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The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Celebrates Its 40th Year This Season with Special Concerts and Post-Performance Toasts
This season brings the 40 year anniversary of the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on the Penn campus, and there's a chance for every type of creative spirit to celebrate their favorite Annenberg memories in whatever style they love best. This month grooves by with the jazz saxophonist/pianist duo of Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau ...
Grammy Award-Nominated Greats, Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau Take the Stage in a One-Night Collaboration as the Annenberg Center Kicks Off Its 40th Anniversary Season
Philadelphia, PA: The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents a night jam-packed with jazz, as prodigious tenor saxophonist, Joshua Redman and internationally-acclaimed jazz pianist, Brad Mehldau join forces for one unforgettable duo performance, October 14, 2011 at 7:30 PM. Melding their two adventurous, yet distinctive artistic voices, Redman and Mehldau's duo cuts the extraneous and ...
Barcelona Jazz Festival Announces Its Complete Marathon Line Up
The 43rd Voll-Damm Barcelona International Jazz Festival is set to commence Sunday, October 16th through Thursday, December 1st, 2011. This month and a half long celebration will feature performances by Maria Schneider Orchestra, Vijay Iyer Trio, Rudresh Mahanthappa Samdhi, Eliane Elias Brazilian Quartet, Randy Weston and his African Rhythms Trio, Michel Camilo 'Mano a Mano' with ...
John Law / Mark Pringle: This is
by Jakob Baekgaard
Traditionally, the art of the piano duo has been linked to classical music, and almost every significant classical composer, from Mozart to Maurice Ravel, has written music for two pianos. In jazz, however, this particular medium is somewhat rare, and although Bill Evans recorded Further Conversations with Myself (PolyGram, 1967), where he overdubbed himself on piano, ...
Peter Auret: Turning the Tide
by Seton Hawkins
Johannesburg-based Peter Auret is something of a renaissance man in jazz. A drummer, bandleader, recording engineer, founder of a record label, and entrepreneur, Auret has spearheaded an initiative to organize some of the city's most striking jazz talents into a musical collective centered around his label, Afrisonic Records.Starting his career as a drummer in ...
SFJAZZ Collective: Live in New York Season 8 - Music of Stevie Wonder
by John Kelman
SFJAZZ Collective Live in New York Season 8: Music of Stevie Wonder SFJAZZ 2011 One old adage says, “If it ain't broke, don't fix it." But another says, “Change is good." For the first time in its eight touring seasons, the SFJAZZ Collective has found a way to manage ...
Bob Gluck Trio: Returning
by Henry Smith
The piano trio can be a difficult format for free playing. It is too easy for the piano, so easily a dominating instrument, to overshadow the bassist and drummer, rendering them as backup to the more harmonically complex keyboard. This is fine, and an enormous amount of great music has been made in this format, but ...
Josh Nelson Releases "Discoveries" on Steel Bird Music, September 6
With his fifth album as a leader, Los Angeles-based pianist-composer- arranger Josh Nelson continues to broaden his scope with a fresh and wholly personal take on the jazz tradition. Brimming with stimulating ideas and chock-full of sterling solos from his very capable crew, Discoveries sets the bar higher than Nelson's previous acclaimed albums: 2007's Let It ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Brad Mehldau
All About Jazz is celebrating Brad Mehldau's birthday today! Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s. He has worked primarily with the same trio since 1995, featuring bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy. Between 1996 and 2000, they released a series of five records on the Warner Brothers label ...
Jason Reolon: Raising the Bar
by Seton Hawkins
South Africa may well be in the midst of its third jazz renaissance. While the late 1950s saw the rise of legendary artists such as Kippie Moeketsi, Abdullah Ibrahim, and Philip Tabane, the early 1990s marked the emergence of trailblazers Moses Taiwa Molelekwa and Zim Ngqawana. The past five years have born witness to a surge ...
