Results for "New York"

ArtistShare Launches The Bop Project

November 10, 2014

NEW FAN-FUNDED ALBUM BY JEFF LORBER AND CHUCK LOEB TO HELP FUND THE POLYCISTIC KIDNEY DISEASE (PKD) FOUNDATION The BOP project features Jeff Lorber, Chuck Loeb, and many special guests. BOP is a one-of-a-kind traditional bebop album that brings together world-class musicians, conceived by Grammy nominated keyboardist/composer/producer, Jeff Lorber, and guitarist, Chuck Loeb. The concept was ...

ArtistShare Launches The Requinte Trio Project

November 10, 2014

NEW FAN-FUNDED ALBUM FEATURES GRAMMY AWARD WINNING VOCALIST, JANIS SIEGEL, WORLD-RENOWNED BRAZILIAN MUSICIAN NANNY ASSIS, AND MULTI-GRAMMY NOMINATED PIANIST JOHN DI MARTINO The Requinte Trio is a fusion of Brazilian and American Jazz, forming a creative combustion of music Nine time Grammy Award winning vocalist Janis Siegel, Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Nanny Assis, and Multi-Grammy Nominated pianist John ...

Anna Maria Jopek at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater

by Ernest Barteldes
November 8, 2014

Anna Maria Jopek Joe's Pub at The Public Theater November 5, 2014 New York, NY For the opening of her 2014 North American tour, Polish singer/songwriter Anna Maria Jopek concentrated on reinvented takes on her native country's folk and classical music, as featured on Polanna (Self Produced, 2011). ...

Minus the Bear at the Gramercy Theatre

by Christine Connallon
November 7, 2014

Minus the Bear The Gramercy Theatre New York City October 17, 2014 A warm fall night welcomed Minus the Bear into the Gramercy Theatre in Manhattan. The five man band from Seattle earned a “Sold Out" sign on the marquee outside, on this the third show of their fall tour in ...

Guitar in the Space Age!

by Ian Patterson
November 7, 2014

Though prototype electric guitar first appeared in the early 1930s, the instrument only became a staple of popular music in the 1950s and 1960s. As a musical revolution was evolving, so was a different type altogether -space exploration. Sixty years on, in an age when the challenge is just to keep abreast of technological innovations it ...

M.O.D. Technologies Presents Marter & Yony's Rhythm Matter As Part Of The Incunabula Digital Series

November 6, 2014

Marter & Yony is a sensational Japanese DUB duo featuring Masateru Yamauchi (Jazzy Sport, Japan) and Yoshio Kabayashi (Aokoya Afrobeat, New York). Intentionally recorded on cassette & ¼” tape to retain a unique, raw yet warm analog sound. Reminicient of Sly & Robbie, Basic Channel (German NEO DUB), yin-yang drum ‘n’ bass – perfect harmony of ...

Grant Presentation Video Helps Jazz Artists & Causes Obtain Vital Funding!

November 6, 2014

NEW YORK, NY - The Jazz for Peace Foundation Empowerment Grant Program rose from the ashes of the horrifying tragedy of 9/11 starting with a poem that was written witnessing those very events on a rooftop less than a quarter of a mile away from Ground Zero on that fateful morning. Since then they have set ...

"View Related Photos" Feature Added to All About Jazz

November 5, 2014

Nicole Mitchell's Sonic Projections: The Secret Escapades of Velvet Anderson

by John Sharpe
November 4, 2014

Sonic Projections must be flautist Nicole Mitchell's hardest blowing band. For their second outing after Emerald Hills (Rogue Art, 2010) she draws inspiration from another hard blowing source in Chicago legend Fred Anderson. Not only a mentor to many young musicians in the Windy City, the saxophonist also ran the renowned Velvet Lounge tavern. That required ...

Kiran Ahluwalia: Sanata: Stillness

by Ernest Barteldes
November 3, 2014

On this inventive album, Canadian vocalist Kiran Ahluwalia brings forth a different approach to Indian music. While the tablas, percussion and the characteristic singing are all present, those are the only Eastern elements you hear. Backing her are rock-tinged electric guitars and an accordion. This is clearly not an attempt to “Westernize" the music ...