Barbara Dennerlein, A flight over keys and pedals

The organist Barbara Dennerlein excelled in March at the concert in the Annakirche in Aachen. Stylistically diverse and rousing, she explored the tonal possibilities of the organ - and received thunderous applause from the audience.

The Aachener Anzeiger news reported about the concert: "The organ is considered to be the Queen of Instruments. For Barbara Dennerlein it is easy to subduing it. On Friday night, the world-renowned jazz organist delighted the Aachen audience at the sold out opening concert. ... Dennerlein took the Annakirche with about 400 seats and the Aachen audience to her heart during her first visit a few years ago. Now she should also be pleased about a 2016 built, computer-controlled setting device in the Weimbs organ, which made her virtuoso play even more relaxed, although organists always work with the whole body.

The 53-year-old always projects her performance in the church so that the listener becomes also a spectator. All four manuals of the Weimbs Organ - three for the hands, one for the feet - could be seen. That is another fascination at Dennerlein's performances, as one sees her hands and feet almost flying over the keys and pedals.

What matters most is the music she creates this way: in Aachen she presented six of her own jazz works and an encore that lost not a glimpse of fascination and enthusiasm while listening with closed eyes. Blues, Funk, Calypso - stylistically diverse and rousing, she explored the tonal possibilities of the organ. The "Early Bird BIues" had to be part of the program, said the musician and composer. Because the organ in the Annakirche has a whistle with a bird voice, the only register that still must be moved by hand. The "Waltzing Pipes" were in the programme thanks to the setting system, because even with all her dexterity, Barbara Dennerlein would not have been able to pull so many stops at the same time, as the piece demanded. At least with "Corean Smile" the audience knew, how virtuoso and expressive possibilities Dennerlein is able to play on the manuals. Almost casually, as if it were nothing, she pursued three different rhythms simultaneously.

The "Stormy Weather BIues", one of Dennerlein's best-known works, was missing just as little as "New York Impressions", an improvisation to Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor and at the same time a musical symbol of the melting pot on the Manhattan River. Both rightfully tore the audience into storms of excitement. In the end, the audience gave standing ovations - thunderous cheers in the nave after a grand concert."

Chucho Valdes & IRAKERE

Chucho Valdes & IRAKERE 45 to Close Arsht Center's Jazz Roots Season in Miami April 20, 2018

Winner of six GRAMMY® and three Latin GRAMMY® Awards, the Cuban pianist, composer and arranger Chucho Valdés is the most influential figure in modern Afro-Cuban jazz.

Chucho Valdés: Irakere 45 is a celebration of Irakere, the Cuban band that, with its bold fusion of Afro-Cuban ritual music, popular Afro-Cuban music styles, jazz and rock, marked a before and after in Latin jazz.

This program also serves as a compendium of the extraordinary contributions of composer and bandleader Jesús “Chucho” Valdés, Irakere’s founder, main composer and arranger. His most recent Grammy win was for 2015’s Tribute to Irakere, was recorded live in Marciac for during the Irakere 40th anniversary tour.

Leading a nine-piece band comprising of the Afro-Cuban Messengers expanded with two trumpets and two saxophones, Valdés offers a vivid retrospective of his work the decades. It is also a wide angle view of the evolution of Afro-Cuban jazz as the program includes classics of Irakere´s repertoire such as “Misa Negra” “Estela Va A Estallar” (“Stella By Starlight”), ”Juana 1600,” and “Bacalao Con Pan,” but also more recent compositions, originally performed with the Messengers, in new arrangements, such as “Yansa,” “Abdel” and “Lorena’s Tango.” Joining Valdés for a couple of songs will be guest singer Aymée Nuviola.

The evening will begin with Diego Figueiredo, who George Benson described as "one of the greatest guitarists I've seen my whole life!" Figueiredo is also a producer, arranger, orchestrator, and multi-instrumentalist which makes his music is a unique fusion of jazz, bossa nova, and classical. He has performed in over forty countries and his phenomenal technique and passion has created an explosion of adoring fans around the world. ”

Oliver Jones and Oscar Peterson - Just Friends

Oliver Jones - Falling In Love

Il discepolo di Oscar Peterson in un'esibizione al Montreal Jazz Festival 2004.

