Home » Search Center » Results: United States
Results for "United States"
The Art of the Jazz Duo - Playing Alone Together
Guitarist Howard Alden and pianist Lenore Raphael blended their considerable talents Friday night in a South County Jazz Club concert that concluded its 2013-14 season segment at the Glenridge Performing Arts Center in Sarasota. The New York-based players dug deeply into Great American Songbook standards, and a gritty take on Hoagy Carmichael's “Georgia On My Mind," before concluding ...
A Night of Valiant Jazz
Russian-born, New York-based trumpeter Valery Ponomarev and Florida saxophonist Valerie Gillespie teamed their talents Friday for the first time, and loved every minute of it. The occasion was a Jazz Club of Sarasota evening concert at Holley Hall, which drew a small but enthusiastic audience. Ponomarev was a member of drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers for ...
Mo'Fone Releases "'Fonology"
Award-Winning Trio’s Third Album Release Party at Freight & Salvage, Berkeley, CA, Thursday, May 15 The award-winning saxophones-and-drums trio MO’FONE release their 3rd album, 'Fonology, with all new original compositions mixing meaty New Orleans Funk with Bay Area free-range Jazz. With Larry De La Cruz and Jim Peterson on saxophones and Jeremy Steinkoler on drums and ...
NEC Presents Special In The Mix Concert Featuring Middle Eastern, Jewish Music And American Roots Ensembles At Pierce Hall
New England Conservatory presents a special evening of three concerts featuring top student musicians on Tuesday, April 22. Performing, as part of the conservatory’s In the Mix series, are the Middle Eastern, Jewish Music and American Roots ensembles. Performances take place at 7, 8 and 9 p.m. at New England Conservatory’s Pierce Hall on the first ...
Wayne Henderson, Jazz Crusaders Co-Founder, Dies
Wayne Henderson, trombonist and co-founding member of the popular jazz-funk band The Jazz Crusaders (later known as The Crusaders), died Friday, April 4, in Culver City, Calif. The cause of death was heart failure, according to The Crusaders' manager. Henderson was 74. Along with fellow Houston musicians Joe Sample (piano), Wilton Felder (tenor saxophone) and Stix ...
Adam Smale: Out of the Blue
by Jakob Baekgaard
Out of the Blue is the U.S. debut album by Canadian-born guitarist Adam Smale, but Smale hasn't come out of nowhere. In 2000, he released the album Fun City in his home country and received plenty of airplay and critical acclaim and in 2009 he moved to New York and since then he has become a ...
Watters / Felts Project: Watters / Felts Project
by Jack Bowers
On The Watters / Felts Project, Ken Watters, a fine trumpeter, and his quintet are confined for the most part to escorting singer Ingrid Felts as she wends her way through five present-day compositions, Billie Holiday's “Fine and Mellow" and the standard “I'll Be Seeing You." Is it a good idea? That depends in part on ...
Ondrej Stveracek Quartet: The Form
by Edward Blanco
Prague-based saxophonist Ondrej Stveracek and his sterling quartet are a driving force in Central Europe's thriving jazz scene and the group's stellar outing on The Form, is more than ample testament to this claim. A young lion from the Czech Republic, Stveracek was inspired by the music of John Coltrane and, although drawn in by his ...
Yoni Kretzmer 66 Boxes: Graceless
by Eyal Hareuveni
Israeli, New York-based tenor saxophonist Yoni Kretzmer returns on Graceless to an old passion of his--writing music that attempts to bridge the forward-thinking jazz from the school of sax heroes Tim Berne, Ellery Eskelin, and European jazz with elements from contemporary chamber music. Kretzmer's debut album as a leader, Yoni Kretzmer's New Dilemma (Earsay, 2009) focused ...
Jaco Pastorius: Modern American Music…Period! The Criteria Sessions
by John Kelman
1976 was, for electric bassists, the year where everything changed. Jaco Pastorius hadn't quite emerged from nowhere, and the few prior recordings on which he could be found may have provided some hint of what was to come, but it was the quadruple punch of fellow legend-in-the-making Pat Metheny's leader debut Bright Size Life (ECM, 1976), ...
Trending
Interview
Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
Interview
Scott Kinsey: Thought Distortions and the Art of the Left...
Groove Orbit
801 Live at 50: A Short-Term Experiment with a Long-Lasting...
From the Inside
The Quiet Cruelty of the Music Business
Live Review
Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
Phil Schaap's Jazz Room
Franc Williams: Live From The West End
Radio & Podcasts
Monktober continues with covers from Abbey Lincoln, Art...
Featured Video
VOTE!
