Home » Search Center » Results: United States

Results for "United States"

News: Music Industry

Virgil Guitars Create The Most Elaborate Custom Made Guitars Ever Built

November 29, 2012

Tampa, FL - An artist and guitarist since the 1970's, Virgil Mandanici set out to make guitars that would be exceptional in tone and playability first and foremost. After 35 years of playing guitar, he decided it was time to craft guitars that would feel, play and look better than anything anyone has ever played before ...

News: Festival

Give The Gift Of Jazz: $50 Holiday Discount Tickets For Newport Jazz Fest

November 29, 2012

Give the Gift of Jazz: Special Holiday Discount Tickets Offered for 2013 Newport Jazz Festival $50.00 Tickets Available at Convention & Visitors Bureau in Newport December 1 – December 31, 2012 Fans Invited to Subscribe to Festival E-Newsletter for On-line Holiday Discount NEWPORT, RI - If you’re looking for the perfect holiday surprise or a special ...

News: Performance / Tour

Bobby Zankel's Warriors Of The Wonderful Sound In Old City Philadelphia Thursday, December 20th!

November 29, 2012

Jazz Bridge in Old City Philadelphia! presents saxophonist Bobby Zankel and his Warriors of the Wonderful Sound big band at the Arch Street Friends Meeting House (East Room) — 320 Arch Street in Philadelphia — on Thursday, December 20th. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available only at the door. Show time is 7:30. ...

News: Event

Nina Katrina Duo Tonight 11/28/12

November 29, 2012

Nina Katrina is joined by Dave Zoller at Chocolate Secrets 7:30-10:30 pm, on Oak Lawn at Avondale. Please come join us for jazz, Brazilian jazz, pop, Motown, fun, frivolity, and chocolate from one of the Metroplex's finest establishments! Songs will be sung, jokes will be told; you may already be a winner of a fabulous cruise ...

News: Radio

"Gershwin Cabaret" With Dick Hyman This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

November 29, 2012

George Gershwin’s bold and innovative compositions embraced high and low culture—and just about everything in between. Gershwin enjoyed giving parties in the living room of his Manhattan penthouse, sitting at the piano entertaining his friends. With a nod to that intimate setting, jazz piano master Dick Hyman joins host David Holt in the studio with “A ...

Article: Album Review

Jasmine Lovell-Smith's Towering Poppies: Fortune Songs

Read "Fortune Songs" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
November 28, 2012

Plenty of artists play soprano saxophone, either as their weapon of choice or as an auxiliary axe, yet the instrument's inherent gift for melody is still under-explored in jazz. John Coltrane used it to probe deep into the recesses of sound itself, Wayne Shorter takes it on stratospheric flights, darting and daring all the while, and ...

Article: Interview

Lou Cohen: Opening the Door

by Gordon Marshall
November 28, 2012

In his cushy, classy, elegant two-story home just outside of Central Square in Cambridge, MA, Lou Cohen introduces his Symphony 5: from a laptop, jammed together fragments of elegant new music unfold, spaced out so that breath can enter in the interstices... Then the sound of roiling, rolling violins getting impacted: all is mellow and peaceful ...

Article: Album Review

Elisabeth Lohninger Quartet: Live

Read "Live" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
November 28, 2012

Austrian-American Renaissance woman Elisabeth Lohninger is many things. She is a singer, composer, producer, writer, teacher and studio owner. Over the past several years Lohninger has found time to record four collections with her quartet: Beneath Your Surface (Lofish, 2005), The Only Way Out is Up (Lofish, 2007), Songs of Love and Destruction (Lofish, 2010), and ...

News: Event

Jazz @ The Elks

November 28, 2012

The Plymouth Elks Lodge #1780 in Plymouth MI has Jazz @ The Elks in a beautiful club setting on the last Tuesday of every month from 7 pm to 10 pm. On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 we are presenting the Terry Lower Trio with Russ Miller. Russ Miller on Alto Sax and Flute, Terry Lower on ...

News: Recording

Electric NHIC Releases New CD - Concert at Firehouse12 on Saturday December 1st

November 28, 2012

NHIC Records announces the release of the new CD Ground Waves by Electric NHIC on November 1st, 2012. CD Release Concert at Firehouse12 on Saturday December 1st Electric NHIC evolved from the high energy avant-funk of Mayhem Circus Electric, a signature grouping of the New Haven Improvisers Collective. MCE's well-received CD, Lubricity, was praised by the ...