24-year old pianist Kris Bowers and his music defy categorization. In the last several years, he has performed alongside a diverse array of musicians, from José James to Aretha Franklin to Wynton Marsalis to Marcus Miller to Jay-Z to Kanye. After winning the prestigious Thelonious Monk award at the end …
New York Jazz Academy (NYJA) is providing workshops for aspiring vocalists of all skill levels and ages. Workshops are designed to help students learn stage presence, song interpretation, lyric memorization, musicianship skills, improvisation and the other important elements of jazz. Class sizes typically vary between four to six singers and …
The JAZZ Film That May Never Be Seen They Died Before 40, a documentary jazz film, has been completed in “rough cut,” but may never be seen publicly because of licensing situations that have not been resolved. The film is one hour and 33 minutes of …
John Stein has always been, at least in musical terms, something of an international traveler. His long-time drummer and musical collaborator, Zé Eduardo Nazario, is a legend in his native Brazil, and customarily gives Stein’s work “um sabor Brasileiro,” a Brazilian flavor. In keeping with the global undercurrent of his …
Lisa Hiltons signature style is impressively on display. George Harris/JazzWeekly Lisa Hilton is a jazz musician of incredible sensibility and nuance that, along with a beautifully evocative style of playing, places her at the very top. The track Midnight Mania is insanely great music, one of several by the way, …
For Immediate Release March, 2014 Did you know that Sunday, March 23rd is an International Meteorological day? Well to be honest, neither did we, but we have just the right thing for you to help you enjoy it. To celebrate this important emerging holiday together with the upcoming birthday of …
$25 tickets http://www.rockwellsusa.net/music.php reservations (914) 738-5881 From her Flamenco-tinged debut, Listen Love (2004), to her fourth album, Beyond the Blue, Anglo-Trinidadian vocalist Tessa Souter has a penchant for exploring strikingly beautiful music mostly untouched by other vocalists: something from The Beatles, Sting or Cream. She’ll add an overlooked Standard or …
Fresh on the heels of a successful year 2013 culminating in the release of his first album, “The Path of Silvan”, and several concerts both as soloist and with his quartet, Dimitrije Vasiljevic will be making his Carnegie Hall debut in a solo piano concert on Monday, March 24, 2014 …
Music enthusiasts these days get to listen to numerous experiments on fusions and cross-genre music! For example, the current ripple in the music industry is about the new jazz album that is to be launched this year by jazz maestro Tony Bennett and pop sensation Lady Gaga. It’s a unique …
Jack Kleinsinger’s Highlights In Jazz, New York’s longest running jazz concert series, continues it’s 42nd season on Thursday April 10, 2014 at 8:00 PM at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center at Borough Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, NY, 1007 with A Night of Cabaret Jazz featuring the celebrated duo …
