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Karl Denson's Tiny Universe at Levitt Pavilion
by Geoff Anderson
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe Levitt Pavilion Denver, CO August 26, 2017 You don't hear much talk of “The Energy Crisis" anymore. That's because Karl Denson's Tiny Universe has been on the scene, lighting things up and generating gigawatts of energy with its frequent funk fusillades. Over the course of their two ...
TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2017
by John Kelman
TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 23-26, 2017 Amongst the most significant challenges that face any festival is, as the gray and no-hair crowd continues to age, finding ways to cultivate and grow a younger audience. But when you're a Canadian festival, another major challenge is a simple fiscal fact: most ...
Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival Announces Full Lineup For 16th Edition June 23 - July 1 - Nine Days, 325+ Shows, 19 Venues, 95 Free Shows, Youth Workshops & Jams
Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival producers John Nugent and Marc Iacona have announced the lineup for the festival's 16th Edition. The nine-day festival returns to Rochester June 23 thru July 1 presenting more than 1500 artists from around the world in 325+ shows at 19 venues. The 2017 Festival will be presented in three series: the ...
Analog Son: Black Diamond
by Joe Gatto
Jordan Linit and Josh Fairman created Analog Son around a studio project involving the Shady Horns, Ryan Zoidis and Eric Bloom (Lettuce/Soulive), and Joe Tatton (New Mastersounds). Since conception the band has now recorded three records with 30 amazing musicians--their 2014 debut, Analog Son, and one of the best albums of 2015, Stomp & Shout. And ...
Headliners Announced for Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival's 16th Edition
Tickets are on sale now for six headliner shows announced for the nine-day Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (XRIJF) to be held June 23 to July 1, 2017. This marks the festival's 16th Edition. The Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival is one of the nation's premier jazz festivals, navigating all genres of creative improvised music since ...
Vasil Hadzimanov: Alive - featuring David Binney
by Claudio Bonomi
Ottimo e abbondante il menu di “cucina" fusion offerto da questo live confezionato dal compositore e tastierista serbo Vasil Hadzimanov insieme al suo gruppo che, per l'occasione, si onora della collaborazione del noto sassofonista americano David Binney (virtuoso del sax alto, noto oltre che per i suoi numerosi lavori come leader per aver suonato con Uri ...
2016 DC Jazz Festival Artists and Venues Features a Diverse Array of International Talent
The DC Jazz Festival (DC JazzFest)—the country’s fastest growing jazz festival—kicks off Jazz Appreciation month by delineating the amazing array of 2016 artists and venues, a diverse selection of renowned and emerging artists performing in venues across the nation’s capital, June 10-19. Locally, nationally and internationally acclaimed artists confirmed for the 2016 DC JazzFest include Kamasi ...
Mike Parker's Trio Theory: Alive Out There
by Mark Corroto
Fans of post-apocalyptic stories need not worry about whether they still will have rock music once the electric grids go down. That is, if we can turn the clocks back to the days when jazz musicians were rockstars. Perhaps the supposition of the band, Mike Parker's Trio Theory, is just that. Kill all the living dead, ...
Avram Fefer's Big Picture Holiday: Shimmer And Melt
by Mark Corroto
Let's rescue the musical descriptor 'fusion,' a pejorative word used in jazz circles to connote a work of lesser weight and significance. We don't use that word when the jazz fusion is carried out by Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter, and in this case saxophonist Avram Fefer. His assemblage called Big Picture Holiday merges not just jazz ...
Josh Maxey: Celebration of Soul
by Angelo Leonardi
È un nome da tenere a mente quello di Josh Maxey. Non è solo un chitarrista tecnicamente esuberante ma si dimostra un leader fantasioso e un ottimo autore. Celebration of Soul è l'ultimo di dieci dischi autoprodotti nell'arco di tre anni (questo in versione compact disc, gli altri sono scaricabili in formato MP3 o FLAC dal ...
