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The 19th Istanbul Jazz Festival Line-up Announced
THE STAR MAP OF JAZZ WILL BE ON ISTANBUL SKIES The 19th Istanbul Jazz Festival, 3-19 July 2012 A glamorous line-up with Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette, Morrissey, Erykah Badu, Antony and the Johnsons, Esperanza Spalding, Marcus Miller, Okay Temiz, Burhan Öçal, Hüsnü Şenlendirici, İmer Demirer, Bilal Karaman, Lyambiko, Ernest Ranglin, Monty Alexander, Caro Emerald, ...
Jazz is Bustin' Out All Over the Nation's Capital
The DC Jazz Festival (DCJF) today announced its signature programs for 2012, which include: Jazz Meets the Classics at the Kennedy Center; Jazz in the 'Hoods presented by Events DC; Jazz ‘n' Families Fun Days at The Phillips Collection; Jazz at the Hamilton presented by The Washington Post; and Jazz at the Howard. The Festival will ...
Matteo Sabattini: Dawning
by Ian Patterson
Perhaps due to New York's dynamism--and no doubt in part the result of the city's pivotal role in jazz's history--New York jazz ensembles are frequently characterized by bold playing and a hard edge that's arguably less common in many European jazz groups. Italian-born alto saxophonist Matteo Sabattini's New York Quintet builds a bridge between a melodic ...
Jamaican Jazz Legend Monty Alexander's Birthday Bash Benefit Concert Held In Merkin Concert Hall At Kaufman Center In New York City On June 6
The legendary pianist Monty Alexander, a true son of Jamaica, and his friends Dean Fraser and Tarrus Riley, will perform at a benefit concert on his birthday, June 6, 2012, at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, New York City. This Birthday Bash will also commemorate Monty’s 50 years in music and the 50th anniversary of ...
Monty Alexander: New York, February 20-March 4, 2012
by Bob Kenselaar
Monty Alexander: 50 Years in Music & 50 Years of Jamaica The Blue Note New York, NY February 20-March 4, 2012Monty Alexander set out an ambitious agenda in trying to showcase all the many facets of his 50-year career in music during this two-week stint at the Blue Note. ...
Monty Alexander's '76 Montreux Trio: New York, NY, February 27, 2012
by Dan Bilawsky
Monty Alexander's '76 Montreux TrioBlue NoteNew York, NYFebruary 27, 2012At seventeen years of age, pianist Monty Alexander was plucked from obscurity when Frank Sinatra and his club owner buddy Jilly Rizzo heard him play. The Jamaican-born piano phenom was immediately brought into the big time, performing for and with some of ...
Jeff Hamilton Trio: Red Sparkle
by Dan Bilawsky
When it comes to touch, taste, and a deep understanding of what makes a band swing, drummer Jeff Hamilton has no peers. Hamilton's recordings with everybody from Diana Krall and Rosemary Clooney to his own co-led Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra have marked him as a paragon of class and groove, and his place as the defining brush ...
Monty Alexander
by Bob Kenselaar
Monty Alexander has some great things to celebrate in 2012. For one, he's entered his fiftieth year as a professional musician--a remarkable career where he's made an indelible mark in the world of jazz and in the music of his native Jamaica. For another, he had two hugely successful records in the past year that ranked ...
Paris Jazz Diary 2011
by Patricia Myers
Woody Allen's 2011 film, Midnight in Paris was a hit summer film in the U.S. and Paris, and also a theme that resonated during my annual two-month sojourn to the City of Light. At that hour, I was often happily sitting in jazz venues, my spirits lifted both by the music and seeing the clubs filled ...
Uplift
Label: Jazz Legacy Productions
Released: 2011
Track listing: Come Fly With Me; One Mint Julep: Renewal; Sweet Georgia Brown; I Just Can't See For Lookin'; Django; Body and Soul; Hope; Home; Fungi Mama.
