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Lagos Blues Antonio Ciacca Motema Music There's a good reason most "real" jazz radio stations tend to favor the modern mainstream jazz of the post-bop era codified by such record labels from the mid-20th Century as Blue Note, Columbia's jazz division, Prestige, Riverside and Impulse....
Walking into "Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool" at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is like walking into a 1970s casting call for a Shaft sequel....
The Jazz Community As A Road Map
I quite like this lede: Jazz musicians are kind of like street names -- most people only know the big ones....
Miles Davis - Cheadle Gets Family's Blessing to Play Miles Davis
MILES DAVIS' nephew has confirmed reports DON CHEADLE will play the jazz legend in a new biopic....
The arrival of jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton
The entry titled "The arrival of jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton." Categories Archives The arrival of jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton Thursday, March 4, 2010, 05:27 PM Did jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton really immigrate to Austin just three years ago? It seems like he and his publicist wife, Dean Lofton , along...
Vail music: Chick Corea's 'out to do anything'
Vail music: If you haven't heard of Chick Corea, you're sure to have heard of some of his friends, like Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan, Bela Fleck and Gary Burton....
JazzWax
Waxing & musings. Can jazz survive in a culture that worships fakes? Jazz came of age in the 1940s, when small groups thrived and individual artists made a name for themselves impressing audiences on club stages with their dexterity and......
Hidden Jazz Downloads (Vol. 11)
Every so often I cruise through iTunes to see what has slid quietly into the e-bins. Recently I noticed two encouraging trends: First, albums that had been part of box sets and were off the market are now re-emerging as......
Grover Washington: Inner City Blues
I consider Marvin Gaye's What's Going On to be one of the last great jazz albums. Though technically a soul recording, much of its heart remains deeply rooted in jazz's orchestral tradition and progressive consciousness. The party chatter that opens......
Here's a beautifully written passage on pianist Fats Waller from Jazz (Norton), a deftly written book by Gary Giddins and Scott DeVeaux. Jazz provides you with a robust, friendly overview of the music and artists as well as an in-depth......
In April 1958, Coleman Hawkins recorded Meets the Big Sax Section for Savoy. The session lived up to its billing. Hawkins was teamed with Count Basie's Marshall Royal, Frank Wess, Frank Foster and Charlie Fowlkes. The result, as you can......
I was doing some reading the other night and came across an essay by Ross Russell in the September 1960 issue of The Jazz Review. Russell, who had been owner of Dial Records, was reviewing a reissue of the Carnegie......
All At Once
Just a note to my followers and subscribers, I am no longer blogging at this location. If you would like to continue to subscribe to my posts (and I hope that you do), please do so via this RSS feed: feed://kristiner.com/blog/feed/Or, you can always head to http://kristiner.com to see what's...
It's been a long time coming, but I am finally making the switch to WordPress.As anybody who is still using this platform knows, Blogger blows. Aside from the inherent limitations and generic-ness of the template, my main issue with Blogger has to do with the lack of a way to...
SoCal people take note: tonight begins the Slow Sound Festival, a two week-long celebration of quiet music:"Slow Sound is the mindful practice of experimental sound and music," says festival curator Glenn Bach, "and with the festival we hope to showcase musicians and composers who specialize in quiet, sparse, or otherwise...
What a day, what a great event!Full audio/video/photo documentation will eventually be posted at the SASSAS website, but here are some quick mobile pics (courtesy of Cindy Bernard) of Alicia Mangan and I:The finale - Wadada Leo Smith, Vinny Golia, and William Roper on Sousaphone:And a couple more from my...
Happening this Saturday:MAPPING sound. – The SASSAS (Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound) 10th Anniversary Concert utilizes sites in 8 Los Angeles neighborhoods located along an east/west corridor and features more than 30 musicians drawn from the 10 year history of sound. for a day...
Some pictures below from our weekend romp through Zoey's in Ventura and Metro Galleries in Bakersfield. The pics of Chris and I were taken by Jeff Kaiser, pics of Kaiser and Liebig were taken by yours truly. Stay tuned for more commentary, audio, and if we're lucky, some of Kaiser's...
ContemporaryJazz.com
The JAZZzology blog asks: “is acid jazz just a name given by a radio disc jockey to promote some readily unidentifiable form of pop music or is it a form of jazz music?” I think it’s the latter – more of a type of fusion but, instead of rock, it...