Oliver Jones: piano
Dave Young : bass
Norm Marshall Villeneuve : drums

Wynton Marsalis & The Young Stars of Jazz

Marciac Jazz Festival 2016

Wynton Marsalis - trumpet
Michela Marino Lerman - tap
Anthony Hervey - trumpet
Sam Chess - trombone
Ruben Fox - saxophone
Patrick Bartley - saxophone
Julian Lee - saxophone
Mathis Picard - piano
Joel Ross vibraphone
Gabe Schnider - guitar
Russell Hall - bass
Kyle Poole - drums

Preview United We Swing

Recorded between 2003 and 2007, United We Swing—the latest album from Blue Engine Records—finds an unparalleled array of music talent that collectively boasts 94 Grammy Awards joining Jazz at Lincoln Center Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis (a nine-time Grammy Award winner himself) and some of the world’s top jazz musicians to perform blues-inflected versions of iconic American repertoire.

Order the album: jazz.org/united

Those one-night-only, live performances have never been released before. They include Lenny Kravitz performing Marsalis’s hypnotizing, New Orleans-inflected arrangement of Kravitz’s own song, “Are You Gonna Go My Way”; Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks uniting for a stirring, infectious take on Civil Rights anthem “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free”; Bob Dylan adding harmonica licks to a deeply felt, in-the-pocket rendition of “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry”; and Ray Charles taking the stage for one of his final performances to play “I’m Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town.”

Together these artists raise their voices to highlight jazz’s importance to America’s cultural heritage and to remind us that, even in divided times, music can unite us all. All proceeds from the album will go toward Jazz at Lincoln Center’s education programs, which introduce thousands of children to jazz each year.

Lineup Announced For Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival

SOURCE: DALMATH ASSOCIATES INC. 
March 22, 2018

Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (XRIJF) producers John Nugent and Marc Iacona today announced the complete lineup for the festival’s 17th Edition. The nine-day festival returns to Rochester June 22 to June 30 presenting more than 1500 artists from around the world in 300-plus shows at 20 venues.

The 2018 Festival is presented in three series — the Club Pass series with 214 shows, the headliner series of six shows and 94 free shows and events all held in Rochester’s East End Cultural and Entertainment District.

Ticketed headliner shows will feature Alison Krauss (sold out), Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Boz Scaggs, Jill Scott, Lake Street Dive, and Seal. Free outdoor stage show headliners include Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot!, St. Germain, Tower of Power 50th Anniversary Tour, and Vintage Trouble . The Club Pass series will feature the Joey Alexander Trio , Mindi Abair, Melissa Aldana, The Bad Plus, Ron Artis II & The Truth, Joe Locke Group, Michael Mwenso, Jazzmeia Horn, Dustbowl Revival, Shake Stew, Robin McKelle Deva Mahal, Johannes Linstead Guitar of Fire!, Eric Krasno Band, Jane Bunnett & Maqueque and more than 110 others.

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Tedeschi Trucks Band 2018 Tour Stops

Tedeschi Trucks Band 2018 Tour Stops in Fort Myers at Barbara B. Mann PAH April 12th

Tedeschi Trucks Band will perform at Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall at Florida SouthWestern State College on Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 7:30PM. Tickets are available at the Box Office, online at www.bbmannpah.com or call (239)481-4849.

Now in their eighth year, Grammy-winning Tedeschi Trucks Band has earned their reputation as one of the premier live acts touring today. The 12-piece ensemble, led by the husband-and-wife team of guitarist Derek Trucks and guitarist-singer Susan Tedeschi, is a true collective; a rarity in rock-and-roll with every musician featured nightly while serving the band’s unified vision, pushing the boundaries of group dynamics and improvisation to inspiring new heights. Praised by reviewers for their “joy-filled blast of blues, soul and rock” (Philadelphia Inquirer) and “stellar musicianship” (Denver Post), TTB is a touring juggernaut, on the road over 200 days a year and never playing the same set list twice.

Their latest release, Live From the Fox Oakland, (2017) – a CD and film – was recorded in a single night at a show that fans and band members all regard as one of their finest performances to date.  The double disc live recording showcases the band’s ability to move seamlessly from blistering rock and blues to soulful ballads and includes their take on classics from Derek and the Dominos, Leonard Cohen, and even Miles Davis among TTB’s original songs.


Live From the Fox Oakland, which debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Blues and #6 on the Rock Albums chart, follows four critically-hailed and commercially successful TTB albums, including their Grammy-winning inaugural studio effort Revelator (2011), and 2016’s Let Me Get By, the first to be solely produced by Trucks and written in house in the TTB family and called by the Associated Press “one of the great records of the year”.

JAZZAHEAD! 2017 VADIM NESELOVSKYI TRIO

Live at JazzAhead 2017, in Bremen, Germany.

Vadim Neselovskyi Trio:
Vadim Neselovskyi — piano, composition
Ronen Itzik — drums, percussion
Dan Loomis — bass
Produced by Arte Concert
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