Results for "New York City"

Popular Jazz Artist Euge Groove Converts Top Hits Into Interactive Format

August 22, 2010

Popular Contemporary Jazz Artist Euge Groove Develops Interactive Album to Play and Listen to with the Beamz Player Interactive Music System Groove on This! Album Debuts at J&R MusicWorld MusicFest in New York City August 26-28. Beamz Interactive, an interactive music products company that develops innovative musical instruments and music entertainment products to enable people of ...

Juanita Rynum + Kiera 'Kiki' Sheard + The Clark Sisters at Central Park Summerstage, August 7, 2010

by Ernest Barteldes
August 21, 2010

Juanita Rynum + Kiera 'Kiki' Sheard + The Clark SistersCentral Park SummerstageNew York, NYAugust 7, 2010 Devotional music was the centerpiece for a warm afternoon in Central Park, and kicking off the ng the proceedings was singer/preacher Juanita Rynum, who came on with an acapella spiritual (she had no backing band), ...

Ensemble Joys: "Say 'Si Si'"!

August 19, 2010

The New Orleans musicians—even the ones who took expansive solos as the nature of jazz changed—knew how important inspired ensemble playing was. It would have been very bad form to cut short a romping group effort and simply dilute its force into a series of solos with the rhythm section. And this principle is perfectly demonstrated ...

Savory Delights

August 19, 2010

Like many other jazz fans, I first heard the name Bill Savory in the liner notes (by George Avakian) to a series of Benny Goodman airshot performances issued on Columbia Records after the astonishing success of their 1938 Carnegie Hall jazz concert issues. I learned that Savory was a pioneering engineer, friend to many jazz musicians, ...

Video: Kruder and Dorfmeister Live

August 19, 2010

NY Debut of Jeff Lofton's 1950's Miles Davis Tribute

August 19, 2010

At NYC's Iridium Jazz Club New York—After recent success in Austin, “Jeff Lofton's 1950s Miles Davis Tribute" makes its New York debut Saturday, August 21, at 12:00 midnight, at the Iridium Jazz Club, 1650 Broadway. Tickets are $20.00. Lofton, an Austin-based jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader, presented the show at One World Theatre in March, with ...

Jonathan Russell Awarded Daniel Pearl Memorial Violin

August 18, 2010

New York City—Jonathan Russell, the award winning fourteen-year-old jazz violinist has received one of the Daniel Pearl Memorial violins from Mark O'Connor and the faculty at the inaugural Mark O'Connor Fiddle Camp in New York City. Each year, two exceptional violinists are awarded this honor by O'Connor and the violin maker Jonathan Cooper. Mr. Russell will ...

Don't Miss Jazz at Chautauqua 2010!

August 18, 2010

There are still seats available for the September 2010 Jazz at Chautuaqua. That means plenty of hot music, rhythm ballads, lesser-known but beautiful songs from Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood . . . all performed by a celebrated cast of musicians and singers. The party begins on Thursday, September 16, 2010, at the Hotel Athenaeum ...

Albert Rivera Releases "Inner Peace" on Turnaround Records

August 17, 2010

Celebrated jazz saxophonist Albert Rivera, in concert with Turnaround Records, announces the upcoming release on August 17, 2010, of his second album on Turnaround Records, entitled Inner Peace. This album is a contemporary addition to Rivera's unique collection of smooth, musical grooves that includes his highly acclaimed first album, Re-Introduction. For Rivera, Inner Peace represents a ...

Now is the Time . . .

August 17, 2010

Calling all cats! I wrote some weeks ago about Mike Durham's plans for a new version of the Whitley Bay International Jazz Festival — a Classic Jazz Party to be held at the same location (the comfortable Village Newcastle Hotel) for three days in November 2011 —Friday to Sunday, November 4-6. Mike's musician list is once ...