Pat Metheny’s Orchestrion Preview
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Sean Miller’s Jazz Pulse – January 3
It’s a new year and it’s off to a great start with a new Jazz Pulse from Sean Miller! If you were a fan of the New Adult Contemporary format that preceded smooth jazz, you will love Jazz Pulse, the regular program put together by Sean Miller. Like that classic...
According to Amazon, this compilation from the Soundiva label, called Chillout & Acid Jazz, will be out on New Year’s Day. Sample it now – a good mix of 25 jazzy uptempo and laid-back tracks. Amazon.com Widgets...
I always find some good jazz while searching through the electronic category. Check out music from this new release, which features several vocal performances. Amazon.com Widgets...
New on ContemporaryJazz.com Radio
ContemporaryJazz.com Radio plays nu jazz, acid jazz, remixed jazz, jazzy house, dancefloor jazz, and other groove jazz styles. It’s online all the time and is free (with ads) or you can purchase a VIP package for commercial free listening and other benefits. See the embedded spreadsheet below for the most recent...
Jazz News
Viewpoint: Official's attack on teachers unwarranted
It was with a great deal of sadness and disappointment that I read the article concerning the comments by Tony Bennett and Rick Muir and the subsequent attacks on the Anderson Federation of Teachers....
CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: A Jazz-Pop Encounter: The Sequel
BROWS furrowed, Brad Mehldau and Jon Brion wore the same look of concentration here one evening last spring, perched on Aeron chairs in a mixing room at Ocean Way Recording studios....
The Monterey Jazz Festival: A spontaneous block party
This past Tuesday, the Arts & Science Council did an "Update Lunch" at the Gantt Center, announcing that its annual fund drive was slightly ahead of the pace needed to make its cautious 2010 goal of $7.5 mil....
Sophie Dahl Turns Down Request From a Man on Death Row
Sophie Dahl turned down a prisonera s offer. The former British model, whoa s married to a Jazz musician Jamie Cullum, ignored a letter received from a prisoner in a Texas jail house....
CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records to Release...
Available March 30 on BJURecords.com On March 30, 2010 Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records proudly releases the debut recording, Anima , from Ottawa-born, Brooklyn-based trombonist/composer Mike Fahie , featuring the thrilling ensemble of Mike Fahie , Bill McHenry , Ben Monder , Ben Street , Billy Hart ....
Review: MTT and S.F. Symphony capture the wonder of Mahler's massive 'Resurrection' Symphony
Gustav Mahler was born 150 years ago and his music - his crazy, beautiful, angst-driven, spirit-chasing music - just keeps on giving....
WBGO Blog: Jazz and Beyond
Live Tonight: Nicholas Payton at the Village Vanguard
Nicholas Payton Quintet: Live At The Village Vanguard...
Steve Wilson on Live at the Village Vanguard
Steve Wilson is one of the finest saxophonists in the business: He’s what musicians label a “first call” player. If you have a session coming up and you want great alto and soprano sax work, Wilson is your man. Many have called; Wilson has played on more than 100 albums,...
Ravi Coltrane Quartet with Geri Allen at NJPAC
WBGO Broadcasted an excellent (and augmented) Ravi Coltrane Quartet at NJPAC last weekend. The concert featured the brilliant piano voicings of Geri Allen, whom Ravi has admired since the early 90s. The concert is now available on-demand. Click below, sit back, and enjoy this adventurous hour plus of music which...
Nicholas Payton on WBGO’s Live at the Village Vanguard
Tune in, log on or drop by the Village Vanguard on Wednesday, March 10 to hear the Nicholas Payton Quintet on WBGO’s Live at the Village Vanguard. The band will include Taylor Eigsti on piano, Vicente Archer on bass, Marcus Gilmore on drums and Daniel Sadownick on percucssion. Born into a musical...
Johnny Dankworth Tribute tomorrow at 1pm!
Johnny Dankworth was best known in the US as the musical director for his wife, singer Cleo Laine, but in the UK he was better known as a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist, bandleader and arranger, composer for TV and movies, symphony pops conductor, and, with Cleo, founder...
Scott Siegel is the producer and host of an extraordinary series of concerts at The Town Hall in New York. “Broadway by the Year” celebrates musical theatre year by year with some of Broadway’s best singers and dancers. This season is Siegel’s 10th anniversary and begins February 22nd with the...
