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Etienne Charles: San José Suite
by Nigel Campbell
Whenever Trinidadian jazz trumpeter and composer Etienne Charles releases an album, it is an event. In this case, it is his latest opus, the ten-part San José Suite--soon to be performed live in Trinidad and Tobago for the first time on November 20. [The album was released in the US in June 2016 and debuted live ...
Grammy Nominated Vocalist René Marie's First All-Original LP "Sound of Red" Out Via Motema Music May 13
René Marie, the “outrageous” (Wall Street Journal) vocalist has taken the recording process one giant step further with the release of her most personal album on May 13. As the follow-up to 2013’s Grammy award-nominated album I Wanna Be Evil (With Love to Eartha Kitt), Sound of Red is her first album of all-original songs written ...
Music Education Monday: A jazz trumpet clinic with Etienne Charles
Today for Music Education Monday, let's look in via video on a jazz trumpet clinic presented by Etienne Charles. Born in 1983 on the island of Trinidad, Charles has a master's degree from Juilliard and a bachelor's from Florida State University, and currently serves as assistant professor of jazz studies at Michigan State University. As a ...
Elio Villafranca at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola on April 16-17 & More!
ELIO VILLAFRANCA UPCOMING PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE Cuban Pianist Presents Cinqué-Suite of the Caribbean April 16 & April 17 (LIVE WEBCAST) Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola Cinqué-Suite of the Caribbean debuted in The Appel Room in 2015 and was one of the top concerts of the 2014-15 season. Cuban pianist and composer Elio Villafranca ...
2015: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The year 2015 was a curious blend of ups and downs, with glimmers of optimism offset by its losses. Venues opened to great fanfare, but others closed for a variety of reasons. UNESCO's International Jazz Day became firmly entrenched as the exclamation point on Jazz Appreciation Month activities in April. Daily arts journalism took a hit ...
Creole Christmas
Label: Culture Shock Music
Released: 2015
Track listing: Father Christmas; Chocolate (Spanish Dance); Go Tell It on the Mountain; Make a Friend for Christmas; Juliana; This Christmas; Roses of Caracas Waltz; Santa Claus Is Coming to Town; Tell Santa Claus; Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy; Indian Parang Chick; I'll Be Home for Christmas; Christmas Is Yours, Christmas Is Mine.
Jazzy Christmas - Creole Christmas
by Angelo Leonardi
I canti natalizi si sono trasformati nel tempo da inni prettamente religiosi, derivati da laudi o ninne-nanne in onore a Gesù bambino, a pop song strutturate sul modello Tin Pan Alley, che celebrano il Natale in un'ottica secolarizzata, mantenendo i valori di amore e fratellanza. La relazione tra jazz e canti di ...
Miles Comes To The Big Screen; Nephew Vincent Wilburn Approves
by R.J. DeLuke
Sometimes a comment made without serious intent can start the wheels of fate. Many Miles Davis fans know there has been a Miles Davis movie in the works for some time. Different proposals emerged over the years, none of them coming to light for varying reasons. Now, however, all Miles fans know that it's ...
Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland 2015
by C. Andrew Hovan
2015 Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland Playhouse Square Cleveland, Ohio July 9-11, 2015 For the second time in its 36-year history, Tri-C JazzFest lit up downtown Cleveland with a three-day midsummer jazz festival that mixed paid shows from national headliners with free outdoor performances featuring musicians from Northeast Ohio. Home to all these ...
Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival 2015
by R.J. DeLuke
Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival 2015 Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga Springs, NY June 27-28, 2015 While jazz is closely associated with horns (even though there are few instruments now employed at some point across the genre) it was a couple of guitar slingers that helped light up the skies at Freihofer's ...
