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Glass @ 80: Philip Glass & Foday Musa Suso with Jeffrey Zeigler and Asher Delerme
by Peter Jurew
Philip Glass National Sawdust Brooklyn, NY March 12, 2017 On their own, National Sawdust and World Music Institute are two smartly run non-profit cultural organizations that produce wonderful programming for smart, loyal audiences. Together, the two can be dynamic co-conspirators in the effort to stage the kind of riveting, genre-bending artistic ...
Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival Announces Full Lineup For 16th Edition June 23 - July 1 - Nine Days, 325+ Shows, 19 Venues, 95 Free Shows, Youth Workshops & Jams
Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival producers John Nugent and Marc Iacona have announced the lineup for the festival's 16th Edition. The nine-day festival returns to Rochester June 23 thru July 1 presenting more than 1500 artists from around the world in 325+ shows at 19 venues. The 2017 Festival will be presented in three series: the ...
Count Basie Theatre Announces First-Ever Basie Summer Jazz Fest
DAVE KOZ + LARRY GRAHAM, HERBIE HANCOCK, SNARKY PUPPY, CHICK COREA ELEKTRIC BAND with BELA FLECK AND THE FLECKTONES SPONSORED BY PATRIZIA’S OF RED BANK, MONMOUTH COUNTY BOARD OF CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS AND THE ASBURY PARK PRESS The historic Count Basie Theatre, the state’s top-selling performing arts center and the namesake of jazz great William “Count” Basie, ...
10th Annual Red Hook Jazz Festival To Be Held Across Two Sundays In Brooklyn’s Urban Meadow, June 11 & 18 From 1-6 PM
“The Red Hook Jazz Festival exists contentedly on the margins, like its namesake neighborhood and much of the music on its bill…The mood in the audience was neighborly, with a higher ratio of small children to youngish adults than I’ve seen at any musical event not expressly pitched as a kids’ show.” —Nate Chinen, New York ...
Soulful, High-Energy, Jazz Vocalist Joan Minor Brings Her Latest Sparkling Show "April In Paris - Soulful Jazz With Parisienne Sass" To New York
New York’s The Metropolitan Room welcomes back Paris-Based American vocalist Joan Minor for a limited return engagement with The Joan Minor Quartet. In five years, the Joan Minor Quartet has established a distinguished musical footprint from touring widely in France and across Africa. Strengths and interests of individual members result in mesmerizing performances, including syncopated rhythms ...
Collegiate Jazz at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
by Nick Catalano
For the better part of a decade I've escorted my jazz class at Pace University on trips to Dizzy's to see the Manhattan School of Music Concert Jazz Band perform. The series was forged by veteran jazz academic Justin DiCioccio whose leadership and programming has prompted a rarely noticed success of Collegiate jazz bands across the ...
Charles Mingus 95th Birthday Celebration At Jazz Standard Monday April 24, 2017
On Monday, April 24th, the Charles Mingus Institute and the Jazz Standard will join forces to celebrate the life and work of one of the most important figures in twentieth century American music: accomplished composer and bassist, Charles Mingus. In honor of what would be his 95th birthday, the event will showcase Mingus classics as well ...
Trumpeter/Composer - Glenn Makos Quartet: "The Michel Legrand Project" - Release Date: April 3 on Stop Time Records
New York based trumpeter and composer Glenn Makos' newest release The Michel Legrand Project with his quartet reimagines the music of Michel Legrand as Legrand celebrates his 85th birthday in 2017. The genesis of the project was the result of a kitchen renovation. “With all of the construction noise in my house, I had a difficult ...
Jessica Ackerley: Coalesce
by Hrayr Attarian
The contemplative and captivating Coalesce is guitarist Jessica Ackerley's debut release. On it Ackerley, with her trio, interprets seven of her engaging originals with intelligence and passion. The intimate atmosphere is well suited for both the collective musical expressions and individual melodic embellishments. This results in a cohesive album that thrills and intrigues. The ...
Colin Hay at the Concert Hall at the New York Society for Ethical Culture
by Mike Perciaccante
Colin Hay Concert Hall at the New York Society for Ethical Culture New York, NY March 18, 2017 Had Colin Hay not made his mark as a musician with Men At Work and as a solo performer, he'd surely have gained fame as a stand-up comedian. Hay has a wickedly ...
