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FILTER Results All Articles News HomeCurated Jazz Articles and News Dave Douglas & Trish Clowes: Eyes Up/Next Experiment At Bray Jazz Festival BY IAN PATTERSON May 14, 2024 Dave Douglas & Trish Clowes: Eyes Up/Next Experiment Mermaid Arts Centre Bray Jazz Festival Bray, Ireland May 5, 2024 The smaller stages remained abuzz well into the wee hours on the last night of Bray Jazz Festival, but a little earlier the final act on the main stagein the Mermaid Arts Centresaw another full house treated to an exciting double bill. Opening the evening was pan-national group Next Experiment, while the headline slot brought ...... SOURCE: All About Jazz Shabaka Hutchings At Barbican Hall BY CHRIS MAY May 13, 2024 Shabaka Hutchings Barbican HallPerceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its GraceLondon May 9, 2024 Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes ... London’s Shabaka Hutchings has become best known for his incendiary open-the-gates work on tenor saxophone with Sons Of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming and the South African-based Shabaka & The Ancestors. But his April 2024 album, Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!), performed for the first time at the Barbican, marks the start of a ...... SOURCE: All About Jazz Junius Paul: Asé BY SCOTT LICHTMAN May 13, 2024 Bass lovers unite! For those who adore the dexterity, the groove, the sheer plunk" of a crisply-recorded upright bass, check out Asé" by Junius Paul. The piece opens with an anthemic motif that quickly transforms into a beehive of motion. Paul continues this jaw-dropping flurry of sound until he shifts into a modal groove that welcomes drums and brass accompaniment. Asé" is off Ism, Paul’s first full recording as bandleader. The acclaimed album demonstrates that free jazz can be catchy, ...... SOURCE: All About Jazz Kent Burnside Blues Band at Dazzle BY GEOFF ANDERSON May 12, 2024 Kent Burnside Blues Band Dazzle jny:Denver, CO May 3, 2024 Geography has always been important to music. Especially before advances in transportation and communication, communities developed specific local styles of music, much like accents and dialects. But music, like language, is just another form of communication. And, like language and accents, differences have appeared in relatively close proximity. Such is the case with Hill Country blues. Mississippi is widely considered a key incubator ...... SOURCE: All About Jazz Announcing Preliminary Jazz 2024-25 Season At New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, NJ BY APRIL THIBEAULT May 12, 2024 Tickets Go on Sale Friday, May 10, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. New Jersey Performing Arts Center 1 Center Street Newark, NJ 07102 (888) 466-5722 Free-$149. To purchase, contact NJPAC at 1.888.GO.NJPAC / 1.888.466.5722 or visit NJPAC.org. SUN 9.29 @ 7:00 p.m. Herbie Hancock Herbie Hancock – piano 14x GRAMMY winner Herbie Hancock returns to NJPAC in a highly anticipated one-night only concert. The last time he graced the NJPAC stage was in 2017 as a special ...... SOURCE: All About Jazz Violinist Meg Okura Releases New Album ’Lingering’ On Adhyâropa Records—Available Now BY APRIL THIBEAULT May 11, 2024 In Celebration of National Chamber Music Month and Asian American Heritage Month Available Adhyaropa Records and and all major online retailers Hailed as the queen of chamber jazz (All About Jazz),” Tokyo-native violinist Meg Okura and American jazz pianist Kevin Hays celebrate the release of their debut album as a duo, Lingering on Adhyâropa Records (#AR00061). With recognition such as the highly competitive Jazz Road Tours grant, which took them over 5,000 miles to Hawaii, Okura and Hays have been ...... SOURCE: All About Jazz Jazz Power Initiative’s Celebration 20 Honors The Miranda Family, Award-winning Filmmaker Phil Bertelsen And Corporate Leader Td Bank BY SMC SOLUTIONS May 11, 2024 For the past two decades, Jazz Power Initiative (JPI) has been an influential part of the arts education community. By