New York — MCG JAZZ is just one affiliate of the collective Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild (MCG); which is a nonprofit multi-discipline art, education, and music organization established in 1968 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Today it is officially located in Pittsburgh’s North Shore, though close to the Manchester neighborhood where it …
The Berklee Concert Jazz Orchestra (BCJO), featuring trumpeter, composer, and educator Sean Jones, will perform at the 2015 Newport Jazz Festival. The 19-piece big band, which includes students from eight countries and eight U.S. states, will open the Fort Stage at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, July 31. This is the …
Jazz Recording Artist Matt Savage Releases Summer Single: “Go On” – Friday, July 24th BOSTON, MA – July 21, 2015: Matt Savage, Jazz recording artist, pianist and composer, is releasing Go On as a summer single on Friday, July 24th. Recorded at Avatar Studios in New York City, Go On is a …
The winner of the 2012 Thelonious Monk Jazz Prize for drumming sings on his debut album. More Jamison Ross albums will follow, for sure. Jamison marks the auspicious beginning of his recording career, as have the early recordings of other Monk Competition winners like Ambrose Akinmusire, Jacky Terrasson, Jon Irabagon …
Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Berklee-Umbria Jazz Clinics at the Umbria Jazz Festival (July 10-19) in Perugia, Italy, Berklee College of Music surprised the festival’s founder Carlo Pagnotta with the George Wein Impresario Award at a concert held on the eve of the festival. The George Wein Impresario Award …
For Dan Karlsberg’s new album THE ‘NATI 6, the Cincinnati-based jazz pianist and composer enlisted the help of five veteran musicians who are based in his hometown but are nationally known: • Bassist Jim Anderson, who has worked with Art Blakey, Ernestine Anderson, Hank Crawford and Nat Adderly. • Drummer …
Now in it’s 6th year, The Hudson Valley Jazz Festival is scheduled for Aug. 27-30. Still-developing schedule can be found at www.hudsonvalleyjazzfest.org. This year’s headliner is Miles Davis protege Wallace Roney. Mr. Roney will perform Sunday, August 30, at The Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center. Presented by Advisors Capital Management. …
A benefit to raise funds for the Basketball Peace Ambassadors program was held on June 26th at Gallery MC in New York, reported LeitmotivArts, an agency for the management and promotion of Balkan cultural events in America and organizer of this event. Basketball Peace Ambassadors initiative is headed by coach …
Al Di Meola-June 21, 8:00pm Al Di Meola returns with a fiery electric band, delivering the intense jazz fusion as only this world-class guitar deity can. Di Meola brings to the stage lightning fast guitar licks that roar with the passion, and precision that made jazz fusion the most …
Two thousand fifteen marks the one hundredth birthday of two legendary singers who surpassed traditional categories: Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday. In his latest album, singer of the millennium José James, whose recordings are capturing increasing attention and acclaim, has suppressed his own vocal personality to honor one of those …
Jack Kleinsinger’s Highlights In Jazz, New York’s longest running jazz concert series, concludes its 43rd season on Thursday June 11, 2015 at 8:00 PM in the Tribeca Performing Arts Center at Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, NY, 10007 with Jazz Past & Present, a multigenerational double bill …
BEACON, NY — Celebrating the music, distilleries, artisan crafts and culture of the Hudson Valley, the inaugural Beacon Jazz Festival will take place on Saturday, July 25 from noon to 6 PM at Pete and Toshi Seeger Riverfront Park in Beacon, NY. Presented by Six String Productions, the festival will …
