Friday, December 30, 2016

Tenor saxophonist #JoeLovano

1000s of Festival-goers enjoy ....

Doors Plot 50th Anniversary Celebration

Congrats to @DonnyMcCaslin

We'll be welcoming @DonnyMcCaslin

.#BradMehldau

Thursday, December 29, 2016

LA! Our 2/22 gig @theTroubadour

Dave Holland Big Band


Published on Dec 6, 2016
Bassist Dave Holland's Big Band performing his original composition "Happy Jammy" at the 2003 Saalfelden Jazzfest.

Fare thee well, 2016

Tix for Tucker Brothers Quartet

#JackDeJohnette and #DonFriedman

singer-dancer Meredith Monk

Jamison Ross is the epitome of soul

pianist Joe Alterman

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Jamison Ross is the epitome of soul

R.I.P. Carrie Fisher

#PonchoSanchezLatinJazzBand

Thank you Carrie Fisher

Nancy Wilson in action

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

‘Indian Sitar Meets Jazz’

#DinahWashington

Bobby McFerrin & Richard Bona

Monday, December 26, 2016

Celebrating Antonio Carlos Jobim


Absolutely On Music review: Exploring the symphony of friendship

Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Seiji Ozawa. Photograph: Jim Bourg/Reuters


Rob Doyle
Sat, Dec 24, 2016, 06:00

One of the advantages of being an author as marketable as Haruki Murakami is that anything you set your sights on can be turned into a book: the publishers will gladly run with it, confident it will fly off the shelves the world over.

Murakami has attracted possibly more readers than any other living literary novelist through his oneiric, compulsive, at times somewhat bloodless fictions.
Now comes his third foray into non-fiction, following books on his devotion to long-distance running, and the sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway. A collaborative effort, Absolutely On Music consists of transcribed conversations between Murakami and his friend, the venerable conductor Seiji Ozawa, who served as musical director of numerous major orchestras, including three decades with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The six core conversations took place between winter 2010 and summer 2011, and are supplemented by several diverting “interludes”, and an account of a visit to Ozawa’s music academy at a Swiss lakeside town.

read more at: http://news360.com/digestarticle/iXY0s8Hr00qtkGSl_Cu_AA

From his fantastic world ....

One of the last stands by Swing era bands

#AndyNarell

#BobbyMcFerrin & #RichardBona

I've produced a #JulieLondon holiday album

Saturday, December 24, 2016

@HuwBennettMusic

https://t.co/S1cj1aXizz pic.twitter.com/EECKxYHExp

the '67 #DeanMartin Holiday Special

Thursday, December 22, 2016

Evan Parker, joins us at Vortex ...

Joe Chambers - New World, 1976

choreographer Kathleen Marshall

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

#jazz "#Music is a gift & a burden"

It's tonight! @MikeSternGuitar ....

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

My WSJ interview with #FannieFlagg

Maraca & his Latin Jazz All Stars in Marciac: "Manteca"

ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET

Great holiday #jazz music!

It's still pretty cold outside....

My review of Mosaic's new Savoy

Dizzy Gillespie records "Sonny Side Up"

Grateful to the Recording Academy

"Keep on listening & tapping your feet"

Kurt Elling, Laurence Hobgood and Roy Nathanson

Great article depicting ....

Monday, December 19, 2016

3MarciaBall

Thursday 19th January 2017 - Friday 20th January 2017

Line up confirmed:
Marcia Ball – vox / piano,
Eric Bernhardt – tenor sax,
Mike Schermer – guitar,
Don Bennett – bass &
Corey Keller - drums
Renowned New Orleans singer/pianist comes to Ronnie's for her headline debut.


The Texas-born, Louisiana-raised musical storyteller has earned worldwide fame for her ability to ignite a full-scale roadhouse rhythm and blues party every time she strolls onto the stage. Her groove-laden New Orleans boogie, deeply soulful ballads and rollicking Gulf Coast blues have made her a one-of-a-kind favorite with music fans all over the world. In 2010, she was inducted into the Gulf Coast Hall Of Fame and in 2012 into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.