Secret Society
I was invited to contribute a piece to the Megaphone column for this month's All About Jazz-New York. I wouldn't say I'm exactly courting controversy, but let's say I might have shot controversy a few sly glances across a crowded......
Unless you just address with best finesse
Secret Society is moving. Our new URL is: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org We kindly request that you update your bookmarks and links. The new RSS feed is: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org/darcy_james_argues_secret/rss.xml No redesign, just a long-overdue URL change. The previous address was owned by our blog......
Our next NYC hit is Tuesday, March 23 at Jazz Standard, as part of the New York-based celebrations surrounding the 40th anniversary of my alma mater's jazz program. It is great to be a part of this -- many of......
Tonight (Wednesday, Jan 27), Secret Society will be appearing on WHYY-TV's awesome music show On Canvas. If you are in the Philadelphia area, you can tune in on your teevee machine at 8 PM. Everyone else will be able to......
The Words Project: Process and Evolution
Guest post by Sam Sadigursky Tremendous thanks to Darcy for allowing me this space to share my work. I'm very excited to release Words Project III: Miniatures on January 29 at Galapagos (the same space where Secret Society kicked off......
I'm hugely, deeply honored to have been invited to join the faculty at this year's International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music at the Banff Centre for the Arts, especially as the rest of the faculty this year includes the......
Tony Bennett News
Viewpoint: Official's attack on teachers unwarranted
It was with a great deal of sadness and disappointment that I read the article concerning the comments by Tony Bennett and Rick Muir and the subsequent attacks on the Anderson Federation of Teachers....
Or will I go from rags to riches? Hands-on with Mafia 2
With Mafia 2 , developer 2K Czech is leaving the optimism to Tony Bennett: this is not intended to be a rags to riches crime story....
Primus Mootry: Public schools need high-profile champions
Last Saturday's THB article highlighting the war of words between the Anderson Federation of Teachers president, Rick Muir, and the state superintendent of public instruction, Tony Bennett, is likely to evolve into a deeper collective bargaining conflict in which there will be no winners, only losers - schoolchildren....
Race to the Top - minus the cash
Indiana's failure to win a share of the $4 billion Race to the Top money is a disappointment when the cash-strapped state is starved for investment in its schools....
Charter schools and Bennett's 'reset' button
A Madison County citizens group has put state schools chief Tony Bennett in an awkward situation....
Spectacular seafront waves show
SPRING tides and strong easterly winds combined to provide a wave spectacular which was snapped by Herald Express reader Tony Bennett at Livermead....
Michael Buble News
Jamie Cullum is one curious, flighty bird. One minute the keening singer and gregarious keyboard stylist is jumping on a jazzed-up treatment of a Broadway gem or pop hit....
Billy Talent, Drake, Michael Buble Lead 2010 Juno Nominees
Tell your mom to make sure she watches the Juno Awards in April because she'll likely be seeing a lot of Michael Buble....
Carpy swings into action for fundraiser
Tom Carpenter will be presenting Carpy's Night of Swing at Frome's Merlin Theatre on Friday, March 5 and Saturday, March 6 at 7.45pm. Tom, 15, has been singing and performing 'swing' for three years since he was diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome....
'British Michael Buble' Rick Guard in Clitheroe
ACCOMPLISHED actor, singer and platinum selling songwriter Rick Guard, who has been hailed as the British Michael Buble, will perform at Clitheroe's The Grand on Friday....
Singer Michael Buble's 'Crazy Love' tour brings him to Cincinnati
The Grammy award winning Michael Buble will be bringing his 'Crazy Love Tour' to Cincinnati on March 24,2010. The singer will take the stage at 8pm at the U.S. Bank Arena with ticket prices starting at $52.50. The popular crooner revealed recently that when he isn't on stage making the...
The last film tragic actress BRITTANY MURPHY made before her death is set for release this summer ....
About.com Jazz
Happy Birthday Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman, creator of harmolodics, and a founding father of the avant-garde jazz movement, turns 80 years old today, March 9th, 2010. Peter Hum at the Ottawa Citizen gathers musings on the iconic saxophonist by a handful of jazz greats. Howard Mandel at Jazz Beyond Jazz also reflects on Coleman's...
