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Cassandra Wilson at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
by Patricia Myers
Cassandra Wilson: “Coming Forth by Day, A Celebration of Billie Holiday" Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Scottsdale, Arizona February 21, 2015 Vocalist Cassandra Wilson delivered a modern homage in honor of the anniversary of Billie Holiday's 100th birthday. Her performance neither replicated the late singer's sound nor did it adhere ...
Laurie Dapice: Parting the Veil
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist Laurie Dapice's debut recording was an intensely personal affair. That is revealed both in her extensive liner notes and the music she presents here. First efforts require much of an artist and many debut recordings reflect the downside of the demands. Not so with Parting the Veil. Dapice presents herself a fully realized vocalist, arranger, ...
Newport Festivals Foundation Gala: Cassandra Wilson, Michel Camilo, Jon Batiste
Newport Festivals Foundation 5th Annual Gala Celebrates George Wein’s 90th Birthday with Cassandra Wilson, Michel Camilo and Jon Batiste & Stay Human NEWPORT, RI: Don’t miss one of Newport’s favorite social events when the Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc. returns to The Breakers on Saturday, August 1, at 7:30 pm for its Gala Benefit featuring performances by ...
Newport Jazz Festival Flex Tickets No Longer Available After March 1
Going, Going, Almost Gone... Newport Jazz Festival Flexible Discount Tickets To Be Discontinued on March 1 NEWPORT, RI – The countdown is on for purchasing flexible discount tickets for the Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis Global Asset Management. Priced at just $55, Flex Tickets can be used for adult general admission for concerts at Fort ...
Jazz in the New Millennium: Live and Well by Rick Mitchell
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz in the New Millennium: Live and Well Rick Mitchell 339 Pages ASIN: #B00N2331GC Dharma Moon 2014 Much of jazz analysis and reportage is history; the exposition and re-exposition of old forms and older artists. Precious few books written about jazz today have contemporary artists or movements as ...
Cassandra Wilson "Coming Forth By Day" to be released April 7
PRODUCED BY NICK LAUNAY (NICK CAVE) + FEATURING MEMBERS OF THE BAD SEEDS, T BONE BURNETT, STRING ARRANGEMENTS BY VAN DYKE PARKS Cassandra Wilson will release an otherworldly homage to Billie Holiday, Coming Forth by Day (Legacy Recordings) April 7, 2015, on what would have been Holiday’s 100th birthday. Wilson, who has drawn inspiration from Billie ...
Kevin Bruce Harris: Folk Songs - Folk Tales
by John Kelman
Kevin Bruce Harris Folk Songs--Folk Tales Enja Records 1994 Today's Rediscovery is both a long lost and sadly overlooked gem of a record: electric bassist Kevin Bruce Harris' Folk Songs--Folk Tales. Harris first emerged as part of the M-Base collective that began with saxophonist Steve Coleman and his Five ...
Steve Coleman and Five Elements at SFJAZZ
by Harry S. Pariser
Steve Coleman and Five Elements SFJAZZ San Francisco, CA December 14, 2014 “The main thing that I consciously try to follow is things I find in nature, in universe. Basically I see the universe as sort of giant palette of forms within forms."--Steve Coleman He is a 2014 MacArthur ...
Penang Island Jazz Festival 2014
by Ian Patterson
Penang Island Jazz Festival Bayview Beach Resort Malaysia December 4-7, 2014 It was business as usual at the Penang Island Jazz Festival 2014, following the tenth anniversary celebrations of the previous year. That milestone was no small feat for Festival Director Paul Augustin, business partner Chin Choo Yeun and their ...
Andy Milne and Dapp Theory: Forward in All Directions
by Phil Barnes
Not all albums register immediately, sometimes it takes a while for unusual and individual music to settle in your subconscious, reveal itself incrementally as little details emerge with familiarity. This new release from Andy Milne and Dapp Theory, on Whirlwind records in the UK, is a good case in point Toronto born Pianist and ...