She’s received a total of six Living Blues Awards and nine Blues Music Awards (and has a whopping 42 nominations). She’s received five Grammy Award nominations, including five of her six previous Alligator albums. Always a songwriter of renown, Ball delved deeper into songwriting than she ever had in her career with her Grammy-nominated 2010 Alligator release, Roadside Attractions, creating one of her best and most personal albums.

read more at: http://www.ronniescotts.co.uk/performances/view/3737-marcia-ball?utm_source=Emailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=16DEC2016

#DebbieSledge with the Niels Lan Doky TRIO

The incredible vocalist Debbie Sledge of the legendary group Sister Sledge (”We Are Family”) has taken all audiences by storm ever since teaming up with the acclaimed jazz pianist Niels Lan Doky and his trio.  

Their intimate musical journey through compelling renditions of soul and jazz classics and lesser known gems - has garnered standing ovations every single night.

Debbie Sledge (of Sister Sledge) w/ Niels Lan Doky Trio: "Compared To What" (by Les McCann & Eddie Harris)

In a recent article in the Danish National newspaper Berlingske, journalist Kim Flyvbjerg wrote: ”How she succeeded to make Stevie Wonder’s 1973 up-tempo song ”Living For The City” segue effortlessly into ”My Funny Valentine” - and simultaneously deliver one of the most heartfelt renditions of this classic song that I have ever heard -  is a mystery to me. But it worked. To the point where not a single hair on the back of my neck was lying down”.


A highly unusual concert experience with a deeply engaged and open minded musical conversation going on at all times between the four performers on stage,  makes it a collective group effort rather than a conventional vocalist-with-accompaniment setting. Debbie explains: ”The great thing about working with Niels is that everything is possible. Nothing is excluded”.

read more: http://www.ronniescotts.co.uk/performances/view/3809-debbie-sledge-with-the-niels-lan-doky-trio?utm_source=Emailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=16DEC2016
Debbie Sledge (vocal), Niels Lan Doky (piano), Tobias Dall (bass), Niclas Bardeleben (drums)

Hollywood Romance feat. Claire Martin


Published on Jul 26, 2015
Sound: Newbury Spring Festival - with special thanks to Mark Eynon

Hollywood Romance
featuring
Claire Martin
The Tippett Quartet
Hugh Webb - Harp
Jon Shenoy - Woodwinds & Saxophones
Callum Au - Trombone & Orchestration
James Pearson - Piano
Jeremy Brown - Double Bass
Matt Skelton - Drums & Project Producer

For more information, press tickets or any other queries, please contact Matt Skelton, Project Producer (mattskelton01@gmail.com) and Héloïse Werner, Media & Marketing Manager of the Tippett Quartet (heloise.tippettquartet@gmail.com).

In June 2014 at the Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street, London, drummer and producer Matt Skelton launched “Close To You”, a reinvention in concert of one of the classic Sinatra Capital era albums. The project features an ensemble of handpicked musicians chosen for their sound and empathy for this extraordinary music - Matt Ford, regularly appearing with both the John Wilson Orchestra and the BBC Big Band and nominated for Best UK Male Vocalist at the inaugural Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Awards, the internationally acclaimed Tippett Quartet as well as hugely talented Callum Au, Ronnie Scott’s artistic director James Pearson and other Grammy-nominated jazz instrumentalists. 
2014/2015 saw the ensemble undertake their Cadogan Hall debut (London) as well as numerous performances at prestigious festivals throughout the UK - Henley Festival, Thaxted Festival, Cheltenham Festival, Petworth Festival, Newry Festival and Music @ Malling. On 24th August, they will be appearing at the Snape Proms in Aldeburgh.

