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The 2017 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll This is what consensus in jazz looks like now: In winning the vote for 2017's best new recording in NPR's Fifth Annual Jazz Critics Poll, Vijay Iyer's Far from Over was named on 53 of 137 ballots — almost twice as many as either Steve Coleman's Morphogenesis or Tyshawn Sorey's Verisimilitude, which ...
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Sacramento Music Festival canceled after 44 years After 44 years, the final note has been played for the Sacramento Music Festival. The Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society announced the annual jubilee's cancellation in a Facebook post Monday morning, ending years of speculation about its economic viability amidst falling turnout.
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| Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee to Head New Jazz Caucus, Presents New Preservation Bill It would authorize $2 million for each fiscal year from 2018-2020 for the purpose of preserving the history and importance of jazz music. The funding would go towards audio and video interviews with leading jazz artists, acquiring and preserving jazz artifacts, continuing to recognize Jazz Appreciation ...
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| How the US Used Jazz as a Cold War Secret Weapon Jazz bands had toured abroad independently for years, but State Department support allowed the music to reach geopolitically strategic locations lacking real profit incentive. The music of jazz, which was structured around improvisation within a set of commonly agreed-upon boundaries, was a perfect ...
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| Local Music: Jazz up your Christmas I'm talking small combos, like trios. I'm not talking about jazz-lite or contemporary jazz. I'm talking about Bruce Mak and the Merry Mak Men, better known as The Bruce Mak Trio. The combo will have a show starting 8 p.m. Friday (Dec. 22) at Public Craft Brewing Co. The trio shakes things up when they ...
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| Jazz trumpeter Irvin Mayfield keeps on making music, despite federal indictment Fans left the Little Gem with fond memories of a quintessentially New Orleans night of jazz. Mayfield and Markham, meanwhile, face arraignment on Jan. 4. Given the circumstances, making music would seemingly require some extreme mental compartmentalization. "I'm trying to do the best I can do, ...
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| A grand festival to celebrate the genius of Oscar Peterson How did Kelly Peterson, the festival's artistic producer, and Rosnes, its artistic director, decide on this programming? The idea was to present "true, swinging jazz – the music that Oscar dedicated his life to," says Kelly Peterson. For all the high-wattage of the marquee, however, the festival obviously will ...
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| The Best Albums of 2017 There were more recordings of exceptional quality than I can recall hearing in 12 months' time since the mid-1990s, when pop and jazz and formal music were all undergoing dynamic shifts. This year, no common thread unifies all the albums of high quality, except for the obvious fact that they were ...
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| Titan duo strikes right note in earning jazz band honors "It was really cool to be with people like that who love the music so much." Banister and Palensky were selected to be in the All-National Jazz Band this year, which took them to Orlando, Fla., in November. Banister, a senior at Papillion-La Vista South, made third trombone while Palensky, a junior at PLV ...
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| Amy Maack to make her Jean's Jazz Series debut March will bring another hometown favorite back to the JJS stage when trumpeter Jamie Breiwick presents his "Dreamland" tribute to jazz legend Thelonious Monk. Breiwick — who teaches music at The Prairie School — performs regularly in Milwaukee and, through the years, has worked with jazz ...
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