Results for "Jane Bunnett"

Chihiro Yamanaka Trio At Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Festival, May 10 In Washington, DC

May 5, 2012

The Chihiro Yamanaka Trio will perform May 10, 2012 at the 17th Annual Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. Chihiro, a Universal Music recording artist and a jazz pianist/composer, kicks off the festival, performing the opening set on the festival's opening night ...

Elio Villafranca and Arturo Stable: Dos Y Mas

by Dan Bilawsky
January 28, 2012

Pianist Elio Villafranca and percussionist Arturo Stable have the world at their fingertips. They originally hail from Cuba, where they received classical training and soaked in the sounds of the people before coming Stateside. But they don't limit their vision to their mutual point of origin. Spain, the Middle East and Africa, along with the sounds ...

Cuban Rhapsody

By Jane Bunnett

Label: Alma Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Lagrimas Negras (Black Tears); Son de la Loma: Longina; Quirino Con Su Tres; Contradanzas; Maria la O; Almendra; New Danzon; Sherezada; Danza Lucumi.

Elio Villafranca And Arturo Stable To Release "Dos Y Mas"

December 7, 2011

Elio Villafranca and Arturo Stable, two Cuban-born maestros of jazz and world music, unveil Dos Y Mas, the debut recording of their exquisite new piano and percussion collaboration, which comes out on Motéma Music on January 10, 2012. Villafranca's virtuosic and multifaceted pianism engages Stable's poly-rhythmic percussion genius on ten original compositions that pay tribute to ...

Jane Bunnett - Hilario Duran: Cuban Rhapsody

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 15, 2011

Cuban Rhapsody documenta un incontro musicale cubano-canadese all'insegna di amore, passione e creatività. In un continuo susseguirsi di brillanti soluzioni, (ri)emerge un lungo filo che tra matrice africana e mondo classico accomuna jazz e musiche cubane. Sax e pianoforte si incrociano mirabilmente per dar luogo ad un progetto colto e raffinato che dà vita ad una ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jane Bunnett

October 22, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating Jane Bunnett's birthday today! Jane Bunnett has become one of the foremost jazz musicians in Canada, and has gained recognition around the world for her improvising talents, technical proficiency, and writing and band leading abilities. Born and educated in Toronto, she trained as a classical pianist from 1975-78 (attaining Grade 10 ...

Jane Bunnett & Hilario Duran: Cuban Rhapsody

by Edward Blanco
September 3, 2011

Torontonian flautist/saxophonist Jane Bunnett joins forces with Cuban-born, Toronto-based pianist Hilario Duran for a special duet recording, exploring the Cuban equivalent of The Great American Songbook on Cuban Rhapsody. Containing a full range of Cuban music, from Ignacio Cervantes to Jose Maria Vitier, the classically trained duo breathes new life into much of this classical-rooted music. ...

The Jazz Session #288: Jane Bunnett and Hilario Duran

July 2, 2011

Mark Weinstein: Jazz Brasil

by Raul d'Gama Rose
April 2, 2011

Mark Weinstein has quietly established himself as one of the most wildly inventive flutists in modern memory. He is also one of the finest virtuoso players in the entire spectrum of 20th and 21st century music. His only rivals may well be the late Eric Dolphy, the Canadians, Jane Bunnett and Bill McBirnie, and, of course, ...

Guelph Jazz Festival, September 8-12, 2010

by Kurt Gottschalk
January 17, 2011

Guelph Jazz FestivalGuelph, CanadaSeptember 8-12, 2010 Some music festivals are holidays and some are expeditions. The annual Guelph Jazz Festival & Colloquium in Ontario has a way of being more safari than respite. The days are long, with lectures and panel discussions on some days beginning at 9:00am and concerts on others ...