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CD Relase: Benny Green – MAGIC BEANS
MASTERFUL PIANIST BENNY GREEN RELEASES RECORDING OF ORIGINAL MUSIC ENTITLED MAGIC BEANS Benny Green possesses the history of jazz at his fingertips. Combine mastery of keyboard technique with decades of real world experience playing with no one less than the most celebrated artists of the last half century, and it’s …
CD Release: Jack Mouse Group – Range of Motion
“Jack Mouse flexes his gymnast-level flexibility, nailing spontaneous hemiolas and double-time spurts with taste, confidence and accuracy.” -DownBeat Magazine After decades of performing with some of the greatest names in jazz, drummer Jack Mouse finally gathered together a quintet of some of his longtime Chicago collaborators to put together this …
Catherine Russell catches fire with Strictly Romancin’, returns with New York City appearances in April 2013
Catherine Russell returns with New York City appearances in April 2013 catches fire with Strictly Romancin’ 2012 was quite a year for vocalist Catherine Russell and her latest album Strictly Romancin’ (World Village/Harmonia Mundi). The album has received the Prix du Jazz Vocal 2012 (Vocal Album of The Year) from the journalists …
Berklee’s Ralph Peterson Sextet at NYC’s Blue Note Jazz Club 4/15
Berklee’s Ralph Peterson Sextet, featuring some of the college’s top student instrumentalists and composers, will play New York City’s Blue Note Jazz Club on Monday, April 15, 2013. Directed by Peterson, a world-renowned drummer, the group will perform mostly original compositions, and Peterson will perform with the students on a …
Jazz April Update
Hi JazzApril Friends & Supporters: Whew! We’re already one week into JazzApril. We’re really happy about the response we’ve gotten to the Jazz Journalists Association’s campaign to promote Jazz Appreciation Month and Jazz Day –and just plain jazz– and wanted to give you an update and suggest some additional ways …
CD Release: Vadim Neselovskyi ‘Music for September’
Ukrainian-born pianist Vadim Neselovskyi (pronounced va-DEEM ness-el-OHV-ski) was classically trained at conservatories in his native Odessa and in Germany; honed his jazz chops on German jazz stages and at Berklee College of Music; and undertook his apprenticeship around the world as a member of master vibraphonist Gary Burton’s Next Generation …
2013 AJJ Award nominee, Bria Skonberg, Brings Her talents to Cafe Carlyle, April and May
April 2 – New York – The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel, is pleased to welcome award- winning trumpeter/vocalist/composer BRIA SKONBERG, for its new “Second Act, A Late Night Series of Fun and Entertainment” at the Café Carlyle. Ms. Skonberg’s show, Brass and Belles, is a tribute to the historic horn …
CD Release: Enrico Pieranunzi – Live at The Village Vanguard
Il nuovo album di Enrico Pieranunzi, Live at The Village Vanguard in uscita il 12 marzo in tutto il mondo per la CAM Jazz, rappresenta un evento per il jazz. Si tratta infatti del primo disco mai registrato da un artista italiano nel mitico locale a forma di diamante al …
Louis Armstrong House Celebrates Intl. Jazz Day with Satchmo’s Never Before Heard Recordings
The Louis Armstrong House Museum and Jazz Journalists Association present Louis Armstrong at Freedomland: Never Before Heard Recordings of an American Icon, a listening session and lecture on April 30 celebrating International Jazz Day (sponsored by UNESCO), and the culmination of Jazz Appreciation Month (a major initiative of the Smithsonian …