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New York's New Music And Arts Series M.A.K.
by AAJ Staff
New York City has a brilliant new arts foundation, and a related music series. Nikka Arts is a music and arts foundation, founded by New York singer and composer Lola Danza and her business partner JB, of aboptv.com. The organization aims to provide a space where musicians and artists can present their creative work, and also ...
Terence Blanchard named Artistic Director of the Henry Mancini Institute at the UM Frost School of Music
Coral Gables, FL—Five time Grammy Award winning jazz trumpeter and film composer Terence Blanchard was named Artistic Director of the Henry Mancini Institute (HMI), a prestigious program at the University of Miami Frost School of Music that is training a new generation of orchestral and jazz artists to create and perform in mixed-genre, collaborative settings. Blanchard ...
Terence Blanchard to compose original music for new Broadway show
TERENCE BLANCHARD WILL COMPOSE ORIGINAL MUSIC FOR THE WORLD PREMIERE OF THE MOTHERF**KER WITH THE HAT A NEW PLAY BY STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS STARRING BOBBY CANNAVALE, CHRIS ROCK, ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ, ANNABELLA SCIORRA, YUL VÁZQUEZ; DIRECTED BY ANNA D. SHAPIRO PRODUCTION OPENS APRIL 11, 2011 AT THE GERALD SCHOENFELD THEATRE, PREVIEWS BEGIN MARCH 15, 2011 Five-time Grammy ...
2011 Playboy Jazz Line-Up Announced
By Chuck Koton There are many reasons for Americans to express their collective gratitude to Hugh Hefner. He played a fundamental role in sophisticating society's senses in the1950s. And there are the women. There is the ground breaking path Hef carved in transcending the puritanical sexual mores of the Eisenhower era. And there are the women. ...
Walter Smith III: III
by Mark F. Turner
While there are many saxophonists warranting greater recognition, Walter Smith III is consistently emerging as an identifiable voice among the masses. He's been making waves, whether performing across the waters in Spain with bassist Paco Charlin; recording in France on drummer Eric Harland's debut, Voyager Live by Night (Space Time, 2010); with trumpeter Christian Scott for ...
Walter Smith III: Redefining a New Era in Jazz
The rich airy transparent sound is what identifies rising modern tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III. His music explores the many different avenues in jazz and introduces a new melodic perspective. When he plays, his creativity is made apparent through his ability to incorporate new musical ideas and undercover a unique relationship between harmonic and rhythmic composition. ...
Winter Jazzfest, New York City, Day 1: January 7, 2011
by Daniel Lehner
Day 1 | Day 2 Winter JazzfestNew York, NYJanuary 7-8, 2011 Since the informal move of jazz to the cities in the 1930s, the lore and legend of jazz compositions have lain in streets and places. The most common ones were the clubs, where innovations in jazz were ...
2010: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The jazz scene in 2010 was marked by a bit of cultural thaw between the U.S. and Cuba, royal honors for Marian McPartland that led honors galore for living jazz musicians, and significant acknowledgments for late jazz greats across North America. Efforts continued to expand jazz into new realms--or to hold on during the aftershocks of ...
Watts
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2010
Track listing: Return of the Jitney Man; Brekky with Drecky; Katrina James; Owed; Dancin' 4
Chicken; Wry Köln; Dingle Dangle; Devil's Ring Tone; M'Buzai; The Devil's Ring Tone.
Take Five With Jason Parker
by AAJ Staff
Meet Jason Parker:Seattle trumpeter Jason Parker leads the Jason Parker Quartet, who will release their second CD on October 24, 2009 on Broken Time Records. No More, No Less features some of Seattle's finest young jazz musicians. Stream and download now at Jason Parker's website.Instrument(s):Trumpet.Teachers and/or influences?
