Results for "Billy Childs"

2009 Angel City Jazz Festival Set for Labor Day Weekend

August 7, 2009

Dave Douglas, Bennie Maupin, Billy Childs, Nels Cline, Larry Goldings, Wayne Horvitz, etc.Jazz Concerts - The Angel City Jazz FestivalLabor Day Weekend, Sept. 6-7 2009. 4PM-11PMThe John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Hollywood CATickets: adults $35 ($30 before Aug 31) children under 12 and under & students with ...

New Live Concert Video for Billy Childs

May 21, 2009

Artistshare is excited to announce that Billy Childs has a new video posted on his project page, which features his fantastic band, along with the masterful work of the Ying quartet. In order to see this video footage of the band, live in concert, you must become a participant on his project page. Visit Billy Childs' ...

Grammy Winning Composer Billy Childs Launches "Jazz Chamber Music Vol. 2" Project!

February 20, 2009

Get an inside look into Grammy award winning composer Billy Childs creative process as it unfolds during the creation of his latest recording - Jazz Chamber Music Vol. 2. Participants will have the unique opportunity to experience the artistic world of Billy Childs through the work and words of the musician himself as it happens. Highlights: ...

Billy Childs in San Pedro

February 15, 2009

Kenny Burrell: Mr. Good Notes

by Russ Musto
October 3, 2008

“I'm just trying to play the good notes," says Kenny Burrell, lighthearted laughter accompanying his response to the question of how he would characterize his style of guitar playing. The reply betrayed the genial humility that has long distinguished him as one of the music's truly gracious gentlemen. Burrell has been playing the “good notes" for ...

Concert: Billy Childs Jazz-Chamber Ensemble - Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro, CA - 5/10/08

March 26, 2008

Pianist and composer Billy Childs, an eight-time Grammy nominee and two-time winner, works his musical magic with his Jazz-Chamber Ensemble in the Art Deco splendor of San Pedro's Warner Grand Theatre on Saturday, May 10, at 4:00 pm. The Da Camera Society's San Pedro Mini-Festival offers a pre- and post-concert self guided tour of the town's ...

Lyric: Jazz-Chamber Music Vol. 1

By Billy Childs

Label: Lunacy Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: In Carson's Eyes; Goodbye; Friend; Into the Light; Prelude in Bb Major; The Old Man Tells His Story; Hope in the Face of Despair; Scarborough Faire; Quiescence; American Landscape.

Billy Childs: Lyric

by John Dworkin
November 7, 2005

Billy Childs' new recording Lyric: Jazz-Chamber Music Vol. 1 may seem a radical new direction from his previously recorded output as a jazz pianist/leader. But, somewhat under the public's marketing radar, for the last six years or so Childs has been spending much of his energy on larger scale composition, arranging, and orchestrations. While still a ...

Billy Childs Ensemble: Lyric: Jazz-Chamber Music Vol. 1

by Renato Wardle
October 11, 2005

Since its birth, the world of jazz has been at odds with the realm of classical music. Owing to the presupposition that these two musical worlds are possessed of an incongruent aesthetic, a fusion between them may seem impossible. However, Lyric shows that music is music. With the first installment of his new Jazz-Chamber Music series, ...

Summertime

By Mike Clark

Label: JazzKey Music
Released: 2003
Track listing: Brujo; Fee Fi Fo Fum; Summertime; For Duke; U.T. ; Prince of Darkness; Angelica; Three Pawns; Dolores.