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Internationally Acclaimed Israeli Saxophonist Eli Degibri To Perform At The White House
Internationally acclaimed Israeli jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader, Eli Degbiri, will be performing at the 2016 International Jazz Day Global Concert, hosted by President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at The White House. The concert will be broadcast nationally on ABC on April 30th—International Jazz Day—and streamed across the globe by the United Nations and ...
Gideon King: New York and Music
by Sammy Stein
Gideon King is a New York City boy. He was born and raised in the city. He is a composer, guitarist and producer and has worked with some of the finest musicians. He has been involved in projects which cover a range of music genres including pop, funk, jazz and fusion and has produced and collaborated ...
2016 Lakeland Jazz Festival
by C. Andrew Hovan
2016 Lakeland Jazz Festival Lakeland Community College Kirtland, Ohio March 18-20, 2016 The Cleveland area has a long history of jazz pedagogy in relation to two well-established community colleges. Cuyahoga Community College's annual jazz featival, the better known program, dates back to 1980 and for many years was a spring tradition ...
Francesco Diodati e il Questionario di Proust
by AAJ Staff
All About Jazz Italia: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Francesco Diodati: In continua evoluzione e trasformazione. AAJ: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. F.D.: La voglia di rischiare e mettersi in gioco. La propensione a suonare con gli altri, per la musica ...
Gilad Hekselman: Homes
by Mark F. Turner
The “heir apparent" concept does not exist in jazz. Younger artists seeking status and respect must earn it through the rigors of performing and creating music through their own voice and merit. While the talented Israeli-born New York-based guitarist Gilad Hekselman's skill has been likened to Pat Metheny and Kurt Rosenwinkel, he's doing just that with ...
Tyler Kaneshiro: Amber of the Moment
by Dave Wayne
First impressions mean everything. Amber of the Moment, trumpeter / composer Tyler Kaneshiro's debut album opens with a cloying cover of Bjork's “Who Is It." While nicely rendered, and suitably arranged, Kaneshiro's version plays it safe, replacing all of the oddness of the original with slick nu-jazz gloss. The cover of Bon Iver's “Holocene" fares better, ...
Jon Davis: Changes Over Time
by Dan Bilawsky
While there are no liner notes to accompany pianist Jon Davis' third date for the Posi-Tone imprint, there's a quote inside the package, attributed to author Anne Rice, that gets to the heart of the matter: “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are." So is personal evolution and ...
Gabriel Vicéns: Puerto Rican Jazz Guitar
by Mark Sullivan
Puerto Rican jazz guitarist/composer Gabriel Vicéns graduated from the Music Conservatory of Puerto Rico as the first jazz guitarist, and has gone on to teach guitar at the Music Department at the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico. He recorded his first solo album Point in Time at age 23; his second album Days has been released ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Kurt Rosenwinkel
All About Jazz is celebrating Kurt Rosenwinkel's birthday today! Following a string of three acclaimed recordings for Verve Records that firmly established him as one of the most strikingly original new voices in jazz as both guitarist and composer (2000’s The Enemies of Energy, 2001’s The Next Step and 2003’s Heartcore), Kurt Rosenwinkel returns with an ...
Monterey Jazz Festival 2015
by Josef Woodard
Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey County Fairgrounds Monterey, CA September 18-20, 2015 Try as one might to just take the venerable but vibrant Monterey Jazz Festival for its immediate, present-tense and face value pleasure, historical angles keep filtering into the event, intentionally and otherwise. For this year's big, multi-staged jazz meeting at ...