“It’s musical gold” 
Stewart Collins, Henley Festival Director

“It's a very stylish, satisfying show, perfectly balancingartistic integrity with entertainment value”
Meurig Bowen, Cheltenham Festival Director

“I originally saw the Close to You Ensemble at a London jazz club and it was an easy decision to sign them for a concert at Cadogan Hall. Their creative talent, world-class musicianship and all-round commitment to the project is remarkable and it was a genuine pleasure to work alongside them. The concert was a great success and feedback from all sources has been glowing. ” 
Toby Cruse, Worldwide Live, Cadogan Hall Concert Promoter

Following the success of “Close To You”, Matt Skelton has devised an entirely original project bringing together the same ensemble in collaboration with multi award-winning, celebrated jazz singer and broadcaster Claire Martin OBE. Claire has been described by Jazz Times USA as “rank(ing) among the four or five finest female jazz vocalists on the planet”. 

“Hollywood Romance” celebrates the art and setting of popular song from the golden age of Hollywood. Expect to hear elegant, swinging settings of songs arranged by Callum Au and inspired by the legendary Songbook recordings of Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O'Day and Sarah Vaughan.
The programme’s highlight is a collection of songs from the Shirley Horn/Johnny Mandel Grammy award-winning masterpiece Here's To Life, which have been orchestrated especially by Tommy Laurence. 

“Hollywood Romance” was launched at the Newbury Festival earlier this year: 

“The show was vintage jazz at its luxurious best remindingone of the golden age of Hollywood and Nelson Riddle in a programme which was universally enjoyed by all who came. ”
Mark Eynon, Newbury Festival Director. 

Forthcoming concert dates include a performance at Music @ Malling on 26th September 2015 and two nights at Pizza Express Jazz Club (London) on 10th & 11th January 2016.

James Weidman's beautiful music!

Makoto Ozone Trio - Asian Dream


Uploaded on May 31, 2009
Makoto Ozone ℗,
James Genus (b),
Clarence Penn (d)
Live at Blue Note Tokyo, 2006

Fati Live Jazz Music Band Hong Kong

#BobPorter on five soul-jazz albums

Spanish Harlem Orchestra - Live at Montreal

https://t.co/amz3yeKDwH

Cantaloupe Island - #PonchoSanchez

Tonight Check Out #MurielObon

Sunday, December 18, 2016

Listen to our talented Jazz musicians!

All About Jazz Wants to Know ....

Saturday, December 17, 2016

#DaveBrubeck - Fugue On Bop Themes

interviews with #LarryBird and #TippiHedren ....

Friday, December 16, 2016

Hotter Than 'Ell Click

Swinging mini segments by ....

All New Vintage Look Jazz Club Posters

#TaddDameron with #JohnColtrane - Super Jet

#ChetBaker with #EnricoPieranunzi

Thursday, December 15, 2016

McCoy Tyner Trio with John Scofield ....

Gün arası keyfi:) #SonnyClark

#Ottawa

Hey Paris @guyindubai

The Best of #BillieHoliday

#DinahShore - I Didn't Know What Time It Was

a rare radio interview with #DavidAllyn

#HodO'Brien, a link to jazz's golden era ...

#ChuchoValdés inaugura ....

Larry Carlton - Silky Smooth

https://t.co/bS42ZxRoLl

Bohren & der Club of Gore

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Vintage Holiday Album Hall of Fame .....

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

#NowPlaying Late Night Jazz by Spotify

Virginie Teychené - Everything Happens To Me

Big Band Holidays

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

Joe Henderson's acoustic jazz gem "Mirror, Mirror"

Lee Morgan's "The Rajah,

Monday, December 12, 2016

DVDs and books for music lovers

Black Sea - Morten Schantz Trio

Want to listen to #CarmenLundy

Bret Saunders’ top 10 list of jazz music from 2016

Birdland by #WeatherReport

Sunday, December 11, 2016

Hi, everybody! ....

Tony Bennett ....

#PaquitoD'Rivera & #ChanoDominguez

MARLY MARQUES Encounter

📸 by @VLPacino

The Colorist & Emiliana Torrini album

The word “collaboration” is used with such frequency in 2016 that it wouldn’t be so strange to hear someone who’d just made a sandwich to claim they were collaborating with the bread. But Icelandic songwriter Emiliana Torrini is a genuine example of an artist who enhances her output with her partnerships: from Gypsies in Córdoba to an experimental Berlin jazz band and an Icelandic symphony orchestra in Reykjavík, and now Belgian ensemble The Colorist Orchestra.

