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News: Recording

Jon Sheckler's Debut Album, "Cable Street"

January 8, 2013

As the first jazz record released by the Seattle based company, Critical Sun Recordings, “Cable Street" is a bold, fresh and energynic take on jazz in today's world. Featuring nine original compositions from award-winning drummer and composer Jon Sheckler, “Cable Street" covers the full spectrum of the modern jazz world, from the hard swinging pop-bop “Same ...

News: Performance / Tour

Winter at the Annenberg Center Heats up with Grammy-Nominated Latin Jazz Musician Miguel Zenon

January 8, 2013

Philadelphia, PA: Acclaimed Latin jazz saxophonist Miguel Zenón will take the Annenberg Center stage to “create music that is full of life, history, richness, and realness” (All Music Guide). The 2008 recipient of the MacArthur Foundation’s prestigious Genius Award, Zenón possesses a progressive sound that fuses contemporary jazz and Latin rhythms, particularly drawing on his own ...

News: Recording

The African Folk Soul of Bongos Ikwue

January 8, 2013

The 1970’s were an extremely fertile era for music. In America, progressive soul and funk broke new ground while London spawned the punk rock scene and Kingston, Jamaica gave the world roots reggae. In Nigeria, an extraordinarily diverse and dynamic cultural scene yielded not only Fela’s Afrobeat and juju’s peak with Sunny Ade and Ebenezer Obey ...

News: Performance / Tour

Kobo Town in NYC as Part of Mundial Montreal showcase at The Living Room

January 8, 2013

Founded by Trinidadian-Canadian songwriter Drew Gonsalves, Kobo Town takes the intricate wordplay of classic Caribbean music and runs it through a 21st Century filter. In the world of Kobo Town calypso, roots reggae, and acoustic instrumentation meet innovative production techniques, social commentary and indie rock attitude. Kobo Town’s second album Jumbie in the Jukebox will be ...

News: Award / Grant

NEA Launches Guidelines, Webinar & Content for Music

January 8, 2013

The National Endowment for the Arts is pleased to announce application guidelines are available for Grants for Arts Projects in Music: Arts Works & Challenge America Fast-Track deadlines are March, May, and August 2013. Applicants must be nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations; units of state or local government; or federally recognized tribal communities or tribes with at ...

News: Performance / Tour

Chihiro Yamanaka Trio At Iridium Jazz Club, Jan. 16

January 8, 2013

The Chihiro Yamanaka Trio will perform at Iridium Jazz Club in New York City on January 16, 2013. The concert marks the dazzling jazz pianist's return to New York following her recent tours of Europe and Japan. Highlights of the tours included the Blue Note Tokyo, Italy's Bologna Jazz Festival, Sunset-Sunside in Paris and A-Trane in ...

News: Education

Jazz Legends Hancock And Shorter Named Distinguished Professors At Monk Institute

January 8, 2013

Jazz legends Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter named distinguished professors at the expanded Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Los Angeles, CA — The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz has appointed multiple GRAMMY Award winners and NEA Jazz Masters Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter as distinguished professors at ...

Article: Album Review

Manami Morita: When Skies Are Grey

Read "When Skies Are Grey" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
January 7, 2013

Japanese pianist Manami Morita has made a name for herself in Boston since arriving in 2006 to study at Berklee College of Music. Whether solo, in guitarist Colin Cannon's quartet or leading her own trio, Morita's impressive technique harnesses energy and finesse in equal measure, qualities to the fore on her fourth release as leader. Morita ...

Article: Album Review

Coreto: Aljamia

by Dan Bilawsky
January 7, 2013

The full power of Coreto's music is felt in the combinatorial possibilities that exist with eleven individualists pulling their weight. This particular project is the first of what promises to be many from the Porto-Jazz Association, a collective of strong, modern jazz personalities based in Oporto, Portugal. Though still at an early stage as a cooperative ...

Article: Album Review

Suzzette Ortiz: Renacer

by Steve Bryant
January 7, 2013

There are a lot of jazz players out there who for gotten tired of waiting for some label to record them and take decided to do it themselves. Philadelphia's Suzzette Ortiz, who has been laboring in the trenches for the past two decades, took it upon herself to record her own music. The Puerto Rican-born pianist ...