Growing up in Brooklyn, pianist Randy Weston developed an early career as an R & B sideman. After a mentorship with Thelonious Monk, he became known for his bebop playing. Then, inspired by trips to Africa, elements of traditional and popular African styles crept into his music. At nearly 84...
Sonny Rollins Wins MacDowell Medal
Sonny Rollins was named the 51st recipient of the Edward MacDowell Medal, an award given annually to an artist who has contributed greatly to his field. Rollins will be the first jazz musician to receive the medal, whose list of recipients includes Leonard Bernstein, Georgia O'Keefe, John Updike, and Merce...
Jazz History by Decade: 1900-1910
Check out the first installment in an 11-or-so part series, "Jazz History by Decade." Take a look at the years between 1900 and 1910, when the creole language of Jelly Roll Morton's ragtime was paving the way for early jazz styles. Coming up next: 1910-1920 - the decade in which...
At nearly 80 years old, Sonny Rollins is still playing. He's known for his bold and quirky melodic style, informed by the idiosyncrasies of two of the most prominent saxophonists of the days before bebop, Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins. In the mid 1950s, influenced heavily by the rapid technique...
2010 Carefusion Jazz Fest NYC Update
The schedule for the 2010 Carefusion Jazz Festival New York has been announced, and you can view it here. The festival balances big-ticket performers like the Keith Jarrett trio and Herbie Hancock with up-and-coming acts such as Mostly Other People Do The Killing. The festival seems to fairly accurately reflect the...
RVANews » Jazz
Announcing Jason Ajemian & The High Life
RVAJazz and Scott Burton are pleased to present Jason Ajemian & The High Life at The Camel in Richmond, VA, on Saturday, April 17. They will be performing two sets following one set by Richmond-based band Coald Toast....
Music that stifles has its place, but it's not here. We often forget what it's like to breathe along with music, since a lot of it out there is about filling space and not savoring it. But this: ah, music to breathe to....
Amina Figarova tonight at Capital Ale House
Amina Figarova Sextet plays at Capital Ale House tonight at 7pm, presented by Richmond Jazz Society’s Guest Educators series. From RJS: Amina Figarova is one of Europe’s most talented Jazz composers and pianists. Playing piano and composing at a very early age, Amina studied classical concert piano at the Baku Conservatory in...
Nine Lives: Jason Scott, part 2
With a crazy schedule full of commuting from place to place, practicing, and preparing lessons whenever he could, Jason experienced the exhausting New York lifestyle. But once he found himself back in Richmond in 2006 making connections and forming new musical bonds, his creativity surfaced....
Nine Lives: Jason Scott, part 1
As a music teacher, stellar tenor saxophonist for his own group and Fight the Big Bull, and composer, Jason Scott's thirty-four years contribute to his story and have paved the path -- however bumpy -- to where he is today....
UTV comes full circle (for me)
UseTheVastness has played in a whole lot of different venues, some ordinary, some funky: recital hall, backyard, basement, club, workshop in an art gallery. This afternoon, they return to the place where I first saw them, back in May 2009: the tiny confines of Black Hand Coffee....
Rifftides
PDXV, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (Heavywood). Five years ago, Trumpeter Dick Titterington brought together for one engagement saxophonist Rob Davis, pianist Greg Goebel, bassist Dave Captein and drummer Todd Strait. They discovered that their combination worked and decided to......
Correspondence: Broadbent And Monk
Following the Ornette Coleman birthday posting three items down, Alan Broadbent sent the following: Now, this one's absolutely true, I was there and it's never made the books. Monk's quartet came to NZ on his "64 world tour and I......
Go Home! Ir A Casa! Heimgehen! Rentrez à La Maison! 집으로 가십시오! Arf!
Aware that Rifftides occasionally posts accounts of cycling adventures and that the readership includes dedicated cyclists, Jack Tracy forwarded this valuable piece of advice from an unidentified newspaper.......
Compatible Quotes: Ornette Coleman
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. - Ornette Coleman Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each......
Today is Ornette Coleman's 80th birthday. In my admiration for Coleman's independence, faithfulness to his vision and inspiration, I yield to no one--except my artsjournal colleague Howard Mandel, whose lengthy Jazz Beyond Jazz tribute today is replete with Coleman history......
