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Jazz at Lincoln Center Announces 2009-2010 Season
Jazz at Lincoln Center and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, announced the 2009-10 season. Programming featuring concerts, education events, broadcasts, touring and a line-up of guest music directors. This is the organizations 23rd season of programming and begins the sixth season in its home, Frederick P. Rose Hall. Highlights of the season include the Jazz at Lincoln ...
George Wein Announces Sponsorship Opportunities - Jazz Festival in Newport
The world-famous jazz festival in Newport, RI, which was founded in 1954 by George Wein, is available for sponsorship for the first time in 24 years. A golden opportunity for any corporation, the festival, which will be held August 7 - 9 at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, will bring instantaneous world-wide recognition to the ...
Russel Blake: Transcending Expectations
by Mikayla Gilbreath
Nearly everyone would agree that music is one of the most significant and enduring art forms ever created by mankind, though most people still view it primarily as entertainment. An astute few seem capable of looking beyond music's obvious entertainment value, and among these is bassist Russel Blake. He views music as both a tool for ...
Michelle Walker Live @ Bar Next Door
Michelle Walker Performs Live @ THE BAR NEXT DOOR Monday March 16, 2009 Vocalist Michelle Walker returns to one of her favorite performance rooms, the Bar Next Door for an intimate evening of live jazz vocals. The Bar Next Door is one of the smaller and most intimate settings for serious jazz in Manhattan...[and]...is a perfect ...
Chicago a Boundary-Breaking Jazz Festival
Music in America tends to be marketed narrowly, by genre, with clubs and festivals targeting specific musical tastes. But at least one musical event ignores the barriers that separate jazz listeners from their classical counterparts, world-music lovers from devotees of the avant- garde. And the fifth annual edition of Pick-Staiger Concert Hall's Spring Festival, continuing into ...
Jurg Wickihalder Overseas Quartet: Furioso
by John Sharpe
Irrespective of the connections, the soprano saxophone clarion call opening Furioso immediately evokes the ghost of Steve Lacy. The debut disc from Swiss soprano saxophonist Jurg Wickihalder's Overseas quartet might be better titled Vivacissimo, such is the joy and vitality which springs out from every digital pit and pore. Though it was at Boston's ...
Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - Four-Part Documentary
Four-Part Jazz Documentary Explores Contemporary Jazz Luminaries Including Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Jason Moran, The Bad Plus The Documentary Channel Exclusive Premiere Of All Four Episodes Begins April 20 Episode One Premieres April 15 at Jazz At Lincoln Center Paradigm Studio partners with Don Q Rum in association with Rums of Puerto Rico to present Icons ...
Wynton Marsalis to Release New Album March 24th
On March 24, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, trumpeter and bandleader Wynton Marsalis will release his fifth Blue Note recording, He and She – an ambitious new album of 22 tracks that combines spoken word and Wynton’s signature Jazz style. The album is tempered with flashes of humor and plenty of swing centered around ...
Jazz It up at the Kimmel Center in March and April: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Saxophonist Bobby Watson and Blue Note Records 70th Anniversary Tour
Formative voices in American jazz come together on the Kimmel Center’s stages in March and April, as performances of timeless works by jazz luminaries share the stage with fresh, new additions to the jazz canon. Click on the name of the artist below for more information on each Kimmel Center performance: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra ...
