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Jazz And R&B Stars Set To Groove Memorial Day Weekend In San Diego
Maxwell, Brian Culbertson, Charlie Wilson, Ledisi, Mint Condition, Robert Glasper, Anthony Hamilton and Boney James among the performers at the Payne Pest Management San Diego Jazz Festival taking place May 23-25, 2014. Phoenix, Arizona (28 February 2014): With much of the nation presently suffering through the worst winter in decades, perhaps planning to party in luxury ...
Arizona Jazz Festival Bodes To Be A Souled Out Weekend
Parade of Grammy winners and R&B legends set to join a stellar jazz slate March 7-9, including Ne-Yo, Patti LaBelle, Smokey Robinson, The Isley Brothers and Gladys Knight Phoenix, AZ: With thousands of old school and new school R&B and contemporary jazz fans from across the U.S. flocking to Phoenix twice a year for the Arizona ...
2013 Thelonious Monk Institute Competition
by Franz A. Matzner
The saxophone is the most iconic of jazz instruments. Its image is all that is needed to invoke the music's essence, its history intimately entangled with the cultural arc of American music and urban culture. Its masters are the most recognized outside jazz circles and its sound most closely identified with the art form. To many, ...
Robert Glasper Experiment: Black Radio
by Troy Collins
Evoking the fruitful jazz and pop crossover efforts of the 1970s, pianist Robert Glasper's Experiment infuses improvisational sensibilities into an array of contemporary black music traditions, from R&B and neo-soul to funk and hip-hop. Glasper is no stranger to such collaborations; in addition to leading his own acoustic and electric ensembles, he is music director of ...
Robert Glasper: Black Radio
by Eugene Holley, Jr.
Depending on your age, Houston-born pianist/composer Robert Glasper is--like trumpeters Christian Scott and Ambrose Akinmusire, and bassist/vocalist Esperanza Spalding-either the herald of a new world a-comin' when jazz musicians will be heard on pop radio on a regular basis, or he's a throwback to the golden age of the seventies, when jazz stars, from Herbie Hancock ...
Celebrating Dr. Nina Simone's Legacy & 79th Birthday
February 21 marks the 79th birthday and celebrated life of Dr. Nina Simone. As the only child of one of the most extraordinary artists of the twentieth century, SIMONE, re-launched NinaSimone.com last Mother's Day, to honor the timeless treasures and milestones in her mother's career. In commemoration of Dr. Simone's music and civil rights legacy, the ...
Celebration: A Musical Journey
Label: EmArcy
Released: 2011
Track listing: Outra Vez; Garota De Ipanema; So Danco Samba; Mas Que Nada; Going Out Of My Head; Constant Rain; Night And Day; The Look Of Love; So Many Stars; The Fool On The Hill; Scarborough Fair; (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay; Pretty World; Wichita Lineman; Norwegian Wood; Masquerade; What The World Needs Now; Pais Tropical; Viramundo; After Sunrise; Promesa De Pescador; Never Gonna Let You Go; My Summer Love; The Sound Of One Song; Kisses; Daylight; Sarara (Bring Me The Sunlight); Cinnamon & Clove; Rio De Janeiro; Holografico Olodum; Mas Que Nada; The Frog; Waters Of March; Y Vamos Ya; So Tinha De Ser Com Voce; Magalenha; The Fool On The Hill; Chove Chuva;
Saint Lucia Jazz Festival Offers Travel Packages
In celebration of the 20th anniversary, Grammy-award winning multi-Platinum artist John Legend will headline this year's Saint Lucia Jazz Festival. The singer, in his album collaboration with The Roots, recently picked up three awards on February 13, 2011 at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards show for Best Tradition R&B Vocal Performance for “Hang On In There," ...
John Legend to Headline Saint Lucia Jazz Festival
In celebration of the 20th anniversary, six time Grammy winner and multi-Platinum artist John Legend will headline this year's Saint Lucia Jazz Festival. Singer, songwriter and pianist, Legend has sold more than five million albums worldwide, garnered multiple hit singles ("Ordinary People," “Used to Love U," “So High," “Save Room," “Heaven," “Another Again") and has received ...
