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Cuneiform Records Launches The Music Outpost - A Sister Company Devoted To Licensing Music On The Sonic Frontier

Re-Imagining Music in the 21st Century starts on August 17, 2015 An Existential QUESTION: How does a 31-year old record label that specializes in avant-garde, non-mainstream music and has released over 400 albums of high-quality music to date, survive and thrive in the 21st century digital age, an era in which all music—whether popular or avant-garde—has ...
Brazil's Michel Nirenberg Releases "Retrato/Portrait"

At the age of 25, award-winning saxophonist and composer Michel Nirenberg has attracted some of the finest Brazilian and Latin jazz players available to record his debut album Retrato/Portrait on indie label Carioca Music. They are at once his musical colleagues and mentors, drawn to make music that sails across geographic and stylistic borders. The album ...
Chihiro Yamanaka Trio At Blues Alley In Washington, DC, March 30

The Chihiro Yamanaka Trio will perform March 30, 2015 at Blues Alley in Washington, DC. The trio, led by jazz pianist/composer Chihiro Yamanaka, a Universal Music/Blue Note recording artist, features bassist Yoshi Waki and drummer John Davis. Ms. Yamanaka’s performance, part of Blues Alley’s Japanese Jazz Series, marks her return to Blues Alley after her well-received ...
Jenny Scheinman: Little Bit Country

by Franz A. Matzner
A brief survey of violinist, vocalist, and composer Jenny Scheinman's recordings proves her a multi-genre experimenter, uniting a wide range of musical styles through partnerships with a diverse set of premier artists, including Jason Moran, Myra Melford, and Lou Reed. Scheinman's facility and humor was confirmed over the course of a Valentine's Day weekend performance at ...
Capitol Blues Night 2015! Ironing Board Sam, Cool John Ferguson, Sol Roots In Washington DC

Capitol Blues Night returns Thursday March 12 2015 at Clydes of Gallery Place in Washington D.C.! It’s not often you get to see Ironing Board Sam, Cool John Ferguson, Sol Roots, all on one ticket! This fantastic show will only have 100 tickets available, so get yours now! Music Maker Relief Foundation founder Tim Duffy said, ...
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova And UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock Announce Fourth Annual International Jazz Day

PERFORMANCES & OUTREACH PROGRAMS TO TAKE PLACE WORLDWIDE ON APRIL 30, RECOGNIZING JAZZ MUSIC AS A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF FREEDOM International Jazz Day All-Star Global Concert in Global Host City Paris, France will be a highlight of UNESCO’s 70th Anniversary Celebration Paris and Washington, D.C. – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Director-General Irina ...
Jeff Cosgrove/Frank Kimbrough/Martin Wind: Conversations With Owls

by Mark Corroto
The opening track to drummer Jeff Cosgrove's third release under his own name is The Owl, listening to his composition brings to mind poet Carl Sandburg's words, The fog comes/on little cat feet/It sits looking/over harbor and city/on silent haunches/and then moves on." The composition is not what you might expect from a drummer led recording. ...
Future Of Music Coalition Takes Bold Steps to Serve Artists & Their Teams

As musicians, songwriters, managers, indie publishers and labels ourselves, we know that it’s a challenge to stay on top of the many issues that are reshaping music. But with so much happening in the policy arena and the marketplace, this is a crucial time for artists and their teams to get involved. In FMC’s next next ...
Where Is Home: Janel & Anthony and Palo Colorado Dream: Anthony Pirog

by Glenn Astarita
Modern era guitar heroes such as Nels Cline, Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell are expressive stylists, possessing distinct ways of conveying a narrative amid branded and well-defined stylizations. No need to compare, but from a fundamental standpoint, these gents and other elite craftsmen bear the goods that often transcend the norm or anticipated methods of spinning ...
Jonathan Parker Octet At Wonderland Ballroom In Washington DC

Award-winning DC Composer & Saxophonist JONATHAN PARKER Brings His Octet To The Wonderland Ballroom 1101 Kenyon Street NW, Washington DC December 17th at 8pm and 10 pm Sets Will Feature Music From Parker's Upcoming Release INTERLOPER New York, NY: On Wednesday, December 17th Jonathan Parker brings his octet to Washington DC's quintessential dive bar, ...