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Caramoor International Music Festival Presents The 2011 Jazz Festival, August 5-7
Jason Moran and The Bandwagon, John Scofield Trio, Christian McBride Big Band, Joshua Redman's James Farm, Renee Rosnes, Fred Hersch & Nico Gori Duo & Lucky Peterson & more KATONAH, NY—Caramoor International Music Festival's annual weekend-long Jazz Festival has become one of the country's premiere destinations for jazz music, for artists and fans alike. 2011 is ...
Nemesis
Album: Invisible Cinema
By Aaron Parks
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2008
Duration: 6:14
Icons Among Us Visits Detroit, Wednesday June 15 at Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Episode One: A Quiet Revolution to screen at Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History Wednesday June 15 @ 6:30 pm Spread the word to your friends in Detroit. This FREE screening of the modern jazz documentary's first episode throws the spotlight on the emergence of new waves of artists and their relationships with their ...
Mike Moreno: First In Mind
by A. Lienhard
First In Mind, Mike Moreno's sophomore effort for the Criss Cross label, finds the 31 year-old guitarist interpreting songs both old and new. He explores selections from his former band mate Joshua Redman and one by upcoming singer/songwriter Josh Mease; Milton Nascimento and Miles Davis receive attention, too. It's an eclectic mix, but one wrangled into ...
James Farm Takes Seed as New All-Star Jazz Band
Yes, many will call James Farm an all-star band. Featuring drummer Eric Harland, bassist Matt Penman, pianist Aaron Parks and saxophonist Joshua Redman, the band certainly has some of the leading lights of today's jazz scene. But to hear Harland and Parks speak about the band's origins, James Farm seems something organically grown rather than a ...
Matt Penman: Down on James Farm
by R.J. DeLuke
Matt Penman and his bass have inhabited a variety of musical places and spaces in recent years, all of them on a very high level. That speaks to his abilities on his instrument, and his adaptability to diverse situations. He of the fluid hands, rich sound and steady, melodic pulse always comes through. That's why he's ...
James Farm: James Farm
by John Kelman
A byproduct of special event programming at jazz festivals is that sometimes lead to greater things. When guitarist Pat Metheny reunited with vibraphonist Gary Burton's mid-'70s quartet as part of his By Invitation series at the 2005 Montreal Jazz Festival, there were no plans to tour the world in subsequent years and release Quartet Live (Concord, ...
54th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival September 16 - 18
The 54th Monterey Jazz Festival, three-time winner of the JazzTimes Readers poll for “World's Best Jazz Festival" takes place September 16 to September 18 at the Monterey Fairgrounds, home to the Festival for 54 consecutive years. Described as “a cultural colossus" by the San Jose Mercury News and “a mecca for true jazz fans" by the ...
Ambrose Akinmusire: Emerging Heart
by R.J. DeLuke
"My favorite instrument is the cello," said the easygoing young musician in early February, from his apartment in Manhattan, where he referred to himself jokingly as “a hibernating jazzman." His West-Coast roots weren't taking a firm grip in the frigid temperatures of the Northeast. “Me and strings just don't get along. I can play piano; I ...
David Caceres: Double Threat Coming Forward
by R.J. DeLuke
The singer/instrumentalist in jazz has a long and honorable tradition. Many of those, though certainly not all, are more known for their singing than playing, especially in the last 20 years or so. But almost universally, they're enjoyed for what they can do, breathing a certain joie de vivre into songs by expressing the lyrics, then ...
