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Air Jamaica Jazz & Blues Tickets for Historic Online Sale
Fans anxious to see eight-time Grammy Award winner, Anita Baker; two-time Grammy winner Jill Scott; legendary singer, Diana Ross; revered 'Caribbean Queen' singer, Billy Ocean in one destination will be able to get tickets for the first time on the Internet. History will be made on Monday, Dec. 10 when for the very first time in ...
Riverspace Presents the Millennial Territory Orchestra Meets Laurel and Hardy Friday, December 14, 8PM + a Jazz Nativity Friday, December 21, 8PM
The Millennial Territory Orchestra meets Laurel and Hardy Friday, December 14, 8PM Riverspace will be filled with music and laughter when trumpeter and bandleader Steven Bernstein leads the Millennial Territory Orchestra through new original scores to a selection of Laurel & Hardy film shorts on Friday, December 14 at 8:00 p.m. Cost: ...
Joel Newton Situation: Crying and Laughing
by Donald Elfman
How about this--a band that works together regularly, playing music that is an astounding mix of free and composed with dashes of dance, minimalism and group improvisation? Guitarist Joel Newton is the composer here, and he has done up half-a-dozen ways for his band members to show off their best stuff as well as to give ...
Linda Ciofalo: Sun Set
by Marcia Hillman
Linda Ciofalo's Sun Set has connected all the dots to make for an impressive listening experience. Starting with a concept--songs with the word sun" in the title, or sun-related--the package offers an eclectic collection of selections, innovative arrangements and performances by an engaging vocalist with major chops and choice instrumentalists: John di Martino (piano), John Hart ...
David Ostwald: Blues in Our Heart
by Jim Santella
Trad jazz never goes out of style. Thus, David Ostwald's two-step parade draws weekly New York audiences to Birdland in respectable numbers. They come from all walks of life: folks who remember Louis Armstrong as well as those who simply remember dear old Mom and Dad, and the family getting high on this exceptional form of ...
Deborah Davis @ Blue Note, 11th Annual Jazz Benefit Concert for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Once again Jazz Vocalist, Deborah Davis & The Blue Note Jazz Club are proud to announce the 11th Annual Jazz Benefit Concert for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The benefit has been held annually the first Monday of the year since 1998. Deborah first began campaigning for the Leukemia Society in 1997 by running a marathon ...
Maria Schneider: Raising the Bar
by Tom Greenland
Maria Schneider, one of the most innovative big band composer/arrangers of the past two decades, is on a roll--in an era of declining record sales and rising recording costs, she is flying high. Sky Blue (2007), her second release through ArtistShare, has garnered considerable accolades; largely fan-funded, the album is not only an artistic triumph but ...
Opsvik & Jennings: Commuter Anthems
by Seamus Seoighe
Eivind Opsvik and Aaron Jennings describe Commuter Anthems as such: If you've ever wondered what it would sound like if a bassist/tunesmith from Norway teamed up with a guitarist/software enthusiast from Oklahoma to make music--well, this is it. Not so much a spectacle of international diversity, Commuter Anthems delivers itself more as a cohesive blend of ...
Mark O'Leary: Waiting
by Robert Iannapollo
Early recordings by Irish guitarist Mark O'Leary put him in the impressionistic ECM camp, but more recent recordings and gigs with Paul Bley and Milford Graves show him drifting closer towards the avant-garde. Waiting, a set of free improvs inspired by Samuel Beckett with trumpeter Cuong Vu and drummer Tom Rainey, reinforces that view.
12 Year-Old Jonathan Russell and His Swingtet at Laguardia Performing Arts Center December 7th, 8 PM
Jonathan Jazz" Russell is a sensational twelve-year-old jazz violinist from New York City who performs regularly throughout the metropolitan area. Jonathan has been a feature performer at major jazz festivals including the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Jack Kleinsinger's Highlights in Jazz Series, the New Jersey and Great Connecticut Traditional jazz festivals and will make ...

