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Headliners Announced for Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival's 16th Edition

January 28, 2017

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 ...

Article: Film Review

Bob Dylan: No Direction Home - Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition

by Doug Collette
December 18, 2016

Bob Dylan No Direction Home: Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition Capitol Records 2016 As originally released a decade ago, Martin Scorcese's Bob Dylan documentary No Direction Home is so deeply illuminating it really bears no revisionism that would improve it, at least on its own terms. In turns exhilarating and chilling, particularly ...

Article: Film Review

The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris

by Doug Collette
December 3, 2016

Various Artists The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris Rounder Records 2016 When Emmylou Harris truly began her solo career, after working with the late Gram Parsons upon recommendation from Chris Hillman, she quite quickly transcended the s 'cosmic American music' created by the former member of the Byrds and the ...

Article: Album Review

Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers: Rehab Reunion

Read "Rehab Reunion" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
June 11, 2016

A Bruce Hornsby album with no piano seems sort of like a Chinese dinner without rice. Well, upon further consideration it may not be quite as crazy as it sounds. The man's career is defined by nothing if not restlessness, and he's managed to do something fresh and different almost every time out. The most surprising ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Ruthie Foster: Singing The Blues

by James Nadal
July 19, 2015

Since releasing her first solo record less than a decade ago, Ruthie Foster has steadily gained momentum and respect within the music industry as a double threat singer/guitarist. With eight more albums in her discography, including the critically acclaimed The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster (Blue Corn Music, 2007), she has risen to prominence in the Blues community, ...

News: Festival

Brian Culbertson To Getaway In A Lexus

June 10, 2014

The contemporary jazz hitmaker’s third annual Napa Valley Jazz Getaway bolstered by a presenting sponsorship from the luxury automaker Napa, CA: Brian Culbertson’s pursuit of perfection has nabbed a getaway car. The contemporary jazz star’s Napa Valley Jazz Getaway adds luxury automobile manufacturer Lexus as presenting sponsor for the third annual wine and jazz festival luring ...

Article: Live Review

The Jazz Passengers Reunited al Teatro Manzoni, Milano

by Paolo Peviani
April 7, 2014

Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni Milano 02.03.2014 Aria di festa, al teatro Manzoni di Milano. Sul palco, per il concerto conclusivo della rassegna Aperitivo in concerto, i Jazz Passengers di Roy Nathanson e Curtis Fowlkes, mitici esponenti di quella New York anni '80 terribilmente cool e cult che si muoveva ...

News: Music Industry

Culbertson Tunes Up The Pinot

February 28, 2014

Contemporary jazz hitmaker releases his own wine that he blended in partnership with Reata Wines and Jamieson Ranch Vineyards. Los Angeles, Calif. (27 February 2014): Chart-topping musician, producer, songwriter, wine and jazz festival founder and artistic director Brian Culbertson can add vintner to his burgeoning resume. The recording artist behind 26 No. 1 hits and the ...

News: Festival

Wine And Jazz Fans Can Getaway For The Day

February 19, 2014

Single-day tickets for June’s Napa Valley Jazz Getaway are now on sale. Los Angeles, CA: Single-day tickets went on sale today for the star-studded concerts taking place June 12-15, 2014 as part of the third annual Napa Valley Jazz Getaway, a wine and jazz festival set in scenic California Wine Country. Available at TicketFly, tickets are ...

News: Recording

"Another Long Night" Of Success

October 25, 2013

Brian Culbertson’s first crowd-funded album surpasses fundraising goal weeks ahead of schedule. Los Angeles, CA: Fervent interest from Brian Culbertson’s international legion of fans powered the contemporary jazz star past his fundraising goal two weeks ahead of the close of the Indiegogo campaign launched to help bring his passion project to fruition: re-recording his entire debut ...