Results for "John Beasley"

Great Tastes Meet Good Taste At Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City Jazz Brunch Every Sunday

June 28, 2018

Promoting both individual and communal expression, Jazz is a particularly American art form. Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City, in association with Jazz producer Joe Donofrio, have prepared a full-spectrum Jazz brunch experience; where contemporary and classic Jazz will mingle with the sounds of culinary satisfaction at the hotel’s brand new Hard Rock Cafe for ...

John Beasley: Monk'estra, Vol. 2

by Angelo Leonardi
May 23, 2018

Dopo il primo volume (Monk'estra vol.1, Mack Avenue 2016), John Beasley amplia l'organico e invita nuovi ospiti per un'altra rivisitazione del pianeta Monk. Galvanizzato dalle ottime accoglienze del debutto, il bandleader presenta nuovi estrosi arrangiamenti dal classico songbook del pianista. In effetti il vocabolario orchestrale monkiano è quasi tutto da costruire se si eccettuano i progetti ...

Peter Erskine & The Dr.Um Band al Soresina Jazz Fest 2018

by Vincenzo Roggero
May 17, 2018

Peter Erskine & The Dr.Um Band Teatro Sociale Soresina 04.05.2018 Anticipato di circa un mese rispetto alle precedenti edizioni, ricollocato nella cornice otttocentesca del Teatro Sociale, il Soresina Jazz Festival è partito con il botto. Ad infiammare il numeroso pubblico accorso ci pensa la Dr.Um Band di Peter Erskine quartetto di ...

Los Angeles Based Trumpeter Brian Swartz Starts Indiegogo Campaign

May 13, 2018

Los Angeles based trumpeter Brian Swartz is running an Indiegogo campaign during May 2018 to raise funds for his 5th album. The working title for the project is “The Tuesday Sessions." It will feature his band, The Brian Swartz Quartet, and will be Swartz's debut on vocals. This band has been performing every Tuesday at Perch ...

John Beasley

Born: October 10

Pianist • Composer • Arranger • Producer • Music Director

Two-time GRAMMY® Award winner and 14-time GRAMMY nominee (with two Latin GRAMMY nominations and an Emmy nomination), John Beasley is one of contemporary music’s most versatile and sought-after pianists, composers, and arrangers.

Launching his professional career in his early 20s with jazz legends Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard, Beasley quickly established himself as a dynamic force at the keyboard. Over the decades, he has collaborated with a wide range of artists, including Dianne Reeves, Sergio Mendes, John Patitucci, Chaka Khan, Christian McBride, and Carly Simon.

Douye': Daddy Said So

by Jim Worsley
March 2, 2018

Daddy Said So, and clearly father knows best. Raised with the epic jazz renderings of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne and Etta James, Douye' harkens back to a jazz era rich with elegance and timbre. Her silky and deliciously subdued voice pulsates through a set list of choice jazz standards. With quiet intensity Douye' whispers ...

Danny Janklow: Elevation

by Vincenzo Roggero
February 15, 2018

Danny Janklow è un giovane sassofonista californiano che ha conquistato una certa notorietà sia come membro della MONK'estra di John Beasley --presente in questo disco come pianista insieme ad Eric Reed --sia come accompagnatore di Stevie Wonder, Jose James, Herbie Hancock per citarne alcuni --dopo essersi fatto le ossa nella Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra di Wynton ...

60th GRAMMY Awards: Jazz Winners

January 29, 2018

And the winners of the 2018 GRAMMY Awards are... 31. Best Improvised Jazz Solo (For an instrumental jazz solo performance. Two equal performers on one recording may be eligible as one entry. If the soloist listed appears on a recording billed to another artist, the latter's name is in parenthesis for identification. Singles or Tracks only.) ...

MONK’estra, Vol. 2

By John Beasley

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Brake’s Sake; Played Twice; Crepuscule With Nellie; Evidence; Ugly Beauty/Pannonica; I Mean You; Light Blue; Dear Ruby; Criss Cross; Work.

November 2017: Geri Allen, Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Big Band, Thelonious Monk

by Patrick Burnette
December 8, 2017

Welcome to our monthly look at what's happening on the Jazz Bastard podcast! November is packed, so let's get to it: Episode 127 (live November 1, 2017) looks at the early career of pianist Geri Allen, who died June 27 of this year. Neither of us had listened extensively to her recordings before, so ...