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RollingStone: New Orleans Jazz Fest 2018: The 7 Best Things We Saw
May 4, 2018It was a sobering way to enter the weekend. On April 26th, the day before the 49th annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival opened at the Fair Grounds race track, the news broke around town of the death of ...
The New Times: The rise and rise of jazz in Rwanda
May 2, 2018This April, lovers of jazz music in Rwanda joined the rest of the world in celebrating International Jazz Day. The day was designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 2011 ...
NY Times: Women Fighting Sexism in Jazz Have a Voice. And Now, a Code of Conduct.
April 30, 2018Over the past year a steady stream of public testimonials from female jazz musicians has made clear what most already knew privately: Sexism and harassment are deeply ingrained in the improvised-music world. The We ...
CNN: Jazz improv and your brain: The key to creativity?
April 29, 2018(CNN) Fingers graze a keyboard, poised to play. A trumpet rises to the lips. Drumsticks perch in the air, ready to fall. The improv begins, and this combo of jazz musicians instantly creates a piece of music that ...
Metro: Courtney Pine: Jazz music is very dangerous
April 27, 2018“With jazz, we play the melody, and after that we don’t know what’s going to happen,’ Courtney Pine explains. ‘It really is dipping our hands into the dark matter of music. That experience can only work if ...
LA Times: Bob Dorough, jazz artist who wrote catchy, educational ditties for ‘Schoolhouse Rock,’ dies at 94
April 25, 2018Times were lean for jazz pianist and singer Bob Dorough in the early 1970s when he got an unusual request from an advertising executive. Could Dorough write songs that might help children learn their multiplication ...
Pat Metheny to Receive PRS for Music Gold Award at Jazz FM Awards
April 24, 2018Pat Metheny will receive the PRS for Music Gold Award at the Jazz FM Awards this year. The ceremony will take place at Shoreditch Town Hall in London on Monday, April 30.
Lizz Wright – Grace
September 22, 2017(Concord) Singer Lizz Wright is back with another sterling effort. Grace finds the Georgia-born singer teaming with producer Joe Henry to weave together an effort with a decidedly bluesy, gospel Southern flavor. The ...
Michael Pedicin – As It Should Be: Ballads 2
September 15, 2017(Groundblue) Composer/saxophonist Michael Pedicin continues his consistent track record focusing on ballads, add this one to that collection. As It Should Be: Ballads 2 focuses almost entirely on the compositions of ...
3 Divas
June 9, 2017(Diva Jazz Orchestra) 3 Divas is the outstanding trio and album of three tremendously talented musicians. Pianist Jackie Warren, bassist Amy Shook and drummer Sherrie Maricle comprise this fantastic unit. In ...
