SEATTLE WOMEN’S JAZZ ORCHESTRA (SWOJO) announces the Third Annual Jazz Ensemble Composition Contest for Women Composers. The winning composition will be performed and recorded live by the Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra with award-winning guitarist Mimi Fox in Seattle. The winner will receive a $400 honorarium, an audio recording of her …
Trombonist Ron Westray releases an all original funky jazz CD titled, “MAGiSTERiA“. Produced, composed and performed from this Wynton Marsalis alumni. Featuring Matt Rait (guitar), Ross Macintyre (bass), Anthony Michelli (drums) and Richard Whitman (fender rhodes). Stream now on Spotify Stream now on Rdio Listen on SoundCloud Buy on iTunes Get …
Magnolia Performing Arts Theater, 201 Community College Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 6:00pm NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan will perform a tribute concert in honor of the legendary Lena Horne at the Baton Rouge Community College (BRCC) Magnolia Performing Arts Theater, 201 …
Burak Kaya released his new album Climate Change which was recorded in Istanbul with his trio including classical guitar, double bass and percussions. Overall the album is formed with an acoustic sound that combines the fusion of Anatolian themes, Middle East and Latin rhythms together with the modern jazz. …
Kat Edmonson With Special Guest, Milton Saturday, March 7 at 8pm Billie Holiday comparisons are coming thick and fast for retro-soul chanteuse Kat Edmonson. The Boston Globe called her 2012 album, Way Down Low, “one of the greatest vocal albums I’ve ever heard.” Her 2014 follow-up, The Big Picture, confirms …
Creator and innovator, musician and producer, artist, entrepreneur and philanthropist; Herb Alpert is a man with a profound passion empowering his every endeavor. He makes his return to Café Carlyle along with his wife, GRAMMY® Award-winning vocalist Lani Hall, in a two-week run of shows, March 10-21. The pair arrives with the New York premiere of …
A re-imagining of Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum Produced by Eden MacAdam-Somer Tuesday, February 17 at NEC’s Jordan Hall Also Takes Place February 17th in NEC’s JH118 from Noon – 8pm Scivias, A Sound/Art Installation Exploring von Bingen’s Visions on Life, Love, and Community through an interactive sonic and visual …
“The Red Hook Jazz Festival exists contentedly on the margins, like its namesake neighborhood and much of the music on its bill…The mood in the audience was neighborly, with a higher ratio of small …
HOWARD JOHNSON began by playing baritone sax, but his natural gift for the tuba was evident from the first time he picked up the instrument as a young teenager. It wasn’t just that he could produce a sound; he already knew how to play his school band’s parts by memorizing …
“I am not on anybody’s side. I am not on Lee Morgan’s side. I am not on Helen Morgan’s side. I am on the side of history.”–Larry Reni Thomas, author “The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan” (book) (wwww.khabooks.com) LMS Show 5 Lee Morgan Tweet
