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Jazz Musician of the Day: Lewis Nash
All About Jazz is celebrating Lewis Nash's birthday today! Rhythm Is My Business" is the title of his debut recording as a leader, and rhythm is a booming business as far as Lewis Nash is concerned. He is the drummer of choice for an incredible array of artists- from the masters of the music to the ...
Pianst Lisa Hilton Release "Day & Night" on Ruby Slippers Productions
Nineteen albums in, after working with the top-drawer jazz masters, like Antonio Sanchez, Christian McBride, Nasheet Waits, Sean Jones, Marcus Gilmore, Steve Wilson, Jeremy Pelt, Lewis Nash, Billy Hart, Larry Grenadier, Rudy Royston, and Bobby Militello, among others, LISA HILTON strips her music down to the essentials and returns to the solo format with Day & ...
NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston To Release New 2-CD Set, "The African Nubian Suite," On His African Rhythms Label, Jan. 20
NEA Jazz Master, iconic pianist/composer, and still-vital jazz elder Randy Weston, at 90, remains a powerful force in jazz. Currently serving as artist-in-residence at Medgar Evers College at the City University of New York; celebrated earlier this month at Harvard University, which has acquired his archive; and named a United States Artists (USA) Fellow last week, ...
Joe Lovano Quartet: Classic! Live at Newport
by Angelo Leonardi
Il quartetto che Joe Lovano guidò con Hank Jones, George Mraz e Paul Motian è stato uno dei combo più avvincenti del suo decennio, documentato in due dischi ampiamente celebrati: I'm All for You (Blue Note, 2004) e Joyous Encounter (Blue Note, 2005). Alla fine di luglio, la storica etichetta ha pubblicato la registrazione ...
Joe Lovano Quartet: Classic! Live at Newport
by Dan Bilawsky
It's safe to say that many years from now, when the critics and historians have the benefit of distance to help focus their thoughts, many if not most will continue to hail much of saxophonist Joe Lovano's presently-admired body of work on the Blue Note imprint. But what will stand tallest in said discography? Some may ...
"The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald," Jane Monheit's First CD On Her New Emerald City Imprint, Due For April 8 Release
Vocalist Jane Monheit had long thought about recording an Ella tribute. Fitzgerald’s beloved songbook albums held “Biblical” importance for her when she was growing up and have never lost their hold on her. Those dreams have come to fruition with Monheit’s new album, The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald. It was the perfect maiden project for her ...
Champian Fulton: After Dark
by Edward Blanco
Veteran New York pianist and vocalist Champian Fulton offers another recording of time-honored standards on After Dark, except this particular effort focuses on the music of the Queen of the Blues, the music of the great Dinah Washington, who was her first major vocalist influence early on in her life. Though she grew up listening to ...
Elio Villafranca at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola on April 16-17 & More!
ELIO VILLAFRANCA UPCOMING PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE Cuban Pianist Presents Cinqué-Suite of the Caribbean April 16 & April 17 (LIVE WEBCAST) Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola Cinqué-Suite of the Caribbean debuted in The Appel Room in 2015 and was one of the top concerts of the 2014-15 season. Cuban pianist and composer Elio Villafranca ...
Music Education Monday: Jazz drumming tips from Lewis Nash
Today for Music Education Monday, you can pick up some tips on jazz drumming via a handful of videos recorded by the veteran percussionist Lewis Nash. Nash, who's 57 and originally from Phoenix, has made five recordings as a bandleader, but he's best known as a sideman to some of today's top jazz musicians, with more ...
Carol Welsman: Alone Together
by Edward Blanco
Canadian jazz pianist and vocalist Carol Welsman unveils her eleventh album as leader with the audacious Alone Together where she's never alone and altogether very spicy and splendid on vocals as well as on the keys. The album contains a superb selection of time-honored standards like Sammy Cahn's Day By Day," Rodgers & Hammerstein's oft-recorded It ...


