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George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 55
In Newport, RI, August 7 - 9, 2009 and CAREFUSION NEW YORK JAZZ FESTIVAL in New York City, June 2010 New Names for Jazz Festivals at Historic Sites NEW YORK, NY, David Schlotterbeck, CEO of CareFusion, announced today that the corporation will be the title sponsor for George Wein's Jazz Festival 55 in Newport, RI. In ...
July 2009
by AAJ Staff
Smoke Big BandSmokeNew York City June 4, 2009When the Smoke Big Band, under the direction of Bill Mobley, crowded onto the Smoke bandstand for its second set (Jun. 4th), the focus was on music by '80s-era Jazz Messengers alumni: Billy Pierce, Donald Brown and Mulgrew Miller. Mobley is a trumpeter, ...
NEC Announces Appointments of Pianist-Composer Fred Hersch and Saxophonist Miguel Zenon to the Jazz Studies Faculty
Hersch ’77 a Three-Time Grammy Nominee and Guggenheim Fellow Zenon a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant Recipient at 32 As it looks forward to celebrating 40 Years of Jazz at NEC in 2009/10, New England Conservatory has announced the appointment of two outstanding musicians to its jazz studies faculty: pianist–composer Fred Hersch, an alumnus of the Class ...
Miles Okazaki: Generations
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Myriad ideas collide and interact on Miles Okazaki's follow-up to Mirror: his latest offering, Generations. These ideas span not only musical forms and concepts but also cultures--from Indian to European and American. The music also leaps across various artistic disciplines--philosophical, mathematical and visual--to render one central ostensible idea: that all sound is an experience shaped by ...
April 2009
by AAJ Staff
Edward SimonEd Simon TrioVillage VanguardNew York City March 1, 2009In any circumstance, it would be worth hitting the Village Vanguard to hear Edward Simon (Mar. 1st), one of the most gifted pianists of our day. But the presence of guest saxophonist Mark Turner--back in undiminished form after a ...
SFJAZZ Collective to Perform in Ottawa on March 1, 2009
Celebrated jazz artists perform together in Ottawa for the first time “Sheer, out-of-the-box musicality… revealed the joys and complexities of free improvising." – Los Angeles Times Ottawa (Tuesday, February 3, 2009) – Joe Lovano, Dave Douglas, Miguel Zenon, Robin Eubanks, Renee Rosnes, Matt Penman and Eric Harland are each giants of the jazz genre. The Ottawa ...
Jeff Dayton-Johnson's Best of 2008
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
When the world economy entered into a tailspin this year, Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner dubbed the event the “Jazz Effect“ given that it emanated from the United States (she was drawing a parallel, for example, to the 1994 “Tequila Effect" that followed a botched currency devaluation in Mexico). I was so happy that a ...
Awake
By Miguel Zenon
Label: Marsalis Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: Awakening - Prelude; Camaron; Penta; The Missing Piece; Ulysses in Motion; Awakening - Interlude; Santo; Lamamilla; Third Dimension; Awakening - Postlude.
Fresh Sound-New Talent
by Laurel Gross
Fresh Sound-New Talent owner and founder Jordi Pujol lives in Barcelona where his label is based but he's been up all night following the US Presidential election. Speaking from his native Spain the “morning after," he expresses the hope that the selection of President Elect Barack Obama might bode well not only for America but Europe ...
Miguel Zenon Home in Two Traditions: Jazz and the Sounds of Puerto Rico
When the jazz saxophonist and composer Miguel Zenon visits his native Puerto Rico to see his mother and other relatives every year around Christmastime, he rarely hears any jazz. Instead hes surrounded by plena, a century-old Afro-Caribbean musical tradition, a kind of movable street-corner folksong. Plena is made with three different-size panderos (like tambourines without the ...
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