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[VIDEO] Sonny Rollins @ 2011 Kennedy Center Honors
January 3, 2012The great Sonny Rollins was among the artists at 2011 Kennedy Center Honors. Fellow honorees included actress Barbara Cook, singer Neil Diamond, celloist Yo-Yo Ma, and Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep. The ...
Christian McBride – Conversations with Christian
January 3, 2012(Mack Avenue) Bassist Christian McBride gets by with the help of a few of his musical friends on his latest release Conversations with Christian.The recording is a collection of duets with a cross-section of musical ...
Sam Rivers Dies at 88
January 2, 2012By NATE CHINEN, New York Times Sam Rivers, an inexhaustibly creative saxophonist, flutist, bandleader and composer who cut his own decisive path through the jazz world, spearheading the 1970s loft scene in New York ...
2012 Jazz Grammy Nominees
December 29, 2011The Grammys recently selected their nominees for the 2012 Grammy Awards. Curiously, Pat Metheny’s What’s It All About” recording was included in the New Age nominees. The following were the ...
Stanley Jordan – Friends
December 13, 2011(Mack Avenue) Long past the years as a musical wunderkind, guitarist Stanley Jordan is still very much a solid practitioner of his craft. On Friends, he’s joined by a host of incredible talents, including ...
Harry Connick, Jr. – Music From The Happy Elf
December 9, 2011(Marsalis Music) If you’ve turned on a television any time during the yuletide season in most of the last decade, you’ve probably caught a glimpse of The Happy Elf animated special. Pianist and vocalist ...
The Tierney Sutton Band – American Road
December 6, 2011(BFM Jazz) For her latest release, singer Tierney Sutton and her band for the past 18 years dust off range of songs from the American compositional songbook and give them a new coat of paint. American Road has ...
For 25 years, the Storyville Jazz Band has roamed the Dome on New Orleans Saints game days
December 5, 2011By KEITH SPERA, The Times-Picayune Most days, an American flag and a modest “Who Dat” yard sign decorate the tidy red-brick ranch house in Metairie. On game days, the Stars and Stripes are swapped out for a Saints ...
John Scofield – A Moment’s Peace
December 2, 2011(Emarcy Records) Guitar-impressario John Scofield has taken just about every twist and turn a recording artist can maneuver in music, for his latest he takes a route less traveled by him. A Moment’s Peace ...
Enoch Smith, Jr. – Misfits
November 29, 2011(Music 4 My People Entertainment) Misfits is the fascinating sophomore recording from pianist/composer Enoch Smith, Jr. Smith’s engagingly melodic compositional work centers around a hauntingly beautiful ...
