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Giants Of Jazz To Headline 2019 Guinness Cork Jazz Festival
Exciting headline acts have been announced for the 42nd Guinness Cork Jazz Festival in Ireland, which takes place over the October Bank Holiday Weekend from Thursday, 24th to Monday, 28th October. Headliners Giants of Jazz will join globally renowned artists pushing the boundaries of the musical genre today. The line-up features legendary artists including Grammy Hall ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A jazz documentary film festival
Though this weekly feature typically previews concerts by bands and musicians coming to St. Louis in the near future, the next couple of weeks, alas, are pretty much devoid of touring acts of interest. So we're taking the opportunity to offer some programming for a lazy summer weekend in the form of a mini-festival of jazz ...
18th Edition Of The CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival Starts Friday June 21!
Jazz in June officially starts this Friday June 21 with the opening of the 18th Edition of the CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival. The nine- day Festival runs through June 29 and will present more than 320 shows including a record 102 free shows and events and 220 shows in the Club Pass Series. It all ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Dave Weckl to headline Chesterfield Jazz Fest
This week, StLJN's video spotlight shines on drummer Dave Weckl, who will be back home to perform next Saturday, June 15 as the headlining act at the Chesterfield Wine & Jazz Festival. A native of St. Charles, Weckl undoubtedly is one of the most successful working jazz musicians from this area, first gaining international attention working ...
Three Spectacular Days Of Cultural Bridges At The New York Japanese Jazz Festival At Smoke Jazz Club From June 25-27, 2019 In NYC!
The inaugural New York Japanese Jazz Festival will be launching June 25-27, 2019, as part of a three-day series heralding the undiscovered talents from the island on the other side of the world. Featuring a “who’s who” of American Jazz Greats, with a treasure trove of Jazz music’s future stars there will be something for everyone ...
Suncoast Jazz Festival Expands Roster To Include More Nationally Known Artists, With Jason Marsalis & The 21st Century Trad Band As Headliners
This year marks the 29th anniversary of the Suncoast Jazz Festival, which takes place every November on the travel-award-winning Clearwater Beach. In its early years, the festival featured bands and musicians with a focus on early jazz, but more recently, working with acclaimed guitarist Nate Najar, has expanded its line-up from traditional jazz to include swing, ...
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Yaniv Taubenhouse
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Having received his first piano lessons at the age of six, Israeli native Yaniv Taubenhouse graduated from the Thelma-Yellin high school of the arts in Tel Aviv. Upon graduation, he went on to study with gifted Israeli instructors such as Dr. Assaf Zohar, Ms. Hanna Shalgi, and Prof. Benjamin Oren. Masterclasses and lessons in the U.S. and Europe included work with jazz and classical pianists such as Richard Goode, Brad Mehldau, Robert McDonald, and Sonia Rubinsky.
In December 2009. Yaniv came to New York to study with pianist Pavlina Dokovska and in the fall of 2010, he moved to Fayetteville Arkansas to study with pianist Jura Margulis in the piano performance program at the University of Arkansas. Yaniv’s work with Jura Margulis included lessons at the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg Austria.
Yaniv has performed extensively at different venues and festivals around the world such as the Salle Cortot hall (Paris), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Tel Aviv Museum, Bern Jazz Festival, Kfar Blum International Chamber Music Festival, Borja Jazz Festival, The Walton Art Center, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music (NY), Vicenza Jazz Festival, and live performance broadcasts on NPR affiliate, KUAF, 91.3 FM, to name a few.
Yaniv has played and performed with musicians such as David Schnitter, Ronald McClure, Roswell Rudd, Jorge Rossy, Peter Bernstein, Ari Hoenig, Geroge Coleman, Orlando Le Fleming, Anat Cohen, and Will Vinson, among many others.
‘Here from There' is Yaniv’s debut album as a leader which was released in December 2014 on Fresh Sound Records and was well received by the press. The album was recorded in January 2013 and it features Darren Novotny on drums and Garrett Jones on bass, both Arkansas Native musicians.
In August of 2013, Yaniv moved to New York City, where he also received a scholarship to attend the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and graduate with a BFA degree. Currently, Yaniv performs and records regularly in New York and internationally with numerous projects, both as a leader and as a sideman.
The Yaniv Taubenhouse Trio, featuring Rick Rosato (bass) and Jerad Lippi (drums), comes from a long lineage of musical influences both in and out of the jazz world. The group's repertoire features originals by Taubenhouse, Rosato, and Lippi as well as standards. The trio has recorded and released three critically-acclaimed albums in the Moments in Trio series. The three volumes (‘Moments in Trio - Volume One’, ‘Perpetuation - Volume Two’ and ‘Moments in Trio Volume Three: Roads’) have been released on Fresh Sound Records.
Lineup Announced For 2019 CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival 18th Edition
Producers John Nugent and Marc Iacona today announced the full lineup for the 2019 nine-day CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival. Now in its 18th year, the festival will be held June 21 to 29 and present more than 320+ shows including a record 100+ free shows and 1500+ artists from around the world performing in 20 ...
Sarasota Jazz Festival is well underway
The main stage portion of the 39th annual Sarasota Jazz Festival opened Wednesday night with a new location, a relaxed flavor and fine music from event newcomers and old hands. The festival has moved from the Riverview High School Performing Arts Center to the hotel ballroom and function rooms of the waterside Hyatt Regency Hotel, bringing ...
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Saso Popovski
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The music of Saso Popovski is music of pure lines, concluded structures and lush imagination. Rhythmically and also melodically, his music alludes to Oriental patterns, which makes it a bit mystical. But there is nothing hermetically in it, as some of these kind of music excursions to Orient can be... Popovski organizes his compositions around a beautifully derived, clear, appealing melodious line, which is unmistakably supported by a bass player with a velvet sound and a drummer with consistent, concentrated rhythmization. Popovski finely enhance the basic river-like melody, carefully meanders through its possible by-paths and streams, but never loses the basic thread
