Club Dates & Concerts November
2018 Jazznet picks for Europe and North
America Daily updates!
News: 21 May 2018 Blue Note Jazz Festival
Presents European Sounds Series The series showcases
European culture and jazz within the United States
Exhibition: 11 May 2016 Jason
Moran Modern Jazz artist Jason Moran investigates the
overlaps and intersections of jazz, art, and social history in a new solo
exhibition in Brooklyn.
Exhibition: 29 February 2016 Jazz Singers A new
exhibition at the United States Library of Congress asks the question,
What is a jazz singer?
News: 1 January 2016 Last Chance! The Early
Years of Rhythm and Blues Some 50 black and white prints
by Houston photographer Benny Joseph trace the rise of rhythm and blues
music in the 1950s and 1960s.
News: 29 September 2015 Venezuela: Sounds from the Land
of Grace An exploration of jazz through the work of
leading musicians from Venezuela, including the world premiere of Edward
Simon's "Venezuela Unida".
News: 15 August 2015 Single-Issue
Album by Oscar Peterson to be Auctioined in London The
album features previously unrecorded and unreleased original Oscar
Peterson compositions made available by the Oscar Peterson Estate.
News: 11 July 2015 Last Chance! 22nd
Istanbul Jazz Festival The festival enters its final week
with jazz superstars Dave Holland, Chris Potter, Lionel Loueke, and Eric
Harland.
News: 22 April 2015 Charlie
Parker's 'Yardbird' to Receive World Premiere in June The opera was
conceived and written for tenor Lawrence Brownlees voice, which the
composer likens to the color and technical virtuosity of Parkers
music-making.
News: 28 January 2015 Danish Winter Jazz Fest
Takes Over 100 venues Nationwide Denmark celebrates jazz
from Aalborg, Aarhus, Odense and Esbjerg to the historic jazz capital of
Copenhagen.
News: 14 February 2014 Charlie Parker's
Life Inspires New Opera Few figures loom as large or cast
as long a shadow as saxophonist Charlie Parker, best known as "Bird"
(short for "Yardbird") to generations of musicians.
News: 30 October 2013 Wynton Marsalis Appointed
Director of Jazz Studies at Julliard A New Orleans native
and Juilliard graduate, Wynton Marsalis was a student of legendary
classical trumpeter (and New York Philharmonic principal) William
Vacchiano (who also had been Miles Daviss teacher at Juilliard).
News: 12 July 2013 2014 NEA Jazz Masters
Announced Recipients of America's highest award in jazz
range from influential instrumentalists in the history of improvisation to
an avant garde composer whose works defy categorisation.
News: 4 June 2013 Editor's Pick: World
premiere of Terence Blanchard's 'Champion', an Opera in Jazz
This is trumpeter/composer Terrence Blanchards first opera
and is inspired by the true story of prize fighter Emile Griffith an
immigrant from the Virgin Islands who claimed the title of World
Welterweight Champion in a fatal 1962 fight.
News: 24 April 2013 Chick Corea Premiere to Mark 50th
Anniversary of Jazz at MIT (1963 - 2013) Corea is one of
the major pioneers of fusion, and his far-ranging influence since the
1960s includes post-bop, Latin, free-form and avant-garde jazz, as well as
classical.
Festival: 22 March 2013 Editor's Pick: Savannah Music
Festival 2013 The 17-day event pairs the best in jazz,
classical, Americana and world music with dance floor parties featuring
Cuban, Cajun, Funk, and Zydeco music.
News: 22 January 2012 Stanford Archive Streams Jazz
24/7 The archive streams 420 shows from the Riverwalk Jazz
collection over two Internet-based radio channels.
News: 9 December 2012 Dave Brubeck: 1920 -
2012 Brubeck's 1959 album Time Out was a huge hit with
mainstream publics everywhere, as were his commercially sucessful singles
"Take Five" and "Blue Rondo a la Turk."
News: 6 November 2012 Arturo Sandoval: Dear
Diz Bebop jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie mentored and opened
doors for Arturo Sandoval when de defected from Cuba to the United States
in 1990. Sandoval sends the lift back with his new release and world
tour.
News: 23 May 2012 The Washington Post
Presents Jazz at the Hamilton Concert Series Ten nights
of performances from locally and nationally celebrated artists, as well as
a Jazz Gospel Brunch each Sunday.
News: 2 March 2012 Dr. John to Lead Insides
Out Retrospective at BAM in New York The legendary
Dr. John comes to BAM for a three-weekend-long artistic residency,
bringing an extraordinary entourage of musical guests including first time
performances from his new album on Nonesuch 'Locked Down'.
Comment: 11 December 2011 On the Death of Paul
Motian, Jazz Drummer Writer Fred Setterberg remembers the
influential American jazz drummer Paul Motian who died in New York on 22
November 2011.
Festival News: 4 August 2011 Telluride Jazz Festival Broadcasts Live
Online Can't make it to Colorado? Here's an
alternative.
