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Laura Dreyer: Dancing Through Time
by Katchie Cartwright
When something sparks her creativity, Laura Dreyer is the sort of person who jumps in with both feet and gets right down to business. A multi-hyphenate artist, saxophonist-flutist-composer-teacher-clinician, she has been serious about jazz since junior high school in El Cerrito, California, across the bay from San Francisco. “El Cerrito High had an award-winning--like state champion ...
David Pastor trio featuring Anna Pauline & Mattias Nilsson at Barcelona Jamboree Sala 3
by Artur Moral
David Pastor Trio featuring Anna Pauline & Mattias Nilsson Jamboree Sala 3 Barcelona, Spain Pur Jazz March 4, 2025 If David Pastor had been born, say, in Sedalia, Missouri, instead of in Sedaví, in the Spanish Valencia province, his professional career and its media impact would probably have been quite ...
American jazz embraces bossa nova
by Larry Slater
Bossa Nova and the compositions of Antonio Carlos Jobim have continued to inspire musicians across the globe, including many jazz musicians in the US from the 1960s to the present day.Jazz in the 1960s saw the emergence of the jazz avant-garde, and many musicians found their audience slipping away to rock and the English ...
The Brazilians Cover Bossa Nova
by Larry Slater
Bossa nova emerged from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in the late 1950s and early '60s. After the 1964 coup d'état, as a military regime took control of Brazil, the positive energy of the bossa nova era quickly dissipated and enthusiasm for the music shifted to the US. The music of Antonio Carlos Jobim ...
The Birth of Bossa Nova
by Larry Slater
Brasil is a country full of music. Samba, which was strongly influenced by African music, originated in Rio de Janeiro about 100 years ago Bossa nova, the focus of this hour, is basically a fusing of the harmonic vocabulary from jazz with the rhythmic complexity brought from samba and choroSince its inception in Rio ...
Paul Kendall: My Shining Hour
by Jack Bowers
If you were to randomly draw the names of “most charming and best-loved American popular standards" out of a hat, chances are you could not fare much better than Pennsylvania-based baritone saxophonist Paul Kendall has by design on My Shining Hour, a splendid album whose playlist encompasses no less than eight singular and seductive melodies from ...
Minas - 40th Anniversary Concert, Cake, and Dance Party in Philadelphia on April 11
Orlando and Patricia Haddad invite the public for a concert, cake, and dance party, celebrating 40 impressive years making music in Philadelphia. Known for their Brazilian ensemble Minas, Orlando and Patricia moved to the Philadelphia area from Rio de Janeiro in 1984, where they continued to perform and record while pursuing graduate studies at local universities. ...
Introducing Trumpeter Skylar Tang
by Sanford Josephson
"Every now and then," said trumpeter Sean Jones, “a musician comes along who has a vision and focus that you just know will affect the world--a sense of high artistry, skill, and profound leadership. Skylar Tang is one of the ones in her generation who fits this description." Jones is Artistic Director of Carnegie ...
Take Five with Saxophonist Zishi Liu
by AAJ Staff
Meet Zishi LiuZishi Liu is a Boston-based saxophonist and music curator originally from China. He made history as the first Chinese artist to play at Boston's famed Regattabar in collaboration with Blue Note Jazz Club in 2025. His work has been featured by WGBH, contributing to the broader narrative of Asian representation in jazz.
Nate Najar and Daniela Soledade with the Jimmy Masters Trio at the Sandler Center
by Mark Robbins
Since the introduction of Brazilian music to the United States in 1962 by Charlie Byrd, artists such as Antônio Carlos Jobim, Jõao Gilberto, Gal Costa, Astrud Gilberto, Gilberto Gil, Claudia Acuña, to name a few, have continued to have a great influence on the American audience. Add to that roster guitarist Nate Naja and vocalist (also ...
