With Special Guests: Kurt Elling l Janis Siegel l Kevin Mahogany Aria Hendricks l Michele Hendricks l Kevin Burke Steve Ash | Paul Myers | Neal Miner Andy Farber | Andy Watson The Royal Bopsters and more! Iridium Jazz Club 1650 Broadway, NYC September 27 one show only September 28 …
Saturday, September 17, 2016 8 pm Kurt Rosenwinkel plays with his new band, Bandit 65 at Vermont Jazz Center Saturday September 17, 2016 at 8 PM. Consistently voted one of the top guitarists in reader and critic polls, Rosenwinkel dropped out of Berklee to tour with Gary Burton. He is …
Praised for “exuberance, imagination and sheer brio” (Jazz Review UK), called “stunningly beautiful and adventurous” (New York City Jazz Record), and hailed as “one of the best jazz ensembles in the world” (Jazz Podium, Germany), the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra kicks off its 44th season at Scullers Jazz Club Boston. Expect …
New York saxophonist Daniel Bennett has been hailed as one of the most original and unpredictable musical voices of his generation. The Daniel Bennett Group performs their New York City album release at the Blue Note (131 West 3rd St, New York, NY) on Sunday, October 16th (11:30am and 1:30pm show times). Daniel Bennett …
A Different Booklist, 746 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Canada, presents a book signing, September 10, 2016, (from 6:00pm-8:00 pm ), featuring Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based writer/radio announcer, Larry Reni Thomas, who will sign copies and talk about his latest book, The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan. The book is about former …
Swingando is now #3 on the CMJ Charts. Brazilian guitarist/composer has put together this amazing album. Sergio Pereira is backed by the world’s best Brazilian rhythm section such as Helio Alves, Duduka da Fonseca, Nilson Matta, Marcus Teixeira, Mauricio Zottarelli, Itaiguara Brandao and many others. Available on CDbaby, iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, SoundCloud, …
Trumpeter Marquis Hill has been an active presence in Chicago’s jazz venues for over five years, but he came to greater national attention two years ago when he won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. The fact that Hill had been invigorating Chicago’s jazz scene considerably in various ways without …
Larry Reni Thomas, the author of “The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan” (KHA Books) will be interviewed, Sunday, September 4, 2016, at 3:30 pm by Toronto, Canada-based Norman Richmond on Uhuru Radio’s Diasporic Music (http://www.theburningspear.com/uhuru-radio ). Thomas will talk about his book “The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan,” his experience …
The “deep print” given by the triple character of the catanese guitarist and composer Santi Costanzo’s project, is made of three elements whose common matrix is represented by atonality, recurring in all compositions, and conveys the influence and suggestions received from the guitarist and composer Paolo Sorge (Santi’s ex teacher). …
“I Called Him Morgan” a documentary film about the trumpet legend Lee Morgan, and Helen Morgan, the lady who shot Lee Morgan, has been selected to be shown at The Venice International Film Festival (http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/73rd-festival/line-up/), in September 2016. Directed and written by Swedish filmmaker Kasper Collin, it will feature interviews, …
