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News: Award / Grant

Chamber Music America Extends Presenter Consortium For Jazz Application Deadline To 10/31/14

October 15, 2014

Chamber Music America is accepting applications for the 2015 Presenter Consortium for Jazz . Extended Deadline: Friday, October 31, 2014, 5:00 P.M. ET. The Presenter Consortium for Jazz provides support to consortiums of three U. S. presenters that collectively engage up to three professional U.S. jazz ensembles (consisting of 2-10 musicians each) to perform at each ...

News: Performance / Tour

Two Different yet Effective Jazz Vocal Approaches

October 15, 2014

The Charlotte County Jazz Society opened its 25th anniversary season Monday night with a double concert featuring two Florida-based singers with very different, yet very effective, approaches to the Great American Songbook and jazz canon. Dave Pruyn opened the evening with an hour-long “Notes in Velvet" tribute set that celebrated his love and respect for late ...

News: Award / Grant

Joanne Brackeen Receives BNY Mellon Jazz 2014 Living Legacy Award

October 15, 2014

Jazz pianist, educator, and composer Joanne Brackeen was honored with the BNY Mellon Jazz 2014 Living Legacy Award in a special ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, October 10, 2014. The Living Legacy Award honors jazz masters from the mid-Atlantic region who have achieved distinction in jazz performance and ...

News: Festival

Zoot Fest 2014

October 15, 2014

Jazz enthusiasts, get ready for a day of listening pleasure! Tickets are now on sale for East Stroudsburg University's fourth annual Zoot Fest, a day of jazz music honoring legends Al Cohn and Zoot Sims. Zoot Fest will take place from noon to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 9, 2014 at the Innovation Center, located at ...

News: Recording

Bassist/Composer Omer Avital Delves Into The Culture Of His Homeland Through Jazz On His New Recording, New Song, Available On Motema Music - November 4, 2014

October 15, 2014

NYC CD Release Celebration! January 13 & 14, 2015 @ The Jazz Standard Omer Avital went on to cast a wide net of influence in NYC and beyond with a consistently creative and prolific output (releasing nine albums of original music since 2001, and at least eight others as a co-leader), and a steady stream of ...

News: Recording

BJURecords Releases New Recordings From: Nathan Parker Smith Large Ensemble, Sketches & Owen Howard!

October 15, 2014

CD Release Celebrations! Sketches: Saturday, October 25 @ An Die Musik, Baltimore, MD Tuesday, November 4 @ Korzo (Konceptions), Brooklyn, NY Wednesday, November 19 @ The Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC Owen Howard: November 7 @ The Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records, which was launched in January of 2008, and ...

Article: Interview

Don Glanden: Remembering Clifford Brown

by Victor L. Schermer
October 15, 2014

Benny Golson's timeless ballad, “I Remember Clifford" is but one measure of the reverence and love with which Clifford Brown was regarded by musicians, friends, family, and fans. The affection in which he was held during his lifetime was made all the more poignant by his untimely death at the peak of his rapidly advancing career. ...

Article: Album Review

Dimitrije Vasiljević: Metaphor

Read "Metaphor" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 15, 2014

The second solo piano release by composer, pianist and Serbian native Dimitrije Vasiljević, Metaphor seems to embody the very best of the European (Eastern and Western) and American classical and jazz piano traditions. With his austere yet light approach to melody and rhythm, Vasiljević reflects both emerging pianists such as Eldar Djangirov and more longstanding stalwarts ...

Article: My Blue Note Obsession

Horace Silver: Six Pieces of Silver – Blue Note 1539

by Marc Davis
October 15, 2014

Yep, this is the “Senor Blues" album. That's not the name, obviously, but it could be. This outstanding hard bop CD, recorded by Horace Silver's quintet in 1956, has 10 tracks, and three of them are “Senor Blues." No wonder. It's arguably the best track in the collection--a Spanish-tinged slow blues toe-tapper. Even so, ...

Article: Album Review

Paul Jost: Breaking Through

Read "Breaking Through" reviewed by Peter McLaren

by Peter McLaren
October 15, 2014

Paul Jost's second outing on Dot Time Records is an eclectic collection of standard repertoire performed in a fresh and exciting manner that leaves no doubt this artist is a creative force that deserves to be added to the list of great male jazz vocalists of all time. The album opens with a version ...