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Jonathan Powell: "Transcend" CD Release Show Friday @ The Blue Note
Great news about fast-rising trumpeter Jonathan Powell: He and his nu Sangha group, including brother Jeremy Powell on sax, are playing a CD-release show this Friday, late night at the Blue Note in New York. Jonathan and Jeremy, both gifted, young, eclectically minded jazz musicians, are Tampa friends of mine, and former bandmates, who performed and recorded ...
Tribute to Don Capone - May 12 @ Lenny's Latin Cafe
Here's the word from trumpeter Dwayne White: Calling All Jazz Musicians Wednesday, May 12 @ 7pm we will convene at Lenny's Latin Cafe, 10918 N 56th St Tampa, to pay tribute to the late Don Capone. Please join us for a great evening of celebration doing what we as musicians do best. Playing music! There will ...
The Miles Davis Movie
A brief update from MTV Says star/director/co-writer Don Cheadle: “The story is really not... a biopic per se. It's not attempting to be any cradle-to-grave depiction of [Miles'] life. It's more my take, as an artist, on what his music has meant. With wall-to-wall truth but not really much concerned about facts." It's “not really much ...
Jazz Fest Diary: John Ellis at Louisiana Music Factory
Jazz Fest week doesn't really kick in until the start of the Louisiana Music Factory's in-store performances. It's a tradition that goes back 18 years, to when the French Quarter CD and vinyl outlet opened its doors on North Peters, around the corner from its current digs on Decatur Street. Tenor saxophonist John Ellis and Double ...
Jazz Fest Diary: Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse and More
Whether it's pre-Jazz Fest anticipation or something else, New Orleans feels like it's on an emotional upswing. Mitch Landrieu, stepping down as Lt Governor and being sworn in as the city's new mayor in less than two weeks, is listening to citizens and putting together his staff; Landrieu, voted in with strong support from blacks and ...
Tampa Jazz Notes: Child of the Sun Jazz Festival Returns; Don Capone Tribute; Jazz Cellar Underground Orchestra to Play
The Child of the Sun Jazz Festival, a first-class Lakeland event begun in 1988 with major input from late great cornetist Nat Adderley but shuttered after a great 20-year run, will be revived next spring. That's the word from Larry Burke, longtime music professor at Florida Southern ...
Disc of the Day: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
I've had the opportunity to catch Sharon Jones twice in concert--at Skipper's Smokehouse in Tampa, and last year at Jazz Fest in New Orleans--and both times she blew down the doors. Below is my review of her latest CD, published recently in Las Vegas City Life. Sharon ...
America Needs It Some "Treme"
"America needs it some Kermit," the New Orleans DJ and sometime musician played by Steve Zahn says, about halfway through the first episode of HBO's “Treme," which debuts tonight on the heels of much critical praise. Davis McAlary (Zahn), inspired by real-life scenester Davis Rogan, is talking ...
Happy Jazz Day -- 7 Ways to Celebrate; Tampa Bay Area Shows to See
Today is Jazz Day, as established last year in a proclamation made by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. That organization proclaimed, in part, that “jazz has spoken eloquently of freedom for people in the United States and abroad, and has become an international language that bridges differences and brings people of all races, ages, and backgrounds ...
Louis Meets Death Metal and Other Audiovisual Musical Mash-Ups: Creative or Obscene?
When, back in 1999, Kenny G added his chirpy soprano sax to Louis Armstrongs classic recording of What a Wonderful World, I reeled in disgust. Or, at least, I was very, very annoyed by the thing. Even worse, the popular saxophone owner, in concert, did a duet with an Armstrong video clip. That was obscene, right? ...
