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News: Event

2013 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition and All-Star Gala Concert to Take Place September 15-16 in Washington, DC

August 16, 2013

Wayne Shorter to receive Lifetime Achievement Award Special Tribute to George Duke Washington, D.C.: The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz today announced the 2013 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition and All-Star Gala Concert will take place at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, September 16. The 2013 Competition and Gala is ...

News: Radio

Two Of A Kind: Swinging Duos At The Landing On Riverwalk Jazz This Week

August 15, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz we're pairing up some of our favorite jazz artists in a broadcast of swinging duos. On their own, each one of these musicians lights up the stage, but together, they’re off the charts. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be ...

Article: Interview

Marvin Sewell: Stepping Up to the Plate

by George Colligan
August 15, 2013

[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth]Marvin Sewell might be the greatest guitarist you've never heard of. I first met Sewell at a recording session in 1995. (Sewell, saxophonist Gary Thomas, and I improvised over hip-hop tracks for two days; these sessions were edited into what become Thomas' ...

Article: Album Review

Arturo O'Farrill and the Chico O'Farrill Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra: Final Night at Birdland

Read "Final Night at Birdland" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 15, 2013

On June 26, 2011, Arturo O'Farrill and the Chico O'Farrill Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra ended a fifteen-year run at New York City's Birdland, and--to our good fortune--had the foresight to record that very special event for everyone to hear and appreciate. The orchestra's scion, the great Chico O'Farrill, was still living when the ensemble made its ...

Article: Live Review

Sun Ra Arkestra at the Victoria Theater

by Harry S. Pariser
August 15, 2013

Sun Ra Arkestra Victoria TheaterSan Francisco, CAAugust 3, 2013A line of jazz fans snaked around the block from the front of the iconic Victoria Theater, centrally located on 16th Street in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District, halfway down Capp Street. The crowd spanned age, gender and race; the buzz ...

Article: Album Review

Nate Wooley Sextet: (Sit In) The Throne Of Friendship

Read "(Sit In) The Throne Of Friendship" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 15, 2013

Like today's NFL quarterbacks, trumpeters are required to be multidimensional. Modern players (in football) are required to pass, run, block and call audibles. Likewise, the jazz horn player can't just take a high glissando solo, bow, and collect a paycheck; he/she has to be able to shift between the jazz tradition, improvisation, classical music and outside ...

Article: Album Review

Mark Dresser Quintet: Nourishments

Read "Nourishments" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
August 15, 2013

There's evidence of bassist Mark Dresser's audacity and originality in his sideman work with Satoko Fujii, opening the title tune of the Japanese pianist's Trace a River (Libra Records, 2008) with a ghostly arco whine that sounds as if it drifted in out of the twilight zone, before the ever-mercurial Fujii shifts the tune into a ...

News: Performance / Tour

Progressive Nation At Sea Returns In 2014 Featuring Prog Legends

August 15, 2013

Los Angeles, CA - Progressive Nation is hitting the high seas in 2014! Join us in this inaugural sailing from February 18th – 22nd 2014 on the luxurious Norwegian Pearl heading from Miami to Great Stirrup Cay and Freeport, Bahamas. This music festival at sea gives you an experience that a land festival just can’t match. ...

News: Recording

Relaunch Of Iconic 1950's Jazz Catalog, Bethlehem Records Announced By Verse Music Group & Naxos Of America

August 15, 2013

Classic Albums Will Be Restored & Remastered For CD, Digital, and 10” & 12” Vinyl Release First Reissue Set Debuts August 27, 2013 Bethlehem Records legacy is a lengthy discography that freshly and ambitiously captures and preserves an era of music, including West Coast Cool Jazz and East Coast Bop. Bethlehem Records roster of artists includes ...

News: Festival

Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Kicks Off August 21st!

August 15, 2013

City Parks Foundation announces the CHARLIE PARKER JAZZ FESTIVAL - August 21-25 City Parks Foundation proudly announces the 21st edition of the beloved late summer jazz favorite, the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival. In the world of modern music, few figures loom as large or cast as long a shadow as saxophonist Charlie Parker, best known as ...