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NYT: Toots Thielemans, Harmonica, Dies at 94
August 23, 2016Toots Thielemans, one of the only musicians to have a successful career as a jazz harmonica player, died on Monday in Brussels. He was 94. The death was confirmed by Mr. Thielemans’s agency, which did not specify a ...
Thirty years later, Green Mill owner Dave Jemilo thrives at his jazz club
June 15, 2016By Howard Reich When Dave Jemilo walked into the Green Mill in the 1980s, he was struck by what he saw. “On some of the light fixtures, the plaster was falling apart,” he says of the then-battered lounge ...
The Guardian: DeJohnette/Coltrane/Garrison: Movement review – decisive energies of a jazz marvel
May 22, 2016Former Miles Davis and current Keith Jarrett drummer Jack DeJohnette’s decisive energies and musicality make him, at 73, one of the marvels of contemporary jazz. This trio joins him with John Coltrane’s saxophonist ...
Oakland Press: Roy Hargrove treats music as more than all that jazz
May 18, 2016Roy Hargrove hails from Texas and now makes his home in New York. But the jazz trumpet virtuoso has more than a little affinity for Detroit, thanks to influences (Barry Harris, Ron Carter), collaborators (bassist ...
The Atlantic: Without Jazz and Blues, There’s No Americana
May 17, 2016Blues history celebrates mythical turning points. Robert Johnson going to the crossroads to sell his soul. Leadbelly being discovered in—and sprung from—prison by John and Alan Lomax. The 1913 arrest that set ...
Newport Jazz Festival gets new leader, $10M promise
March 11, 2016PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Jazz impresario George Wein took another step to secure the future of his 62-year-old Newport Jazz Festival on Thursday, as the nonprofit foundation that runs it named Grammy-winning bassist ...
Nielsen: Brands That Engage Jazz Fans Won’t Be Left Singing The Blues
March 10, 2016Think jazz is just a genre featured in movies from the 1960s? Think again. Take artist Kamasi Washington, for example. Last week, the Millennial jazz artist won the inaugural American Music Prize. He was also ...
The Art of Cool announces its 2016 lineup, gets back to jazz
October 23, 2015by Eric Tullis Tonight, before Los Angeles jazz adventurer Terrace Martin hit The Pour House stage in Raleigh for The Art of Cool Project and 9th Wonder’s monthly soul series Caramel City, Art of Cool president ...
Variety: Film Review: ‘Miles Ahead’
October 10, 2015Source: Variety Don Cheadle flails about trying to channel the spirit of late jazz-trumpeting legend Miles Davis in “Miles Ahead,” a biopic that rejects typical genre conventions to the point of chasing itself down ...
Willis Conover, The Voice Of Jazz Behind The Iron Curtain
July 27, 2015Willis Conover was known around the world, but not so much at home. He was the voice of jazz over the Voice of America for more than 40 years, most of it during the Cold War. Imagine what it was like to sit in the ...
