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Grammy Nominees 2017 Named - Jazz List
The 59th Annual Grammys will air live from the Staples Center in LA on Feb. 12th at 8 p.m. ET on CBS. Here is the full list of nominees for the 59th Annual Grammy Awards: JAZZ Best Improvised Jazz Solo: “Countdown” — Joey Alexander “In Movement” — Ravi Coltrane “We See” — Fred Hersch
Blue Note Records, Blue Note Jazz Club & Entertainment Cruise Productions Enter Into A Five Year Partnership Deal For The Contemporary Jazz Cruise
Newest Cruise Outing, Which Features Six Blue Note Artists, Will Be Re-branded as Blue Note at Sea As the excitement continues to build around Entertainment Cruise Productions' inaugural sailing of The Contemporary Jazz Cruise, Don Was of Blue Note Records and Steven Bensusan of Blue Note Jazz Club today announced a five year partnership with ECP ...
New Contemporary Jazz Cruise To Launch In 2017 With Performances By The World's Top Artists
Entertainment Cruise Productions, LLC (ECP), the world leader in live entertainment at sea, announces the debut of The Contemporary Jazz Cruise, a luxury full-ship charter featuring a lineup of the greatest jazz artists in contemporary music. With more than 40 Grammy Awards between them, this incredible assembly of superstars will come together for one unprecedented week ...
Meet "Jazz Judy" Judy Balos
by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
“Jazz Judy" Balos has earned her nickname. A live music fan since the age of 16 when she saw Nina Simone in concert, this New Yorker has been going out to hear live jazz four or five times a week (sometimes even two or three times a day) for over 50 years; she's even traveled to ...
Wynton Marsalis Quintet at The Palace Theater
by Karl Ackermann
Wynton Marsalis Quintet The Palace Theater Stamford, CT April 30, 2016 There are expectations baked into a live performance from the caliber of a Wynton Marsalis. An artist who has won a Pulitzer Prize for Music, nine GRAMMY awards, serves as the Director of Jazz studies at Juilliard and is actively ...
Chucho Valdés, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Michel Camilo: Playing Lecuona
by Maurizio Zerbo
Colonna sonora dell'omonimo documentario dedicato all'arte di Ernesto Lecuona, il CD in esame riunisce alcuni dei più fulgidi protagonisti della scena cubana odierna. Il fine è quello di omaggiare uno dei principali maestri della scena afrocubana del Novecento, autore di ben 400 canzoni e 153 composizioni per pianoforte. Riproposti con grande cura e spirito filologico, i ...
Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame Announces 2016 Nominees
24 songwriters and composers have nominated for induction into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame. 6 final elected nominees will be inducted at the LA MUSA AWARDS to be held on October 13th at the Filmore Miami Beach Jackie Gleason Theater. The complete list of nominees: PERFORMING SONGWRITER NOMINEES: Alejandro Lerner – Argentina Caetano ...
Aruan Ortiz Trio: Hidden Voices
by Dan McClenaghan
The jazz piano trio comes in a wide spectrum of approaches, from the traditional--Red Garland, Tommy Flanagan--to the way out there avant-garde, like Cecil Taylor. When the subject of “Cuban pianists" comes up, some of the first names that come to mind are probably those who work in a traditional vein: Chucho Valdes, perhaps, or maybe ...
Jeff Dayton-Johnson's 2015 Mixtape
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
The narrator of Jean-Jacques Schuhl's 2002 novel Ingrid Caven muses, “I like the connection, the splice, not the things themselves; what's between them, their rapport. Two ideas, images, the bridge between two harmonies for the jazz musician..." It's an interesting esthetic statement regarding jazz: that part of the music's appeal lies not in its components, but ...
Irakere 40 at SFJAZZ
by Harry S. Pariser
Irakere 40 SFJAZZ San Francisco, California October 30, 2015 “They were smoking." That was KPFA's Art Sato, host of “In Your Ear"--a weekly Saturday afternoon Latin Jazz, jazz and flamenco music program on KPFA in Berkeley, California--evaluating legendary Cuban band Irakere's then-ongoing performance at SFJAZZ in San Francisco. ...
