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Saluting the 2019 Jazz Masters Maria Schneider and Bob Dorough
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from vocalist Lauren White, pianist Sarah McKenzie and saxophonist Cory Weeds with birthday shout outs to Carmen McRae, Herbie Hancock, Marie Goudy, Marilyn Maye and Barbara Lea, among others, with a nod to the upcoming Jazz Masters Bob Dorough and Maria Schneider. Also who's in town this week and playing the ...
Omar Sosa: Building Bridges Not Walls
by Duncan Heining
Cuban-born pianist, Omar Sosa is a passionate man. Music, religion, family, his relationship to the planet—all these are inseparable to an artist whose musical world is steeped in the Afro-Cuban heritage that he draws upon so personally and individually in his work. Spinning culinary metaphors to describe the processes of music-making, he sings the praises of ...
Watch the 2019 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert from the Kennedy Center at All About Jazz or Jazz Near You!
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will honor the 2019 NEA Jazz Masters at a tribute concert held in collaboration with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, hosted by Jason Moran. The concert will also be available via a live webcast at both All About Jazz and Jazz Near ...
Bergamo Jazz Festival 2019
by Libero Farnè
Bergamo Jazz Festival Varie sedi 21-24.3.2019 Il Bergamo Jazz Festival non cessa di rinnovarsi nella continuità. È stato questo il quarto e ultimo anno della direzione artistica di Dave Douglas. Nel 2020 il testimone passerà nelle mani di Maria Pia De Vito. Scelta opportuna non solo perché la cantante napoletana introdurrà la ...
Celebrate the 2019 NEA Jazz Masters with the National Endowment for the Arts Free Tickets to the April 15 Tribute Concert Available Now!
The National Endowment for the Arts will honor the 2019 NEA Jazz Masters—recipients of the nation’s highest honor in jazz—at a series of free events this April, held in collaboration with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. These events—a concert with performances by stars of the jazz and music world, ...
Infinite Spirit Music: Live Without Fear
by Chris May
Britain's Jazzman Records has form when it comes to spiritual jazz. Its series Spiritual Jazz: Modal, Esoteric and Deep Jazz, now one release away from its tenth volume, has made accessible again some of the most worthwhile but near-lost African American music of the 1970s. The label also supports modern day British musicians. Stand out home-grown ...
February Birthdays and Snooky @100
by Marc Cohn
It's the monthly jazz birthdays edition of Gift and Messages, direct from our turntables and CD players in mid-city Baton Rouge to you! We salute the late trumpeter Snooky Young on his 100th birthday with one of the rare recordings under his own name, the out-of-print Horn of Plenty. Great listening, along with tenor birthday madness ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: David Murray
All About Jazz is celebrating David Murray's birthday today! Few musicians in jazz history have proven more vigorously productive and resourceful than David Murray. During the past 35 years, from the moment he first visited New York as a 20 year-old student, playing in a walkup loft, in 1975, David has careened forward in a cool, ...
Eric Dolphy: Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Sessions
by Troy Dostert
Although his iconic Out to Lunch! (Blue Note, 1964) is one of a handful of undisputed avant-garde jazz masterpieces, Eric Dolphy's stature has never quite risen fully to the level of the jazz titans. Some of this is probably due to his untimely death at age 36, just as he was reaching new creative peaks; and ...
Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz 2018
by Luciano Rossetti
Photos from the “Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz 2018" Festival held in Sant'Anna Arresi, in the south of Sardinia from the September 1st to 9th, featuring, among others, Eve Risser White Desert Orchestra, Roots Magic, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and his The Young Mothers, David Murray, Radian, Joe McPhee, James Brandon Lewis and Chad Taylor Duo, ...
