three legendary former members of the Mothers of Invention are playing a series of selected concerts as The Grandmothers of Invention starting in April 2012. The Grandmothers of Invention recently performed to wildly enthusiastic audiences in Europe and now plan to bring their special blend of musical mayhem to the US shores. “This is going to be the ...

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Event

Starbucks 17th Annual Hot Java Cool Jazz Concert Set for Paramount Stage

Source: Michael Ricci
March 30, 2012

The stage is set for Starbucks 17th Annual Hot Java Cool Jazz toplay a special show at the Paramount Theatre. Proceeds from the night's performances benefit the music programs of the participating schools which this year includes: Garfield, Edmonds-Woodway, Mountlake Terrace, Roosevelt and Ballard. The show will be held on Friday, March 30th at 7:00 p.m. Since its inception in 1995, Starbucks Hot Java Cool Jazz has raised more than $250,000 for participating schools' music programs. “Hot Java Cool Jazz ...

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Performance / Tour

Don Carter Trio Brings Jazz To Venues In Area

Source: Ted Ricci
March 30, 2012

Accomplished Jersey City jazz drummer Don Carter remembers his early days - back in elementary school - beating on his desk with his hands standing in as drumsticks. His teacher repeatedly asked him what he was doing, and he simply explained he had found the rhythm. He didn't pick up the sticks for real until he was a teenager. “Jazz has inspiration and good challenges," he explains today, in between performances at area venues. “Jazz itself can go from (one) ...

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Recording

Snarky Puppy Releases "GroundUP" on Ropeadope Records

Source: Ropeadope Records
March 30, 2012

With the release of their last two live CD/DVDs on Ropeadope Records and GroundUP Music, Snarky Puppy has gone from an underground secret to one of the most internationally respected names in instrumental music. The 3-time Dallas Observer Music Award winning group ("Best Jazz Act" 2008, 2009, 2010) has, over the last four years of touring, gained a reputation for putting on a live show unparalleled in energy, virtuosity, and musicianship. They seamlessly fuse a deep knowledge and respect for ...

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Radio

Jim Cullum Jazz Band, William Warfield Celebrate King Oliver This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
March 29, 2012

This week's Riverwalk Jazz broadcast is an encore presentation featuring theater legend William Warfield (at right). In a performance recorded in 1992, Mr. Warfield brings Joe King" Oliver's rich correspondence to life.. Also,The Jim Cullum Jazz Band joins forces with two long-time leaders of traditional jazz—Bay Area cornetist Leon Oakley and Chicago historian and tuba player Mike Walbridge—to celebrate the legacy of Oliver's recorded work as a composer and ground-breaking bandleader. The program is distributed in the US by Public ...

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Interview

Wayne Escoffery Honored In New Haven

Source: Ted Ricci
March 29, 2012

Articulate, well-mannered and courtly, Wayne Escoffery, one of today's finest, most exciting jazz saxophonists, speaks softly and creates passionate but never ego-driven music. Matinee idol handsome and a regal 6-foot-4 presence—non-musical attributes that have landed him modeling and acting gigs including bit parts on TV commercials for Grey Goose vodka and Mitsubishi cars—the London-born musician of West Indian heritage has been content to do his forceful, expressive speaking through his horn. A summa cum laude graduate of The Hartt School ...

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Event

Berkshires Jazz schedules special concert featuring Elli Fordyce, with the Jazz Tuber Trio

Source: Ed Bride Associates
March 29, 2012

PITTSFIELD, MA: As part of its year-round commitment to live jazz, BerkshiresJazz.org has scheduled a special event on May 4. The double bill features NY-based vocalist Elli Fordyce, plus the Boston-based Jazz Tuber Trio. It will take place in the intimate setting of the backroom at Baba Louie's Sourdough Pizza, where Berkshires Jazz presented Armen Donelian in October, 2011, in one of the most memorable concerts ever presented by the non-profit organization. Elli Fordyce is a highly accomplished vocalist and ...

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Performance / Tour

Orbert Davis' Orchestra And Vocalists To Sing The Praises Of Ella

Source: Ted Ricci
March 29, 2012

Music lovers probably will argue for all time over whether Ella Fitzgerald or Billie Holiday was the greatest female jazz vocalist of the 20th century. But whichever side of that debate you take, there's no question that Fitzgerald set a still- unmatched standard for scat singing and improvisational techniques of her own making. That she conquered both the swing and bebop eras, while also crossing over into mass popularity via the “Songbook" albums she recorded for Norman Granz, attests to ...

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