Results for "Terence Blanchard"

San Francisco Jazz Festival 2025

by Harry S. Pariser
July 3, 2025

San Francisco Jazz Festival SFJAZZ San Francisco, CA June 13-15, 2025 For decades now, SFJAZZ has held the San Francisco Jazz Festival as a series of concerts spread over weeks. The festivities gained a permanent home when the new building opened in January 2013. This year, new Executive Artistic Director Terence ...

SFJAZZ Gala 2025 Honoring Don Was

by Ronald Davis
June 28, 2025

A collection of photos from the SFJAZZ Gala 2025 Honoring Don Was concert at SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco on June 12, 2025 featuring SFJAZZ Collective, Terence Blanchard, Don Was, Ambrose Akinmusire, Melissa Aldana, Gabrielle Cavassa, Kurt Elling, Lisa Fischer, Bill Frisell, Charles Lloyd, Jason Moran, Larry Grenadier, Eric Harland, Salar Nader and Alam Kahn. With ...

SFJAZZ In January

by Ronald Davis
February 8, 2025

Introducing Trumpeter Skylar Tang

by Sanford Josephson
February 6, 2025

"Every now and then," said trumpeter Sean Jones, “a musician comes along who has a vision and focus that you just know will affect the world--a sense of high artistry, skill, and profound leadership. Skylar Tang is one of the ones in her generation who fits this description." Jones is Artistic Director of Carnegie ...

Plot Armor

By Taylor Eigsti

Label: GroundUP Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Let You Bee; Bucket of F's (feat. Ben Wendel); Look Around You (feat. Becca Stevens); Plot Armor; Light Dream (feat. Terence Blanchard); Fire Within (feat. Lisa Fischer); The Rumor; Actually; Beyond The Blue (feat. Gretchen Parlato); 201918; Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered; Bad Sport Lobby.

Conversations with Aaron Parks and Marta Sanchez

by Leo Sidran
December 29, 2024

To close out the season, here are two compelling and complementary conversations with pianists Aaron Parks and Marta Sanchez. Each of their stories is deeply personal, and yet their experiences echo one another beautifully.I interviewed Aaron Parks last January at Winter Jazzfest in New York City, just a few days before he made the ...

Bologna Jazz Festival 2024

by Libero Farnè
November 22, 2024

Varie sedi Bologna Jazz Festival 2024 Bologna e Ferrara 23 ottobre--17 novembre 2024 Per l'ampiezza della sua durata il Bologna Jazz Festival 2024 potrebbe essere definito un festival fiume, con le caratteristiche più di una rassegna che di un festival concentrato. Per la varietà delle proposte si è qualificato invece come ...

Adonis Rose: Following The Score Of Higher Power

by Taliya Hafiz
November 19, 2024

The Orchestrator of Moods The master drummer, composer, producer, artistic director, Adonis Rose seems to have had his mission imprinted in the constellation of stars guiding him throughout his life, reflecting in his encounters, career highlights, and even name and surname initials. A.R. coincides with an AR term in the music industry denoting “Artist & Repertoire ...

Talking the Groove: Jazz Words from the Morning Star

by Duncan Heining
October 12, 2024

Talking the Groove: Jazz Words from the Morning Star Chris Searle (foreword by Mike Westbrook) 394 pages ISBN: #978-1-9163206-7-3 Jazz in Britain 2024 Talking the Groove collects Chris Searle's more recent reviews, articles and interviews from the British socialist daily paper, the Morning Star, acting as a follow-up to ...

Aaron Parks: Little Big III

by Chris May
October 5, 2024

After debuting with a clutch of albums on Keynote around the start of the millennium, and then spending five years with Terence Blanchard, Aaron Parks emerged as a fully-fledged bandleader with his album Invisible Cinema on Blue Note in 2008. On it, Parks fronted a quartet completed by guitarist Mike Moreno, bassist Matt Penman and drummer ...