The 13-Date Run Will Feature The Band Performing Classic Holiday Songs Along With Squirrel Nut Zippers’ Favorites The Squirrel Nut Zippers return to the west coast this December with their joyous, raucous Christmas Caravan tour. Performing songs from their Christmas Caravan and Mardi Gras for Christmas albums as well as other Zippers favorites, the 13-date run will be the first west …
Undaunted by the COVID quarantines, legendary jazz photographer/producer/audio engineer/promoter Jimmy Katz found the pandemic’s impediments instead to be challenges that led to memorable solutions. Due to COVID’s terrors, the live jazz venues shut down, and jazz musicians encountered reduced or no performance opportunities. As the owner, along with his wife …
New York City-based saxophonist Daniel Bennett has been hailed as one of the most original and unpredictable musical voices of his generation. The Daniel Bennett Group plays a special CD release at the Stissing Center (2950 Church St, Pine Plains, NY) on July 23rd at 7pm. The Daniel Bennett Group is celebrating …
A thought from Brian Landrus about his new album seems to be the point of conservation, humanitarianism, and/or altruism…and possibly, of human existence: “I need to be more aware of our world and the reason to be here—leaving something more than just taking.” A politician’s more-profound-than-intended vituperative criticism of another …
About Bob Bowman… Pianist Paul Smith had graciously agreed to form a band to perform at some corporate entertainment events that I had organized. Smith’s very brief solo on “It Could Happen to You” and Bowman’s on “Robert Frost,” both of which were recorded on Karrin Allyson’s Collage album, are …
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.”
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 …
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 …
“A powerful voice has arrived on the jazz scene, and he’s a bad dude.” –Jimmy Heath Called “an old spirit in a young man’s body,” Jazz saxophonist, educator, composer and arranger Tim Mayer has dedicated his life’s work to mastering the language of Jazz as a saxophonist. This becomes evident …
