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UK Telegraph: Blue Note to open jazz club in China
July 4, 2015The great jazz trumpeter Buck Clayton would fondly recall his time in China in the 1930s, when jazz was the soundtrack to Shanghai. Although jazz was massively popular in China during the 1920s and 1930s, it ...
Jazz at Lincoln Center and Sony Music Team Up for Blue Engine Records
June 30, 2015Jazz at Lincoln Center has shelves upon shelves of recordings from concerts it has presented since its founding in 1987, including a studio recording featuring the pianist Chick Corea, a musical Mass with a gospel ...
LA Times: Ornette Coleman, jazz innovator and disruptor, dies at 85
June 10, 2015When saxophonist Ornette Coleman played clubs in Los Angeles in the mid-1950s, audiences often covered their ears and waited outside until his set was done. He shunned the conventions of melody and harmony and ...
New ‘Late Show’ Bandleader Jon Batiste Shares the History of Jazz
June 9, 2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert recently named gifted and charismatic New Orleans jazz musician Jon Batiste as bandleader. At the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival, Batiste sat down with Aspen Institute President and CEO ...
CDN: DC Jazz Festival to roll out over 120 acts in 80 neighborhoods
June 7, 2015WASHINGTON, June 6, 2015 – Touting itself as the fastest growing jazz festival in the U.S., the 2015 D.C. Jazz Festival will welcome a diverse selection of locally, nationally and internationally acclaimed artists ...
The Canadian Press: Montreal jazz festival a boon for businesses
June 7, 2015MONTREAL — When Ray Charles opened the inaugural Montreal International Jazz Festival in 1980, founder Alain Simard was working on a budget of $70,000. Little did he know that years later the festival would ...
ITT: The Collective That Saved Jazz
June 1, 2015By Salim Muwakkil This year, a truly golden anniversary is taking place in Chicago: the 50th birthday of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), an organization unlike any other in the ...
Marcus Belgrave, jazz trumpeter, dies at age of 78
May 24, 2015Marcus Belgrave, a jazz trumpeter who graced stages and studios with Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Cocker and Motown artists galore, has died. He was 78. Belgrave came to Detroit in 1962 and ...
Melissa Tham: The Singlish-speaking jazz singer
May 22, 2015SINGAPORE — When we heard jazz artiste Melissa Tham perform with the Christy Smith Quartet at the Singapore International Jazz Festival earlier this year, the singer’s rich, emotive vocals made jazz music seem far ...
NYT Saxophonist-Composer Bob Belden Dies at 58
May 21, 2015Bob Belden, a jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, bandleader and record producer who was both a historian of the music and a force in moving it forward, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 58 He died three days ...
