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2009 Caramoor Jazz Festival to Feature Reeves, Walton, Valdes, Weston, and More
Katonah, New York - The 2009 Caramoor International Music Festival, hailed by The New York Times as “... the loveliest Festival of them all," presents its 16th Annual Jazz Festival on August 1 and 2 at the Venetian Theater. Jazz Producer Jim Luce assembles a star-studded line-up of both jazz legends and new forces on ...
Jazz Legacy Series: Cyrus Chestnut Trio at Creole Restaurant on June 19th
Creole Restaurant and Music Supper Club Continues to Invigorate the Harlem Jazz Scene Named “… best jazz pianist of his generation… ” in Time Magazine, Cyrus Chestnut is known for his imaginative, inventive style and his profound sense of the history and language of Jazz. He has performed and/or recorded with everyone from Jon Hendricks, Wynton ...
Antonio Ciacca: Bringing People Together Through Swing
by John Barron
Antonio Ciacca knows a thing or two about multi-tasking. The New York-based pianist is a tireless statesman of jazz, composing music for his own small groups, arranging for various big bands and working as Director of Programming for Jazz at Lincoln Center. Adding to all of this, Ciacca and his wife are busy raising five children ...
Stax Music Academy in Memphis Presents "SOULed on Jazz!" with Special Guests Kirk Whalum & Cyrus Chestnut
On May 9, 2009, the Stax Music Academy in Memphis, TN will welcome a very special guest artist, jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut, to the SNAP! After School Spring Concert at Germantown Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. Chestnut will join SMA student musicians as well as Artist-In-Residence and internationally renowned jazz/gospel saxophonist, Kirk Whalum. The concert, ...
Michelle Walker Live @ Bar Next Door
Michelle Walker Performs Live @ THE BAR NEXT DOOR Monday March 16, 2009 Vocalist Michelle Walker returns to one of her favorite performance rooms, the Bar Next Door for an intimate evening of live jazz vocals. The Bar Next Door is one of the smaller and most intimate settings for serious jazz in Manhattan...[and]...is a perfect ...
Cyrus Chestnut Jazz with a Mission and a Groove
The powerful and sometimes poetic jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut has worked with a trio for about 15 years, since he first made his name. Thats a while. The piano trio format remains as effective and economical today as it was half a century ago in fact its the kind of group that usually delivers ...
Jazz Vespers Debuts at Abyssinian Baptist Church
by Herb Boyd
Jazz at Abyssinain: A Swinging Pre-Holiday VesperAbyssinian Baptist ChurchNew York, New YorkNovember 23, 2008From the thoughtful, ruminative probing of Cyrus Chestnut to the massive choir-like outpourings of an ensemble led by pianist Onaje Allan Gumbs, Jazz at Abyssinian: A Swinging Pre-Holiday Vesper provided a cornucopia of sound that consistently had the ...
Pianist Cyrus Chestnut Interviewed at AAJ
When the bespectacled man with the boyish round face sits down at the grand piano to play these days, listeners can still expect to hear the rich tone, jazz inflected with not only the influences of Fats Waller or McCoy Tyner, but also with a soulful element that comes from church roots. But some of the ...
Cyrus Chesnut: Expounding on Elvis
by R.J. DeLuke
When the bespectacled man with the boyish round face sits down at the grand piano to play these days, listeners can still expect to hear the rich tone, jazz inflected with not only the influences of Fats Waller or McCoy Tyner, but also with a soulful element that comes from church roots. But some of the ...
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