News: 27 July 2011 Frank Foster: 1928 -
2011 The Cincinnati-born saxophone player was also an
extremely successful composer. He created a large body of work for jazz,
including works contributed to albums by singers Sarah Vaughan and Frank
Sinatra.
News Feature: 10 June 2011 Randy Weston Honored
by King Mohammed VI of Morocco The American jazz pianist
and composer has devoted over 50 years to bringing Moroccos neglected
Gnaoua music tradition to the attention of the Western world.
Festival: 11 May 2011 Blue Note Jazz Club Celebrates 30th
Birthday with New Jazz Festival Chris Botti, Dave
Brubeck, Chaka Khan, Bobby McFerrin, The Roots and many more to perform in
June in this new city-wide New York jazz fest.
Coming Soon! 12 April 2011 Roy Haynes at Jazz
Standard The great jazz drummer is the only living and
active jazz musician to have worked with Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Bud
Powell, Sarah Vaughan, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane.
News: 30 December 2010 Billy Taylor: 1921 -
2010 The legendary jazz pianist performed with such
celebrated masters as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis.
News: 13 December 2010 James Moody: 1925 -
2010 Known to all as simply "Moody,", James Moody was a
highly accomplished musician on the tenor and alto saxophones, flute, and
later vocals.
Concert: 23 September 2010 Marsalis Swing
Symphony Receives U.S. Debut with New York Philharmonic With this
six-movement piece, the American jazz artist and composer's intention was
no less than to trace the long and rich history of jazz.
Television: 20 September 2010 Israel "Cachao" Lopez:
The Cuban Tradition On PBS screens nationwide American
Masters celebrates the Father of Mambo, Israel "Cachao" López, in Cachao:
Uno Más, narrated and produced by Andy Garcia.
News: 22 August 2010 Louis Armstrong Film
Opens with 5 City Tour in the U.S. The silent film stars
Jackie Earle Haley and Shanti Lowry with live musical accompaniment by
Wynton Marsalis, pianist Cecile Licad and a 10-piece all-star jazz
ensemble.
CD Review: 28 July 2010 Manu Katché's
Third Round Following on from "Neighbourhood" and
"Playground", the latest installment of the music of the French drummer
Manu Katché.
News: 15 May 2010 Lena Horne: In Her
Own Voice on PBS and Online Stream As the first
African American performer to sign a long-term contract with a major
Hollywood studio, Lena Horne personified both the glamour of Hollywood and
the reality of a lifetime spent battling racial and social
injustice.
News: 3 May 2010 New York Memorial To
Honor American Master Photographer Roy DeCarava The renowned
photographer Roy DeCarava expressed an early desire to address the lack of
artistic attention given to the lives of Black Americans.
News: 4 April 2010 Jazz Trombonist and
Journalist Mike Zwerin Dies at 79 An astute journalist and
a gifted stylist, Mike Zwerin has left a rich legacy of writings on the
twentieth century's most important jazz musicians.
Interview: 7 March 2010 Chick Corea
& The "Bushido" Code of Jazz The jazz legend sits down
with our C.B. Liddell in Tokyo and offers his take on "the code" that has
shaped his career and his relationship with his audience.
News: 26 February 2010 Abu Dhabi
Coaxes Marsalis to Visit the Arab World As part of the
2010 Abu Dhabi Festival, jazz icon Wynton Marsalis makes his debut in the
Arab world among a stellar roster of performers.
Portrait: 10 November 2009 The Johnny
Mercer Centenary: Lyrical Splendor The month of November
2009 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Johnny Mercer.
Songwriter, vocalist, but above all lyricist, he walks shoulder to
shoulder with the greatest talents of the 20th century. But our C. Davis
Remignanti points out three areas where Mercer was (arguably)
unequaled.
CD Review: 7 November 2009 George Benson:
"Songs and Stories" Ten-time Grammy winner George Benson
continues to carefully construct a catalog of releases that appeal to a
growing and varied audience, without compromising his craft.
Archives: 7 November 2009 George Benson: The Ticking Of The Clock
Is Loud
Seen: The Jazz
Century Opens at the CCCB in Barcelona A mega multimedia show in
Barcelona, featuring over 1000 exhibits, explores the many and
varied influences of jazz on the visual arts and world culture.
News Winners, 2009 Jazz
Awards Mike Zwerin, one of the earliest contributors to
Culturekiosque in Paris, is the recipient of the award for Lifetime
Achievement in Jazz Journalism.
Seen: Jazz Jam:
Eldar Djangirov The young Russian jazz pianist continues
his quest to shake his reputation as a prodigy and gain acceptance as a
mature talent.
Portrait Mariza, the Fresh New Diva of
Fado Having survived near-extinction, the music that defines the
heart of Portugal has a new reigning diva who, like the music itself,
blends an African heritage with the spirit, light and spontaneity of
modern Lisbon.
Interview Archive Keith Jarrett: Zen in the Art of
Jazz With a tour of Japan coming up in April and May,
world-renowned jazz pianist Keith Jarrett talks to culture journalist C.
B. Liddell in Tokyo about his music. |