Results for "CHRISTIAN SCOTT"

Ljubljana Jazz Festival: Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 20–29, 2012

by Henning Bolte
July 26, 2012

Ljubljana Jazz FestivalLjubljana, SloveniaJune 20-29, 2012Ljubljana, with its 53rd edition, truly hosts the oldest jazz festival in Europe. Norway's Molde, also a candidate, started one year later, in 1960. The capital of the now-independent Republic of Slovenia, neighbored by Austria, Hungary, Croatia and Italy, Ljubljana is situated one hour from Trieste, two hours ...

Ottawa Jazz Festival, Days 1-3: June 21-23, 2012

by John Kelman
June 27, 2012

Days 1-3 | Days 4-8 TD Ottawa International Jazz FestivalOttawa, CanadaJune 21-Jul 1, 2012After a paradigm shift in 2011--deserting its largely “pure" approach to programming for one that acknowledged how, in order for it to survive, it needed to (a) attract a larger percentage from the youth demographic, and ...

BMW Jazz Festival 2012

by Ross Eustis
June 26, 2012

BMW Jazz FestivalVia FunchalSão Paulo, BrazilJune 8-10, 2012 To borrow a word commonly associated with BMW cars, this is a luxury festival. The BMW Jazz Festival debuted one year ago, in 2011, in São Paulo, Brazil. With handsome funding from BMW Financial Services-Bank Group in Brazil, the young festival experienced wild ...

Christian Scott: Shining a Light

by Chris May
June 19, 2012

Trumpeter/bandleader Christian Scott's aTunde Adjuah (Concord, 2012), like its immediate predecessor, Yesterday You Said Tomorrow (Concord, 2010), delivers on two fronts. Musically, it retains what is precious in the jazz tradition, while drawing in ideas from hip hop, rock, funk, ambient and Afrorock. Extra-musically, it reaffirms jazz as protest music. Born and brought up ...

Spy Boy

Featuring the music of Christian Scott
Duration: 10:12
June 18, 2012

Christian Scott: aTunde Adjuah

by Chris May
June 11, 2012

In 1959, when Whitney Balliett, the New Yorker's jazz critic, published a collection of his columns, he titled the book The Sound of Surprise. The promise of the unexpected, wrote Balliett, was jazz's most precious quality. In a year which went on to include the release of trumpeter Miles Davis' Kind of Blue (Columbia), saxophonist John ...

D.C. Jazz Loft Series to Showcase National Stars & Local Talent in June

May 27, 2012

The D.C. Jazz Loft Series, a collaboration between the DC Jazz Festival (DCJF) and CapitalBop, will return to the Festival this year with performances from some of the nation’s most influential, boundary-pushing artists. Part of the Festival’s Jazz in the ‘Hoods program presented by Events DC, the three-day series is expanding to include a final, daylong ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Christian Scott

March 31, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Christian Scott's birthday today! On March 30, 2010 star trumpeter Christian Scott will release Yesterday You Said Tomorrow, his highly anticipated, all-new 10-song collection. First single and Thom Yorke (Radiohead) cover \'The Eraser\' available now on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-eraser-single/id354084005 Yesterday You Said Tomorrow was recorded at the renowned Van Gelder Studio in ...

Robert Glasper: Black Radio

by Eugene Holley, Jr.
March 10, 2012

Depending on your age, Houston-born pianist/composer Robert Glasper is--like trumpeters Christian Scott and Ambrose Akinmusire, and bassist/vocalist Esperanza Spalding-either the herald of a new world a-comin' when jazz musicians will be heard on pop radio on a regular basis, or he's a throwback to the golden age of the seventies, when jazz stars, from Herbie Hancock ...

Take Five With Edmund Sobczak

by AAJ Staff
December 28, 2011

Meet Edmund Sobczak: Edmund Sobczak--trumpeter, composer, originally from Poland where, he studied trumpet performance at the University of Music in Poznan, one of the best Universities in the country. For the last six years he's lived in Oxford (UK). After 18 years of playing the trumpet and being involved in countless music projects, in ...