Home » Search Center » Results: United States

Results for "United States"

News: Festival

Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend Announces Final Lineup, Tix On Sale Now

May 20, 2014

LEE, Mass. — The summer jazz season opens in the Berkshires June 5-8, when the third annual Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend brings marquee performers and local jazz musicians to downtown Lee. Sponsored by Berkshire Gateway Preservation, Inc., in collaboration with Berkshires Jazz, Inc., the weekend event will be highlighted by the appearances of Sonny & Perley; ...

News: Video / DVD

Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live At The Isle of Wight to be released on Blu-Ray for the first time ever on June 17

May 20, 2014

Tuesday, June 17 will mark the first Blu-ray release of Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live At The Isle of Wight, the enrapturing film that documents the guitar legend’s August 1970 performance before an audience of 600,000. It was the largest show attendance-wise he would ever play and came just 18 days before his untimely death. ...

News: Recording

Available Today: The David Weiss Sextet - "When Words Fail," On Motema Music!

May 20, 2014

Available NOW on Motema Music, May 20, 2014 Reassembled after ten years, The David Weiss Sextet delivers a brilliant set of music that serves as a beacon of musical excellence, and a reflection on a year of loss CD RELEASE CELEBRATION - JUNE 25 AT SMOKE JAZZ AND SUPPERCLUB, NYC When Words Fail Features: David Weiss- ...

News: Recording

Louis Prima Jr. & The Witnesses To Release Blow On June 10

May 20, 2014

A different kind of musical dawn is coming with flashes of rowdy big band, simmering soul and swaggering rock 'n' roll as Louis Prima Jr. and the Witnesses prepare to ignite a new legacy with their second full-length album, Blow out June 10 on Warrior Records/Universal Music Distribution. With Blow, Prima and the Witnesses revive a ...

News: Website

Jazz Image of the Day Reach Expands to Facebook and Twitter

May 19, 2014

All About Jazz handpicks a photo, painting, or illustration daily and features it as our image of the day. In addition to highlighting the image in our Image of the Day box, we also present the last 60 in a montage at the bottom of our gallery pages. All About Jazz pushes the image of the ...

News: Website

Attn: Musicians! Friendly URLs are back!

May 19, 2014

As part of the Jazz Musician Database relaunch project, we've reimplemented friendly URLs to greatly improve usability and accessibility. The friendly URL is easier to type and remember. Search engines like them too. For quick access to a musician profile, simply append the musician's name to the All About Jazz URL like this: musicians.allaboutjazz.com/patmetheny musicians.allaboutjazz.com/samrivers musicians.allaboutjazz.com/milesdavis ...

Article: Album Review

Benjamin Taubkin: Al Qantara/The Bridge

Read "Al Qantara/The Bridge" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
May 19, 2014

Music, by its nature, is about building bridges. When it's broken down to its very essence, it's all about forming connections between sounds and souls. That idea, in expanded and magnified form, is the core principle behind Al Qantara/The Bridge. Here, music takes on additional responsibilities, serving as a bridge between styles, syntax, and cultures; it ...

Article: Album Review

Black Top: No. 1

by Karl Ackermann
May 19, 2014

No. 1--the energetically contrapuntal debut album by the duo Black Top--is, in reality, a trio endeavor. UK based multi-instrumentalists Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas have been a frequent presence in the London club scene, sharing their live performances with a host of up and coming UK artists. Among them, saxophonist Steve Williamson is the most well ...

Article: Album Review

Doc Stewart and Big Band Resuscitation: Code Blue!

Read "Code Blue!" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
May 19, 2014

Those who subscribe to the notion that big band music is a dying musical art form, are obviously unaware of Chris “Doc “ Stewart and his star-studded Resuscitation big band that have just given the genre a shot in the arm, a jolt of electricity and some life-saving musical medicine with the amazing Code Blue! An ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Miles Davis: Miles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3

by Doug Collette
May 19, 2014

Intensely intoxicating as much as it is wholly hypnotic, Miles Davis Live at the Fillmore becomes increasingly so through the course of its four compact discs. More than doubling the playing time of the original four-sided vinyl release, The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 posits an argument the band(s) of this era were among the finest ever ...