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News: Performance / Tour

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, June 13-19

June 14, 2014

Summer is in full swing— or bop, or whatever rhythm you like. This weekend feels like a festival prelude, with the End of the Line Block Party hosted by the Black Dog to celebrate the opening of Light Rail connecting downtown Saint Paul and Minneapolis; Jazz at Studio Z ends its third season with a triple ...

News: TV / Film

Cincinnati music history fits Miles Davis film

June 14, 2014

Actor Don Cheadle has filmed movies around the world, so he's not totally surprised to be preparing to shoot his Miles Davis feature in Cincinnati. “You have architecture and the look here that can approximate the era that we're shooting in Manhattan, which Manhattan doesn't really have a lot of anymore," said Cheadle in the “Miles ...

News: TV / Film

Don Cheadle pays tribute to jazz hero with "Miles Ahead"

June 14, 2014

Using crowdfunding site Indiegogo, Don Cheadle announces he'll pay homage to hero and jazz legend Miles Davis. Don Cheadle is making a movie about Miles Davis, but he's quick to stress: It's not a biopic. “Standard biopics touch all the standard benchmarks for five seconds, then move on," Cheadle says. “They don't tell you a full ...

News: Website

Jazz Near You Adds Four More Cities: Pensacola, Columbia, Flagstaff and Des Moines

June 13, 2014

Jazz Near You now services 250 cities worldwide with the additions of Pensacola (FL), Columbia (MO), Flagstaff (AZ) and Des Moines (IA). If your city has an active jazz scene and isn't represented at Jazz Near You, please let us know and we'll add it. About Jazz Near You The web's leading jazz event discovery platform, ...

Article: Album Review

Johnny O'Neal: Live at Smalls

Read "Live at Smalls" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
June 13, 2014

La vicenda del pianista Johnny O'Neal ricorda quella dei molti jazzmen usciti repentinamente di scena e in qualche caso riscoperti in età avanzata. Il suo caso non ha avuto la risonanza che ebbe il ritorno di Henry Grimes un decennio fa ma ha catalizzato comunque l'attenzione degli appassionati. Gran parte del merito va a ...

News: Award / Grant

2014 JJA Jazz Awards for Journalism and Media

June 13, 2014

Winners in the following categories were announced at the JJA Jazz Awards Party on June 11, 2014 at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City. Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism W. Royal Stokes Website of the Year All About Jazz Print Periodical of the Year Jazz Times Blog ...

News: Festival

Vision Festival 19 Welcomes Whit Dickey And James Blood Ulmer

June 13, 2014

In addition to celebrations of Roy Campbell and Amiri Baraka, the creators of Vision Festival love to support under appreciated masters such as Whit Dickey. And they craft special gatherings such as a revisit of a ground breaking James Blood Ulmer unit called The Music Revelation Ensemble. Whit Dickey will lead his quartet in the opening ...

Article: Album Review

Tohpati: Tribal Dance

Read "Tribal Dance" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
June 13, 2014

A revered musician in Indonesia through his twenty-year association with progressive jazz outfit simakDialog and the guitar trio Trimus--alongside Indonesian guitar greats Dewa Budjana and Balawan--Tohpati has produced a handful of solo recordings since the late 1990s. Through Moonjune Records, however, Tohpati is gradually reaching a wider international audience. Save The Planet (Moonjune Records, 2010) with ...

Article: Book Review

Paul Combs: Dameronia: The Life and Times of Tadd Dameron

by Victor L. Schermer
June 13, 2014

Dameronia: The Life and Times of Tadd Dameron Paul Combs 264 Pages ISBN: # 978-0-472-03563-2 The University of Michigan Press2013 “There is enough ugliness in this world; I'm interested in beauty."--Tadd Dameron “Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early ...

Article: Album Review

Fred Hersch Trio: Floating

Read "Floating" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 13, 2014

There's no arguing the considerable merits of pianist Fred Hersch's Alive at the Vanguard (Palmetto Records, 2012) or his Alone at the Vanguard (Palmetto Records, 2011), trio and solo efforts respectively, both recorded live at the legendary Village Vanguard, home of so many classic live sets. Hersch is at the height of his artistic powers in ...