Results for "Brian Blade"

Jazz Musician of the Day: Brian Blade

July 25, 2010

Preview Scott Colley's "Empire"

July 19, 2010

Due for U.S. release on August 31st 2010, Scott Colley's upcoming album Empire features an impressive line up of Ralph Alessi on trumpet, Bill Frisell on guitar, Craig Taborn on piano and rhodes, and Brian Blade on drums. “Empire" is yet another strong example of Scott Colley's skills not only as an improviser, but also as ...

DJ Grazzhoppa's DJ Bigband + Aka Moon: DJ Grazzhoppa's DJ Bigband + Aka Moon

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
July 14, 2010

There is no shortage of matchmakers seeking to arrange the marriage of jazz and hip hop. Back in the 1980s, pianist Herbie Hancock collaborated with DJ DST, while hip hop duo Gangstarr ostentatiously sampled classic jazz records. In the 1990s, rappers A Tribe Called Quest invited bassist Ron Carter to play on The Low End Theory ...

Ottawa Jazz Festival 2010: Days 10-11, July 3-4, 2010

by John Kelman
July 7, 2010

Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 | Days 10-11 The Wide Alley / Neil Cowley TrioChristian Scott / Tomasz StańkoTD Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada July 3-4, 2010 As the 30th Anniversary of the TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival wraps up, there's ...

Take Five With Dave Chisholm

by AAJ Staff
July 3, 2010

Dave Chisholm is a trumpet player and composer who currently lives in Salt Lake City. He is moving to Rochester, NY in the fall of 2010 to pursue his DMA at the Eastman School of Music. He has his bachelor and masters degrees from the University of Utah. Dave's first album, Radioactive, is coming ...

"Empire" an Upcoming Release from Scott Colley

June 17, 2010

Scott Colley's upcoming album Empire is his seventh release as a leader and it seems as though his experience has served him well. “It felt to me that writing the material for this recording flowed quite easily. I think that because I have listened to all these musicians so much over the years, and have been ...

Stockholm Jazz Festival 2010

by James Pearse
June 17, 2010

Stockholm Jazz Festival 2010 Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden June 10-12, 2010 The central island of Skeppsholmen was, once again, the ideal location for the Stockholm Jazz Festival (SJF). Running since the early 1980s, the event has attracted some of the biggest names in not only jazz but also pop, rock, soul and hip ...

2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

by Gary Firstenberg
June 14, 2010

The city of New Orleans is riding high these days. With the beloved football team winning the Super Bowl, a new mayor promising a brighter future, a rebuilding of structures and economy, and a new HBO television show, Treme, extolling the virtues of the unique culture of this musical mecca, times could not be better for ...

Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense (Theatrical Version)

by John Kelman
May 5, 2010

Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense (Theatrical Version)IndiePix Films2009 Distilling a groundbreaking, four-part, four-hour television documentary--one which finally examined the evolution of jazz in a contemporary, rather than purely historical, context--into a shorter theatrical version is no mean feat. When Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense aired on ...

Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense DVD & VOD Release Due May 11

April 29, 2010

Pre-order it now at shop.allaboutjazz.com BUY IT AT shop.allaboutjazz.com Theatrical Length Documentary Explores Contemporary Jazz Luminaries Including Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Esperanza Spalding & Bill Frisell “[Icons] depicts jazz as a living, breathing and ever-evolving musical art form, and ...