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Esperanza Spalding: Chamber Music Society
by Eugene Holley, Jr.
The jazz world hasn't been the same ever since the twenty-something Esperanza Spalding--the Oregon-born, Texas-based bassist/singer/composer/educator--burst on the scene at the change of the century. Her story as a self-taught, home schooled prodigy who graduated from Berklee and became that institution's youngest instructor; who gigged with everybody from Patti Austin and Pat Metheny to Joe Lovano; ...
Newport Jazz Festival: Sunday, August 8, 2010
by Timothy J. O'Keefe
Part 1 | Part 2 CareFusion Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State ParkNewport, RIAugust 8, 2010 Temperatures rose high, as jazz fans gathered in Newport for the fifteen performances, spread over three stages, that provided eight hours of listening pleasure. The Ben Allison Band started things up at ...
Many Shades of Jazz Come Out at Newport 2010
by R.J. DeLuke
CareFusion Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State ParkNewport, RIAugust 6-8, 2010 The variety of music at the 2010 CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival August 6-9 was one of its notable traits. Mainstream, Latin, electric stuff, ornate orchestral offerings, swing and all kinds of things in between.The originality of the music ...
The 22nd Edition of Earshot Jazz Festival: October 15 to November 7, 2010
Seattle's annual Earshot Jazz Festival returns October 15 and continues through November 7 with more than 50 distinctive concert events in venues all around the city. “Seattle's most important annual jazz event" —Downbeat Known for “adventurous, spot-on programming" (Jazz Times) and praised as “one of the best festivals in America" (Seattle Times) the Earshot Jazz Festival ...
Esperanza Spalding: Chamber Music Society
by Ernest Barteldes
On the opening track of her much-lauded, self-titled major label debut, Esperanza (Heads Up, 2008 ), bassist/vocalist Esperanza Spalding covered Milton Nascimento's timeless gem, “Ponta de Areia." Rather than covering another of the singer/composer's tunes on Chamber Music Society, Spalding recruits Nascimento to perform on her own “Apple Blossoms." It's but one example of a highly ...
Sirius XM Radio to Broadcast Live from the Montreal Jazz Festival
SIRIUS XM's Real Jazz channel will broadcast live from the 31st annual Montreal Jazz Festival, the world's largest jazz gathering. Listeners will hear Real Jazz host Mark Ruffin give a preview of the event's performances including music and interviews with artists including Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins, Houston Person, Robert Glasper, Gretchen Parlato and others. The live ...
Alan Ferber: Developing String Theory
by Franz A. Matzner
Trombonist and composer Alan Ferber is a precise and thoughtful individual whose careful, deliberate expression is equally evident in both his insightful way of speaking--and his beautifully composed and executed recordings. As a freelancer, Ferber has tackled a wide breadth of music, everything from big band and small ensemble jazz to Broadway musicals and the beats ...
Gigging: John Ellis's "The Ice Siren"
Melding jazz with other idioms is a risky endeavor, one that often ends in a depletion of the music's greatest virtues. Much of the jazz-fusion of the 1970s synthesized the worst of jazz and the worst of rock into a watered-down sound. This can be pleasant enough, but how many of the genre's albums have the ...
Stockholm Jazz Festival 2010
by James Pearse
Stockholm Jazz Festival 2010 Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden June 10-12, 2010 The central island of Skeppsholmen was, once again, the ideal location for the Stockholm Jazz Festival (SJF). Running since the early 1980s, the event has attracted some of the biggest names in not only jazz but also pop, rock, soul and hip ...
North Coast Brewing Up Some Monk
by Mark Corroto
In 1931, industrialist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. donated two million dollars to the Save-The-Redwoods League to purchase some 10,000 acres of virgin redwood forests in Northern California from logging companies. These companies had already cut nearly 90% of the world's tallest trees, some of these redwood trees had stood on the coast of California since the ...
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