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How are you celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month or International Jazz Day?

by Michael Ricci
Jazz Appreciation Month (April) and International Jazz Day (April 30) represent opportunities to program special events and bring together communities to draw public attention to jazz and its extraordinary heritage. Your friends at All About Jazz celebrate jazz and the musicians who make the music every day of the year. In addition to ...
Use Jazz Near You To Promote Your Events During Jazz Appreciation Month

Jazz Near You gathers and distributes jazz event information to fans in nearly 300 cities worldwide via the web, email, and phone. It's also ready to help presenters and musicians promote their Jazz Appreciation Month events. It's free and easy! Professional musicians and presenters can simply add their events. Single and recurring events can be added ...
Chaise Lounge: Gin Fizz Fandango

by Mark Sullivan
Washington DC's Chaise Lounge know how to show the listener a good time. On their seventh album they take the cocktail jazz" description literally, offering a recipe for the title cocktail in the CD liner notes, compliments of the band's resident mixologist, bassist Pete Ostle. Not only that: there's even a Play along with Chaise Lounge" ...
Tim Whalen: Oblivion: The Music of Bud Powell

by Mark Sullivan
Pianist/composer/arranger Tim Whalen pays tribute to the great bebop pianist Bud Powell with this set of creative arrangements. Whalen rightly points out that Powell was the architect of modern jazz piano, yet he is often overlooked when fellow bebop pioneers Bird, Monk, and Dizzy are mentioned. His arrangements of Powell compositions (plus one new original) are ...
The Empresarios: The Vibes

by Chris M. Slawecki
Even though they're based in Washington, DC, every piece of music from The Empresarios--either their own or in collaboration with others--sounds like you've just rolled into a torrid party on tropical Miami Beach. And even though they're based in Washington, DC, Empresarios bandleader Javier Miranda and lead singers Frankie Rosado and Felix Perez all hail from ...
Sweet Honey In The Rock Recently Released New Single “Second Line Blues”

GRAMMY-nominated, Sweet Honey In The Rock gears up for their upcoming album #LoveinEvolution (out January 22nd) via SHE-ROCKS 5, INC./Appleseed Recordings (distributed by E1 Entertainment). The A Capella ensemble recently released their second single and music video, “Second Line Blues,” available now on iTunes and Amazon. The album’s stark second single “Second Line Blues” with its ...
Chaise Lounge: A Very Chaise Lounge Christmas

by Mark Sullivan
Sparkling holiday music from the Washington, DC area group Chaise Lounge. Calling what they do martini-jazz" gives them license to toss just about anything into the stylistic mix, and they have an eclectic good time with it. The use of Christmas" in the album title is a bit of a misnomer, since only about half of ...
Duane Eubanks Quintet at Blues Alley

by Steve Bryant
Duane Eubanks Blues Alley Washington, DC July 15, 2015 Duane Eubanks has been fighting to establish a noteworthy identity as a jazz trumpeter for years. One, he's had to dwell in the shadow of his more well-known brothers, Duane and Robin, as well as hustling in the often rough-and-tumble New York ...
Brazilian Vocalist Cissa Paz Releases New CD

After four years developing a devoted international fan base from monthly concerts at Bossa Bistro in Washington, D.C.’s eclectic Adams Morgan neighborhood, Brazilian vocalist Cissa Paz launches her self-titled debut CD in mid-September. The captivating beauty offers an intriguing compilation of tunes on the new album, celebrating the sounds of the Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) Diaspora. While nearly ...
Bennett and Gaga at Kennedy Center: Dissection of an Era

by Franz A. Matzner
Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga's duet project has captured headlines from its inception and for the most part the carefully constructed and deliberatively delivered juxtaposition of styles, age, and temperament has been showered with praise, including receiving a Grammy award. Not surprisingly, then, their final performance together held in the Kennedy Center's expansive concert hall was ...