Friday, September 30, 2016

Ma Tala K Orkestra at the Olympia

Today's Track: Pasar Klewer

#EricAlexander

JT reviews Buddy Rich's "The Lost Tapes."

Catch Asrar Shah’s powerful musical performance

Join the musical fun at #JazzRisingStars

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

TRIBUTE: #RobAdams remembers #JohnEllson

Marianne Trudel – TRIFOLIA

INTERVIEW: #TomO'Grady

PREVIEW: Marianne Trudel’s Trifolia

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

#TomGiacabetti And #MelissaGilstrap

Happy Birthday, #BudPowell

Jazz Quanta Vocals

Pianist #MarcHoffman Releases ....

Today's Track: Superstition

No other musician-not #DizzyGillespie ...

Monday, September 26, 2016

#MichaelFeinstein talks must-hear

Jazz Artists of Charleston

#JonNewey

Tina Harrod Jazz Band review:

 Photo: Supplied
Tina Harrod Jazz Band review: Magnifying the lyrics turns heat into fire

SEPTEMBER 26 2016 - 10:09AM
John Shand

Now Harrod didn't occupy the stage, she prowled it, staring her audience in the eyes. Where that edginess had made her seem somewhat ill-at-ease before, now it was fully harnessed, and line after line, song after song, crackled with electricity.


You could gripe and say that her voice could be harsh, or that she did not use the lower half of her range nearly enough, but if she dutifully addressed those issues would she still achieve the same urgency? Besides, even in the first half that urgency was tempered by a quality that too few singers have the courage or capacity to bring to the table: vulnerability. Sometimes it was as though she were holding a magnifying glass above her lyrics and turning heat into fire, whether on the sadness and drama of Blue On the Inside, the searing intensity of Holding On, or the gripping theatricality of Dear Henry.

read more: http://news360.com/digestarticle/VeoqDKvrW0etkI7bB8RmCA

CD Review: #AlyssaAllgood

Friday, September 23, 2016

CD Review: Monocled Man

Opaluna - #SusanaPineda & #LuisSalcedo

#NigelPriceOrganTrio

#SmallsJazzClub

SMALLS JAZZ LIVE

October 3rd at #SmallsJazzClub

From The New School Jazz

Pianist #AndrewHill

Thursday, September 22, 2016

#RussellMalone #jazz

#SueEdwards

@bbcradio3

Stormy Weather - #OscarPeterson & #ItzhakPerlman

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

@606club

#HerbieHancock

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

#KirkLightsey Trio feature #FreddieHubbard

Today's Rhythm Section ...

"Take the A Train" with #ClarkTerry

#JazzTimesMagazine

The 5th annual James Moody Jazz Festival,

#AbbeyLincoln - Exactly like you

#AndrewCyrille and #MaryHalvorson

Happy birthday to #MuhalRichardAbrams

Brazilian Jazz Guitar #DiegoFigueiredo

Brazilian Jazz Guitar Diego Figueiredo in Concert w/ O Som Do Jazz at Palladium Sept 27 2016


"Diego Figueiredo is one of the greatest guitarists I’ve seen in my whole life. The world needs to listen to his music". (George Benson)

"I have seen and played with many wonderful guitar players like Joe Pass or Baden Powell, but no one is like Diego. His ability and swing are unique". (Flora Purim)

Brazilian guitarist Diego Figueiredo is an extraordinary fast-rising star in the jazz world and his superb technique, timing and imagination have made him one of the hottest international names on the scene today. He is only 35, and he has release 23 CDs, 3 DVDs, and he has playing in more than 60 countries around the world. He is winner of several important competitions like Montreal Jazz Competition, VISA Prize and others. A brilliant musician, Diego keeps the traditional essence of Brazilian music and at the same time is extremely virtuosic, modern and innovative. His concerts unite technique and emotion in a fusion of Brazilian music and jazz.

6-piece group O Som Do Jazz features Rio de Janeiro singer Andrea Moraes Manson and a crew of exceptional musicians skilled in Brazilian styles and jazz. In the concert, Diego Figueiredo will first perform solo and then join O Som Do Jazz for a very special evening of Brazilian Bossa Nova and samba-jazz at the Side Door!

Tuesday, September 27, 2016 ~ 7:30pm

Side Door Cabaret at The Palladium
253 5th Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL 33701

Monday, September 19, 2016

#EddiePalmieri will celebrate

Is your music currently ...

Road Map to Latin Jazz Style ....

