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Ron Carter & The Jazzaar Festival Big Band Directed By Christian Jacob

December 12, 2022

The live recording, Remembering Bob Freedman at the 2019 Jazzaar Festival, Switzerland was released on October 6, 2021 on Shanti Records. The 17-piece Jazzaar Festival Big Band was assembled specifically for the 2019 festival showcasing the phenomenon of the “Bandstand Learning with Role Models” platform. This was founded in 1992 by Fritz K Renold and Helen ...

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June 2022: Constellations

by C. Michael Bailey
June 15, 2022

ChimyTina Constellations La Reserve 2022 ChimyTina is a collision moniker for the duo of bassist Dan “Chimy" Chmeilinski and vocalist Martina DaSilva. They are part of a daring group of singers/bassists perfecting the most musically intimate of performance formats. With the bass as the “harmony" instrument supporting a vocalist, ...

Song of the Day

Your Heart Is As Black As Night

April 25, 2022

Album: Signature
By Sylvia Brooks
Label: Rhombus Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 8:09

Album

Remembering Bob Freedman

By Ron Carter

Label: Shanti Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Straight No Chaser; Live; Stompin' at the Savoy; You Don't Know What Love Is; More Than Four;Opus 5; Like Someone in Love; Lover Man; Salsa Siete; Don't Get Around Much Anymore; Eternal Triangle.

Album

The Moon is a Kite

By Ann Hampton Callaway

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: The Moon is a Kite

Album

Revelation

By Ann Hampton Callaway

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Revelation

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The Moon is a Kite

July 18, 2021

Album: The Moon is a Kite
By Ann Hampton Callaway
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Duration: 4:39

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Revelation

June 22, 2021

Album: Revelation
By Ann Hampton Callaway
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Duration: 3:57

About Christian Jacob

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Musician

Christian Jacob

Multi-Grammy nominated pianist and arranger Christian Jacob first gained widespread exposure as music director for Maynard Ferguson and later as leader of the Christian Jacob Trio and co-leader of the Tierney Sutton Band. Christian is also the musical director for both Broadway legend Betty Buckley and American icon Jack Jones. He has performed around the globe, with many of the musical giants that inspired him since childhood. Flora Purim and Airto Moreira, Randy Brecker, Miroslav Vitous, Benny Golson, Bobby Watson and Bill Holman to name just a few.

Born in Lorraine, France, Christian Jacob fell in love with classical music at age 4 and discovered jazz at age 9. After graduating with “First Prize” from the Paris Conservatory, Jacob came to America to study improvisation at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. While attending Berklee Christian won a number of awards, including the Oscar Peterson Jazz Masters Award, the Great American Jazz Piano Competition and "Downbeat" magazine's distinction as Top Collegiate Jazz Soloist. He went on to teach at Berklee, tour with Maynard Ferguson, perform and record with a number of jazz legends and was listed by The Japan Times as one of the best-selling foreign jazz pianists in Japan. His extensive discography includes five critically acclaimed trio recordings and six Grammy nominations from his alliance with vocalist Tierney Sutton, drummer Ray Brinker and bassists Trey Henry and Kevin Axt. Christian also received a Grammy Nomination for his arranging work with The Phil Norman Tentet.

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Tierney Sutton: Movie Music Re-visited

by Josef Woodard
May 8, 2019

Ace jazz singer Tierney Sutton has built up a large discography and international “gigography" with her tautly integrated and long-standing band— pianist Christian Jacob, bassists Kevin Axt and Trey Henry and drummer Ray Brinker— scooping up accolades and trophies, of the GRAMMY and poll-winning sort and more. Enter a new-ish relationship: screen life.Sutton and ...