Winners include Incoming and Current Students and Awards from Programs run by NEC Alumni New England Conservatory announces 13 winners from the 37th Annual DownBeat Student Music Awards. The awards, considered one of the top student music competitions in the world, feature categories for junior high, high school and university …
Tuesday, May 20 in NEC’s Jordan Hall New England Conservatory Prep presents the NEC Youth Jazz Orchestra conducted by Ken Schaphorst in a concert featuring a wide selection of music by composers Randy Weston, Ken Schaphorst, Donny McCaslin, Thad Jones, Dizzy Gillespie and more, all performed by middle and high …
On the occasion of the European Month of Culture pianist and composer Dimitrije Vasiljevic will perform in Washington DC in a solo piano concert presented by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in collaboration with the Embassy of Serbia in the United States and LeitmotivArts. Vasiljevic will …
In Concert on Friday, May 30 at NEC’s Brown Hall Join jazz vocalist and pianist and NEC faculty member Vanessa Morris as she performs a selection of original compositions, jazz standards, and spirituals from the African-American folklore tradition on Friday, May 30 at 8 p.m in NEC’s Brown Hall, 290 …
Listen to The Miles Davis Music Marathon, on “Sunday Night Jazz with Larry Thomas,” (9pm-12midnight), May 18, 2014 on WCOM-FM (www.wcomfm.org), Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina. The three-hour program will include interviews with his daughter, Cheryl Davis, his youngest son, Erin, and his nephew, VInce Wilburn, Jr., a drummer who performed …
The May, 2014 online edition of JAZZ & BLUES FLORIDA has been posted at www.JazzBluesFlorida.com . Read previews of local and touring artists performing around Florida this month. Along with the ezine, the JBF website offers comprehensive listings of live jazz and blues music in clubs, concerts and festivals across …
By John Stevenson Multifaceted London based visual artist, Nadjib Le Fleurier, will be showcasing “Selected Works”, an exhibition of his photographs. This takes place at The Windmill, Cricklewood Broadway, NW2 3JX, and runs from 30th April to 1st June. The exhibition is themed around Nadjib’s exploration of minerals and music: …
Third win in even year cycle for ‘NDN Jazz’ artist. Competition particularly stiff this year. BOSTON- Sunday, April 27, 2014 The Hibernian Hall auditorium erupted with applause as Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor (Morgan James Peters) took to the stage to accept his “Best Male Jazz” award at the 9th Annual …
By John Stevenson A biography of famed New Orleans jazz composer, clarinettist and soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet, will be launched in London on Sunday 4th May in the Cabaret Suite of the Hippodrome, Leicester Square London WC2H 7JH. It has been organised by Jazzmo’thology and Books of Africa. Bechet (1897-1959), …
New England Conservatory jazz alumna Matana Roberts ’03 M.M. is one of 20 individuals in the first class of Doris Duke Impact Awards, presented by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Roberts will receive an unrestricted cash grant of as much as $80,000. The Impact Awards were announced April 22, alongside …
