Results for "Michael Ricci"

Duke Pearson's Big Band: 1967

April 26, 2010

The story of jazz is filled with behind-the-scenes guys who contributed mightily to the music but are little known today. One of these invisible hands was Duke Pearson. In addition to being a fine composer, hard bop pianist and Blue Note record producer, Pearson briefly led a compelling big band in the late 1960s. Top musicians ...

Gregory Porter Will Release Motema Debut, Water, on May 11

April 26, 2010

Critically Acclaimed Vocalist Celebrates CD's Release At Smoke in NYC May 3 and Stars in “Low Down Dirty Blues" in Chicago from May 27 - July 3 With a voice that can caress or confront, embrace or exhort, Gregory Porter exhibits such an incredible degree of vocal mastery that no less a jazz luminary than Wynton ...

Two Spring/Summer Concert Series Announce Schedules

April 26, 2010

The schedules have been announced for the Missouri History Museum's spring Twilight Tuesdays and for the fourth annual Whitaker Urban Evenings series, and while neither has much in the way of straight-ahead jazz, both will offer some concerts of potential interest to jazz fans in the St. Louis area.The Twilight Tuesdays series starts next ...

Tickets Now on Sale for JEN Conference Concerts

April 26, 2010

Single tickets are now on sale for the three evening concerts that will be presented as part of the first-ever Jazz Education Network Conference, which takes place Thursday, May 20 through Saturday, May 22 in St. Louis.All three concerts, as well various other conference events, will be presented at the Touhill Performing Arts Center. ...

Sones de Mexico Ensemble Creates a Fiesta Mexicana on New Album

April 26, 2010

Ancient Aztec Myths, Cowboy Mice, and Dancing Iguanas: Sones de Mexico Ensemble Creates a Fiesta Mexicana for Children What do a crawfish, a cowboy mouse, and a 100-year-old woman have in common? They are all characters in Fiesta Mexicana: Mexican Songs & Stories for Ninos & Ninas and their Papas & Mamas (release April 24, 2010), ...

Tyrone Smith's "Playing It by Ear" Available on May 11th

April 26, 2010

Produced by Grammy Award winning producer Jack Kreisberg. Tyrone Smith is a melodically aware saxophonist who combines melody with rhythmic complexities that appeal to both jazz & R&B listeners, including fans of Maceo Parker, David “Fathead" Newman, Fred Wesley, Grover Washington, Jr., Kirk Whalum, and Marcus Miller. Smith has performed live with Charlie Persip, Al Jarreau, ...

Norah Jones at the Orpheum Theatre

April 26, 2010

It's hard to feel sorry for Norah Jones: At 31, she's already sold more records than most artists will over a lifetime, and despite her soccer-mom appeal, she's retained a kind of cool-musician cachet, collaborating in recent years with Bright Eyes, Beck and the Beastie Boys. In an unsteady music industry, hers is a success story ...

The Art is Instrumental

April 26, 2010

The Big Easy on TV: 'Treme' Brings New Orleans Jazz Front and Center

April 26, 2010

By Tad Hendrickson Talk to most musicians, and they'll generally sound like they are caught amidst a whirlwind of activity. It takes a lot of hustling to make ends meet when you are musician, particularly a musician who plays jazz. So it is altogether appropriate that one of the running threads of the new HBO series ...

Ottawa Jazzworksgala May 6th, Features Top Canadian Jazz Faculty and Jazzworks Participants from 16 to 82

April 26, 2010

JazzWorks will hold its second annual fundraiser, JazzWorksGala Thursday, May 6 at Arts Court 7:00 pm to midnight. The fundraiser features Montreal-based saxophonist Rmi Bolduc, Toronto jazz vocalist Julie Michels, and versatile Toronto jazz guitarist Kevin Barrett - all members of the JazzWorks faculty - plus a stellar list of JazzWorks jazz camp alumni for an ...