This live album of new songs and interpretations of Torrini’s catalog is a vibrant, colourful collection of classical and contemporary collisions. Serenade, from 2005, was once a delicate tightrope across a cobweb, but is now a percussive waltz, while new song When We Dance – written during an electric storm – is verdant and playful, and the stark, guitar-driven, dive-bar grime of 2008’s Gun is given an eccentric remake. The orchestra certainly elevates some aspects of her songs, but cannot replace the powerful solitude of Torrini’s solo recordings.

read more at: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/dec/08/the-colorist-emiliana-torrini-album-review-colourful-classical-and-contemporary-collisions

enjoy great jazz music

Smooth Collection ...

#SonnyRollins on the Zurich

Friday, December 9, 2016

Tourdates #BarbaraDennerlein 2017


Tourdates Barbara Dennerlein 2017

20.01.2017 20.00  Essen/D - 45128, Philharmonie Essen, Alfried Krupp Saal (Trio/Hammond & pipe organ)

21.01.2017 20.00  Köln-Kalk/D - 51103, Bürgerhaus Kalk (Trio)

19.02.2017 19.00  Sachsenheim/D - 74343, Möbelhaus Schmid (Solo)

05.05.2017 20.00  Unterengstringen/CH - 8103, Musik Günthart, Orgelsurium (Duo)

04.06.2017 20.45  Hildesheim/D - 31134, Stadttheater Hildesheim (Trio)

25.06.2017 18.00  Tamm/D - 71732, Katholische Kirche St. Petrus (Solo/pipe organ)

07.09.2017 20.00  Weinsberg/D - 74189, Ev. Stadtkirche St.Johannes (Solo/pipe organ)

22.09.2017 19.30  Siegburg/D - 53721, Stadtmuseum Siegburg (Duo)

06.10.2017 19.00  Bielefeld/D - 33602, Neustädter Marienkirche (Solo/pipe organ)

jazz@jazzinstitut.de

7 December 2016

... what else ...
Christian Oscar Gazsi Laki talks to Bernd Zimmermann about the situation of jazz in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia ( Rheinische Post). --- Fabrice Gottraux talks to the saxophonist Manu Dibango ( Tribune de Genève).
--- The German drummer Eva Klesse will receive the Westphalia Jazz Award 2017 ( Westfälische Nachrichten ).
--- Anna Borowiecki talks to the Canadian trombonist Allen Jacobson (a good friend of the Jazzinstitut) ( St. Albert Gazette).
--- George Varga talks to the 88-year-old saxophonist Anthony Ortega ( San Diego Union-Tribune).
--- Dean Balsamini reports about the saxophonist Wilbert Perry who accuses his landlord of trying to "drum him out" of his rent-controlled East Village apartment by planting bedbugs in it ( New York Post).
--- Sharon Coyle-Saeed talks to the pianist Vince di Mura ( My New Jersey).
--- Laman Osmayilova talks to the Azerbaijani pianist Isfar Sarabski (AzerNews).
--- The 2017 WDR Jazz Award for composition goes to the German saxophonist Jens Böckamp; the WDR Jazz Award for improvisation to the pianist Jürgen Friedrich ( WDR).
--- Peter Disch talks to label manager Volker Dueck about a recent court decision about the payout from the German copyright organization Gema ( Badische Zeitung).
--- Frank Ridder look at parallels between playing jazz and Industry 4.0 ( Silicon).
--- Alexa Peters selects 10 women instrumentalists "who redefine jazz" and ends up with Lil Hardin Armstrong, Alice Coltrane, Mary Lou Williams, Mary Osborne, Emily Remler, Melba Liston, Vi Redd, Marjorie Hyams, Kasey Knudsen and Carmen Rothwell ( Paste Magazine).
--- Barry Davis talks to the guitarist Pat Martino ( The Jerusalem Post). 
--- Laf Überland remembers the German cross-genre magazine Sounds ( Deutschlandradio Kultur).
--- The back catalogue of the legendary Swiss avant-garde label HatHut Records  was acquired by the Belgian production and recording group Outhere Music which plans to continue the program of label founder Werner X. Uehlinger.  --- Ali Gorman talks to the trombonist Jeff Bradshaw about having to change his diet after being diagnosed with diverticulitis ( 6ABC).
--- Nate Chinen hears some recent releases on Resonance Records and talks to some of the men behind the label ( New York Times).


