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News: Award / Grant

Jumpinjazz Kids Wins Parents' Choice Gold Award

October 17, 2012

“JUMPINJAZZ KIDS – A SWINGING JUNGLE TALE” RECEIVES PARENTS’ CHOICE GOLD AWARD; SPECIAL CONCERT TO TAKE PLACE AT THE GRAMMY MUSEUM OCTOBER 19TH AND WILL FEATURE GUEST APPEARANCES BY ARTISTS FROM THE CD INCLUDING DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER AND HUBERT LAWS “A stand-out mix of storytelling and songs . . . an imagination-stirring musical adventure!” – Parents’ ...

News: Performance / Tour

Oikos Ensemble's "Follow That Star: A Jazz Nativity" to be Performed on Saturday, December 8 and Sunday, December 9

October 17, 2012

Though it's still a couple of weeks before Halloween, early harbingers of the Christmas season already are in the air, including the first announcement of a holiday-themed performance to hit StLJN's inbox this fall: The Oikos Ensemble, featuring saxophonist Rev. Cliff Aerie (pictured) and his daughter, vocalist Arianna Aerie, will be returning to St. Louis again ...

News: Award / Grant

Grammy Announcement For Kris Berg & The Metroplexity Big Band - "This Time / Last Year!"

October 17, 2012

We are proud to announce that Kris Berg & The Metroplexity Big Band - This Time / Last Year, featuring Wayne Bergeron, Delfeayo Marsalis, Clay Jenkins and Chris Vadala was nominated for the following categories in the First Round of the Grammy Awards. Kris Berg & The Metroplexity Big Band - This Time / Last Year: ...

News: Performance / Tour

Feinstein’s At Loews Regency Presents Four Time Grammy Award-Nominated Jazz Singer Sue Raney

October 17, 2012

FEINSTEIN’S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed “Best of New York” by New York Magazine and “an invaluable New York institution” by The New York Post will continue its Fall 2012 season with the premiere engagement of Grammy nominated jazz singer, SUE RANEY. For her first New York nightclub engagement in 25 years, Raney will be ...

News: Recording

New Release from Louis Armstrong "Satchmo At Symphony Hall 65th Anniversary" On Hip-O Select / Verve

October 17, 2012

Louis Armstrong, a.k.a. “Satchmo,” is an American icon. Satchmo At Symphony Hall, recorded in 1947 and first issued on Decca in 1951, captured one of his greatest performances, for which a legendary edition of his All Stars band joined him, with Jack Teagarden, Barney Bigard, Dick Cary, Arvell Shaw, Big Sid Catlett and singer Velma Middleton. ...

News: Performance / Tour

Roomful of Blues to Perform in New Hope (PA) November 10

October 17, 2012

Roomful of Blues, touring in support of their latest Alligator CD, Hook, Line & Sinker, will perform live at Havana in New Hope on Saturday, November 10, 2012. Roomful of Blues, according to DownBeat magazine, “are in a class by themselves." Since 1967, the group's deeply rooted blend of swing, rock 'n' roll, jump, blues and ...

News: Recording

Empresarios Announce New Album "El Sonido Magico" November 13

October 17, 2012

Washington, DC’s kings of Tropicaliente, the Empresarios, have found the Magic Sound! For their second album, Javier Miranda and his band of dance floor sorcerers have melted together Salsa, Dub, Cumbia, House and Reggae into 13 mind-bending, genre-busting pieces of wizardry and dubbed it El Sonido Mágico. In the year and a half since their debut ...

Article: Interview

Dafnis Prieto: Experiments in Spontaneity

by R.J. DeLuke
October 16, 2012

Improvisation--music in the moment, eloquently once called “the sound of surprise"--takes place in genres besides jazz. But in America's indigenous art form, it is a cornerstone. The degree to which a song might contain improv varies greatly. Sometimes it's hard to tell in a highly arranged piece where the musicians are taking liberties. Other times its ...

Article: Extended Analysis

The New York Comes to Groningen Art Ensemble: A Beautiful Friendship

by Bob Kenselaar
October 16, 2012

The New York Comes to Groningen Art EnsembleA Beautiful Friendship: New York Comes to Groningen, Volume 2Prince Claus Conservatory2012 In addition to his active schedule performing in a wide range of jazz contexts on both sides of the Atlantic, bassist Joris Teepe has been director of Jazz Studies ...

Article: Album Review

Anat Cohen: Claroscuro

Read "Claroscuro" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 16, 2012

Art begets art on Anat Cohen's Claroscuro. The Israeli-born, New York-based multi-reedist leaves the confines of Benny Goodman's world behind, following her clarinet-only sojourn into king of swing territory, Clarinetwork: Live At The Village Vanguard (Anzic, 2010), with a wide-ranging musical treatise on the balance between light and dark. Cohen addresses each end of the color ...