Results for "North Carolina"

Meet La-Faithia White

by AAJ Staff
October 7, 2020

I currently live in: I currently live in High Point, North Carolina. High Point is famously the childhood home of jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, and more recently of American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino. I joined All About Jazz in: 2018. Why did you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? I began ...

Vintage Astronaut

Vintage Astronaut is an experimental progressive jazz trio, creating adventurous narrative improvised music. Jonathan Greene, John Daniel Ray and Michael Kinchen are seasoned session musicians from Winston-Salem, NC

Dreamroot Explores Expression And Healing Through Genre-Defying Art With Their Release 'Phases.'

May 20, 2020

DreamRoot releases Phases, an emotional and provocative exploration of healing through personal and collective creation of genre-defying music. Phases simultaneously grooves and contemplates the reality of the modern age as it draws inspiration from those icons who have walked the lines between genres, and shines with original brilliance from the collaborative creative efforts of all members ...

The Current: Classical to Contemporary & Beyond

by Mark Sullivan
May 5, 2020

The Current: New Music Open Mic Facebook Live April 21, 2020 Since 2011 the Charlotte New Music organization has been working diligently to increase the city's awareness of contemporary music (in a broad range of forms), as well as to raise the profile of Charlotte, NC as a New Music center. The ...

Fabio Mittino at Keep Music Live Project

by Mark Sullivan
April 1, 2020

Fabio Mittino Keep Music Live Project March 29, 2020 Italian guitarist Fabio Mittino has performed in the Asheville, NC-area Streamside Concerts house concerts series in his acoustic duo with Bert Lams (of the California Guitar Trio) playing the music of Gurdjieff/De Hartmann. So he was a natural for inclusion in the Asheville-based ...

Joe Barna & Sketches of Influence At Middle C Jazz

by Mark Sullivan
March 18, 2020

Joe Barna & Sketches of Influence Middle C Jazz Charlotte, NC March 13, 2020 Drummer/composer/bandleader Joe Barna brought his band Sketches of Influence to Middle C Jazz (a recently opened jazz club in Charlotte, NC) to record a live album on March 13-14, 2020. Barna had come down from upstate New ...

Joe Barna Announces Sketches of Influence Live Recording at Middle C Jazz

March 10, 2020

Drummer/composer/bandleader Joe Barna is bringing his band Sketches of Influence to Middle C Jazz (a recently opened jazz club in jny: Charlotte, NC) to record a live album on March 13-14, 2020. This is certainly the first live recording to be produced at the club, and may be the first time that an artist from outside ...

Dave Stryker Quartet At Middle C Jazz

by Mark Sullivan
February 18, 2020

Dave Stryker Quartet Middle C Jazz Charlotte, NC February 14, 2020 Guitarist Dave Stryker began by introducing his band mates: tenor saxophonist Stephen Riley, organist Jared Gold (a constant companion for several years) and drummer Jeremy Bean Clemons. Much of the music would come from the recent album Eight Track III ...

Alexander Zonjic & Friends At Middle C Jazz

by Mark Sullivan
December 26, 2019

Alexander Zonjic & Friends Middle C Jazz Charlotte, NC December 21, 2019 Flutist Alexander Zonjic was born in Canada, but has made his home in jny: Detroit for many years. As he was tuning his guitar onstage he chatted with audience members from Windsor (there were several), and from Detroit (lots ...

Chris Brubeck at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art

by Mark Sullivan
October 9, 2019

Chris Brubeck Bechtler Museum of Modern Art Jazz at the Bechtler Charlotte, NC October 4, 2019 The “Jazz at the Bechtler" series celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, and next year is composer/pianist Dave Brubeck's centenary. So it is appropriate that Dave's son Chris was the special guest for a ...