This super group can whisk you’re your mind away with Jazz, humble your heart with Soul, and make your foot stomp with Funk. When describing the performance of “Jazz Funk Soul” featuring 2018 Grammy winner Jeff Lorber, Grammy nominee’s Everette Harp, and Paul Jackson Jr., you’re talking about the real thing in adult contemporary music. $10 …
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., May 18, 2022 — The Guitar Center Music Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on granting instruments to music education and music therapy organizations, announces the expansion of its Board of Directors with two new appointments: Alison Ball, the current president of TuneGO Music Technology and CEO of …
Performing compelling music with origins in jazz, classical, folk, extended technique, and improvisation, The Alex Coke Carl Michel Sextet features musician/composers Alex Coke on woodwinds and guitarist Carl Michel together with Austin Symphony’s principal harpist Elaine Barber, Liminal Sound Series producer Bob Hoffnar on pedal steel, first call jazz bassist …
This time, the Resonance Records producers, dedicated and fastidious as is their wont, worked against a deadline to release yet another one of their always-significant albums of previously recorded, but until-now unknown to the public, masterful jazz performances. The deadline? April 22, 2022. The performer? Charles Mingus. The occasion? Mingus’s …
With a career spanning two continents before he was 20, arrangements that received awards from both Downbeat (2021) and the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers (2021) while still a student, and compositions described as “on a scale with Everglades by Terence Blanchard,” (Gary Lowe, WUNH), composer, bandleader, and saxophonist Simeon Nathanael Davis makes a profound compositional debut with “Of Narratives & Nocturnes.”
By John Stevenson As part of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, Tomorrow’s Warriors will be offering the acclaimed Nu Civilisation Orchestra who will present Duke Ellington’s The Queen’s Suite at Queen Elizabeth Hall on Friday 3 June. The evening will see Nu Civilisation Orchestra (NCO) perform a showstopping selection of Duke Ellington’s compositions, …
New York saxophonist Daniel Bennett has been hailed as one of the most original and unpredictable musical voices of his generation. The Daniel Bennett Group will headline a series of ‘Jazz Appreciation Month’ concerts in Wisconsin. The trio will perform a masterclass and concert at the Hedberg Library (Janesville, WI) on …
The pianist Juan María Solare releases a 7-track album of neoclassical and minimal piano music. In this album, each of the titles can be read as verses of a poem. Expressiveness and unconventionality in ideal balance.
Maysa Leak (Deep Waters) brings her extraordinary 8-piece ensemble to the Woodland for a rare New Jersey performance. Her honey-toned vocals have won her three # 1 albums on Billboards Top 100 Adult Contemporary charts as well as a Grammy nomination, and the prestigious Soul Train Centric award. Opening the …
This is the third offering by Laurent Medelgi as a guitarist, composer and arranger of all the tracks on this album entitled Versature, with his Paris-based band the Medeljazz Quartet. The title: Versature comes from the Latin versatura meaning “Sheturns”. A neologism emphasizing a definite departure from a more straight …
Enrique Iglesias Vocalist & CEO Of Laura Jane International Vocal Studio Laura Jane Organizes Charity Initiative To Support The Ukraine Laura Jane Jones, vocalist for Enrique Iglesias and CEO of Laura Jane International Vocal Studio, in cooperation with the Houston Professional Musicians Union, Horace Young, Jose Diaz Music Institute, St. …
Special Guests Eric Benét, Maxine Ashley, Carter Ace, and More. THE FEDERAL BAR NORTH HOLLYWOOD RSVP HERE 5303 Lankershim Blvd. North Hollywood, CA 91501 If you love Anderson Paak, Bruno Mars and those putting non-digitally-modified music back on the map, you’re about to love the sonic stylings of bandmates Sammy, …
Spring fever is at its peak at the historic Woodland Mansion in Maplewood NJ. Smooth Vocals R&B with Maysa Leak (Deep Waters) Grammy Nominee. All that jazz with classical flautist turned Jazz flutist Alexander Zonjic (multiple winner Detroit Music Awards) and funk provided by the incomparable keys of James Lloyd …
Ira Sullivan was inimitable in many ways. One of those ways was that he knew who he was and what was important in his life, and he made his lifelong decisions based upon his steadfast values. Without a doubt having been deserving of the National Endowment of the Arts’ Jazz …
On composer/producer Robert Burbidge’s brand new recording, respected jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist Kevin G Davy takes centre stage. Though Eleven Squares runs to just over 20 minutes long, its ear-friendly compositions treat listeners to expansive soundscapes. The medium-paced Planets kicks the album off in fine style, throwing Kevin’s trumpet …
This super group can whisk you’re your mind away with Jazz, humble your heart with Soul, and make your foot stomp with Funk. When describing the performance of “Jazz Funk Soul” featuring 2018 Grammy winner Jeff Lorber, Grammy nominee’s Everette Harp, and Paul Jackson Jr., you’re talking about the real thing in adult contemporary music. Tickets …
