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Dennis Rushton: Jamaica's Greatly Entertaining Pianist
Dennis Rushton relationship with the piano began at age 9. He was classically trained, but in later years studied other music styles with an emphasis on jazz. The founder/director of DenRush Productions, consisting of a music school and recording studio, is the executive producer of the concert series 'Creative Praise." Rushton albums are Sail On (2002), ...
Maurice Gordon: A Jamaican Guitarist of Great Versatility
Guitarist Maurice Gordon describes his music as contemporary jazz delicately flavored with hints of reggae, R&B, funk, rock and fusion. He is an artist of great versatility one who is well admired in jazz circles for his fluid technique, dexterity and highly personal style which has earned him wide-ranging appeal from Canada to the Caribbean, from ...
The Sacred Jazz of Deanna Witkowski
Pianist, vocalist, composer and winner of the 2002 Great American Jazz Piano Competition, Deanna Witkowski is one of the more important sacred jazz artists today. With a very original and virtuous style, she mixes contemporary and Latin jazz genres doing so from a spiritual perspective. Based in New York, Deanna has worked in different projects relating ...
Nine Women in the Room: A Jazz Musicians' Roundtable
Roundtable sisters: From left to right: (top row) Geri Allen, Ingrid Jensen, Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding, Tineke Postma and Helen Sung; (bottom row) Nona Hendryx and Gretchen Parlato by Tom Cole Over the summer, drummer Terri Lyne Carrington brought together some pretty high-profile musicians from all over the world to record The MOSAIC PROJECT: pianists ...
Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival Takes Gleaner Honour Awards
Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival, formerly Air Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival, takes the Jamaican Gleaner Honour Award 2010 in the category of Entertainment. From scores of nominees, the award is given annually to individuals and organisations that have made a difference by positively enhancing Jamaica's quality of life. Since its 1996, the festival has brought ...
YolanDa Brown: A Jazz Saxophonist with Affiliation in Academia
Jazz has a preponderance of musicians of high academic achievements who have PhDs, Masters, Bachelors degree behind their names. Maybe the converse holds that high academic achievers, who are musicians, are invariably attracted to this great and wonderful music. A recent addition to the list of A-Graders is YolanDa Brown, British born jazz saxophonist, 2008 MOBO ...
'Serious Jazz' Tribute to Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair
The life and music of the amazing Jamaican saxophonist Wilton “Bogey" Gaynair will be the highlight of a special visual presentation, narrated by renowned historian and musicologist Herbie Miller. The WDNA 88.9 FM, serious jazz, organized tribute is being stage at the ,its Coral Way. Jazz Gallery this Saturday, October 2. The late Jamaican tenor saxophonist ...
Bobby Ramirez, Enrique Sendra Mix Jazz and Art This Saturday at WDNA Concert
WDNA 88.9 FM Fine Arts Concert series celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month with live Latin jazz this Saturday, September 25 featuring renowned flutist, saxophonist and Bata drummer Bobby Ramirez and his group Pan con Bistec together with a vibrant and surreal exhibition by Cuban visual artist Enrique Sendra. The works of the talented Cuban-born visual artist, ...
Brazil's Beat Seduces Jazz Greats
OLINDA, Brazil (AFP)—Brazil's unique tropical blend of samba-rock-guitar known as MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) has exerted an irrepressible influence on modern jazz, masters of the genre say. “Since I played with John Coltrane in 1961, I started using open intervals on the chords, distributing the notes of each chord broadly on the piano so the other ...
Esperanza Spalding's White House Visit Makes Seven Days, Seven Spectacular Live Performances; Sept 7-13
September 11: ESPERANZA SPALDING In Performance @ the White House The Library Of Congress Gershwin Prize For Popular Song celebrated the music of Stevie Wonder. The gala event was hosted and presented by President Barack Obama & First Lady Michelle Obama in the White House—East Room, Washington D.C. on Wednesday February 25, 2009. A star-studded selection ...
