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Stephanie Jordan And Ellis Marsalis To Perform For Stevie Wonder At National Urban League’s Gala
Whitney M. Young, Jr. Awards Masquerade Gala honors U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Bernette Johnson and musical legend Stevie Wonder NEW ORLEANS – Internationally acclaimed New Orleans’ jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan will be accompanied by pianist Ellis Marsalis in a special rendition of one of Stevie Wonder’s tunes as the National Urban ...
Bela Fleck & The Marcus Roberts Trio: Across The Imaginary Divide
by Doug Collette
Across The Imaginary Divide, the collaboration between banjoist Béla Fleck and The Marcus Roberts Trio, is as adventurous as its title suggests. And the fruit of these four musicians' labor is as seamless as their approach is fearless.The opening moments of “Some Roads Lead Home" demonstrate that the modesty with which the foursome interacts ...
Marcus Roberts: The Music of Jelly Roll Morton
by Nick Catalano
In the midst of Jazz at Lincoln Center's May celebration of New Orleans music, Marcus Roberts and his trio, accompanied by a choir of horns, constructed a tribute to Jelly Roll Morton. The concert featured classic Morton compositions performed with some enterprising improvisations.Morton's importance as a jazz pioneer cannot be overstated, and the extent ...
Jazz & Blues Florida May 2012 Online Edition Posted
The new edition of Jazz & Blues Florida, Florida's free online source for information on live jazz and blues in clubs, concerts and festivals, is now available. Readers throughout Florida and visitors coming from around the world consult this site for information on the vibrant scene to be found throughout the state. If jazz & blues ...
North East Florida Jazz Association To Host Jazz Festival
The North East Florida Jazz Association (NEFJA) is celebrating their 25th anniversary by presenting a one-day Jazz Festival featuring some of the best national and local musicians on the jazz scene today. The Jazz Festival will be from 1:30 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 28 at the Ormond Beach Center for the Performing Arts. ...
Jazz Progenies Jason Marsalis and Simone Share a Double Bill at the Annenberg Center
Philadelphia, PA: The youngest in the first family of jazz, Jason Marsalis boasts a sound performed with “commendably ardent swing" (Jazz Times). The daughter of musical icon Nina Simone, Broadway star Simone's vocal stylings have made it to the top of Billboard and iTunes jazz charts. The Annenberg Center presents both performers in one night of ...
Bob Brookmeyer: Jack of All Trades, Master of Valves
by Jack Bowers
Bob Brookmeyer, a Renaissance man among jazz musicians who died December 15, 2011, four days before his eighty-second birthday, will be remembered as many things: composer, arranger, musician, educator, outspoken arbiter who brooked no nonsense and wasn't shy about letting others know when he believed they were not giving the music he loved the best they ...
Battle Grounds
Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: It's Been a Long Hard Road; I Should Care; Ramsipamsie; I Sit and Then I Wonder; Pent-up House; The Green Room; Battle Grounds; Dreams From My Father; Rhythm to Run; Hymn Like.
Five Golden Rings for Christmas
by C. Michael Bailey
The 2011 holidays are nearly upon us and with them, the requisite focused recordings. The number of such offerings has diminished in the last number of years. What has not diminished is the quality of the recordings, as evidenced by these five “golden rings." Happy holidays, jazz fans. Elisabeth Lohninger Band
Ellis Marsalis: A New Orleans Christmas Carol
by Dan Bilawsky
Christmas music doesn't usually come into stores, radios and homes until Thanksgiving time but, in a year when snow covered the East Coast before Halloween, early arrivals seem to be the norm. Guitarist Doug Munro delivered a Django Reinhardt-styled set of holiday classics on A Very Gypsy Christmas (GotMusic, 2011) in September; pianist Geri Allen tackled ...
