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Joey Alexander | Eclipse
May 8, 2018 / No Comments / Tags: Eclipse, Eric Harland, Joey Alexander, Joshua Redman, Motema Music, Reuben RogersEclipse shows the now-15-year old Joey Alexander continuing to ascend into an infinite musical stratosphere. His fourth album release was recorded over a three-day period beginning on the day of the 2017’s solar eclipse. The project features Alexander with bassist Reuben Rogers and ...
PBS’ The Jazz Ambassadors Premieres May 4th
May 6, 2018 / No CommentsThe PBS Documentary series airs the first of its 3-part documentary The Jazz Ambassadors on May 4th. The show focuses on the role of jazz and jazz musicians played in Cold War diplomacy. Learn more and watch segments of the show here: http://www.pbs.org/show/jazz-ambassadors/
PBS’ The Jazz Ambassadors
May 6, 2018 / No Comments / Tags: pbsDiscover how the Cold War and Civil Rights movement collided when America asked Dizzy Gillespie and American Masters Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman to travel as cultural ambassadors and combat racially-charged Soviet propaganda through their music. Narrated by Leslie Odom, ...
George Wein addresses crowd at 2018 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
May 4, 2018 / No Comments / Tags: festival, new orleans jazzfestThe father of the jazz festival, George Wein, speaks at this year’s New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
RollingStone: New Orleans Jazz Fest 2018: The 7 Best Things We Saw
May 4, 2018 / No Comments / Tags: festivals, New Orleans Jazz FestIt 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 Charles Neville, the saxophonist and second eldest of the Neville Brothers, at 79 of ...
Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein and Bill Stewart | Toy Tunes
May 4, 2018 / No Comments / Tags: Bill Stewart ToyTunes, Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein, Pirouet RecordsOrganist Larry Goldings, guitarist Peter Bernstein and drummer Bill Stewart are back with their twelfth album since their first recording together in 1991. Toy Tunes can best described as the simple pleasure of listening to three accomplished collaborators hold a wonderful, musical ...
The New Times: The rise and rise of jazz in Rwanda
May 2, 2018 / No CommentsThis 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 to highlight jazz music and its diplomatic role of uniting people in all corners ...
NY Times: Women Fighting Sexism in Jazz Have a Voice. And Now, a Code of Conduct.
April 30, 2018 / No CommentsOver 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 Have Voice Collective, a new group of female and non-binary musicians in jazz ...
CNN: Jazz improv and your brain: The key to creativity?
April 29, 2018 / No Comments / Tags: cnn, jazz(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 has never been heard before. As each instrument hijacks the melody, the song is ...
Metro: Courtney Pine: Jazz music is very dangerous
April 27, 2018 / No Comments / Tags: Courtney Pine, thejazzpage.com“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 you, in the audience, are part of that energy. When you come to a good jazz concert ...
