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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 ...
LA Times: Bob Dorough, jazz artist who wrote catchy, educational ditties for ‘Schoolhouse Rock,’ dies at 94
April 25, 2018 / No CommentsTimes 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 tables? Intrigued, especially by the executive’s idea that the songs not ...
Pat Metheny to Receive PRS for Music Gold Award at Jazz FM Awards
April 24, 2018 / No CommentsPat 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.
Reggie Quinerly – Words to Love
April 20, 2018 / No Comments / Tags: Ben Wolfe, Jaleel Shaw, Melanie Charles, Milton Suggs, Orrin Evans, Reggie QuinerlyDrummer Reggie Quinerly certainly has a way with words. Words to Love not only further establishes Quinerly as an adroit composer, but as a lyricist as well. In a departure from his previous recording, this production takes a decided turn for the vocal arena. The effort features singers Melanie ...
