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News: Radio

Host Lee Williams Launches New Internet Jazz Station at Live365

October 8, 2013

Hello Jazz Listeners, This is an introduction to a new Internet Jazz Radio Station based in New Jersey that was launched on August 15, 2013. The programming consists mostly of mainstream / traditional Jazz but also includes some Blues, Gospel (accented with a few Jazz artists) and occasional R & B / Pop tunes just to ...

News: Festival

Growing Jazz Getaway Offers A Divine Taste Of Napa

October 8, 2013

Brian Culbertson assembles an array of jazz & funk stars for the 2014 Napa Valley Jazz Getaway. Los Angeles, Calif. (7 October 2013): While in the midst of the vineyards last June to shoot a promotional clip for the third annual Napa Valley Jazz Getaway, the flourishing jazz and wine festival’s Founder and Artistic Director Brian ...

News: Performance / Tour

Grammy-nominated Jazz Great Joe Chambers To Appear At The NCCU Jazz Festival On November 17, 2013

October 8, 2013

By Larry Reni Thomas “Retire? You don't retire from jazz. Some cats have died on the bandstand," said drummer and educator Joe Chambers, during a phone interview from his home in Wilmington, North Carolina. “By the same token. I don't have the desire to play the drums behind anybody that's living today, with the possible exception ...

News: Performance / Tour

From the Streets of Paris to Philadelphia Madeleine Peyroux Performs Works From New Album The Blue Room at the Merriam Theater, Oct. 25

October 8, 2013

After a successful debut performance at the Kimmel Center ‘s Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts 2013 XPN Welcomes singer- songwriter event, Madeleine Peyroux returns to make her debut at the Merriam Theater performing new works from recent album release, The Blue Room, on Friday, October 25 at 8 p.m. The Blue Room remained No. 1 ...

News: Education

Berklee College Of Music Will Offer Degrees Online: Affordable Degree Option Designed To Reach Music Students Around The World

October 8, 2013

Boston, MA: Berklee College of Music is the first non-profit music institution to offer accredited bachelor degrees online. The college's award-winning online division, Berklee Online, will offer 120-credit bachelor of professional studies degrees in music business and music production. The music business degree offers courses on licensing, management, marketing, and touring, with a focus on mobile ...

News: Event

TD James Moody Democracy Of Jazz Festival Sarah Vaughan Competition Winners

October 8, 2013

Five Finalists and a “Rising Star” Chosen For Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition Al Jarreau, Janis Siegel, Gretchen Parlato, WBGO’s Gary Walker and Larry Rosen to Choose Winner of the SASSY Award Newark, NJ: In 1942, a teenage Sarah Vaughan won the Apollo Theater’s amateur singing competition in a performance that was a launching pad ...

News: Education

Renowned Trumpeter Ralph Alessi And Saxophonist Brian Levy Join New England Conservatory Jazz Studies Faculty

October 8, 2013

New England Conservatory’s Jazz Studies Department has hired two renowned musicians to join the faculty: jazz trumpeter/composer Ralph Alessi who will teach trumpet and improvisation and jazz saxophonist Brian Levy who will teach both saxophone and music history and musicology. “I’m thrilled that Ralph Alessi has agreed to join our faculty,” said Ken Schaphorst, Chair of ...

Article: Interview

John Hollenbeck's September Songs

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
October 7, 2013

John Hollenbeck's productivity would be astonishing in its own right, but the uniformly high quality of this high output places the drummer among the top tier of jazz (and not only jazz) musicians. Hollenbeck's recordings, compositions and performances defy certain expectations. He can be as seriously intellectual as a stereotypically stuffy classical musician, but his music ...

Article: Album Review

Brian Haas / Matt Chamberlain: Frames

by Chris May
October 7, 2013

It is not often an album confounds expectations to the degree that Frames does. And confounds them not just once but twice. The first expectation arises from the players' histories. Brian Haas is best known for his work with Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, the spectacularly trans-genre band which the pianist co-founded twenty years ago. ...

Article: Album Review

The Elec Tet: Shiny Metal Objects

Read "Shiny Metal Objects" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 7, 2013

The Elec Tet started out as a fusion tribute band, but it quickly outgrew that designation. Drummer Ben Scholz originally formed the group as a vehicle to explore the sounds of now-classic '70s fusion outfits, but something else happened along the way: originality eclipsed imitation in The Elec Tet. Now, on the band's debut album, Scholz ...