Obituaries
We learned of the passing of the trumpeter and chef Edgar Chase Jr. at the age of 88 ( New York Times), the Indian guitarist Carlton Kitto ( Radio and Music, First Post), the pianist Mac Chrupcala at the age of 75 ( Newport Daily News), the Swiss collector and jazz researcher Theo Zwicky at the age of 89 (info by Arild Widerøe), the saxophonist Herb Hardesty at the age of 91 ( WWL TV, New Orleans Times-Picayune), the clarinetist Jim Torok at the age of 80 ( Minneapolis Star-Tribune), as well as the singer and electronic pop musician Ben Runnels at the age of 32 ( San Francisco Chronicle).

6 Jazz Virtuosos Share The Stage In 'The Concert Of The Century'

December 6, 20161:21 PM ET

KEVIN WHITEHEAD

Kevin Whitehead reviews a newly released recording of the '80 Montreal concert in which Dizzy Gillespie is joined by jazz legends Milt Jackson, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, James Moody and Philly Joe Jones.

read more: http://news360.com/digestarticle/0D2uaTTZCku4AgzY_1Y3Gg

Enrico Intra: George Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue ....

#CountBasie in 1972 while on tour in Europe ...

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Aksan Sjuman - HDC on Bamboo Sarasvat

Once The Stuff Of Jazz Legend

Once The Stuff Of Jazz Legend, 1930s Recordings Are Finally Out


December 8, 20163:29 AM
TOM VITALE

In 1938, Ella Fitzgerald sang her first big hit, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket," for a national audience on CBS Radio. Now, a global audience has access to this performance again — thanks to the discovery and restoration of the Savory Collection, a legendary private trove of nearly 1,000 recordings that haven't been heard by the general public since the 1930s. The National Jazz Museum in Harlem acquired them in 2010, and today they're beginning to make their way to a new generation of jazz fans.


It's the quintessential buried treasure story: Sound engineer William Savory had amassed a collection of radio broadcasts he'd professionally recorded off direct feeds from clubs and ballrooms across New York City. Since Savory kept them to himself, the recordings became the stuff of legend — and, for saxophonist and historian Loren Schoenberg, an obsession. Schoenberg says he pestered Savory for a quarter-century to let him hear his Benny Goodman recordings because Schoenberg had worked for the clarinetist, but Savory never did. Savory died in 2004.

read more: http://news360.com/digestarticle/1riu6UZWsUKlJ68wsDcnAg

Brother Can You Spare a Dime

#BarbraLica

"Daily Show's"

#SonnyRollins and #HoraceSilver in Zurich in '59

#StanFreberg

It's true: Mozart sold more physical CDs ...

Sweden's Gals and Pals ...

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

McCoy Tyner Trio w John Scofield ....

Cyprian Nimka

Lola N concha Stereo

#KurtElling - The Beautiful D...

Monday, December 5, 2016

London's Ace Records ....

#StanleyTurrentine

Sunday, December 4, 2016

Robbie Robertson + Michael Keaton + Jonathan Lethem

#KamasiWashington

Keyifli pazarlar

Around Houston

Monday, November 28, 2016

JAZZBREAK ~ https://t.co/w58jiEyU6M

#NIGHTLAB begins w/Keith Jarrett,

Sunday, November 27, 2016

#NYGivesDay

Sharon Jones last show ....

Toronto Art Ensemble

"we play it for the lifeblood."

WSJ interview links, and music.

‘Bronx Tale’ author #ChazzPalminteri

#CharlieParker records KoKo ...

"To keep it interesting I'll tune the #guitar ....

♪♫ Glossary of #Jazz Terms ♪♫

Friday, November 25, 2016

Noteworthy Dates ....