Tuesday, April 7, 2015

DownBeat Magazine

HEADLINES
Chicago Jazz Festival To Celebrate AACM, Strayhorn, Lady Day with Special Concerts
The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events has announced the headlining acts for the 37th annual Chicago Jazz Festival, scheduled for Sept. 3–6. Muhal Richard Abrams’ Experimental Band, José James, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and Henry Butler with More »

Music Comes First for Igor Butman
As late afternoon turned to evening the day after Igor Butman’s 15th annual Triumph of Jazz Festival, which transpired in St. Petersburg and Moscow between Feb. 20 and Feb. 22, Butman stopped by More »

Approaching 70, Jarrett Improvises 
Piano Vignettes at Carnegie Hall 

With his 70th birthday—and a pair of ECM releases, one improvised, one of classical repertoire—looming in May, pianist Keith Jarrett and his management rented Carnegie Hall for a solo piano concert on March 3.
Uncooperative weather—Nor’easter-like sleet, snow andMore »

Trumpeter Lew Soloff Dies at 71
Lew Soloff, a virtuoso trumpeter and flugelhornist whose career as a distinguished jazz instrumentalist spanned some 50 years, died March 8 from an apparent heart attack in New York City. He was …
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