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Bill Clinton to receive award for jazz advocacy
Former President Bill Clinton will get a chance to play his saxophone when the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz honors him with its Founder’s Award. The Monk Institute announced Monday that Clinton will receive the award at a Nov. 9 concert at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theater featuring Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Dianne Reeves, Dee Dee Bridgewater ...
Available Today: The David Weiss Sextet - "When Words Fail," On Motema Music!
Available NOW on Motema Music, May 20, 2014 Reassembled after ten years, The David Weiss Sextet delivers a brilliant set of music that serves as a beacon of musical excellence, and a reflection on a year of loss CD RELEASE CELEBRATION - JUNE 25 AT SMOKE JAZZ AND SUPPERCLUB, NYC When Words Fail Features: David Weiss- ...
Attn: Musicians! Friendly URLs are back!
As part of the Jazz Musician Database relaunch project, we've reimplemented friendly URLs to greatly improve usability and accessibility. The friendly URL is easier to type and remember. Search engines like them too. For quick access to a musician profile, simply append the musician's name to the All About Jazz URL like this: musicians.allaboutjazz.com/patmetheny musicians.allaboutjazz.com/samrivers musicians.allaboutjazz.com/milesdavis ...
Benjamin Taubkin: Al Qantara/The Bridge
by Dan Bilawsky
Music, by its nature, is about building bridges. When it's broken down to its very essence, it's all about forming connections between sounds and souls. That idea, in expanded and magnified form, is the core principle behind Al Qantara/The Bridge. Here, music takes on additional responsibilities, serving as a bridge between styles, syntax, and cultures; it ...
Florencia Gonzalez: Between Loves
by Dan Bilawsky
Uruguay-born, New York-based tenor saxophonist Florencia Gonzalez wrote the material that appears on this album during her first years in the United States. That time period found her focusing on narrowing geographical and artistic divides, creating music that exists between worlds. Gonzalez's debut album--Woman Dreaming Of Escape (Self Produced, 2012)--found her working out her ...
Gregory Porter, Donald Smith, Mansur Scott: Great Voices Of Harlem
by Bruce Lindsay
Great Voices Of Harlem showcases the vocal talents of three most fascinating jazz singers--Gregory Porter, Donald Smith and Mansur Scott. Ably supported by Paul Zauner's Blue Brass, the vocalists put their very individual stamps on some classic songs. The result is a stylish, classy, recording. Scott gets the lion's share of credits, with appearances ...
Brian Charette: The Question That Drives Us and Square One
by Hrayr Attarian
Classically trained pianist turned organist Brian Charette is an accomplished master of the Hammond B3 with an elegant yet passionate touch. His signature style imbues the many recordings of his various ensembles with a light, crisp sound and an effervescent melodicism that is, unapologetically, mainstream without being pedestrian. In 2014 Charette cut two charmingly seductive albums ...
Moody Blues at the NYCB Theatre At Westbury
by Mike Perciaccante
Moody Blues NYCB Theatre in Westbury Westbury, NY May 7, 2014 The Moody Blues is an English rock band that was among the first groups to fuse rock and pop with classical music. The band's 1967 album Days of Future Passed (Derem Records, 1967) is considered by many to be the ...
Paul Bley: Play Blue
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Paul Bley, born in 1932, began his jazz career in the 1950's, working with every one from saxophonists Charlie Parker, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins, and Ornette Coleman, as well as clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre and trumpeter Chet Baker, and more legends of the time than can be listed here. He has, under his own ...
Manuel Valera: Self Portrait
by Dan Bilawsky
Pianist Manuel Valera's New Cuban Express has pulled into the station for a pit stop, his band mates have stepped off the train to stretch their legs, and the conductor of said locomotive is now left to ponder his own existence in front of his controls. Such is the story that could be told to detail ...
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