Other Matters: Return Of The One-Man Band
No, not the Sidney Bechet "Sheik of Araby" kind of one man band, but the television news kind. Today, Howard Kurtz devotes his column in The Washington Post to a phenomenon brought about in broadcast news by the convergence of......
Chris Botti News
In the studio and on stage, Botti has worked with such leading musicians as Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Sting, and renowned film composer John Barry....
Chris Botti, Natalie Cole to bring jazz evening to Puyallup Fair on Sept. 17
Chris Botti, Americaa s jazz trumpeter legend boasting international acclaim takes the Puyallup Fair stage on Sept....
Chris Botti is nuts, and he admits it. "You've got to be nuts to be a trumpet player in a lot of ways," Botti told The Star last year....
Tickets: $54, $36, $29. www.vallitix.com Trumpeter Chris Botti can remember when he was performing for dozens of people and glad to attract that many....
Jazz About Town, Feb. 15th, 2010
Here is this week's listing of jazz events to help you fill that need for jazz. And don't forget to play our weekly trivia contest below: UPCOMING JAZZ EVENTS/GIGS Bakersfield Jazz Workshop - every Weds., at Le Corusse Rouge, featured artists this month are: Johnny Blue, Richie Perez, and the...
Chris Botti Gallery Spotlight: Seattle, WA - Feb. 6, 2010
His new set titled "Italia" debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart and quickly nabbed a Grammy nomination for best Pop Instrumental Album....
Smooth News
Steve Cole Will Release New CD, “Moonlight,” In May
Saxophonist Steve Cole, who released his debut CD in 1998, will offer his sixth solo project on May 10 with Moonlight, on the Artistry record label. Cole says that Moonlight offers filled with popular standards, old and new, set amidst a orchestral background. In addition to the title track, songs include...
Legendary Al Jarreau Is 70 Today
Happy birthday to vocalist Al Jarreau, who today (March 12th) is 70. He was born in Milwaukee, Wis., and credits his first performing experience singing in a church choir. Jarreau is currently the only vocalist in history to net Grammy awards in three different categories: jazz, pop and R&B. He added to his...
Ramsey Lewis’ Birthday Celebration Part Of Annual Ravinia Festival
A celebration of pianist Ramsey Lewis’ 75th birthday is one of the highlights of the schedule of the annual Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Ill. The season runs from June through September. Lewis is the artistic director of the festival’s Jazz at Ravinia series. Lewis, whose birthday is May 27,...
Bobby McFerrin, Celebrating 60th Birthday, Releasing CD Next Month
Ten-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist Bobby McFerrin, who turns 60 today (March 11), next month will release VOCAbuLarieS, his first CD in eight years. Like his 1988 #1 worldwide hit song “Don’t Worry Be Happy” and his multi-platinum duo album Hush with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, VOCAbuLarieS is based on Bobby’s experiments with...
Babyface Announces Shows In Advance Of New CD
Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds has announced several U.S. shows in advance of a new CD. He will start off with a set of mid-March performances in Chattanooga, Tenn., on March 19 and Alexandria, La., on March 20. The schedule features a couple of shows each month through a Sept. 3 concert in Atlantic...
Bernie Williams Joining Baseball Stars For Musical Benefit
Smooth jazz guitarist Bernie Williams is among the current and former major-league baseball players participating today (March 11) at Woodjock Jam Fest 2010, an event organized by Chicago White Sox pitcher Jake Peavy. Williams played his entire career in the outfield for the New York Yankees. The show, at 7 p.m....
Kirk Whalum | Blog
Hangin' with Otis Redding's kids in Soulsville! What an honor––Princes and a Princess!
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Poem for Haiti (from the poet David of Jerusalem)...
Finally home for a couple of days! As much as I love NY it's always good to be back in Soulsville, sitting in front of OUR fireplace. We're blessed. May a blessing of encouragement flow thru Haiti today....
The people of Haiti are blessed with gifts that we in the rest of the world desperately need. They are not a "poor destitute" people. They are a culturally RICH people whose destinies were forever changed by the greed and......
Tokyo Chronicles cont. Kick Back Café
Looking out at this intimate but incredibly responsive audience at Kick Back Café (this past November) is still one of my most treasured memories. The Guys and I were transformed, our music was transformed!...
Back to my Tokyo chronicles...
Now these are some shoes I MUST have! Love the toe-room....
