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Cécile McLorin Salvant's Ogresse At Carnegie Hall
by Adam Beaudoin
Cécile McLorin Salvant Carnegie Hall Ogresse New York, NY May 21, 2025 The relationship between jazz and classical music has a long, complicated history. Musicians themselves tend to care more about the music than concepts of genre, and you only need to listen to the echoes of French Impressionism ...
Johnny Hartman, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Will Downing, Joanna Majoko and More
by Jua Howard
Greetings Music Family! It's time for another episode of the “First Instrument Jazz Show"! I've got new music from Dee Dee Bridgewater, Joanna Majoko and Sandra-Mae Lux, and more timeless music from Johnny Hartman, The Blackbyrds, Whitney James, Will Downing, Etta Jones, Darmon Meaderand many more. Come get lost in the music with me!Playlist ...
Lonnie Davis: Lighting Up Charlotte with Jazz
by K. Shackelford
In the '90s, fierce jazz curator, flutist, and educator Lonnie Davis found herself as the only female in The University of New Orleans jazz program. Prior to that, she studied under jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis while a high school student at the highly selective and musically rigorous New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. The brilliant music ...
At Monterey Jazz Festival 67, Jazz Gospel According to a New Head
by Josef Woodard
Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey, CA September 27-29, 2024 Getting a semblance of a summarizing angle on a densely-programmed jazz festival, which the 67th Monterey Jazz Festival most certainly was, can be tricky business. The equation gets more complex with a festival geared towards covering many genre and sub-genre bases within ...
Aaron Parks: Little Big III
by Mike Jurkovic
Listening to the ever-evolving mind and music of pianist Aaron Parks reveals a sizable rock and roll streak running through it all. His impulsive 2008 solo nod on Blue Note Records, Invisible Cinema, carried indy rock energy. And it is a good bet that if one digs into his work with Terrence Blanchard--four albums from 2003 ...
McCoy Mrubata: The Doyen of South African Jazz
by Harry S. Pariser
At 64, McCoy Mrubata is a commanding presence on the South African jazz scene. A Cape Town native who now resides in Johannesburg along with his wife and four children, Mrubata has won many awards and accolades in his native country, including a lifetime achievement award. Yet, Mrubata remains a lesser known figure in the US. ...
Herbie Hancock At Chautauqua Auditorium
by Steven Roby
Herbie Hancock Chautauqua Auditorium Boulder, CO September 12, 2023 After Herbie Hancock and his quartet settled on the stage, a woman in the crowd yelled, “Nam Myoho Renge Kyo." It's a chant used in the practice of Nichiren Buddhism, which Hancock has said enhances his ability to improvise in his music. ...
Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2023
by Mark Sullivan
Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec June 29-July 3, 2023 The 2023 festival continued the broad offering of free shows that was so prominent last year. They were frequently strong enough to vie with the ticketed concerts (which were also quite diverse and featured marquee artists from jazz and adjacent ...
Eastman School of Music Appoints Christine Jensen as Assistant Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Media
The Eastman School of Music has recently announced Christine Jensen as Assistant Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Media. Saxophonist and composer Christine Jensen has been described as “an original voice on the international jazz scene… [and] one of Canada’s most compelling composers,” by Mark Miller of the Globe and Mail. Christine will make the move from ...
