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Jacob Varmus: Terminal Stillness
by Dan Bilawsky
Jazz is always caught up in the idea of looking forward or backwards, but whatever happened to the idea of looking around? Much ado about movement--toward the future, the past, the next chord in the progression or the next stage of a career--often gets in the way of the simple act of creation. The jazz community, ...
New Album From Blackmore's Night "Dancer And The Moon"
Blackmore's Night is releasing their brand new album, Dancer and The Moon, on June 11th in North America on Frontiers Records. Dancer and The Moon will be released in 2 editions—as a CD and a digipak deluxe edition with a bonus DVD that includes music videos of “Dancer And The Moon" and of “The Moon Is ...
The Bechet Legacy: The Bechet Legacy - Birch Hall Concerts Live
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Every so often a jewel of a recording is unearthed, prompting the obligatory question: “Why not sooner?" This wonderfully energetic, swinging effort is a treasure of an example.“The Bechet Legacy," with woodwind artist Bob Wilber and trumpeter Glenn Zottola up front, delivers significant homage to Sidney Bechet and to the Golden Era of hot ...
Usdan Center, with expanded Jazz Program, Holds 5/19 Final Open House For 2013 Season
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the nationally renowned Long Island summer arts day camp, will hold its final, free Open House for its 46th, 2013 season on Sunday May 19 from 11 AM to 2 PM. Families may obtain information on the Center’s programs and tour the 200-acre woodland campus, at 185 Colonial ...
Jeremy Pelt Added To Trumpet Fanfare For New York City International Jazz Day Event Tomorrow April 30
At 2PM on Tuesday, April 30—International Jazz Day—the Jazz Journalists Association of New York City will showcase a fanfare by New York City trumpet stars including trumpeter Jeremy Pelt who was just added. Trumpeter/composer/performance artist Stephanie Richards has composed an original fanfare dedicated to Armstrong and International Jazz Day, which she will perform at the event ...
Off Tour With Sting, Laila Biali Is In Residency At Subculture May 10, 24 & 31 With Guests John Ellis, Jo Lawry And Zach Brock / The Requestomatic Audience Challenge
Award-winning Canadian pianist, vocalist and songwriter Laila Biali has toured with Grammy award-winners Suzanne Vega, Chris Botti and Paula Cole and has recorded with and supported pop icon Sting. Laila has an acute awareness and appreciation for pop and rock that she combines with her jazz training to create thrilling arrangements. Her recent CD, Live in ...
Eric Harland's Voyager: Going Places
by Zach Hindin
Where most debut acts aim to make a statement, Eric Harland's first lead project, Voyager, is decidedly conversational. Harland, arguably the consummate jazz drummer of his generation, has staffed his quintet with a potent if precocious musical brain trust. The year after pianist Taylor Eigsti first played with pianist Dave Brubeck (he was 12 at the ...
New York Jazz Workshop Set For Annual Summer Sessions
NEW YORK, NY: More than beach and barbeques, for jazz musicians around the world summer is the time to take their playing to the next level in the world capital of jazz, as the New York Jazz Workshop School of Music (NYJW) will again offer focused four-day workshops, July 25 through August 18, with sessions for ...
Secret Keeper (Stephan Crump & Mary Halvorson): Super 8
by Glenn Astarita
Bassist Stephan Crump and guitarist Mary Halvorson kindled the fire in 2011 during their initial encounter, leading to these sessions recorded in Brooklyn, N.Y. Of course, the respective artists are highly revered within modern jazz schemas and the outside realm, spanning a global presence as first-call session artists, paralleling their solo ventures. Hence, the duo crafts ...
Harlem Jazz Shrines Fest: Legends On The Bandstand with Heath/Hart/Mance/Sands
Jazzmobile, Inc. Presents Minton’s Playhouse: Legends on the Bandstand at Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival May 6 and 8 Third Annual Festival, Presented by The Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile, Inc., Celebrates Historic Harlem Venues May 6 – 11, 2013 Harlem, USA – Jazz was born in New Orleans, but it grew up in Harlem in ...
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