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Arild Andersen: Green Into Blue - Early Quartets
by John Kelman
He's one of Norway's “Big Four"—a group of artists who, with the assistance of the emerging ECM label in the early 1970s, kick-started international focus on the music from a country that, despite its relatively small population, has become a truly vital force in the evolution of jazz over the past 40 years. Alongside saxophonist Jan ...
John Watson's "The Power of Jazz" Photography Book Now Available
Jazz legends and rising stars are featured in a new book The Power Of Jazz, by UK-based professional photographer and writer John Watson. The book has more than 140 color and black and white photographs of artists including Chet Baker, Gil Evans, Sonny Rollins, Hank Jones, Esbjorn Svensson, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, Dame Cleo Laine, Jane ...
Beatnik - A Musical Revue of the Jazz Beat Generation
BEATNIK CAFE by Namaya April 11, 2010 7 PM at the Richmond Shepard Theater 309 E 26th St. NY, NY Musical Revue of the Jazz Beat Generation For more information contact: [email protected] or 802-380-3483 Rutland Herald, “Beatnik Cafe - Is one hip, high-caliber theatrical event." BEATNIK a musical revue of the Jazz Beat Generation will ...
Jazz Icon Sheila Jordan Singing "Bird" in California
Ventura, CA -- One of the few remaining legends of jazz vocals and called “one of the most distinctive voices in jazz" according to National Public Radio (NPR), Sheila Jordan, brings her extraordinary bebop style and knowledge to Ventura and Los Angeles, California. Sheila has performed and recorded with some of the worlds greatest musicians spreading ...
Take Five With Tony Foster
by AAJ Staff
Meet Tony Foster: Currently based in Seattle, Washington, Tony Foster was born and raised in North Vancouver, BC, Canada. He received his initial musical training early on, in the form of classical piano lessons privately. In school bands, his main instrument became the trumpet. His studies on the trumpet continued until college, and it was not ...
Take Five With José Alberto Medina
by AAJ Staff
Sobre José Alberto Medina: Nací en 1979 en Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Afincado en Cataluña desde hace 10 años, donde he forjado mi trío. He elaborado mi propia sonoridad durante estos años, partiendo de la gran influencia de Bill Evans y desarrollando un concepto vanguardista del trío de piano en el jazz. Mi ...
Fay Victor Ensemble: The Freesong Suite
by John Kelman
It's a tough time to be a singer. With an excessive plethora of vocalists mining the Great American Songbook ad nauseum, or trying their hands at songwriting with less than distinctive results, it's harder than ever to be heard. Even once-innovative singers like Cassandra Wilson--now a Grammy Award-winning “star"--have deserted experimentation, resting instead on their not ...
Sofia Tosello: Alma y Luna
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There is a story that bears telling about Brazilian musician/multi-instrumentalist Egberto Gismonti and legendary teacher, Nadia Boulanger. Upon hearing him and evaluating his technique and higher knowledge of harmonic devices, the story goes that Boulanger said to him afterward, “Go back and learn the music of your country. This will unlock your voice and the world ...
Duke Ellington London and New York 1963-1964 The Great Concerts, The Duke of Elegant - Gems From the Duke Ellington Songbook
by Andrew Velez
Duke EllingtonThe Great Concerts (London & New York 1963-1964) Musicmasters-Nimbus 2009 Various ArtistsThe Duke of ElegantHighNote2009 “First of all the kids in the band want you to know they love ...
Jazz Geggie Series Presents Padovani, Trudel and Mazza
The National Arts Centre is pleased to announce the Fourth Stage 10th season with the return of the critically acclaimed Geggie Series. The first concert of the season will be presented in collaboration with the Embassy of France and the Alliance Franaise on Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 8pm. The concert will have a transatlantic flavour ...
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