Riviera Maya Jazz

Sunday, September 18, 2016

NPR Music - JAZZ

Robert Glasper Talks 'ArtScience,' The Latest From His Adventurous Jazz Crew

The Robert Glasper Experiment includes Casey Benjamin on sax, Derrick Hodge on bass and Mark Colenburg on drums. Their new album was created over just a few weeks in New Orleans.
Read this story
ALT.LATINO

Willie Bobo: An Appreciation And A New Album

The percussionist and bandleader, who died in 1983, played a significant role in Latin jazz history. A new album of recently recovered music is cause for revisiting his legacy.
MUSIC INTERVIEWS

Guitarist Nels Cline On 'Lovers,' An Album 25 Years In The Making

Known for the avant-garde sound he brings to Wilco, Cline turns to ballads and jazz standards on his new album. He describes it as a "mood-music record" that isn't "cheesy."
MARIAN MCPARTLAND'S PIANO JAZZ

Oliver Jones On Piano Jazz

The Canadian pianist, a winner of the prestigious Oscar Peterson award, plays "Jordio" and "Three Little Words" in a 1990 session.
MARIAN MCPARTLAND'S PIANO JAZZ

Leonard Feather On Piano Jazz

The "Dean of Jazz Journalists" was also a pianist and composer. He performs several original blues tunes in this 1988 session.

H. Johnson

Pop and Jazz Fall Preview

Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 105 Albums, Shows and Festivals

By JON PARELES, BEN RATLIFF, JON CARAMANICA, NATE CHINEN, STEPHEN HOLDEN, JOE COSCARELLI and CARYN GANZSEPT
16, 2016

September
FESTIVAL OF NEW TRUMPET MUSIC The 14th convocation of trumpet-centric progressivism is titled “Flexus,” after an instructional book by John McNeil and Laurie Frink (it will include a panel on the subject, and an award for Mr. McNeil). But there will also be a clutch of up-and-comers appearing at Threes Brewing in Brooklyn; a “Signatures in Brass” series organized by Marquis Hill, at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola; and a “New Dimensions” concert at the New School, featuring Wadada Leo Smith and Taylor Ho Bynum. Sept. 19 through 25. fontmusic.org. (Chinen)

BETTY BUCKLEY The adventurous singing actress returns to her downtown stomping ground Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater for a seven-show engagement. Her new show, “Story Songs,” mixes rock songs (by Radiohead and others) with theater songs by established names like Stephen Schwartz and Jason Robert Brown and such up-and-comers as Ben Toth and Joe Iconis. Sept. 22-25. (Holden)

‘HANDFUL OF KEYS: A CENTURY OF JAZZ PIANO’ Jazz at Lincoln Center opens its fall concert season with this centennial survey of jazz piano, featuring more than a half-dozen practitioners of the art. The oldest pianist on the program, at 89, will be the stride and ragtime authority Dick Hyman; the youngest, at 13, will be the postbop prodigy Joey Alexander. Helen Sung and Aaron Diehl are among the other accomplished guests, all performing with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Rose Theater. Sept. 22-24. (Chine)

read more at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/arts/music/fall-preview-pop-jazz-albums.html?_r=0

2016 Florida Harmonica Championships

2016 Florida Harmonica Championships in New Smyrna Beach 10/16/16. All Players - Jazz, Blues, Rock, County, etc - Welcome!


Saturday, September 17, 2016

Our review of Mimi Jones

Friday, September 16, 2016

A conversation with #NorahJones

Snarky Puppy's Shofukan

#JohnPhillips Struts til Jazz Live

#CatherineRussell 's latest release

#LeoParker and #BillJenniings in 1954

the mambo's special history ...

Thursday, September 15, 2016

'A Man and a Woman'

#DexterGordon and #AlCohn

Today at JazzWax, Pete Rugolo's

The Songbird of New Orleans #RobinBarnes

#StanleyClarke

#BandaMagda

#MontereyJazz

It’s good to be King ....

#JazzatLincolnCenter

#DizzyGillespie

#JazzatLincolnCenter > "What We Bring"

Saturday Night Jazz

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

#OmarAbdulkarim Quartet

Blue Note Jazz Club

#BlueNote Jazz Club

The great @mobettabrown brings

The incredible #RAHZELTHELEGEND & Friends

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

SFJAZZ Opens Fifth Season:....

Saturday Night Jazz at ....

Trad jazz: don't mock it

Jazz Notes: Summer May Be ....

#HoraceSilver #Peace

Monday, September 12, 2016

the music & murder of #LeeMorgan

Exhibition Opening TMRW Night:

Get ready for #IndyJazzFest

#PeteMalinverni at @SmallsJazzClub

#CyrilleAimee w/ #RoyHargrove & #JoelFrahm

#AaronGoldberg

#LionelHampton recorded ....

#AaronGoldberg Trio on ...

Sunday, September 11, 2016

@bebopspokenhere

'From The Deep'

#Tiresia : The Italian super-gruppo

Happy Birthday, #HarryConnick , Jr.!

#WolfgangSchalk

#JimMarshall

#NelsCline Lovers

#JimmyHeath #RandyWeston & more ...

Happy birthday to #ElvinJones

#PhilSchaap

#MilesDavis and #JohnColtrane recorded ....

