Results for "Jeff Ballard"

Jeff Ballard

Born: September 17, 1963

Jeff Ballard grew up in Santa Cruz, California. He recalls when he was a child laying in bed listening to the music his father would play every weekend: Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Louie Armstrong, Sergio Mendez, Oscar Peterson, Milton Nascimento; how he loved the sound and the speed of Ed Thigpen’s brushes on the snare. “I remember feeling the power of a Basie big band shout chorus which would then suddenly disappear into some quiet dancing riff. It was the swing in it, which excited me the most. I also remember how it felt traveling thru sounds of the jungle in a Milton Nascimento record

We Were Together, I Forget the Rest

By John Donaldson

Label: Hexagonal Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Prayer For Tomorrow; Agatha's Song; Chanterelle; They Danced; Evening Song; Into The Night; New Dawn.

John Donaldson: We Were Together, I Forget the Rest

by Neil Duggan
August 26, 2026

Pianist John Donaldson reunites an exceptional cast of long-time collaborators for We Were Together, I Forget the Rest, a deeply personal album written in memory of his late wife, Agatha Coffey. The musicians featured on the recording represent relationships forged across Donaldson's five-decade career. Vocalists Norma Winstone and Rebecka Edlund are joined by drummer Jeff ...

Jazz Rebellion for GKN

by Neri Pollastri
June 3, 2026

Jazz Rebellion for GKN Casa del Popolo di Coiano Prato 2 aprile 2026 La GKN di Campi Bisenzio, comune alla periferia di Firenze, è ormai da cinque anni un simbolo della lotta per i diritti del lavoro non solo in Toscana. Da quando, nell'estate del 2021 e allo scopo di dislocare ...

Brad Mehldau at the Cleveland Museum of Art

by C. Andrew Hovan
May 24, 2026

Brad Mehldau Trio Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH May, 13 2026 It had been exactly a decade since pianist Brad Mehldau last appeared on a concert stage in Northeast Ohio when he returned on a cold spring evening for his first performance at the Cleveland Museum of Art's Gartner Auditorium. ...

Torino Jazz Festival 2026

by Antonio Baiano
May 16, 2026

MetJazz 2026

by Neri Pollastri
March 31, 2026

MetJazz 2026 Teatro Metastasio e altre sedi Prato 16 febbraio--26 marzo 2026 La trentunesima edizione di MetJazz, il festival pratese organizzato dal Teatro Metastasio, era anche la prima dopo oltre vent'anni a non avere più come direttore artistico Stefano Zenni, ottimamente sostituito dalla coppia Enrico Romero e Giuseppe Vigna. Dopo l'anteprima ...

This Is Water

By Reinier Baas

Label: DoYouMind? Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: This Is Water, Skull-Sized Kingdoms, Freeze (ft. Jeff Ballard), Brother's Keeper (for Gideon), Recess, Miniatures (ft. Cory Smythe), Fan Fiction (ft. Jeff Ballard), Glass, Skull-Sized Kingdoms II, Love and Strife (ft. Marta Warelis, Han Bennink), Harmonious

Baku Jazz Festival 2025: Part 2

by Ian Patterson
November 22, 2025

Part 1 | Part 2 Baku Jazz Festival Various Venues 20th edition, Days 5-8 Baku, Azerbaijan October 24-31, 2025 Driving around Baku the brightly colored dayglow signs advertising Baku Jazz Festival 2025 catch the eye at every turn. So do posters for COP 29, ...

Dieci giorni di concerti alla Casa del Jazz: Summertime 2025

by Mario Calvitti
September 15, 2025

Summertime 2025 Casa del Jazz Roma 13-21 luglio 2025 Per festeggiare i 20 anni dalla sua inaugurazione come uno dei più importanti spazi per il jazz a Roma, il programma di concerti estivi alla Casa del Jazz, denominato quest'anno Summertime 2025, è stato particolarmente ricco, allungandosi su oltre due mesi ...