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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Nasheet Waits, Ethan Iverson, Kenny Burrell & Jay McShann

by Joe Dimino
February 4, 2024

From a modern star in the jazz world, we begin the 840th Episode of Neon Jazz with Nasheet Waits and the tune Snake Hip Waltz from his impressive catalog of music. From there, we hear his father Freddie Waits teamed with Kenny Barron. We also get tasty new music from the likes of David Gibson, Ethan ...

News: Recording

San Francisco's Beloved Crooner Releases New Jazz Album 'Standard Time: Live In New York' - Out Now On LML Records

February 4, 2024

Russ Lorenson, acclaimed as “San Francisco’s Favorite Crooner," has released a live jazz-cabaret experience, under the independent label LML Music. He celebrated by MC’ing his album’s release in December at The Triad Theatre in New York with an all-star lineup of singers that included Billy Stritch, Mary Foster Conklin, Lennie Watts, Jennifer Roberts and #1 Billboard ...

Article: Live Review

Cedar Walton Trio at Night Town

by C. Andrew Hovan
April 11, 2002

Cedar Walton Trio Night Town Cleveland Heights, Ohio April 4, 2002 Every spring, jazz fans in Cleveland can look forward to a stupefying array of festivities revolving around the Tri-C JazzFest, which happens to be America's premier educational jazz festival. Over the years, this has also meant that other jazz-related presentations ...

Article: SoCal Jazz

Dean Brown: Global Fusion on Acid

by Jim Worsley
February 3, 2024

In memory of Dean Brown. This interview was first published at All About Jazz on April 23, 2021. From the outset, the equation was simple enough. Jazz + rock = fusion. However, whether it was Miles Davis, Larry Coryell, John McLaughlin, or any of the pioneers of fusion, the music has always been far ...

News: Performance / Tour

Celebrate Valentine’s Day With A Free Concert Featuring The Music Of Two Iconic American Singers: Chris Connor And Mahalia Jackson

February 3, 2024

New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Musical Arts Department pays tribute to two of the most iconic and creative American singers of the 20th century in Night and Day: The Music of Chris Connor and Mahalia Jackson on Wednesday, February 14, 7:30 p.m. at Jordan Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston. The program is curated by faculty members Hankus ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Joe Fiedler: Will Be Fire

by David Bixler
February 2, 2024

As an improviser, trombonist Joe Fiedler describes himself as living half in the inside world and half in the outside world. This is evident in his new recording Will Be Fire. For this project, Fiedler collaborates with guitarist Pete McCann, tuba virtuoso Marcus Rojas, and percussionist Jeff Davis, in an elegant instrumentation that pays homage to ...

News: Recording

SF Bay Area Trumpeter-Composer Ian Carey Pays Homage To His Late Artist Father On 'Strange Arts,' To Be Released March 22 On Slow & Steady Records

February 2, 2024

Ian Carey extends his oeuvre of unique, ambitious chamber jazz with Strange Arts, set for a March 22 release on Slow & Steady Records. Carey’s seventh album is also the Bay Area trumpeter-composer’s first with his septet Wood Metal Plastic, which augments a working quartet—featuring alto saxophonist Kasey Knudsen, bassist Lisa Mezzacappa, and drummer Jon Arkin—with ...

News: Performance / Tour

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center And The Bethany Baptist Church Jazz Vespers Continue Free Monthly Jazz Concert Series February–June 2024

February 2, 2024

First Saturday of every month @ 6:00 p.m. February 3, March 2, April 6, May 4 and June 1 Bethany Baptist Church 275 W. Market Street Newark, NJ Free. For more information, contact NJPAC at 1.888.466.5722 or visit NJPAC.org/jazz. Sat 2.03 @ 6:00 p.m. | Bethany Vespers Series: Bill Charlap Trio Bill ...

Article: SoCal Jazz

Leni Stern: The Twenty Year Audition

by Jim Worsley
February 1, 2024

Composer and musician Leni Stern has big news to share. She chose to do so quietly, with her usual cool, low-key and savoir-faire charm. In conversation with only my wife and I, recently at a jazz club in Los Angeles, she left us elated with the kind of news most other artists would be screaming from ...

Article: Live Review

Al Foster Quintet at Smoke Jazz & Supper Club

by Chris DeRosa
February 1, 2024

Al Foster Quintet 81st Birthday Celebration Smoke Jazz & Supper Club January 27, 2024 Hello, my name is Chris DeRosa and this is what I heard... Smoke is a great venue to hear timeless jazz. Established in 1999 and located on Manhattan's Upper West Side, the sound ...