utilizing the power of jazz music and jazz tradition to educate and transform the lives of young people, the organization has fostered positive self-expression, a sense of community, teamwork, and diversity. On May 15th, at One Vanderbilt Avenue (TD Conference Center), the organization will host Jazz Power Celebration20 in recognition of its numerous accomplishments. In addition to honoring The Miranda ...... SOURCE: All About Jazz Moving Music: The Memoirs Of Rikki Stein BY CHRIS MAY May 11, 2024 Moving Music: The Memoirs Of Rikki Stein Rikki Stein 304 Pages ISBN: 9781739103095 Wordville Press2024 The autobiography of Rikki Steinlongtime friend and manager of Afrobeat creator Fela Kuti, and a key player in the historic meeting between Ornette Coleman and the Master Musicians of Joujouka, among much, much moreis a roller coaster trip up some of the summits of music, and occasionally down into its bleakest depths, from the mid 1960s until ...... SOURCE: All About Jazz Take Five with Meg Okura BY AAJ STAFF May 10, 2024 Meet Meg Okura Hailed as the queen of chamber jazz (All About Jazz)," Tokyo-native Meg Okura is a Grammy-nominated jazz composer and violinist based in New York, known for her music praised by The New York Times as grandiloquent beauty that transitions easily from grooves to big cascades to buoyant swing." Ms. Okura leads her 10-piece Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble, performing at renowned venues including Birdland Jazz Club and Blue Note. Additionally, Okura is the musical director and arranger ...... SOURCE: All About Jazz Wolfgang Schalk Announces New Album ’Dear Earth’ Showcasing A Tribute Track To Arnold Schoenberg BY WOLFGANG SCHALK May 10, 2024 Wolfgang Schalk, the acclaimed LA-based Austrian guitarist/composer, announces his latest album, Dear Earth, a heartfelt dedication to our planet and a testament to the power of artistic expression. Featuring nine original compositions, Dear Earth marks Schalk’s ninth album as a leader and follows his critically acclaimed release, ObSession (Frame Up Music, 2019). With a stellar band featuring the remarkable rhythm section of Grammy Award-winning bassist Carlitos DelPuerto and Grammy-nominated drummer Oscar Seaton, with outstanding contributions from Latin Grammy-nominated pianist Andy ...... SOURCE: All About Jazz Zoe Rahman Quintet/Meilana Gillard Quartet At Bray Jazz Festival BY IAN PATTERSON May 10, 2024 Zoe Rahman Quintet/Meilana Gillard Quartet Mermaid Arts Centre Bray Jazz Festival 2024 Bray, Ireland May 3, 2024 2024 should have marked Bray Jazz Festival’s 25th anniversary but for those two years or more of you know what. The silver anniversary will have to wait; no matter, because each year at BJF, since Andrew Hill graced the first edition in 2000, is a little bit speciala celebration, a voyage of discovery. As ever, it ...... SOURCE: All About Jazz Moers Festival Interviews: Zeena Parkins BY MARTIN LONGLEY May 9, 2024 The harpist Zeena Parkins is one of the key players on the New York City improvising and composing fronts, and indeed on the global scene generally. Most of her upcoming gigs are happening around Europe, although her 2024 datesheet is relatively sparse compared to her 2025 plans. She probably became known to most folks when playing with John Zorn in the late 1980s and beyond, particularly as part of his Cobra" performances. Subsequently, she has developed her active solo trajectory, ...... SOURCE: All About Jazz Adriano Clemente: Ascent BY STEVE COOK May 9, 2024 ... SOURCE: All About Jazz Acclaimed Jazz Saxophonist Nick Stefanacci Headlines At Williams Center For A Good Cause BY BEATRICE KIMMEL May 9, 2024 Renowned saxophonist Nick Stefanacci, hailing from Wayne, New Jersey, is set to grace the stage of the Williams Center in Rutherford, NJ once again with his captivating performance and magnetic stage presence. The occasion? The unveiling of his latest musical endeavor, the much-anticipated Secrets EP, scheduled for release on May 10, 2024. Stefanacci, accompanied by his esteemed ensemble of musicians, will command the...