Saturday, April 16, 2016 8 pm Cited as “one of the finest pianists in jazz,” pianist Rosnes brings her quartet with vibraphonist Steve Nelson, bassist Peter Washington and drummer Lewis Nash to the VJC. Originally from Vancouver, Renee Rosnes recorded and toured with a veritable “who’s who” of jazz, as …
Saturday, March 26, 2015 8 pm Saxophonist Zsoldos performs his own transcriptions of string quartet arrangements from tenor sax giant Ben Webster’s lush 1950s recordings. Some of New England’s top string players and a rhythm section including pianist Miro Sprague are featured. Co- sponsored by Norman Cohen in honor of …
Haftor Medboe, Espen Eriksen and Gunnar Halle release “The Space Between”, emerges into the spectrum of the Contemporary jazz musical inputs. It defies harsh categorisation, since it often engrafts splendid musical layout into the scope of this work. In this acoustic trio, Halle on-off switch the course between melodic and …
“Voz” is a winner album filled with plumy swinging touch and graceful articulation jazz and jazz vocals category. Luis Munoz captures our ears and attention because of the vocalists timbre and sound instead of notes and pitches. The ensemble smudges great instrumental expression which simultaneously results in a dilatation of …
East Coast Jazz Revue will host its season opener, A Jazz Holiday, with the legendary jazz composer, pianist Ramsey Lewis and his quartet at the Greenville, NC Convention Center on Friday, January 15, 2016. Joining Mr. Lewis are Henry Johnson on guitar, Joshua Ramos on bass and Charles Heath IV …
Clarinetist and Berklee alumna Anat Cohen will kick off National Public Radio’s Toast of the Nation annual coast-to-coast radio broadcast this New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2015. Cohen’s concert — a rebroadcast of her acclaimed 2009 New Year’s Eve performance at the Berklee Performance Center – will begin the evening’s …
Jazz enthusiasts, loyal and passionate listeners as they are known to be, may assert that a decade or a specific style, such as swing or bebop, defines the golden age of jazz. But continuously accumulating, ground-breaking recordings by superlative musicians are establishing the fact that we are living in another …
Saturday, March 12, 2016 8 pm “Fred Hersch is singular among the trailblazers of their art, a largely unsung innovator of this borderless, individualistic jazz – a jazz for the 21st century.”- The New York Times Multi- Grammy nominated pianist Hersch, with over 40 recordings under his own name, Hersch …
New York, November 30, 2015. Paul Williams, President of The ASCAP Foundation, and George Wein, Founder & Chairman of the Newport Jazz Festival, announced a new joint effort to benefit emerging jazz talent. The Festival, one of the world’s leading venues for jazz, has agreed to feature a performance by one of …
Jazz, naturally, has a rich and varied history but it could be argued that it misplaced a little something on its way to becoming a Respected Art Form. Not to imply that jazz shouldn’t be taken seriously, but there is such a thing as taking a thing too seriously. Louis …
