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News: Radio

Premiere: Audio Documentary: Thelonious Monk: A Great North Carolina Jazz Intellectual On Sunday Night Jazz With Larry Reni Thomas On WCOM-FM, October 7th

September 27, 2012

Listen to WCOM-FM, Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina, October 7, 2012, from 9pm to 12 midnight, for The Thelonious Monk Birthday Special with host Larry Reni Thomas. The program will feature three hours of Thelonious Monk’s music and the premiere of an audio documentary called “Thelonious Monk: The Great North Carolina Jazz Intellectual.” It features commentary and ...

News: Festival

Pittsfield CityJazz Festival Announces Final Lineup For Oct. 4-13 Event

September 27, 2012

Williams College Jazz Ensemble Added to Headline Event A Signature Musical Happening of the Fall Foliage Season Pittsfield, Mass: Berkshires Jazz, Inc. has announced the final lineup for the 8th annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, which runs from Oct. 4-13 in various venues in downtown Pittsfield. A signature cultural event of the Fall Foliage season in the ...

Article: Album Review

Marc Johnson / Eliane Elias: Swept Away

Read "Swept Away" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
September 26, 2012

It's a relatively rare occasion when Marc Johnson releases an album under his own name, but based on the bassist's track record--from Bass Desires (ECM, 1985) through to Shades of Jade (ECM, 2005)--it's always one to celebrate. As Johnson fast approaches 60, it seems like only yesterday that he emerged as the bassist in Bill Evans' ...

Article: Catching Up With

Lola Danza: Life of Luxury

by C. Michael Bailey
September 26, 2012

Singer/composer Lola Danza has a pan-cultural and artistic vision expanding well beyond the traditional singer's role as performer and interpreter, though these facets do exist large in her art. The singer began a personal trend on Vision Quest (Evolver, 2005) employing a rhythm section of only two bassists. This format, with an occasional splash added by ...

Article: Future Jazz

Jazz Education In The Century Of Change: Beyond The Music

by David Liebman
September 26, 2012

Question: What values does a jazz education offer beyond the music itself? \Artists have always had a supply and demand problem. Since time immemorial there have been more people with creative ideas than an audience to communicate them to, especially if the art demands more than a cursory attention span. In the current world of jazz ...

Article: Album Review

Russ Nolan: Tell Me

by Dan Bilawsky
September 26, 2012

While saxophonist Russ Nolan's move from Chicago to New York in 2002 was an important turning point in his career, his subsequent immersion in the New York Salsa dancing world has had an even greater impact on his music. Nolan learned to free his body and his mind to the effects of the rhythms as they ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Andrea Brachfeld

by AAJ Staff
September 26, 2012

Meet Andrea Brachfeld: Flutist, composer, arranger, producer, educator, business owner, Andrea Brachfeld, is a graduate of The High School of Music and Art and the Manhattan School of Music. Study with Hubert Laws, Jimmy Heath, George Coleman and Mike Longo helped her develop her own improvisational style.Her breakthrough performance as the flutist ...

News: Festival

The 10th Anniversary Of The Festival Of New Trumpet Music Continues, Through October 7

September 26, 2012

FONT Music Presents: The 10th Anniversary of The Festival of New Trumpet Music September 8 through October 7, 2012 - in NYC and Brooklyn The Festival of New Trumpet Music, directed by Dave Douglas, presents its 10th Anniversary Festival, a multi-genre, multi-venue celebration of new trumpet music by the instrument's most creative musicians. Hailed as “a ...

News: Performance / Tour

The RRazz Room "Legendary Bay Area Giants Of Jazz" Presents The Return Of Acclaimed Vocalist Denise Perrier In Her Show "Both Sides Now" Featuring Symphony & Soul

September 26, 2012

The RRazz Room, San Francisco’s premier nightclub, will present a very special night with vocalist DENISE PERRIER on Tuesday, October 2 as part of their “Legendary Bay Area Giants of Jazz” Concert Series. The show “Both Sides Now” will feature two sets, one accompanied by cello and violin with Musical Director Tammy Hall, the second to ...

News: Website

Advertise at Jazz Near You and All About Jazz

September 25, 2012

Your banners will now be seen at All About Jazz and Jazz Near You. We have also simplified our advertising rates and options page and added a “terminology" section for first-time web advertisers. “Over the years advertisers were reluctant to purchase ad space at All About Jazz because they saw more non-endemic ads than jazz ads," ...