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Challenging jazz music tempts Jane Monheit
Some day, someone might write the perfect jazz-bluegrass Christmas song. Then Jane Monheit's favorites will merge. Until then, she can mainly stick to the jazz classics. She seems to do them splendidly. At 20, she was runner-up in the Thelonius Monk Institute vocal competition. Two years later, MacKenzie Wilson wrote in allmusic.com, “Monheit had joined Diana ...
Miami New Times Magazine chooses The Van Dyke Cafe as Best Jazz Club for the 2005
The Van Dyke Does It Again... “Under the able musical direction of bassist Don Wilner, Upstairs at the Van Dyke remains Miami's premier jazz club. No other venue comes close in terms of consistency -- 365 days per year. (Check the Website for calendars and newsletters.) And in terms of consistently high quality, nothing can match ...
Incubus Bassist Records Downloadable Voice-Mail Message Exclusively for peta2
When he wasn't in the studio or on tour with Incubus, bassist Ben Kenney recently found time to record a downloadable voice-mail message for peta2--PETA's youth division--which is accessible at www.peta2.com. “Yo, this is Ben Kenney with Incubus and The Division Group," says Ben in the phone recording. “The person you're trying to reach wanted me ...
The Birthplace of Cool? A Look at The Lighthouse California
Called by some “Birdland of the West", this venerable nightclub was the impetus of the West Coast jazz movement that started in the mid-1950s and lasted to the 1960s, guided by the Sunday Jazz Jam hosted by Howard Rumsey. Originally built in 1934 mere feet from the Pacific Ocean, the Lighthouse was a WWII hangout with ...
Courtney Pine's Inspiration
The jazz musician reveals the cultural milestones in his life Courtney Pine's debut album Journey to the Urge Within (1986) was the first British jazz album to make the top 40 in more than a decade. Smart-suited and prodigiously talented, the young saxophonist became a poster boy for British jazz, despite the fact that he was ...
Early Jazz Legends and Legends in the making at the Lighthouse California 1950's & 60's
Early Jazz Legends and Legends in the making at the Lighthouse California 1950s & 60s Some unbelievably talented people during that time frame, never before or since has there been so many with so much talent, and to see a lot of them share a stage made it even better. Didn't happen with all of them ...
Higher Ground Fund Announces Grants for Greater New Orleans Area Musicians
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER's HIGHER GROUND FUND ANNOUNCES GRANTS FOR GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA MUSICANS AND MUSIC INDUSTRY-RELATED ENTERPRISES Applications Available at http://www.FoundationsForRecovery.org. New York, NY November 1, 2005 The Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Fund, established by Jazz at Lincoln Center and administered through the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, announces grants for musicians and music industry-related ...
Wallace Roney: Becoming Part of the Whole
The hush on stage at Joe's Pub was circumvented with the squeal of brass. It's piercing shrill evolved into a cacophony of instruments screaming, wailing, writhing, throbbing, breaching the silence with a language and tonality that took on a musical expression all its own. It had an intelligence that created and recreated itself while giving order ...
The Bad Plus: Smells Like Jazz
By Rich Manley boulderdirt Of all musical genres, there are two - classical and jazz - that stick out as a communities rife with purists, people who feel like going back is better than going forward. While both of those musical types feature pasts robust with virtuosos, the defining musicians within those ...
Benin Brass Band
by J. Poet SF Chronicle When Benin's Gangbe Brass Band starts playing, it's impossible to stay in your seat. The merry sounds of tubas, trumpets and trombones swoop and dart through the air like drunken hummingbirds, while the drums lay down a foundation of percolating percussion that puts heart, soul and feet ...
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