The Fifth Annual Ocean City Beach (NC) Jazz Festival will be held on Friday, July 4, 2014, and Saturday, July 5. 2014. from 5 pm until 8 pm, both days. Scheduled performers on Friday, are Lin Rountree with special guest Nicholas Cole, The Ira Wiggins Quartet, and vocalist Yolanda Rubin. …
A TRIBUTE TO ‘NEW YORK EYE AND EAR CONTROL’ Concert Brooklyn NY: The summer jazz concert season kicks off to an early start with a rousing tribute to the celebrated recording ‘New York Eye and Ear Control’ as it hits its golden anniversary. This seminal album of the Free Jazz …
The 2014 SFJAZZ Center Gala on May 16, 2014 in San Francisco awarded Herbie Hancock the SFJAZZ Lifetime Achievement Award. With more than 600 guests, the Gala raised over $1.4 million for SFJAZZ artistic and education programs. Festivities included performances by Hancock with the star-studded SFJAZZ Collective, the award-winning SFJAZZ …
The 7th annual Red Hook Jazz Festival will take place once again in Brooklyn’s Urban Meadow on two consecutive Sundays, June 8 and 15, 2014 from 1-6 PM. As part of its continuing grassroots tradition, the RHJF is a 100% volunteer-run event that receives no major corporate sponsorship beyond in-kind …
New Orleans, La. Celebrating the birthday of The First Lady of Song Ella Fitzgerald and the arrival of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Angela King Gallery will present “The Jazz Fest Show,” an exhibit by award-winning New Orleans photographer Steven Forster. Ella Fitzgerald © Steven Forster Forster …
Music enthusiasts these days get to listen to numerous experiments on fusions and cross-genre music! For example, the current ripple in the music industry is about the new jazz album that is to be launched this year by jazz maestro Tony Bennett and pop sensation Lady Gaga. It’s a unique …
Chapel Hill, NC—I am a very fortunate jazz junkie because my father was a serious Count Basie fan, who also enjoyed listening to Sarah Vaughan, Billy Eckstine, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck and other jazz giants. When he came home from delivering the mail, in Wilmington, North Carolina, he …
For Immediate Release: MONDAY NIGHT JAZZ SESSIONS @ QUINN’S IN BEACON, NY ANNOUNCES ITS SCHEDULE FOR 2014 The Monday night jazz sessions that began this past October at the new Beacon, NY venue Quinn’s have been enormously well-received both by audiences (many of whom by no means jazz fans) and musicians, locally …
One of the country’s oldest continuous Jazz Festivals, the Delaware Water Gap Celebration of the Arts (COTA) celebrates its’ 36th year this weekend September 6, 7 and 8, 2013. This all-volunteer, non-sponsored jazz festival was founded by and for musicians and their neighbors in 1978 by noted musicians NEA Jazz …
The busy, expanding, thoroughly-satisfying jazz scene in what is called the “Triangle” area of the Piedmont section of North Carolina just keeps getting better and better. Who needs the New York or the D.C. jazz scene when everybody seems to be coming this way? The area can boast of several …
