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Swing! / Episode 2 - "Birth of the Big Bands"
Soulandjazz.com Presents: Swing! Episode 2--Birth of the Big Bands Hosted and Produced by J. Scott Fugate, “The Jazz Evangelist" As always, the show is free, absolutely legal, fun for the whole family, and available for listening right now, right here. Welcome back to another episode of Swing! This month we explore the birth of the ...
DC Jazz Festival Perseveres Through Sixth Year
by Franz A. Matzner
DC Jazz FestivalWashington, D.C.June 1-13, 2010 The biggest success of the sixth annual Washington, D.C. jazz festival may simply have been pulling it off. Faced with difficult economic times and a rebranding from the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival to the DC Jazz Festival, which according to several sources resulted from a dispute ...
JC Stylles Jazz at Creole Restaurant & Supper Club in Harlem, NY on July 10th. 2010
Creole Restaurant and Supper Club is one of the hottest haunts in New York. With a list of performers that include Dave Valentin, James Spaulding, Cyrus Chestnut and David Murray just to name a few, Creole reigns supreme in the New York Jazz community. And let us not forget about their wonderfully scrumptious menu consisting of ...
Duo Piano: Two For the Ages
by Ken Dryden
Bill Charlap & Renee RosnesDouble PortraitBlue Note2010 Eric Reed & Cyrus ChestnutPlenty Swing, Plenty SoulSavant2010 The debate continues as to whether having two pianos is merely a novelty or something that ...
Sonny Rollins Elected as Member of American Academy of Arts & Sciences
by Jack Bowers
This month's most welcome news has nothing to do with big bands but everything to do with artistry and excellence: saxophonist and jazz icon Sonny Rollins has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The Academy, a center for independent policy research (I don't quite understand what that has to do ...
Pianist and Songwriter Cyrus Chestnut to Headline Billy Taylor Jazz Festival
Greenville, NC -- Again this year the East Carolina University School of Music Jazz Studies Program brings a world-class jazz performer to Greenville for the Billy Taylor Jazz Festival on April 22-23. Critically-acclaimed pianist and songwriter Cyrus Chestnut headlines this year's event at the Murphy Center on ECU's campus on Friday, April 23, backed by the ...
The Sheldon, Metrotix Offering "Buy One, Get One Free" Deal on Cyrus Chestnut Tickets
JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 1, 2010
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 1 Ahmad Jamal A Quiet Time (Dreyfus) 250 221 +29 2 63 1 6 2 1 2 Steve Hobbs Vibes, Straight Up (Challenge) 228 233 -5 0 54 1 8 3 7 12 Hadley Caliman Straight Ahead (Origin) 200 148 +52 5 42 ...
"Chaography": A New Kind of Jazz Film To Be Made
by R.J. DeLuke
Who wants to see a movie about jazz musicians that tells a good story, accurately portrays the lives of musicians and contains good, happening music? Show of hands not necessary. Skepticism understood, based on past history. Yet that's exactly the lofty goal of young filmmaker Doug Chang, a jazz fan who is ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: January 25, 2010
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 26 Steve Hobbs Vibes, Straight Up (Challenge) 189 197 -8 10 55 1 3 2 45 — John Stein Raising The Roof (Whaling City Sound) 186 60 +126 25 51 2 2 3 — — Greg Reitan Antibes (Sunnyside) 146 49 +97 26 ...
