Results for "New York City"

Mdou Moctar At The Brooklyn Academy Of Music Opera House

by Dave Kaufman
March 5, 2022

Mdou Moctar has a reputation for engrossing live performances and this concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House (BAM) on Friday, 25 February, was no exception. He is riding the crest of the popularity of his most recent album, the excellent Afrique Victime, (Matador Records) which made end-of-year best album lists for 2021 in ...

Pianist Yaniv Taubenhouse's New Solo Piano Album 'Hope' Release Concert at Revelation Gallery

March 4, 2022

Yaniv Taubenhouse solo piano release concert for Hope on March 6th 2022 at 3pm (ET) Revelation Gallery 224 Waverly Place New York, NY 10014 In-Person Tickets | Streaming Tickets Taubenhouse decided to follow up his latest trio recording with a format which enables him ...

Lou Marini Speaks His Mind

by David Bixler
March 2, 2022

Multi-instrumentalist Lou Marini has been visible in American popular music for decades. Woody Herman, Blood Sweat Tears, SNL, The Blues Brothers, and James Taylor are just a few of the iconic names that grace his resume. Throughout his time with these high-profile groups, Lou remains an artist dedicated to his craft. When his touring schedule was ...

Bill Warfield 70th Birthday Bash with Hell's Kitchen At Zinc Bar On March 3rd — Free!

February 28, 2022

"We'll have a jam session with my NY music buddies until the neighbors beat on the walls, the police come or Alex throws us out!" —Bill Warfield Bill Warfield 70th Birthday Bash! FREE!! Zinc Bar 82 W 3rd St New York, NY 10012 212-477-8337 Private shindig from 6- 8PM, March 3rd, 2022 ...

New Releases Plus Birthday Shoutouts to Harold Arlen, Nina Simone and Nancy Wilson

by Mary Foster Conklin
February 28, 2022

This broadcast presents new releases from vocalist Liz Terrell, guitarist Ron Jackson and pianist Wendy Kirkland with birthday shoutouts to Harold Arlen (who wrote with several fine women lyricists) in the first hour and Nina Simone and Nancy Wilson in the second hour, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by ...

Pete Smith

Pete Smith is a New York City-based guitarist who performs in a wide range of musical settings.  As a founding member of Santos4tet (aka Grupo los Santos), a vanguard Afro-Cuban and Brazilian-style quartet, he has played New York’s Town Hall, concerts throughout the U.S., Cuba & Austria and was a Fall 2024 JazzRoad performing arts grant recipient. He has performed at the Berlin Jazz Festival and Montreal Jazz Festival, as well as concerts in thirty countries throughout Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. He has worked with Norah Jones, trumpeter Donald Byrd, Cuban trombone master Juan Pablo Torres, Andrew Hill, Kat Edmonson, Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks, the Moonlighters, Madeline Peyroux, Natalie Merchant and Huun-Huur-Tu, and is a member of Michael Feinstein’s Carnegie Hall Big Band

Songs of the Heart Plus Birthday Celebrations for Carole King and Blanche Calloway

by Mary Foster Conklin
February 21, 2022

This broadcast presents songs of the heart for Valentines Day, new releases from vocalists Eugenie Jones and Hinda Hoffman plus birthday shoutouts to Carole King (80 years young) and Blanche Calloway, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during this time of pandemic so they can continue ...

Bishu Chattopadhyay

Born: January 1, 1850

Bishu Chattopadhyay is a New York City musician and a band leader, has collaborated as a jazz bassist with Rita Sahai and many known jazz performers in the San Francisco Bay area and in New York City. Bishu established two bands: ‘Bengal and Beyond’ and ‘Time is Now not Money’ in San Francisco, where he performed. Mr. Chattopadhyay currently leads two bands in New York City: ‘Bishu Chattopadhyay All Stars’ and ‘BC Jazz Now.’

Bishu Chattopadhyay was born in Kolkata, India and is a founding member of the legendary band Moheener Ghoraguli

Saturn Quartet Debut Release 'Synchronicities' On May 21st

February 16, 2022

Made up of four extremely talented young players and composers, Saturn Quartet, (the term “prodigies” might not be entirely inappropriate when discussing the group’s members), who all fell together initially during their time studying that most unique and challenging American art form in the fabled Jazz Studies Program at Florida State University, the Saturn Quartet is ...

Don Hanson

Don Hanson is a saxophonist, composer and educator with a wealth of musical experience across many genres, whose compositions are a reflection of his spiritual journey.

Don's album "Echoes Of Light" is a collection of originals that combine the joy of Jazz with the Spirit of the WORD.

Originally from Dobbs Ferry New York, Don's family relocated to the North Bronx when he was two years old after the death of his father. He began playing clarinet at 11 years old and alto sax at 13.

While attending the Bronx High School Of Science, he didn't participate in the music program, but began working professionally with a local Funk band at 16 years old.