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Vancouver Jazz Fest: Sonny Rollins' Life-Long Search for Excellence
VANCOUVER - Saxophonist Sonny Rollins doesn’t take the Orpheum stage until 8 p.m. Monday, but he’s told the venue that he needs the dressing room by mid-afternoon. That’s because he wants to practise for three hours before he takes the stage. And, if things go the way they did when he appeared here two years ago, ...
The Panorama Jazz Band Invites Its Audience to Play Along
For the past 14 years, the Panorama Jazz Band's variegated mash-up of world beats has consistently challenged expectations about what New Orleans jazz can be. Equally at home anchoring a second-line parade as a traditional Jewish wedding, the band's raucous party music, which it has performed everywhere from Gypsy campfires to Carnival parades, combines sounds from ...
Jazz Fest All-Star Lineup Includes Tribute to 'Kind of Blue'
"In the church of jazz, the album 'Kind of Blue' is one of the holy relics," writes Ashley Kahn in “Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece" (DaCapo Press, 2000), one of two books written exclusively about the celebrated album. It is hailed as the best-selling jazz album of all-time and ranked 12th ...
Stanford Jazz Festival Returns for Its 38th Year
At the age of 84, James Moody may be the oldest musician performing at the 38th annual Stanford Jazz Festival, which he opens on Friday at Dinkelspiel Auditorium. But there's not a player on the festival's program with a more youthful spirit. In a career stretching back to the mid-1940s, when he first gained attention in ...
African-Born Lionel Loueke Next up in Glenwood Springs' Summer of Jazz
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — Lionel Loueke brings his unique combination of jazz guitar and African roots influences to the Glenwood Springs Summer of Jazz stage in Two Rivers Park tonight. The third in the summer concert series begins at 7 p.m. at the park pavilion. Loueke joins local jazz aficionado and KDNK disc jockey Wick Moses ...
Michael Jackson's Spirit, Music, Legacy Outlive His Death
While the vultures, thieves and naysayers pick over the bones of his controversial personal life, it is only the talent and genius of Michael Jackson that matter in the aftermath of his death. Jackson is one of the most monumental figures in the history of music. He was the ultimate performer, the self-proclaimed “King of Pop" ...
Is Jazz Dead?: Stretching the Festival Definition of Jazz
With Canadian summer jazz festivals featuring everything from the gospel sounds of The Sojourners and straight-ahead jazz saxophonist David Sanborn to Nigerian superstar King Sunny Ade & His African Beats, the definition of jazz has become fluid. Okay, so here's another question: What is jazz? And another: Is jazz a meaningless term? Or even: Is jazz ...
Jazz Artists Seek out Future Fans
Musicians hope to expand beyond regular devotees, bring in the younger generation It was 8 p.m., and jazz cellist Raymond Chu — better known as “Magic Ray" — was setting up for a performance at the Mosaic Caf in College Park, a hip restaurant and hookah bar that caters to students and young people. Chu, a ...
Diana Krall Appears in Upcoming Michael Mann/Johnny Depp Picture "Public Enemies"
Diana Krall Dazzles With Summer Blockbusters: Cameo In Anticipated New Film Public Enemies,Quiet Nights Tour And Fundraiser With The President From the big screen to the White House, Diana Krall is everywhere this summer. Catch the GRAMMY-winning jazz musician in a cameo in the Michael Mann-directed film Public Enemies, singing “Bye Bye Blackbird", opening nationwide July ...
Jump City Jazz Orchestra with Grant Stewart at Chris' Jazz Cafe on July 11, 2009
Chris Jazz Cafe presents the Jump City Jazz Orchestra on July 11, 2009. The Jump City Jazz Orchestra is comprised of eighteen of the Delaware Valley's finest musicians and vocalists. Joining Jump City Jazz Orchestra will be special guest, tenor saxophonist, Grant Stewart. July 11, 2009 Sets starting @ 8 PM Chris' ...
