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Article: Live Review

Alicia Olatuja at Dazzle

by Geoff Anderson
August 3, 2019

Alicia Olatuja Dazzle Denver, CO July 25, 2019 If Alicia Olatuja wasn't a singer, she could probably be a counselor. As it is, she's a counselor to the songs she sings. She develops personal relationships with them. It seems that she spends hours with them on the couch intently listening to ...

Article: Interview

Polly Gibbons: Jazz or Blues, It's The Feeling

by R.J. DeLuke
August 2, 2019

British singer Polly Gibbons is past the up-and-coming stage. Her strong will, passion and impressive talent continue to propel her down a path where more good things are sure to come. An indication of her prodigious talent is heard on her latest release, and third for Resonance Records, All I Can Do. It's a ...

Article: Live Review

Ghost Light At Twiddle's Tumbledown Festival

by Doug Collette
August 2, 2019

Ghost Light Waterfront Park Tumbledown Music Festival Burlington, VT July 26, 2019 The bright, hot late afternoon sun hardly outshone keyboardist Holly Bowling's stage presence during Ghost Light's July 26th opening set on the main stage of Tumbledown. While she was unobtrusively navigating the quintet during an virtually uninterrupted hour ...

News: Performance / Tour

Double Vision Revisited Comes To Cleveland August 17th Featuring Bob James, David Sanborn, And Marcus Miller

August 2, 2019

On August 17th, Live Nation presents Double Vision Revisited at the Lakewood Civic Auditorium (14100 Franklin Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio). The 8 p.m. performance will feature Bob James, David Sanborn, and Marcus Miller. A jazz legend, Bob James has a career that has defined the genre and continues to evolve at every turn. David Sanborn is universally ...

News: Event

Pittsburgh Celebrates Music Scene With The Annual Jazz Days Of Summer

August 1, 2019

JazzPGH is excited to announce the commencement of its annual Jazz Days of Summer, an in-depth look at an average week in Pittsburgh jazz. The Jazz Days of Summer campaign will shine a spotlight on the scene by promoting over 50 local events across various social media platforms from Saturday, August 17th to Sunday, August 25. ...

Article: Live Review

Sun Ra Arkestra At The San Francisco Jazz Festival

by Harry S. Pariser
August 1, 2019

Sun Ra Arkestra SFJAZZ San Francisco Jazz Festival San Francisco, California July 18 and 21, 2019 Jazz has a storied history of hosting any number of iconoclasts. But few can compete with the late Sun Ra for sheer brazen originality and prodigious recorded output. The man born as Herman Blount ...

Article: Interview

Ralph Peterson: True Messenger, True Warrior

by R.J. DeLuke
July 31, 2019

Drummer Ralph Peterson has been on the jazz scene for some 35 years or more, carving out a career as a performer and an educator that would be the envy of many. His main influence is the legendary Art Blakey, and Peterson has been a standard bearer for that music and that style for some time. ...

Article: Live Review

Leonieke Scheuble: June 2019 Tour

by David A. Orthmann
July 29, 2019

Located right in front of a train station, the South Orange Gazebo is an uncommonly boisterous location for a jazz concert. Whistles blowing, brakes screeching, trains arrive and depart every ten minutes or so. Automobiles access parking lots via a rotary about fifteen feet away. Their horns and sound systems blare as drivers compete for space. ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans & More

by Joe Dimino
July 29, 2019

Off a brand new album called 400 by veteran jazz bass cat Avery Sharpe, we charge straight on into a new episode of Neon Jazz. We continue the music with a look into the world of Matt Slocum, Curtis Nowosad and Brad Turner with new projects and revelations from their music minds. We also pepper in ...

News: Recording

Lisa B Will Release Reverberant: Poems & Music On October 11

July 28, 2019

New Release Highlights Both Aspects of Lisa B’s Work, Featuring the Singer and Poet Reciting and Singing Her Original Poetry Within Jazz and Creative Music Settings Singer and poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) will release her seventh album, Reverberant: Poems & Music, on October 11. The new record joins the two strands of Lisa B’s work, ...