Jack Kleinsinger’s Highlights In Jazz — New York’s Longest Running Jazz Concert Series – concludes its 43rd Season with Jazz, Past & Present, a historic double bill featuring NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston with Billy Harper performing The Roots of the Blues and Highlights In Jazz New Stars Benny Benack, …
By John Stevenson London’s premier Gypsy Swing venue Le QuecumBar (42-44 Battersea High Street, London SW11 3HX) will resonate to the sound of the acclaimed masters of the genre, the Rosenbergs, on 24th and 25th May. Mozes, Johnny and Sani van Mullem Rosenberg, from Holland, follow in the tradition established …
BMI Future Jazz Master Aaron Hedenstrom pictured with NEA Jazz Masters: Carla Bley, Charles Lloyd; BMI Foundation President Deirdre Chadwick and Jazz Master George Coleman Sr. Photo by Melissa Dispenza. NEW YORK, NY ― May 6, 2015 ― Deirdre Chadwick, President of the BMI Foundation, and Mike O’Neill, President and …
If patience is a virtue, when you add intuition and long-term vision to the equation, one can set themselves up for a near perfect life. That’s what Bernard Scavellahas exquisitely accomplished. Following 40+ years as a successful pharmacist and Cook County Hospital administrator – a period in which he also …
Sunday Jazz Brunch featuring Karrin Allyson Sunday, May 17 at 1:00pm Join us in the lobby at 1pm for a champagne tasting courtesy of 109 Cheese and Wine, brunch items from Bareburger’s new spring menu and art exhibit with local artist Megan Marden courtesy of Watershed Gallery Four-time Grammy nominee …
Spring Ensemble Student Concert at the Vermont Jazz Center Thursday April 30, 2015 8 pm Vermont Jazz Center celebrates International Jazz Day 2015 with a concert featuring students from four of the VJC’s student ensembles. Featuring the Youth Jazz Ensemble, the Women’s Jazz Harmony Ensemble, the Latin Jazz Ensemble and …
Jazz Pianist and Leader Ahmad Jamal, Soprano Jessye Norman, Violinist Kyung-Wha Chung, and Pianist Russell Sherman to Receive Degrees Sherman, Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at NEC, to Give Commencement Address Annual Exercises to be Held May 17, 2015 in NEC’s Jordan Hall New England Conservatory will bestow honorary Doctor of Music (hon. …
Alicia Olatuja Quartet Saturday May 16, 2015 8 pm Vocalist Alicia Olatuja performs with her quartet- Jahaan Sweet on piano, Michael Olatuja on bass and Otis Brown III on drums. Olatuja is best known for her remarkable vocal solo at Obama’s 2013 inauguration with the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. A person …
By John Stevenson Combining the often separate worlds of jazz and Haitian vodun (or voodoo) music is at first glance a strange and unique pairing. There was a Black Haitian presence in New Orleans from 1792 right through to the Haitian revolution of 1804 and its aftermath and Haitians of …
By John Stevenson It’s difficult to believe that Daymé Arocena is only 22 years old. Coming from a musically endowed family, the Cuban singer, composer, arranger, choir director and band leader has already established a remarkable artistic footprint. Havana Cultura and Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings have recently collaborated to release …
