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Article: Live Review

The Avett Brothers with special guest Lake Street Dive at The Barclays Center

by Mike Perciaccante
October 19, 2019

The Avett Brothers with special guest Lake Street Dive The Barclays Center Brooklyn, NY October 5, 2019 The Avett Brothers' music is best described as a gumbo of Americana featuring a mélange of folk, pop, country and bluegrass with elements of rock and blues and a touch of jazz. Hailing from ...

News: Website

Cast Your Vote! All About Jazz Launches Three New Polls

October 22, 2019

All About Jazz, one of the web's top music websites and arbiter of all things jazz has followed up it's popular Top Jazz Venues poll with three new polls: Top Jazz City, Fantasy Festival, and Top Record Label. You can learn more about each poll by clicking their respective links. A fully transparent and 100% verifiable ...

Article: Live From Philadelphia

Go: Organic Orchestra and Brooklyn Raga Massive at Painted Bride Art Center

by Geno Thackara
October 17, 2019

Go: Organic Orchestra and Brooklyn Raga MassivePainted Bride Art CenterPhiladelphia, PAOctober 6, 2019 While Philadelphia's Painted Bride Art Center has been presenting jazz, improvised and/or experimental music for half a century, it's still entirely possible this was the most sweepingly wide, boundary-defying cross-cultural performance the venue has ever seen. The sizable ...

Article: Live Review

Chucho Valdés With Kenny Garrett At SFJAZZ

by Harry S. Pariser
October 17, 2019

Chucho Valdés and Kenny Garrett SFJAZZ San Francisco, CA October 4, 2019 A commanding Cuban pianist, the stately Chucho Valdés is best known as the founder of legendary Cuban band Irakere. Kenny Garrett has played with the Duke Ellington Orchestra and with the late Miles Davis, among others, but has gained ...

News: Education

Storytellers Workshop NYC Presented By Songstress Monday Michiru And FoSn, A Series Of Lyric Writing Seminars In NYC

October 17, 2019

Songstress Monday Michiru and FoSn presents “Storytellers Workshop NYC,” a series of lyric writing seminars in the Big Apple, kicking off their fall session with four weekly classes (November 4th, 12th, 18th and 25th, 7:00-9:00 p.m.), and ending with a student showcase “Lyricists Lounge” at Club Bonafide on December 8th (3:00 p.m.). About Monday Michiru Born ...

News: Recording

Rachael & Vilray available now on Nonesuch

October 16, 2019

“It’s a special kind of magic when two voices meet and immediately sound like they’ve never been apart. The voices of acoustic duo Rachael & Vilray are magical enough on their own, but when they blend in song the results are utterly sublime.” —Chronogram Nonesuch Records releases Rachael & Vilray—the debut album by Lake Street Dive ...

Article: Live Review

Marcus Roberts And The Modern Jazz Generation At The Kimmel Center

by Victor L. Schermer
October 15, 2019

Marcus Roberts and the Modern Jazz Generation Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Perelman Theater Philadelphia, PA October 11, 2019 Marcus Roberts is one of the great jazz pianists of his generation, coming up in the 1980s in Wynton Marsalis' band and since then more ...

Article: Live Review

Ravi Coltrane Quartet at the New Hazlett Theater

by Mackenzie Horne
October 15, 2019

Ravi Coltrane Quartet New Hazlett Theater Pittsburgh, PA October 5, 2019 Since 2007, the Kente Arts Alliance (KAA) has worked diligently to underscore the relationship between the arts and community by providing accessible cultural programming within the city of Pittsburgh. KAA has hosted a number of elder jazz statesmen, including Hugh ...

Article: Live Review

Charlie Parr At Higher Ground

by Doug Collette
October 12, 2019

Charlie Parr Higher Ground Showcase Lounge South Burlington, VT October 3, 2019 Assuming the stage alone and without any introduction, beginning almost surreptitiously with “CC Rider," Charlie Parr quieted the noisy crowd in this venue's smaller room within roughly sixty seconds. He faced similar challenges throughout his roughly ninety-minutes in ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Benny Goodman & Paul Chambers

by Joe Dimino
October 11, 2019

After a long break from the world of jazz, California-based Pianist & Composer Dave Bass is back with a new album that is charting very well called No Boundaries. That begins yet another look into jazz with Episode 616 and digging further into the modern and old worlds of jazz. On our journey to discover the ...