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Gregory Porter Scheduled To Appear On The Tonight Show
September 25, 2013Gregory Porter is scheduled to will make his US TV debut on Friday, September 9/27 on NBC Tonight Show With Jay Leno. Porter is out promoting his newest release,”Liquid Spirit”. Check your local listings ...
San Jose Mercury News: Monterey Jazz Festival: Exhausting, uplifting, often remarkable
September 24, 2013Richard Scheinin San Jose Mercury News The Monterey Jazz Festival is an annual event and an ongoing chronicle. Sure, Armstrong, Ellington, Miles and Coltrane all played there. But so-called “golden eras” ...
Star-Tribune: Fusion is not a dirty word
September 20, 2013Article by: BRITT ROBSON , Special to the Star Tribune Nearly a quarter-century ago, bassist Dave Holland released the record “Extensions,” a glorious mix of power and complexity, featuring guitarist Kevin Eubanks, ...
OnPoint Radio: Life Behind The Vibes: Jazz Musician Gary Burton Looks Back
September 18, 2013Seven-time Grammy winner Gary Burton joins NPR’s OnPoint host Tom Ashbrook to talk about his life as a jazz vibraphonist and his personal journey as an unannounced gay man in the jazz world, something he ...
Martin Luther King Jr. tribute presented by NJSO
September 8, 2013Carlton Wilkerson Daily Record (Sept 8, 2013) – The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra opens its 2013-14 season with a program that pays tribute to the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I ...
Chicago Tribune: New home for jazz fest knows how to swing
September 1, 2013Howard Reich Chicago Tribune In a single stroke, the Chicago Jazz Festival went from grunge to glamour over the weekend, thanks to a simple – and desperately needed – change of address. For its first 34 years, the ...
Cedar Walton Dies at 79
August 23, 2013Back in the day at Ronnie Scott’s club in London, when artists were booked on the personal whims of the founding proprietors Scott and Pete King without much regard for the box office, the same performers ...
OnPoint Radio: The Legacy of John Coltrane’s ‘A Love Supreme’
August 21, 2013NPR’s OnPoint Radio featured this program on the legacy of “A Love Supreme” on the verge of its 50th anniversary. Tom is joined by Tony Whyton, author of “Beyond A Love Supreme: John Coltrane ...
Marian McPartland, Jazz Pianist and NPR Radio Staple, Dies at 95
August 21, 2013Peter Keepnews New York Times Marian McPartland, the genteel Englishwoman who became a fixture of the American jazz scene as a pianist and, later in life, hosted the internationally syndicated and immensely popular ...
Litchfield Jazz Festival delights music fans for 18th year
August 12, 2013By Jack Coraggio/The Register Citizen GOSHEN, CT – For an 18th year in a row the Litchfield Jazz Festival, the music and culture celebration that draws music fans from all over the state and beyond, ...