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Vijay Iyer Trio at Brooks Center for the Performing Arts
by Mark Sullivan
Vijay Iyer Trio Brooks Center for the Peforming Arts Utsey Chamber Music Series Clemson, SC 1/15/2015 The Vijay Iyer Trio's performance at Clemson University's Brooks Center for the Perfoming Arts was the first jazz programmed as part of the long-running Utsey Chamber Music Series. As the presenter pointed out ...
Vijay Iyer: Jazz is 'the music of the people'
Vijay Iyer speaks with missionary fervor about jazz. For this young award-winning pianist and 2012 recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant," playing jazz has little to do with fame. “The arts are a life of service," Iyer said, speaking from his home in New York City. “It's not just about success for yourself," he added. “If ...
Earl Klugh's Annual Weekend Of Jazz Returns To Kiawah Island Golf Resort November 6-8, 2014 For Fifth Year
Since 2004, GRAMMY-winning guitarist Earl Klugh has been bringing world-renowned artists together with jazz enthusiasts for his one-of-a-kind musically-driven lifestyle getaways. His Weekend of Jazz is now held at two Forbes Five-Star, AAA Five-Diamond properties each year; The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, and The Sanctuary at Kiawah Island, South Carolina. Klugh’s 5th annual Weekend of Jazz ...
The Jazz Corner Story
Jazz history, stories, photographs and recipes from The Jazz Corner, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina by Martin McFie From Lydia Inglett Publishing The Jazz Corner on Hilton Head Island is recognized as one of the top music venues in the world today. A new hardcover book, The Jazz Corner Story shines a ...
Release Party For The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story
Author Gregg Akkerman will be launching the release of his new book, The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story (Scarecrow Press, 2012) at a combined reading/live performance in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The release marks the long-overdue biography of a vocalist best known for his eponymously titled album with intrepid saxophonist John Coltrane (Impulse!, 1963) and as ...
Crescendo "Jazz, the Voice of America" To be released winter of 2012
Crescendo Productions LLC with the cooperation of Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc. has announced the release date for Crescendo the story of the creation and continuing evolution of jazz. Experienced through the lives of the musicians who live and breathe it, Crescendo takes us fully into the making of this most original form of musical expression. ...
Marc Hoffman to Perform at American Red Cross Event
NC jazz pianist/vocalist/composer joins “Jazz For Japan" in Rock Hill (CHARLOTTE, NC)—Virillion Music recording artist Marc Hoffman will perform during the American Red Cross fundraiser, “Jazz For Japan" at Tropical Escape in Rock Hill, SC on Sunday, March 27. Hoffman will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Hoffman's set will include original instrumental and vocal jazz ...
The Jazz Corner recognized as one of the top 150 jazz venues in the world
The Jazz Corner, the southeast's premier jazz club, located in Hilton Head Island, SC, has been recognized as a top jazz club in Downbeat Magazine's rankings in the February edition. The Jazz Corner, now in it's 11th year, has hosted many of the jazz greats including George Shearing, Dave McKenna, Scott Hamilton, Warren Vache , and ...
Experience Euphoria in Greenville, South Carolina
While there are countless food and wine festivals across the country, few are incorporating music to the extent that Euphoria, a food, wine and music festival in Greenville, South Carolina, has done in it's first four years. One of the reasons may just be that Edwin McCain, platinum selling singer/songwriter and local legend, is co-founder of ...
Legends Festival in South Carolina to Honor Natives and Other Jazz Greats
By Larry Reni Thomas South Carolina is the native state and former home of several distinguished jazz musicians, including the most well-known, John Birks “Dizzy" Gillespie, the trumpeter, composer, bandleader and co-creator of bebop, who was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. There are several others, like the high note trumpet master, Cat Anderson, a former member ...
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