Content by tag "James Carter"

ARTICLE: TAKE FIVE WITH... May 11, 2019

Take Five with Andrea Domenici

About Andrea Domenici

Born and raised in Lecco , Italy, Andrea Domenici is a jazz pianist and composer who has been living in New York since 2012. A 2016 graduate from The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, Domenici has studied with great piano players such as Benny Green, Barry Harris, Kenny Barron, ...

ARTICLE: RADIO January 25, 2019

January Birthday Salutes

By MARC COHN

Our January Birthdays show is always dedicated to our mentor, WRVR broadcasting hero Ed Beach, born on January 16, 1923; we play his two show themes by Wes Montgomery. We celebrate the Herbie Nichols centennial with his very first recordings for Savoy. Our very special birthday greetings go out to living legends, Benny Golson and Jimmy ...

NEWS: BIRTHDAY January 3, 2019

Jazz Musician of the Day: James Carter

All About Jazz is celebrating James Carter's birthday today!

Sometimes it takes an extraordinary talent to inspire an unprecedented piece of music. For Puerto Rican-born composer Roberto Sierra, the epiphany struck in the midst of a tenor saxophone solo by James Carter, who was appearing as the featured soloist with legendary soprano Kathleen Battle. Long ...
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ARTICLE: LIVE REVIEWS September 19, 2018

Detroit Jazz Festival 2018

By C. ANDREW HOVAN

Detroit Jazz Festival
Downtown Detroit
Detroit, Michigan
August 31-September 3, 2018

Over the course of its 39 year history, the largest free jazz festival in North America has seen its shares of up and downs. It once swelled to a five-day event starting on the Thursday evening before Labor Day and ...

ARTICLE: RADIO September 13, 2018

The New Album From Mario Costa And A Dip Into The Archive

By BOB OSBORNE

On this show new cutting edge jazz together with classic and contemporary sounds from the archives.

The featured album is the latest release on Clean Feed from Portuguese drummer Mario Costa playing live at the 26th Festival de Jazz na Praca da Erva, in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, in July 2017, along with French ...

ARTICLE: LIVE REVIEWS September 3, 2018

Newport Jazz Festival 2018: Part 2-2

By TIMOTHY J. O'KEEFE

Part 1 | Part 2

Newport Jazz Festival
Fort Adams State Park
Newport, RI
August 5, 2018

From the first spongy thwack that bounced off the conga drum, a sticky humidity clung about Narragansett peninsula while the sounds of Herlin Riley's New York Havana Connection oozed from the ...

ARTICLE: IN PICTURES August 26, 2018

Headliners and Rising Stars at the 2018 Montreal International Jazz Festival

By DAVE KAUFMAN

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

This year marked one of the best and most well-balanced indoor (paid indoor events) and (free) outdoor lineups at the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (FIJM). The strength of the lineup stretched across genres and also maintained a consistency over the course of ...

ARTICLE: LIVE REVIEWS March 23, 2018

2018 Hope College Jazz Organ Summit

By C. ANDREW HOVAN

2018 Hope College Jazz Organ Summit featuring Tony Monaco, Gerard Gibbs, and Dr. Lonnie Smith
Hope College
Holland, Michigan
March 9-11, 2018

Back in the fall of 2016, a small liberal arts college on the banks of Lake Michigan decided to serve as the epicenter of activity aimed at gaining more ...

ARTICLE: LIVE REVIEWS February 4, 2018

Vijay Iyer at SFJAZZ

By HARRY S. PARISER

Vijay Iyer
SFJAZZ
San Francisco, CA
January 18, 19, 21, 2018

Vijay Iyer told a San Francisco audience at Herbst Theater that it is amazingly difficult to tour in the United States, by way of explaining why he did not perform in his former hometown more often. But, ...