Saturday, September 10, 2016

#SharelCassity

Rhapsody in Blue - #EmilyBear


Published on Mar 1, 2015
Emily Bear, age 13, performing Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue", December 24th, 2014, with Performance Santa Fe Orchestra conducted by Joe Illick.
Video by Simply Cinema.

Ulysses & Larry ... #JoeyAlexander

Hammock Music Fest.....

Hammock Music Fest in Palm Coast to Benefit Music Education October 1, 2016


Lang Lang: George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

Thursday, September 8, 2016

#KirkWhalum Headlines

13th Annual Amelia Island Jazz Festival

13th Annual Amelia Island Jazz Festival set for October 2-9, 2016


How Philly jazz pianist ....

DAVID MAIALETTI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

How Philly jazz pianist got his dream gig touring with Adele

Updated: SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 — 12:58 PM EDT
by Dan DeLuca, MUSIC CRITIC

As a boy, Eric Wortham II - the Philadelphia pianist who has spent 2016 touring the world in Adele's backing band - went to a church convention in Baltimore.

Singing in the choir, he happened to be standing with a view of an organ player who was working the keys and pedals of a Hammond B-3.

"I was looking at his hands, and was just mesmerized watching him," recalled Wortham, 33, sitting by a Yamaha grand piano at Chris' Jazz Café ("My favorite jazz club in the city") before his two weekend gigs with the British pop superstar at the sold-out Wells Fargo Center. "Pressing buttons and changing sounds. And when he changed configurations of the rhythm, it changed everyone's attitude in the room.

"Even at 6 years old, I found that fascinating. I thought, 'Man, I could do that.' It had that beautiful, churchy sound. People would stand, or cry, or start dancing, depending on what he would do. It was beautiful to watch someone who understood people, and who would assist with their emotions. It was almost as if he were a magician."

Back home in West Philadelphia, where the family lived before moving to Mount Airy when Wortham was in second grade, social life revolved around the activities at a Pentecostal church in Olney where his namesake father preached. Wortham broke out the family's cheap Casio keyboard and found that, with practice, he could make those sounds, and affect how people felt.


And so began the musical journey that took him first to the High School for the Creative and Performing Arts in South Philadelphia, where he would regularly cut school and spend days educating himself via the vinyl jazz collection at the Free Library. Shows with his own ensemble, as well as jobs backing up Philly vocalists such as Laurin Talese, Bilal, and Jill Scott eventually led to his current enviable gig, which he auditioned for via Skype from Turtle Studios in South Philadelphia. Adele watched from London.

read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20160908_Philly_pianist_in_Adele_s_touring_band_talks_about_his_enviable_gig.html

Daytona Blues Festival

Only One Month Away! Win Tickets to the Daytona Blues Festival, October 7-9, 2016 from Jazz & Blues Florida!

DownBeat Magazine

Cover
Steve Turre - Still Striving
By Phillip Lutz
In addition to being a trombone virtuoso, Steve Turre is one of the few musicians who can generate improbable tones and intricate melodies from a seashell. DownBeat caught up with Turre to discuss his new album, Colors For The Masters.


Features

Marc Ribot - Reconstructed Soul
By Bill Milkowski
The eclectic guitarist has teamed up with a couple of alumni from Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time for his group The Young Philadelphians. On the album Live In Tokyo, the band interprets disco anthems and soul tunes from the 1970s.


Warren Wolf - For the People
By Ken Micallef
The vibraphonist discusses growing up in Baltimore and crafting his new album, Convergence, featuring pianist Brad Mehldau, guitarist John Scofield and drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts.


George Garzone - The Renegade
By Ted Panken
Saxophonist George Garzone maintains a busy schedule that includes teaching, performing with his long-running trio The Fringe, and performing at festivals such as the Xalapa International Jazz Festival in Mexico.

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

#JeffHamilton Organ Trio

A Great Migration ....

#ThomasChapin on film

@birdlandjazz tonight

"What is permissible is not always honorable."

@TheJazzGallery #NewYork

Actor #IdrisElba

#JeremyManasia, #DavidWong, #CharlesRuggiero

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

5 choses à savoir sur Kandace Springs !

#KennyBarron

#TheBlueNoteMonthly

#MilesDavis Nonet opened at Royal Roost

@LondonJazz

#TomHarrison - Unfolding in Tempo

INTERVIEW: #JanuszStefański

He is on to something...

#WyntonMarsalis

#RonnieScott's Radio Show

Monday, September 5, 2016

The Reykjavik Big Band:

Read with the 2016 Guitar Star .... #ZaynMohammed

#DaveKingTrio

#EthanIverson ....

Grupo Fantasma ....

Happy birthday to iconoclast #JohnZorn

New #JohnColtrane documentary ...

Happy birthday to #PeterBernstein

#JasonMoran, #DaveHolland #JackDeJohnette

Happy birthday to #DaveLiebman

Sunday, September 4, 2016

#KenFranckling writes about #JohnHallmark ...

'Jazz in the Park'

#DetroitJazzFestival