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Bill Cosby Joins Herbie Hancock's Birthday Concert Celebrations
Comedian Bill Cosby will help to celebrate pianist Herbie Hancock's 70th birthday at an upcoming concert held in the jazz icon's honour. The gig, part of New York's CareFusion Jazz Festival, is set to feature The Cosby Show star alongside trumpeter Terence Blanchard and saxophonists Joe Lovano and Wayne Shorter. Festival producer George Wein says, “That ...
Pablo Held: Music
by Dan McClenaghan
German piano prodigy Pablo Held debuted as a leader with Forest of Oblivion (Pirouet Records, 2009), an album of surprising depth, suffused with a romantic European feeling. Subtle and smooth-flowing, it was full of nuance and smoldering interludes that would, at times, burst into roaring percussive flames. Held was only 21 years of age at the ...
"Chaography": A New Kind of Jazz Film To Be Made
by R.J. DeLuke
Who wants to see a movie about jazz musicians that tells a good story, accurately portrays the lives of musicians and contains good, happening music? Show of hands not necessary. Skepticism understood, based on past history. Yet that's exactly the lofty goal of young filmmaker Doug Chang, a jazz fan who is ...
Hancock to be Feted at Revived NYC Jazz Festival
Jazz legend Herbie Hancock will be feted at a belated 70th birthday bash at Carnegie Hall that will highlight the revival of a major summer jazz festival in the Big Apple. The pianist, who turns 70 on April 12, will be joined by comedian Bill Cosby, saxophonist Joe Lovano, trumpeter Terence Blanchard, and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, ...
Jazz Star Herbie Hancock Goes Global with Album
Jazz icon Herbie Hancock has rounded up another all-star cast for the multimedia follow-up to his Grammy-winning tribute to Joni Mitchell. “The Imagine Project" aims to unite “a myriad of cultures through song and positive creative expression," according to a statement. Collaborators include pop singer Pink, guitarist Jeff Beck, sitarist Anoushka Shankar, Irish folk group ...
Enter the Legacy Recordings "Miles Davis - The Complete Columbia Album Collection" Giveaway
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Legacy Recordings “Miles Davis - The Complete Columbia Album Collection" giveaway contest starting today. We'll select one lucky winner at the conclusion of the contest on March 5th. The winner will also receive a Miles Davis T-shirt and a Miles Davis USB stick, so the total value ...
Dee Dee Bridgewater: Dee Dee on Billie
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
It is almost inevitable for most people to think of Billie Holiday as a wounded human being who suffered, struggled and eased her pain with drugs and song lyrics on her way to self destruction in 1959. In her greatness, Billie was as devastating and as devastated as a summer with no water. And yet her ...
For Latin Lovers: Mark Weinstein, Claudio Roditi, Emilio Solla
by J Hunter
In many ways, the description “Latin jazz" is no more useful than the umbrella description “jazz." There are sub-genres inside the sub-genre, all of them with subtle color changes that provide different flavors, even though it all can lead to the same satisfying result. Here are three early 2010 entrants into this musical conversation.
Bill McBirnie: Mercy
by Raul d'Gama Rose
By its very nature and high and lonesome sound, the flute is a solitary instrument. Although played from ancient times, the modern flute as a solo voice has been rather seldom heard compared to other woodwind--especially reed--instruments. But non-existent it is certainly not. First Frank Wess' then Herbie Mann's and Hubert Laws' work certainly comes to ...
Amnesiac Quartet: Tribute to Radiohead
by John Barron
Led by pianist Sebastien Paindestre, France's Amnesiac Quartet pays homage to the iconic British band Radiohead with Tribute to Radiohead. The disc is an endearing live set of instrumental renditions of five Radiohead songs, each with extended open space for intense improvising from Paindestre, soprano saxophonist Fabrice Theuillon, bassist Joachim Florent, and drummer Antoine Paganotti.
