Jazz/neo-soul singer Aleksandra Denda presented her debut album “Dreamer” at New York City club DROM this week. The album represents a unique combination of acoustic and electric elements with touches of neo-soul, jazz and R & B. As a prominent member of the New York-based artist group LeitmotivArts, Aleksandra delighted the packed …
Please join Jazz Live at Hyatt every Friday and Saturday, April 1 – May 7 as they welcome Stephanie Jordan for an extended engagement at Hyatt Regency New Orleans. The Stephanie Jordan Ensemble will do two sets in her signature trademark of performing jazz standards from the likes of Abbey …
Mings and Craig – Day By Day Mings and Craig is a jazz guitar duo consisting of Jim Mings and Monty Craig. Based in South Carolina. Longtime friends Jim Mings and Monty Craig join together to make beautiful jazz guitar sounds on their debut CD Day By Day. This project …
Los Angeles had its Black Dahlia Murder. Lesser known is Cleveland’s horrific murder of 16-year-old Beverly Jarosz. Both were inexplicable still-unsolved crimes that the media sensationalized at the time. Coincidentally, these brutal murders also captured the spirits of those cities. Their descriptions or depictions usually include atmospheric references associated with …
“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 children to youngish adults than I’ve seen at any musical event not expressly pitched as a …
BEACON, NY — The legendary cosmic jazz of Sun Ra Arkestra — under the direction of their longtime, nonagenarian alto saxophonist, Marshall Allen — headlines the second annual Beacon Jazz Festival. Sponsored by Birches Associates and once more celebrating this quintessential American music, alongside the distilleries, craft vendors, culture and natural splendor of the Hudson Valley, the …
Two years after having her single “In the Dark” selected as The Song Of The Day on Jon Oliver’s The Main Ingredient Radio, Aleksandra releases her debut EP. DREAMER – wonderful patchwork of acoustic and electronic elements, intertwining Neo Soul, Jazz, World Music and Electronica into Aleksandra’s own ethereal sonic …
Phil Ranelin and his Jazz Ensemble will perform at the Mayme Clayton Library & Museum, Sunday, April 3, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. Doors open at 12:30 p.m. The performance is in celebration of National Jazz Appreciation Month and the release of Ranelin’s latest endeavor “Portrait in Blue.” The legendary trombonist …
Christian Winther – Refuge In Sound (Sound Perspective Music) Release Date: March 7, 2016 Featuring: Christian Winther: saxophone; Allyn Johnson: piano; Mike Moreno: guitar; Reuben Rogers: bass; Billy Williams Jr.: drums and Christie Dashiell: vocals on one track. Saxophonist Christian Winther’s new release Refuge in Sound espouses the words of …
It’s hard to overestimate the influence Grover Washington Jr. had on both mainstream and contemporary jazz in his heyday. Like only a handful of artists in the realm, Washington managed to bring the separate ideals of jazz into a single mode of expression, and he did so with great success, …
