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Marc Hoffman Quartet To Perform At Heart Gala

February 11, 2014

Jazz pianist/vocalist returns to Rock Hill for 2nd Annual Celebration Rock Hill, SC – Jazz pianist/composer/vocalist Marc Hoffman will perform with his quartet Saturday, February 15, 2014 at The City Club of Rock Hill in Rock Hill, SC as part of the 2nd Annual Celebrate with Heart Gala for the Heart2Heart Foundation. Joining Marc will be ...

News: Crowdfunding Campaign

Announcing The Archive Of Future Ancient Recordings By Ancient Future: Celebrating 35 Years Of World Fusion Music With New Fan Funded Tracks And Youtube Video

February 11, 2014

Ancient-Future.Com Records Presents: The Archive of Future Ancient Recordings (A.F.A.R.) Fan Supported Recording Series by Ancient Future Celebrating 35 Years of World Fusion Music Ancient Future performed its first concert on February 11, 1979, at the Sleeping Lady Cafe in Fairfax, California. Since then, the band has gone on to perform hundreds of concerts nationally and ...

News: Event

Jazz Arts Group Presents New Orleans Bluesman And Actor Chris Thomas King - Sat. Mar. 1

February 11, 2014

Columbus, OH – The Jazz Arts Group’s Inside Track series continues to heat up the Lincoln Theatre stage with Grammy and Country Music Award-winning blues guitarist, composer and actor Chris Thomas King on Saturday, March 1. Chris Thomas King came into his own while expanding on traditional musical horizons that were inherited from his late father, ...

News: Performance / Tour

Fantasia Barrino Returns to Broadway

February 11, 2014

By John Wesley Reed Jr. Fantasia Barrino, American Idol winner, who went on to play the lead role in Broadway's The Color Purple, was among the rotating roster of guest stars in After Midnight, Broadway's hottest new musical, also featuring Dule' Hill, and The Jazz at Lincoln Center All-Stars. Presented by Wynton Marsalis, Artistic Director, and ...

Article: Album Review

Matt Renzi: Rise And Shine

Read "Rise And Shine" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
February 10, 2014

Continuity and freshness, while theoretically at odds with one another, are the two things that tend to fuel group development in the arts. Only time can create bonds of trust and help to crystallize concepts and language shared between artists, but consistency can breed predictability. So how can an artist balance the scales, allowing their work ...

Article: Interview

Victor Lewis: The Drummer's Spirit

by Victor L. Schermer
February 10, 2014

For several decades, Victor Lewis has been one of the most in-demand drummers of the post-bop era and beyond. He has performed with Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, J.J. Johnson, Chet Baker, George Cables, Woody Shaw, Kenny Barron, Bobby Watson, and others of similar stature. On account of his exceptional ability to push the envelope of musical ...

Article: Live Review

John Daversa Small Band at the CAP

by Paul Naser
February 10, 2014

John Daversa Small Band CAP Studio Sherman Oaks, CA January 22, 2014 Fans of John Daversa's music range in age from young people still in school to people who have been avid fans of jazz music for decades. Seeing the wide variety of people in the room was ...

Article: Album Review

Beata Pater: Golden Lady

Read "Golden Lady" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 10, 2014

Beata Pater's vocal expertise is about shape, texture and the nuance informing both. Pater's B&B Records color-inspired trilogy, Black (2006), Blue> (2011) and Red (2013) was a critically well-received series that demonstrated the singers mastery of wordless singing in a large band format, pushing the creative envelope to the edge of its capacity. Pater's self-claimed influences ...

Article: Album Review

MoFrancesco Quintetto: Maloca

by Edward Blanco
February 10, 2014

Having appeared as a sideman on countless albums for over a decade, Italian bassist Francesco Valente finally unveils his first effort as leader with the modern jazz and fusion-like Maloca fronting his MoFrancesco Quintetto as they perform a session of fresh new originals exemplifying some of the styles and sounds of the Mediterranean area. Valente honed ...

Article: Album Review

Glennis Houston: I'll Reminisce You

Read "I'll Reminisce You" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
February 10, 2014

Calgary vocalist Glennis Houston follows up her debut album Lies of Handsome Men (2004, Self-Produced) with a warm session of light contemporary vocal jazz on I'll Reminisce You. Unlike the first disc--comprised entirely of standards--Houston designs a repertoire of primarily originals with the incorporation of a handful of cover songs touching on bebop, blues and ballads. ...