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News: Festival

Nice Jazz Festival to Launch Miami Edition October 2012

July 22, 2012

The Miami Nice Jazz Festival, an extension of the internationally celebrated Nice France Jazz Festival, one of Europe’s largest and most significant jazz events of its kind, is scheduled to take place for the first time in the United States this fall. The festival, finding its stateside home in downtown Miami, will be a three day ...

Article: Album Review

Santana: Shape Shifter

Read "Shape Shifter" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush
July 17, 2012

The sticker plastered to Shape Shifter proclaims this is the Santana album 20 years in the making. Actually, it's the first album in 13 years where the guitarist doesn't just seem like a sideman on his own records. Nobody is more deserving of a career-reviving success story than Mexican-born Santana who was rewarded after years of ...

Article: Live From New York

Henry Cole, Joe McPhee & Ravi Coltrane

by Martin Longley
June 27, 2012

Henry Cole & The Afrobeat Collective 92Y Tribeca May 30, 2012 The Checkout is a monthly live broadcast for the WBGO radio station, presented by DJ Josh Jackson. The deal down at 92Y Tribeca always involves two formidable combos, often featuring a very familiar act coupled with a surging ...

News: Recording

Mingus, Monk & Weather Report: From Legacy in July

June 12, 2012

The ultimate year-round jazz festival of Legacy Recordings continues to set a new industry standard with three new Complete Album Collections from the Columbia and RCA archives by the greatest names in modern jazz: Charles Mingus: The Complete Columbia & RCA Albums Collection: 7 titles, 10 CDs The Thelonious Monk Quartet: The Complete Studio Albums Collection: ...

News: Performance / Tour

Vonda Shepard Plays Annapolis on May 18, Woodstock on May 19, New York City on May 21

May 15, 2012

Vonda Shepard and her piano will be performing three east coast dates this May 18, 19 and 21. On May 18, Vonda performs at The Ram's Head On Stage, 33 West Street, in Annapolis, MD, on May 18, at 8 PM. Jann Klose opens. May 19 brings Vonda to the Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker Street in ...

News: Recording

The Funk Ark: "High Noon" + Tour Dates + MP3

April 16, 2012

After a highly praised debut, Washington DC’s The Funk Ark is back with an even tighter follow up album. Less than a year has passed since the release of From The Rooftops on ESL Music and the world funk ensemble has established itself as one of the strongest players in the scene both in the studio ...

News: Recording

Bang Data Announces "La Sopa" + Tour Dates

March 24, 2012

Straight out of the Bay Area, Bang Data comes armed with slick guitar, gritty synth & bass and banging electro-acoustic drums. Their debut full length album La Sopa (The Soup), dropped digitally on March 13th on iTunes, with a worldwide physical CD release on March 27th loaded with heavy grooves, Samba-Ska-Cumbia and hints of Afro-Electro-Bossanova. Much ...

News: Video / DVD

Santana Lands February 21 in a Captivating Set of Greatest Hits!

February 16, 2012

Eagle Rock Entertainment will release Santana Live At Montreux 2011 on a 2DVD set & Blu-ray in a exhilarating set of jazz, Latin, funk, soul and rock 'n' roll. The 23-song show weighs heavily on the side of the songs that fans of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist (inducted in 1998) have loved ...

News: Recording

Guitarist Kyle Walz Exhilarates With Collection Of Jazz And R&B Covers

February 15, 2012

There is a double meaning in the title of guitarist Kyle Walz's latest album, Lifted Standards. On one hand, it's a reference to the fact that the record is a collection of covers; in other words, these songs are 'lifted' from other artists. But in a subjective sense the music can really lift the spirits. Until ...

News: Performance / Tour

Ringo Starr: 13th All Starr Band and Summer Tour Dates

February 9, 2012

13TH ALL STARR BAND FEATURING STEVE LUKATHER, GREGG ROLIE, RICHARD PAGE, TODD RUNDGREN, MARK RIVERA, GREGG BISSONETTE Today Ringo Starr announced his 13th All Starr Band, which will launch June 14, 2012 from Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls, Ontario and conclude July 21, 2012 at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, California. New to the All ...