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2009 St. Louis International Film Festival to Screen Chops and Icons Among Us, Plus More Music-Related Movies
The 18th annual St. Louis International Film Festival, which begins Thursday, November 12 and continues through Sunday, November 22, once again will feature the St. Louis premieres of several recent music-related movies, including two that should be of particular interest to jazz fans.The first of those two films is Icons Among Us: Jazz in ...
Wayne Horvitz - These Hills of Glory
Email from Wayne Horvitz about this performance this Wednesday, November 4: Dear Seattle Friends, If you come to one concert of mine this year, or even the next, or the one after that, please come on Wednesday November 4th to the Nordstrom Recital Hall for a very special performance of my chamber music. (1) The center ...
Listen to the Bass Player: Part 1, Percy Heath
In the days when I was learning to truly listen, Red Kelly gave me a piece of valuable advice. He told me to close my eyes and in my mind isolate and concentrate on the bass player. He said that when I felt and understood what the bassist was doing, the rest of the music would ...
#5 Is Live for Rare Blend
Scheduled for December 14th, 2009, instrumental music group Rare Blend will release their 5th CD album Sessions, an impressive 14 track disc of live recordings from stage and studio. Unlike the groups previous CDs, Sessions highlights Rare Blends one takes, and in the moment jam-fusion instrumentals. Sessions features new songs and improvisations from shows in Cleveland, ...
Nicholas Payton has his kind of blue
Nicholas Payton has to be on the short list of the finest living jazz trumpeters. Early in his career, he was a protg of fellow New Orleans native Wynton Marsalis. But Payton has long since established himself as an esteemed artist in his own right, recording a string of strong albums including several for the legendary ...
New York Treasures from the 90s Revisited in Solo Piano Versions
By Anderson Riley Tunes by jazz musicians Ben Monder, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Chris Cheek, Reid Anderson, Fernando Huergo, Drew Gress, Yusuke Yamamoto and Guillermo Klein are displayed on this solo piano album of a rare kind. Fellow New Yorker, pianist Mika Pohjola, decided to record tunes by his friends from the jazz scene. These songs were played ...
Keith Jarrett: Standards in Sweden I & II
By Mika Pohjola Gary Peacock has had many great trio initiatives. One of the greatest is this trio with Keith Jarrett on piano and Jack DeJohnette on drums (another one is with Paul Bley and Paul Motian). It is remarkable that all three members of this trio are capable pianists, and Peacock additionally a drummer from ...
Sten Hostfalt Microtonal Music Lecture at NWSA in Miami (FL)
Internationally acclaimed NYC based guitarist virtuoso, bassist, mandolinist, composer, bandleader and veteran educator Sten Hostfalt holds a November 4, 2009 lecture on microtonal music at New World School Of The Arts, Miami Florida, curated by Dr. Susan Epstein Garcia. New World School of The Arts 401 NE 2nd Ave Miami FL 33132 ...
Globalfest 2010 Announces Line up at NYC's Webster Hall January, 2010
A Springboard of World Music Revelations: globalFEST 2010 Announces Line Up at NYC's Webster Hall January 10, 2010 For seven years globalFEST has been the springboard festival for world music artists on the brink of North American national mainstage success, performers known in one community but ready to cross into others, and the marquee stars of ...
Open World Concert Series
Fifth Annual Open World Jazz Concert to be held on the Miracle Mile The fifth annual Open World Jazz Concert--an evening of jazz with Brubeck Institute musicians and visiting jazz musicians from Russia--will be held at the Empire Theater on the Miracle Mile this year. The concert starts at 8pm November 13, and will feature the ...

