By John Stevenson African music is flourishing in the most unlikely places. And if cutting-edge, US-based African music big-band, Chopteeth, has anything to do with it, the myriad fusions of Congolese Soukous, Ghanaian Highlife and Nigerian Afrobeat will waft even further across America. Chopteeth (taken from the title of a …
Mindy Canter, Fluteus Maximus Mindela Music, 2011 by: Geannine Reid Steeped in the jazz traditions, but raised in the belly of the blues, female flautist Mindy Canter releases her latest endeavor keenly entitled Fluteus Maximus. Canter melds a mixture of original, well known, and obscure jazz choices that actually work …
Roulette Presents: 3 Nights of Jerome Foundation Commissioned Artists Ben Gerstein Freedom Choir – Nov 1 Geoff Matters – Nov 3 Peter Evans Quintet & Marty Ehrlich’s 4Alto(s)- Nov 4 What: 3 Nights of Jerome Foundation Commissioned ArtistsWhen: November 1, 3 & 4 @ 8pmWhere: Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave Brooklyn, …
Award winning gospel jazz-styled artist Deanna Ransom is featured this month on the cover of I AM Magazine, a quarterly gospel music industry publication. The feature discusses all areas of Ransom’s musical career including her personal trials and triumphs as well as the success of “I Hear You”, her sophomore …
GRAMMY AND TONY AWARD-WINNING JAZZ VOCALIST DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER APPEARS AT UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD DAY EVENT OCTOBER 27TH IN NEW YORK CITY As a Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Bridgewater continues to appeal for international solidarity to finance global grass-roots projects in the …
CANON U.S.A. INC., LAUNCHES PIXMA PRO-1 PRINTER AT “LEGENDS IN IMAGING” EVENT FEATURING ICONIC RECORDING ARTIST HERBIE HANCOCK Special Live Performance by Herbie Hancock Generates a First-of-its-Kind, Print-Inspired, “Crowd-Sourced” Music Video for his classic song, “Chameleon” LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., October 27, 2011 – Canon U.S.A. Inc., a leader in digital …
Dr. Cheryl Wills, a jazz lover, is our nationally known public speaker, the anchor woman for New York 1 News. She just released “Die Free” a book about tracking down slavery ancestry. Cheryl Wills reckons to base the process of writing “Die Free” on the discovery of her great – …
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts (www.usdan.com), the nationally acclaimed summer arts day camp whose August 3 Gala featured the World Premiere of a jazz work by Richard DeRosa, announces the first of its Open Houses for the 2012 season. It will take place on October 23 from …
American Idol’s unintended effect on the public is felt at nearly every performance, according to up-and-coming Los Angeles-based singer Jules Day. “There are at least a few people at every gig that insist on trying to mold me into an American Idol-type singer with their after-the-show suggestions. They feel they’ve …
By Bill Donaldson The success of a first album consists not just of a performer’s presentation of his personality, drawing attention from listeners with originality and spiritual kinship, but also of the work of collaborators who believe in the leader’s talent and enhance it with their own. Such is the …
By: Edward Blanco When accomplished composer/drummer and educator Kevin Crabb isn’t behind the drum set producing music, he can most probably be found teaching snare drum technique from his LA studio. Crabb has performed with some of the finest jazz artists in the world from Los Angeles to Toronto, from …
BOOK REVIEW: AFRICAN RHYTHMS: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RANDY WESTON. By Randy Weston and Willard Jenkins. 319 pp. Duke University Press. Pianist, composer, bandleader, National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, Randy Weston’s long-anticipated, much-talked-about, consciousness-raising, African-centered autobiography, African Rhythms, is a serious breathe of fresh air and is a …
