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News: Festival

13th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival

March 19, 2012

13th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival-Jazz: A Music of the Spirit, March 30 until April 30, 2012 presented by the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium. This music series is New York City's longest continuously running grassroots festival dedicated to jazz. More than 500 artists will be performing in 40 events at venues from Coney Island to Williamsburg ...

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Article: Live Review

Newport Beach Jazz Party 2012: Newport Beach, CA, February 16-19, 2012

by Patricia Myers
March 12, 2012

12th Annual Newport Beach Jazz PartyNewport Beach Marriot HotelNewport Beach, CAFebruary 16-19, 2012An abundance of top-level jazz in the glamorous ocean-side setting of the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel has made the annual Newport Beach Jazz Party one of the most popular on the circuit. The extended President's Day weekend event attracted ...

News: Event

12th annual Newport Beach Jazz Party

February 11, 2012

By Patricia Myers Tributes to Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson,Chet Baker, Paul Desmond and the “Four Brothers" sound made famous by Woody Herman will be among the 44 sessions of the 12th annual Newport Beach Jazz Party, Feb. 16-19 in at the Newport Beach Marriott in southern California. This year's edition has the biggest advance sale ...

News: Performance / Tour

Houston Person Quartet Coming to Exodus to Jazz on February 11th

February 6, 2012

Houston Person has been to Rochester (and Exodus to Jazz before) and now returns on Saturday, February 11th for a concert in the ETJ series. As Exodus To Jazz promoter José DaCosta wrote in his press release Houston Person is returnign to Rochester “with the Boss Tenor crown firmly positioned in its rightful place . . ...

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Article: Interview

Terell Stafford: Trial and Inspiration

by Andrew J. Sammut
January 30, 2012

Terell Stafford is as likely to credit his influences as he is to impress his listeners. Coming to jazz comparatively later than many players, and even with his busy schedule as a sideman, leader and educator, he remains devoted to exploring the music's roots, while expressing a relentless desire to learn more. Stafford first ...

Album

Moment to Moment

By Houston Person

Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Bleeker Street; I Cover the Waterfront; Moment to Moment; Freight Dance; Don't Take Your Love From Me; E Nada Mais; Just the Way You Are; Back in New Orleans; All My Life; Love Won't Let Me Wait; Nina Never Knew.

Album

So Nice

By Houston Person

Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Blues Everywhere; All Too Soon; I Wished On The Moon; Kiss And Run; So Nice; I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face; Close To You; Star Eyes; Minor Inconvenience; Easy Living; Everything I Love; Stephen Sondheim Medley.

Article: Album Review

Randy Johnston: People Music

Read "People Music" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
December 9, 2011

Perhaps more than any other musical instrument, the guitarists of today come drenched in the music of highly diverse musical genres. The instrument has been a fulcrum of expression, from folk, country and blues to jazz and rock--with a smidgen of classical thrown into the mix as well. Thinking about it, the task of developing as ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Houston Person

November 10, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating Houston Person's birthday today! Houston Person wears the Boss Tenor crown, worn so long by Gene Ammons. Mr. Person is busy working his own gigs; booking his tours, finding new clubs, having phone numbers for every major concert promoter on every continent. He even produces his own albums. His first big ...

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Article: Album Review

Houston Person: So Nice

by Greg Simmons
November 10, 2011

Mom's meatloaf is wonderfully predictable. You always know what you're going to get, and after decades, you've come to rely on it. Why? Because there's something intimately reassuring about knowing that when you go back for more, it's the same as the last time. A recipe change would be simply unthinkable. It's comfort food. Oh, and ...