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The 18th Istanbul Jazz Festival starts on July 1
The 18th Istanbul Jazz Festival, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, and sponsored for the 14th time by Garanti Bank, will take place between July 1-19. The 18th Istanbul Jazz Festival will again fill the heart of Istanbul with jazz with over 40 concerts and more than 300 local and foreign artists. This ...
Pear: extemp’ore
by Mark Corroto
The improvising duo of Pear--keyboardist Nick Pierone and percussionist Rick Milne-- plays a fanciful game of six degrees of separation on extemp'ore. The opening “Dewey Miles" is a piece of cake, with the sampled voice of Miles Davis whispering “play what you hear" to some Betty, or maybe Jean-Pierre in the backseat. Pierone's piano ...
Jammin' Jazz: Jazz for the New Generation Podcast
"Jammin' Jazz: Jazz For The New Generation" hosted by former XM Satellite Radio and MOJA Radio DJ Michelle Sammartino is a long running hour long program featuring all that is cool and groovy, and happenin' in Modern Jazz right this minute. I feature the marriage of Jazz and Funk, Jazz and Rock, Jazz and Fusion, Jazz ...
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones: Rocket Science
by John Kelman
Béla Fleck & The Flecktones Rocket Science E One Music Group 2011 Some say you can't go back, but that's not always true. Emerging from his formative years as a rising star in the blue/newgrass community, banjoist Béla Fleck lept onto a much bigger radar with the release of Béla ...
Harriet Tubman: Ascension
by Mark Corroto
It has been forty-six years since John Coltrane took his expanded ensemble into a studio to record Ascension (Impulse!, 1965), and many believe the jazz world has yet to come to grips with its significance and meaning. It has only been eleven years since the power trio Harriet Tubman, expanded into the Harriet Tubman Double Trio, ...
MMW to Celebrate 20th Anniversary with 20 New Tracks
PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE NOW FOR BUNDLE OF 20 TRACKS Medeski Martin & Wood will celebrate their 20th anniversary by releasing 20 new songs. 2 new digital tracks will be released monthly starting on 3/29 until the end of the year. Music Today is taking pre-orders for the bundle of 20 tracks for $9.90 through 3/29. Individual tracks ...
Saxophonist Daniel Bennett releases "Peace and Stability Among Bears" on April 16, 2011
Critically acclaimed New York saxophonist Daniel Bennett is releasing the third installment of his Bear Thompson trilogy on Saturday, Apri 16, 2011. The Boston Globe calls Bennett's music, “a mix of jazz, folk, and trance." The new album is entitled, “Peace and Stability Among Bears." The disc features Bennett on alto saxophone and flute, Chris Hersch ...
Either/Orchestra: New York City, February 11, 2011
by Daniel Lehner
Either/OrchestraLe Poisson Rouge New York, NYFebruary 11, 2011 If you graduated school to work for a law firm or a contracting company, your reunion would probably not be a raucous or joyous event. However, if you and your classmates went on to be the employees of Lee Konitz, Lester Bowie, ...
John Medeski & Lee Shaw: Together Again: Live At The Egg
by Bruce Lindsay
John Medeski is one of the jazz world's best-known and most accomplished keyboard players--but he had to begin learning jazz somewhere. That somewhere was with pianist, composer and teacher Lee Shaw, in late '70s Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Over 30 years later, as the title of their album makes plain, Medeski and Shaw are Together Again: Live ...
Accurate Records: Growing Out of Boston
by Jakob Baekgaard
In the age of globalization, when almost every musician churns out his or her own record digitally, the boundary between being a one-man business and a record company is porous. However, while many of the new labels remain dedicated to a small circle of artists, there is also the more rarified example of the musician-based label ...