Music and More
David S. Ware - Saturnian: Solo Saxophones Vol. 1 (AUM Fidelity, 2010)
David S. Ware has overcome some pretty serious health setbacks recently, but you wouldn't know it by the strong and deeply dignified music he makes on this album. In this intimate setting, just him and the horns (he plays saxello and stritch, two horns often associated with Rahsaan Roland Kirk,...
John Ellis and Double Wide - Puppet Mischief (Obliqsound, 2010)
Taking inspiration from the carnivals, fairs and street life of his adopted hometown of New Orleans, saxophonist and composer John Ellis formed his band Double Wide with the unique instrumentation of Brain Coogan on organ, Matt Perrine on sousaphone, Jason Marsalis on drums, Gregorie Maret on harmonica and Alan Ferber...
The John Coltrane Reference by Lewis Porter, et. al. (Routledge, 2008)
This amazing piece of musical scholarship must be one of the most sublime pieces of obsession ever committed to print. Edited by Rutgers University scholar and musician (and Coltrane biographer) Lewis Porter, it is the work of a team of scholars and fans to collate everything known about saxophonist and...
Dave Holland Octet - Pathways (Dare2, 2010)
Inspired by the work of the great Duke Ellington, and his combination of horns and reeds, bassist and composer Dave Holland formed an octet to investigate a wide range of musical textures and colors. Anchored by his quintet with Chris Potter on tenor and soprano saxophone, Steve Nelson on vibes...
Paul Motian, Chris Potter and Jason Moran - Lost in a Dream (ECM, 2010)
Drummer Paul Motian is one of the most enigmatic musicians in jazz. Whether as a leader or a sideman, his percussive work is instantly recognizable for its graceful spaciousness and the sense of mystery that his playing and composing revels in. That sense of space and mystery is on excellent...
Moreland and Arbuckle - Flood Moreland and Arbuckle are Aaron Moreland on guitar and Dustin Arbuckle on harmonica and vocals. They play a high energy roots rock/blues that is akin in some ways to The Black Keys. The music hews closely to the blues but plays them in different styles,...
Jazz@Rochester
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis swings into Rochester on March 22nd
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis is bringing their Portrait in Seven Shades U.S. Tour to Rochester on March 22, 2010, at the Auditorium Theater for the Sixth Annual Jazz for the Park series to benefit Wilson......
Quite a lot going on in Rochester over the next seven days, spanning continents and styles. Some Afro-Peruvian jazz, perhaps? A little B3? Or some of your regular favorites. Hope you get out there and hear some. No Irish jazz......
They've been a charm each time they've come, so it's likely the third one will be.... This Friday, it's again time to welcome the always exciting melting pot of jazz, traditional music from the coast of Peru, and other influences......
Live Shots: Mel Henderson & Bob Vosteen Guitar Duo and the drummers
Catching my buddy Mel Henderson with Bob Vosteen at the Roam Cafe on Park Ave., jamming with a group of hand drummers (I enjoyed them when they played across the street on the sidewalk during the Park Avenue Festival this......
Jazz Around Town: Live jazz in and around Rochester, NY
Here are the live jazz listings for the next seven days in and around Rochester. Hope you can get out and check it out. Thursday, March 4, 2010 Jazz Reception @ Link Gallery, City Hall, 30 Church St. Rochester, 5:30......
Diana Krall News
Canadian Jazz: Big Noise From the Great White North
Diana Krall is poised to land a major haul of Juno Awards. Last week the nominations for Canada's Juno Awards were announced....
Krall, Ehnes headline NACOa s 2010-11 lineup
A fundraising concert with jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall, a Mozart-Haydn festival and a concert by the Orchestre national de France are among highlights of the National Arts Centre Orchestra's 2010-2011 season, which was announced Tuesday....
Willie Nelson anonunces a brace of tour dates - tickets go on sale this Friday
The 'outlaw entertainer' Willie Nelson has announced a pair of UK tour dates for June....
These stars will make you think you're seeing double! Take a look at some celebrities who could have been separated at birth....
Juno Awards in St. John's to include Metric, Buble, Bieber: ...
Yes No Undecided CONTESTS Last updated at 12:41 PM on 03/03/10 UPDATE: Juno Awards in St....
Now combining her strong instrumental skills and talent for composition with a warm vocal sonority, Biali has a gift for conveying the nuances of both a lyric and a melodic line....