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News: Music Industry

Pianist Donald Vega Releases New Single: ¡Baila! Dance Like No One’s Watching

October 1, 2023

The new single, “¡Baila! Dance Like No One’s Watching," was released on Friday, September 29, 2023 to all digital streaming music platforms. This new single is from Vega’s upcoming album As I Travel which will be released on October 27, 2023. The album consists of 9 tunes, all composed and arranged by Vega. The album depicts ...

News: Award / Grant

Pianist Donald Vega Receives Guggenheim Fellowship In Composition

April 15, 2023

On April 5, 2023, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the winners of this year’s Guggenheim Fellowship. Donald Vega was named a fellow in the Creative Arts category for composition. “...an exceptionally articulate pianist... Vega's single most distinctive characteristic is his romantic lyricism." —JazzTimes The award provides Vega with support to complete his newest recording ...

Article: Album Review

Ron Carter: Finding The Right Notes

Read "Finding The Right Notes" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan
January 9, 2023

Going back to the fall of 2016 and Ron Carter's appearance at the Detroit Jazz Festival as artist-in-residence, the buzz was that a biographical film on the man named the most recorded bassist in history was in the pipeline. During that festival, a film crew was seen regularly following Carter around Hart Plaza and the bassist ...

News: Recording

Ron Carter & The Jazzaar Festival Big Band Directed By Christian Jacob

December 12, 2022

The live recording, Remembering Bob Freedman at the 2019 Jazzaar Festival, Switzerland was released on October 6, 2021 on Shanti Records. The 17-piece Jazzaar Festival Big Band was assembled specifically for the 2019 festival showcasing the phenomenon of the “Bandstand Learning with Role Models” platform. This was founded in 1992 by Fritz K Renold and Helen ...

Article: Album Review

Ron Carter: Finding The Right Notes

Read "Finding The Right Notes" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
November 17, 2022

On October 21st 2022, America's PBS channel screened a two-hour documentary about the life and work of Ron Carter titled Finding The Right Notes. This seventy-three minute CD is the soundtrack. It is a beauty, a roll-around-in feast of Carter's inimitable, sumptuous bass. The ten tracks, recorded between 2014 and 2021 in Europe ...

Album

Remembering Bob Freedman

By Ron Carter

Label: Shanti Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Straight No Chaser; Live; Stompin' at the Savoy; You Don't Know What Love Is; More Than Four;Opus 5; Like Someone in Love; Lover Man; Salsa Siete; Don't Get Around Much Anymore; Eternal Triangle.

Album

A Song of Hope

By Eric Wyatt

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2021
Track listing: A Song of Hope; Fragile; Blues for RH (Roy Hargrove); Fur Live; Chance; One 4 Hakim; Say Her Name; Tain Dance; Sunset Park Bonita; Central Park West; Contemplation; Of Things to Come RTK. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-13118290

Article: Album Review

Eric Wyatt: A Song of Hope

Read "A Song of Hope" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 25, 2021

On A Song of Hope, his second album for Whaling City Sound, saxophonist Eric Wyatt offers more than hope; he offers assurance that contemporary jazz is alive and well in and around his home base of Brooklyn, NY. Wyatt, the godson of another rather well-known saxophonist, Sonny Rollins, performs in groups of various sizes, from quartet ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Eric Revis, Billy Higgins & Rob Scheps

by Joe Dimino
April 25, 2021

We begin the 696th Episode of Neon Jazz with bassist Eric Revis and a track from his 2020 release Slipknots Through a Looking Glass. We take a closer look at the musicians who made made 2020 a fantastic year for new jazz releases with Ron Miles, Jen Hodge and Ben Rosenblum. We also listen to a ...

Album

You Can See: The Best of Donald Vega on Resonance

By Donald Vega

Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Scorpion; First Trip; Compassion; Eleuthra; Spiritual Nature; Accompong; Future Child; You Never Tell Me Anything; Mango Rengue; Falando de Amor; Child's Play; You Can See; River; 3000 Miles Ago; Slippery.