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Sonny Rollins Meets His Fans: Google Hangout Session Set for May 5 at 12:00 noon EDT

April 9, 2014

On May 5 at 12:00 noon EDT, Sonny Rollins will expand his forays into social-media territory (and CD promotion) by participating in an unprecedented video conference, “Sonny Rollins Meets His Fans," broadcast live on YouTube and Google+. Ten members of Sonny's global community of listeners and fellow musicians, chosen from the winners of a video contest ...

On "Enjoy The View," Master Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson Co-Leads An All-Star Collective Ensemble

April 9, 2014

ENJOY THE VIEW, COMPRISING SEVEN ORIGINALS WRITTEN BY BAND MEMBERS, MARKS HUTCHERSON’S FIRST NEW BLUE NOTE RECORD SINCE 1977 THE JUNE 24 RELEASE OF ENJOY THE VIEW, PRODUCED BY BLUE NOTE PRESIDENT DON WAS, MARKS ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT EVENT OF BLUE NOTE’S 75TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR NEA Jazz Master Bobby Hutcherson makes his triumphant return to Blue Note ...

Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band: Landmarks

by John Kelman
April 9, 2014

Four records in 16 years may not be prolific, but clearly Brian Blade and his longstanding Fellowship Band aren't about quantity. While a seemingly scant two years separated the drummer's leader debut (and inspiration for the group name), Fellowship (Blue Note, 1998) from its even more impressive follow-up, Perceptual (Blue Note, 2002), the group's next record, ...

Seamus Blake and Chris Cheek: Reeds Ramble

by Bruce Lindsay
April 9, 2014

Saxophonists Seamus Blake and Chris Cheek are both into their third decades as professional musicians. Their working relationship goes back to the early-90s when Cheek was a member of Blake's “alternative grunge jazz" band The Bloomdaddies. On Reeds Ramble (the title is borrowed from a tune written by guitarist Jerry Reed) the two men lead a ...

David White Jazz Orchestra: The Chase

by Karl Ackermann
April 9, 2014

Some of the same high school kids that we're jamming with composer/arranger/trombonist David White more than fifteen years ago still occupy a space alongside newer faces in his New York based jazz orchestra. Tradition and transition are very much at the core of White's approach to progressive swing. White continues to express his unique style of ...

Grzegorz Karnas: Audio Beads

by Angelo Leonardi
April 9, 2014

Il singolare talento del cantante Grzegorz Karnas incontra sempre più consensi in ambito internazionale, come dimostrano le positive accoglienze ottenute da questo disco, inciso dal vivo al Jazzforum Budapest Festival del 2011. Originario della Slesia, Karnas è attivo sulla scena musicale polacca da almeno un decennio e questo è il suo quinto album, ...

Jane Ira Bloom: Sixteen Sunsets

by Alberto Bazzurro
April 9, 2014

Di Jane Ira Bloom ricordiamo le immagini giovanili, quando, negli anni Ottanta, offriva il proprio contributo all'epifania del sax soprano, destando non poca curiosità, anche per il fatto di essere donna, quando ancora cantanti e pianiste godevano di un monopolio pressoché esclusivo sul plotoncino delle jazz women. La ritroviamo oggi (non senza averne ...

by Ian Patterson
April 9, 2014

Nine years after the Pat Metheny Group crowned its mammoth The Way Up (Nonesuch, 2005) tour before 100,000 people at the Montreal Jazz Festival, it seems increasingly unlikely that Metheny will reconvene his main vehicle, not now with a vibrant new group pushing him compositionally and slaying audiences. Or does it? In a 2012 interview with ...

Placido Domingo Awarded Honorary Doctorate

April 9, 2014

Renowned tenor and international conductor Placido Domingo was awarded an honorary doctor of music degree by Berklee College of Music at its campus in Valencia, Spain on Friday. The event took place at the Teatro Martín i Soler of the Palau de les Arts and was attended by local government officials and dignitaries and Berklee’s Valencia ...

Liv Warfield at B.B. King Blues Club on April 6, 2014

April 9, 2014

Liv Warfield has burst onto the scene like a fireball from the sky – hitting the Jimmy Fallon Show, the Arsenio Hall Show and the Late Show with Letterman! That’s a late show trifecta. Musicians dream about a run like this. Where did Liv Warfield come from? And where has she been? The powerhouse from Portland ...