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News: Crowdfunding Campaign

Thomas Chapin Film Success At Kickstarter.com Nets $51,552 In 45-day Campaign

April 4, 2013

The Thomas Chapin Film Project will begin shooting this summer; filmmaker will complete her research and scripting, and lining up her film crew. EMMY-winning Filmmaker Stephanie J. Castillo is celebrating a successful finish at Kickstarter.com, an online fundraising site, that will now allow her to begin planning her shoot this summer for NIGHT BIRD SONG, her ...

News: Award / Grant

Clark Terry Elected to Jazz Hall of Fame

April 4, 2013

Thanks in part to the enthusiastic support of hometown fans, trumpeter and St. Louis native Clark Terry (pictured) will be one of three 2013 inductees into Jazz at Lincoln Center's Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame. JALC announced today that Terry, drummer Art Blakey, and vibraphonist Lionel Hampton got the majority of votes cast online during ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: "Triumph of Trumpets" with Faddis, Stafford and Jones, "Seeing Sound," Marco Benevento, Hot 8 Brass Band, and More

April 4, 2013

If you're a fan of brass instruments, it's a good week to be a jazz listener in St. Louis, with three first-rate trumpet players performing together on one stage, plus a chance to see one of New Orleans' most spirited brass bands. And if you're not in the mood for brass, there are plenty of other ...

News: Event

Marc Hoffman Quartet To Perform At Rock Hill, Sc Festival

April 4, 2013

Jazz pianist/vocalist returns to Rock Hill for Come See Me Festival Special 50th Year Celebration Rock Hill, SC: Jazz pianist/composer/vocalist Marc Hoffman will perform with his quartet Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at Glencairn Gardens in Rock Hill, SC as part of the 50th Annual Come See Me Festival. Joining Marc will be saxophonist Patrick Brown, bassist ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2

by Chris M. Slawecki
April 3, 2013

Volume 2 in Legacy's Bootleg Series features Miles Davis' “great lost band" with saxophonist Wayne Shorter, keyboardist Chick Corea, bassist Dave Holland and drummer Jack DeJohnette, recorded in July and November 1969. This band, sometimes called Davis' “third great quintet," never recorded as a standalone ensemble, although it served as the core of the larger group ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Fiddlers on the Roof: Aisslinn Nosky and Julia Wedman

by C. Michael Bailey
April 3, 2013

Violinist Lara St. John is not the only noted fiddler from the friendly climes of Canada. The past few years have seen the emergence of two exceptional violinists, Aisslinn Nosky and Julia Wedman, who intersect one another in multiple places, including: Tafelmusik, the Eybler String Quartet and the Baroque chamber group, I Furiosi. Outside of Tafelmusik, ...

Article: Album Review

Chris Massey & The NJP: Whosoever

Read "Whosoever" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
April 3, 2013

Drummer Chris Massey's debut--Vibrainium (Self Produced, 2011)--was an Art Blakey-influenced quintet date that put a modern slant on the hard bop tradition; this follow-up follows the same guidelines, but puts a greater emphasis on the modern. Massey tips his cap to those who came before him by including an always-in-style standard ("Old Devil ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Lisa Hilton

by AAJ Staff
April 3, 2013

Meet Lisa Hilton: Lisa Hilton is considered one of the most distinctive composers and pianists in jazz today. Trained as a classical pianist but with a degree in art, she has created her evocative, individualistic and impressionistic “sound paintings" for over a decade as a leader. In the book, The New Face of Jazz, Hilton was ...

News: Performance / Tour

Ars Nova Workshop Spring 2013: An Update

April 3, 2013

Ars Nova Workshop has reached the halfway point of its Spring 2013 concert season; it has been a great one so far! Thanks for joining us for the performances by Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor, the Whammies, Kris Davis's Capricorn Climber, Ches Smith & These Arches, and most recently, the spectacular sold-out show at Philadelphia Art Alliance ...

News: Recording

"Melba!," A Tribute To Melba Liston By Saxophonist/Composer Geof Bradfield, To Be Released By Origin Records April 16

April 2, 2013

Saxophonist/composer Geof Bradfield’s new CD Melba!, which Origin Records will release on April 16, has been a long time coming. Bradfield’s suite for jazz septet, a tribute to the great yet underheralded arranger/trombonist Melba Liston (1926-1999), received its premiere performances last summer in Chicago and other Midwest cities. It was supported by a commission from Chamber ...