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Preview: The Triangle North Carolina 2014-2015 Jazz Season
By Larry Reni Thomas The busy, expanding, thoroughly-satisfying jazz scene in what is called the “Triangle” area of the Piedmont section of North Carolina just keeps getting better and better. Who needs the New York or the D.C. jazz scene when everybody seems to be coming this way? The area can boast of several venues that ...
Palo! Fever Is Spreading Across The Nation As New CD, Palo! Live, Gains Airplay
MIAMI, FL – PALO! Live, the sophomore CD by Miami’s award-winning Afro-Cuban Funk band, PALO!, debuted at #20 on the CMJ World Music Chart. Recorded live in front of a standing room only crowd last August in Miami, the CD is now reaping airplay in the band’s hometown as well as across the country. Among the ...
"Colors Of Life," 2nd CD By Vocalist Jua, Set For June 24 Release By Chocolate Chi Music
Colors of Life, the second CD by Raleigh, North Carolina-based vocalist Jua, marks an artistic rebirth for the 35-year-old singer. His 2007 debut, Anticipation, had enjoyed attention from smooth-jazz and R&B stations, but Jua was having second thoughts about his direction and soon found his way to Berkeley’s Jazzschool Institute. There he devoted a year to ...
Durham Jazz Vocalist/Educator Lenora Helm Spreads Wings Scoring Adaptation Of The Pied Piper Entitled “Indigo Blue” For The Walltown Children's Theatre In Durham, NC
Jazz Vocalist/Educator Lenora Helm Spreads Wings Scoring Adaptation of The Pied Piper Entitled “Indigo Blue” Holiday-Themed Program Runs at the Walltown Children’s Theater In Durham, North Carolina Weekend of Thursday December 12 – Sunday December 15 Young people and adults alike in Durham, North Carolina, will soon be touched by the mastery and magic of Lenora ...
Grammy-nominated Jazz Great Joe Chambers To Appear At The NCCU Jazz Festival On November 17, 2013
By Larry Reni Thomas “Retire? You don't retire from jazz. Some cats have died on the bandstand," said drummer and educator Joe Chambers, during a phone interview from his home in Wilmington, North Carolina. “By the same token. I don't have the desire to play the drums behind anybody that's living today, with the possible exception ...
The Joe Chambers Radio Special On WCOM-FM On November 17, 2013!
Listen to “Sunday Night Jazz" November 17, 2013, 9pm-12mid, on WCOM-FM, 103.5 FM, for THE JOE CHAMBERS RADIO SPECIAL, a three hour long program, featuring Chambers's music and an interview with the twice Grammy-nominated legendary musician, composer and educator. Chambers has recorded as a sideman, a drummer/percussionist/vibraphonist, and a leader on more than 500 albums and ...
Preview: The Triangle North Carolina 2013-14 Jazz Season By Larry Reni Thomas
The busy, expanding, thoroughly-satisfying jazz scene in what is called the “Triangle” area of the Piedmont section of North Carolina just keeps getting better and better. Who needs the New York or the D.C. jazz scene when everybody seems to be coming this way? The area can boast of several venues that present jazz like, Irregardless ...
Lee Morgan Birthday Radio Special On WCOM-FM
Listen to “Sunday Night Jazz,” with host Larry Reni Thomas, on WCOM-FM (wcomfm.org), Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina, July 14, 2013, from 9pm-12midnight, for A LEE MORGAN BIRTHDAY SPECIAL. The program will feature three hours of Morgan’s music and the airing of a profile and interview of Helen Morgan, the lady who shot the trumpet legend. She ...
Savion Glover: Dance, Jazz And Duke!
By Larry Reni Thomas Savion Glover, the earthy, energetic, fast-moving, tap dancer, will bring his dance performance program, SoLe Sanctuary: Hoofer’s Meditation On The Art Of Tap!, a tribute to his “teachers and mentors,” to Page Auditorium, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, at 8:00 pm, January 23, 2013. He will be appearing with his long-time partner, ...
Jimmy Herring: Subject to Change without Notice
by Ian Patterson
It's been four years since Lifeboat (Abstract Logix, 2008), guitarist Jimmy Herring's outstanding debut as leader. Herring hasn't been idle though, recording and touring with Widespread Panic. And given that it took several decades to make the first CD, four years isn't so long to wait for another-especially one this good. The emphasis is emphatically on ...
