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New England Conservatory’s Jazz Studies & Contemporary Improvisation Departments Present Nearly 50 Free Performances For The Winter/spring 2014 Season
Plus Two Events at Museum of Fine Arts and Residencies with World-Renowned Performers January 16 – May 30, 2014 Highlights include Sun Ra Centennial Concerts; World Premieres of Charles Mingus’ Half-Mast Inhibition and Gunther Schuller’s From Here to There; A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall; Jazz and the Struggle for Freedom and Equality; residency by Dave Holland; ...
Modern Jazz Wizard Donald Harrison Returns On 10th Anniversary Of His First NPR Broadcast, For First Night Boston And WGBH
First Night Boston, Berklee College of Music, and 89.7 WGBH present the Donald Harrison Quintet, performing at the Berklee Performance Center on New Year's Eve, Tuesday, December 31, kicking off NPR's annual worldwide jazz broadcast, Toast of the Nation. The concert is a centerpiece of this year's First Night Boston festival, and marks the tenth anniversary ...
Acclaimed Singer-Songwriter-Mandolinist Sierra Hull To Perform First Night Boston Concert, Broadcast On WUMP-FM
First Night Boston, Berklee College of Music, and UMass Boston’s radio station, WUMB-FM 91.9 present bluegrass vocalist, mandolinist and songwriter Sierra Hull, a 2011 Berklee graduate, performing at the Berklee Performance Center on New Year's Eve, Tuesday, December 31, 2013. The concert is a centerpiece of this year's First Night Boston festival, and will be broadcast ...
Wayne Wallace’s Latin Jazz / Jazz Latin Earns Grammy Nomination For “Best Latin Jazz Album”
World-renowned trombonist, composer, arranger, and producer Wayne Wallace has earned a GRAMMY nomination for “Best Latin Jazz Album” for his CD Latin Jazz / Jazz Latin his seventh CD on the Patois label. The CD, which topped the radio charts and earned rave reviews and a place on numerous top CDs of the year lists, displays ...
Sixth Jazz/World Fusion Album By Gino Foti Released On Net Dot Music Label
Global Resonances, the sixth solo album by jazz/world fusion bass guitarist & keyboard player Gino Foti, has been released by Net Dot Music, Inc. For this release, all keyboards and synthesizers have been silenced, so the integration of traditional ethnic music & modern jazz-rock fusion influences is spearheaded by his bass guitars on the thirteen original ...
Legendary Jazz Group Weather Report Rises With Legacy Project
Documentary “Calm Before The Storm" to be directed by Tony Zawinul Seminal jazz group Weather Report rises again with the Weather Report Legacy Project and crowdfunding initiative. The new project, launching December 9, 2013, will support the creation of a documentary, “Calm Before the Storm." The film documents the group from its beginnings in 1970, through ...
New England Conservatory’s Jazz Lab
One-Week Intensive Jazz Program for Students Ages 14 – 18 June 22 – 27, 2014 Special Guest Artist Grammy Award Winning Bassist Dave Holland plus NEC Jazz Studies Chair Ken Schaphorst headline the week holding masterclasses paired with evening concerts of their music Students ages 14 - 18 are invited to explore jazz at New England ...
New England Conservatory Jazz Studies Department Presents The Music Of Ken Schaphorst Performed By The NEC Jazz Orchestra With Special Guests Nedelka Prescod And Donny McCaslin -- Thursday, December 12 In NEC’s Jordan Hall
“Schaphorst's writing and arranging, like that of Duke Ellington, is for individual musicians." —Mark Corroto, All About Jazz Ken Schaphorst, New England Conservatory's chair of jazz studies, leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in The Music of Ken Schaphorst, a program of his original music and arrangements. The free concert takes place at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, ...
New England Conservatory Prep Presents The NEC Youth Jazz Orchestra Conducted By Ken Schaphorst
Wednesday, December 11 in NEC’s Brown Hall New England Conservatory Prep presents the NEC Youth Jazz Orchestra conducted by Ken Schaphorst in a concert featuring the music of Duke Ellington, Gerald Wilson, Sun Ra, Imogen Heap, John Klenner, Joe Henderson, Harold Arlen, and Thad Jones all performed by middle and high school students in the NEC Youth ...
Wayne Shorter To Be Honored By Berklee Global Jazz Institute
The Berklee Global Jazz Institute (BGJI) will honor legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter with the Berklee Global Jazz Institute Jazz Master Award in recognition of his exceptional contributions as a saxophonist, educator and composer. The award ceremony will take place following the Wayne Shorter 80th Birthday Celebration concert at Symphony Hall on Sunday, November ...
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