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Jazz At NEC: September and October Highlights
Wednesday, September 19, 1:30 p.m.: Fred Hersch Master Class, Brown Hall On tour to promote his latest two-disc album Alive at the Vanguard, NEC faculty member and alum Fred Hersch will present a master class with his working trio, featuring bassist Drew Gress and drummer Eric McPherson. Thursday, September 27, 1:00 p.m., Jason Moran and Dave ...
Aardvark Jazz Orchestra Celebrates Historic 40th Season; Composer-led Orchestra Launches 5th Decade With New CD On Leo Records
Boston, MA: The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, one of the longest continuously operating large jazz ensembles in North America, announces its historic 40th season 2012-2013. The season will feature original works by founder/music director Mark Harvey, with Boston-area performances to include: a season opener/CD-release at Scullers Jazz Club on October 3, a post-election show of Satire & ...
Golden Anniversary Of Jazz At MIT To Feature New Work By Chick Corea
2012-2013 50th Anniversary Season to Celebrate Pomeroy, Corea and others The 2012-2013 season marks the 50th anniversary of formal jazz performance and study at MIT, where jazz has thrived since 1963. This academic year’s special performances and events celebrating MIT’s jazz golden anniversary will culminate on April 27, 2013 with a Gala Concert in Kresge Auditorium ...
Mickey Bass & The New York Powerhouse Ensemble at Scullers Jazz Club on August 29, 2012
There is a new CD, out on the “Early Bird" Record label; “The Mickey Bass New York Powerhouse Ensemble - 'Live' at The Jazz Corner of The World." The band featured on this CD is the same one that opened the JVC Jazz Festival in 2002, playing at the Schoenberg, and at Gracie Mansion.They received standing ...
Matthew Shipp: Shipp Shape
by Chris Rich
Pianist Matthew Shipp is very keenly attuned to the details and nuances of what has to be the most forlorn and anemic environment imaginable for anything a sensible person would call business. Think of it as the sort of business ecosystem that resembles the least habitable places on earth, say a fumarole at the bottom of ...
New England Conservatory’s Jazz Studies Department Presents Over Forty Free Performances For 2012-2013 Season
Plus Master Classes with World-Renowned Performers September 19, 2012 – May 15, 2013 Highlights include a Bob Brookmeyer Memorial Concert, The NEC Jazz Orchestra in concert featuring the music of Miguel Zenón, Randy Weston with The NEC Jazz Orchestra, Faculty Recitals by jazz masters Dominique Eade, Ken Schaphorst, and Fred Hersch, the Pierce Series - 26 ...
The Possibilities Are Endless: Celebrating 40 Years Of Contemporary Improvisation At New England Conservatory
Concerts in Boston and New York Featuring Distinguished Faculty, Alumni and Students of NEC’s Contemporary Improvisation Department August 3, 2012 – April 8, 2013 The possibilities are endless at New England Conservatory, which celebrates the 40th anniversary of its groundbreaking Contemporary Improvisation department with a year-long series of concerts and events in Boston and New York ...
Design 4 Music gives Jeff Platz an Impressive Makeover
Design 4 Music works closely with All About Jazz to help make it the ultra helpful jazz locus that it is. They have to be one of the few web shops mainly focused on making a solid web presence for a notably disadvantaged sub idiom, free jazz, and they do it beautifully. The recent launch of ...
New Boston Book Looks Back On A Sparkling Jazz Scene
Nat Pierce, Joe Gordon, and Charlie Mariano started their careers in Boston. It’s where Nat Hentoff worked as a deejay, George Wein planned the Newport Jazz Festival, and Lawrence Berk started the Berklee School of Music. Richard Vacca writes about all of them and more in The Boston Jazz Chronicles: Faces, Places, and Nightlife 1937–1962, the ...
WGBH FM Boston Cuts Prestigious Jazz Programs Featuring Eric Jackson And Steve Schwartz
Local and National Jazz Communities Express Outrage Boston, MA: WGBH FM a long-time key provider of highly respected jazz programming in Boston, today notified jazz hosts Eric Jackson and Steve Schwartz that their shows would be discontinued as they currently exist, beginning July 1, 2012. Schwartz's Friday night show which has aired for 27 years will ...
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