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Article: Live Review

Harry Connick, Jr. at Johnny Mercer Theatre

by Martin McFie
December 20, 2018

Harry Connick, Jr. Johnny Mercer Theatre New Orleans Tricentennial Tour Savannah, GA December 9, 2018 With numerous Grammy and Emmy awards and Tony nominations, Harry Connick, Jr. is a star of sound, screen, and stage, lauded by universities and his loyal fan base. “Star" is not ...

News: Award / Grant

2019 NEA Jazz Masters Will Be Celebrated at Free Concert on April 15, 2019 in Washington, DC

December 20, 2018

Each year, the National Endowment for the Arts bestows the nation’s highest honor in jazz—the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships—on individuals who have made significant contributions to the art form. Today, the NEA is announcing the four newest recipients of this lifetime honor—Bob Dorough, Abdullah Ibrahim, Maria Schneider, and Stanley Crouch, who is the recipient of the ...

News: Education

How To Get More Jazz Gigs: The Step-By-Step Video Course Helping You Book More Gigs In 2019

December 19, 2018

If you're a gigging jazz musician but aren't getting booked at the clubs & festivals you'd like to be playing at, some help is available for 2019... Wherever you're at right now in your career, How To Get More Jazz Gigs is a step-by-step video course designed to help you do this by showing you simple ...

News: Website

All About Jazz Improves Premium Musician Page Service: Modern Page, More Promotion, Free Spotlight ad

December 31, 2018

All About Jazz has improved its premium musician page service to include a splashier new page design, more promotional opportunities, and for a limited time, a free event spotlight ad (a $40/value). Improved Page The stylish new design is a marked improvement over the previous design. It utilizes a more modern template, is bold in its ...

News: Website

All About Jazz Celebrates the NEA Jazz Masters

December 17, 2018

All About Jazz, home to largest database of jazz musicians on the internet, now recognizes the NEA Jazz Masters on a dedicated page as well as on the recipient's musician page (example). 145 musicians have been honored since 1982 and they are all identified and accessible from the All About Jazz musician section by clicking “NEA ...

News: Recording

David Pate & Rex Shepherd, One Half Of The Oddyssey Quartet, To Release New Album Seeing Sound

December 16, 2018

The first duet release from one half of the Oddyssey Quartet, with David Pate (Sam Rivers Rivbea Orchestra) and guitarist and composer Rex Shepherd (No End of Now). Seeing Sound features the two playing an improvised set, creating palpable musical textures using subtle harmonic and melodic ideas and developing them into intuitive conversations, “seeing” the sound ...

Article: Interview

A Conversation with Music Author Alan Light

by Nenad Georgievski
December 16, 2018

It is not an overstatement to label music journalist and writer Alan Light as one of the premier biographers and music historians. Light's heralded books include “The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of “Hallelujah," “Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain," “The Skills to Pay the ...

Article: Live Review

Brian Wilson Presents The Christmas Album Live

by Mike Perciaccante
December 16, 2018

Brian Wilson with Beat Root Revival NYCB Theatre at Westbury Brian Wilson Presents The Christmas Album Live Westbury, NY December 5, 2018 Brian Wilson is many things. As one of the most influential songwriters of all time, a founding member and the musical force behind the Beach Boys, ...

News: Recording

O.R.k. Announce Details Of New Album Ramagehead Set For Release Through Kscope On February 22, 2019

December 15, 2018

O.R.k., comprising some of contemporary music's most revered artists, have combined their creative forces once again for a new studio album; their first for the ground-breaking UK label Kscope; O.R.k's Ramagehead will be released on 22nd February 2019. The band feature Italy's celebrated vocalist, producer and award-winning film score composer Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari a.k.a LEF (lead ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Two Exciting And Poignant Albums From Wendy Eisenberg

by Hrayr Attarian
December 15, 2018

A fearless improviser with a refreshing disregard for genre, Wendy Eisenberg is a poet, banjoist and vocalist yet Eisenberg's guitar fully showcases her mastery. This virtuoso explores all dimensions of her instrument with fiery elegance and a vibrant sense of adventure to her music. In 2018 she released two stimulating and unique albums: Its Shape is ...