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Habib Koité at the Highline Ballroom
by David Miller
Habiba Koité & BamadaHighline BallroomNew York, New YorkMarch 16, 2010Many shows at the Highline Ballroom are general admission, but the venue will change things up for certain shows by putting in tables and turning the hall into a large jazz club. They probably made the wrong decision by bringing out the ...
L.A.'s Jazz Bakery Benefit Concert Features Tenor Great Benny Golson
Ruth Price, long time director of the Jazz Bakery in Culver City, California, presents more tasty jazz with the latest in a series of benefit concerts to help resurrect the non profit jazz venue. Called the “Movable Feast," these performances, which have included Kenny Burrell, Hubert Laws, Mose Allison and Hiromi, among others, will feature tenor ...
Regina Carter Reverse Thread Tour
World renowned Jazz violinist Regina Carter is gearing up to release her newest album, Reverse Thread, with a tour throughout the United States. For Reverse Thread, Regina collected African folk music from a variety of sources and infused it with her own contemporary twist while remaining true to the musics' origins. Regina added the kora, a ...
Hot and Cool: 40 Years of Jazz at NEC
by Marcia Hillman
New England Conservatory (NEC) is celebrating the 40th anniversary of being America's first fully-accredited Jazz Studies Program at a music conservatory. The merriment kicked off in NEC's home of Boston with a week of events in October 2009, culminating in a performance by the Wayne Shorter Quartet accompanied by the school's Philharmonia, a merger between jazz ...
Internationally Renowned Violinist Regina Carter Releasing Reverse Thread, a Celebration of African Folk Music
EI Entertainment to Release REVERSE THREAD on May 18th When preeminent violinist Regina Carter made the decision to record an album primarily of African folk tunes, she created a great challenge for herself: how do you take beautiful traditional music and infuse it with a contemporary feel while remaining true to its past -- and then, ...
Bill Royston: The History of a Festival
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
It is a passion and responsibility that no one takes as serious as they do; and they do it knowing that little, if any acknowledgment will come their way. They are the festival promoters and artistic directors of this music we call Jazz.And though it's a music that has always had its up and ...
"Spartacus" EP
Label: Spartacus Japan
Released: 2009
Track listing: Love Theme From Spartacus; Love Theme From Spartacus; Spartacus Love Theme;
Christian McBride: Getting the Inside Straight
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
If we think about it for a little while, it's possible to believe that there is something almost mystic and undeniably powerful about jazz. The way it developed through the years and its constant ignition-like energy; the creativity of those who lead the way and those who continue the journey today; the improvisation that takes over ...
52nd Monterey Jazz Festival Presents Best of Old and New
by Larry Taylor
52nd Annual Monterey Jazz FestivalMonterey FairgroundsMonterey, CaliforniaSeptember 18-20, 2009 Three Generations of Pianists, a celebration of piano jazz, spotlighting a family of greats from Jason Moran through Dave Brubeck, highlighted the 2009 Monterey Jazz Festival at Monterey County Fairgrounds in Northern California. And surprisingly, celebrated folk legend Pete Seeger got ...
Regina Carter Comes to FSU's CES Jazz Club
The Frostburg State University Cultural Event Series Jazz Club welcomes Regina Carter, jazz violinist, who will perform with her quintet on Thursday, Oct. 1, in the Alice R. Manicur Assembly Hall in the Lane University Center at 7:30 p.m. as part of her “Reverse Thread" tour. “Regina Carter creates music that is wonderfully listenable, probingly intelligent ...
