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| Quincy jazz great hopes music will bring social change When Panamanian jazz musician Danilo Perez performs Friday, the Quincy pianist will be onstage with musicians from Korea, Kazakhstan, Israel, Russia and Europe. As organizer of the annual Global Jazz Institute concert at Berklee College of Music, Perez said he strives to connect people of different ...
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| VU Jazz Fest: Lauded artists and local musicians gather at annual event What started as a one-day event to showcase Valparaiso University's own jazz students 28 years ago, has steadily grown over the last 28 years into one of the largest non-competitive jazz music festivals of its kind. "It was a day and a half event with three performances," said Jeff Brown, the Jazz Studies ...
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| Dexter O'Neal: Jazz With The Funk UpFront "When I got to meet Bobby 'Blue' Bland, I was on '10' because he was my salvation," said Dexter O'Neal of the R&B legend who passed away in 2013. The leader of central Illinois based Dexter O'Neal and the Funkyard spent his first five years (and summers through his teen years) living with his ...
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| Bill Frisell Scores First No. 1 on Jazz Albums Chart With 'Music IS' Guitarist Bill Frisell notches his first No. 1 on the Jazz Albums chart, as his latest release, Music IS, bows atop the tally dated March 31. It also starts atop the Contemporary Jazz Albums list, marking his fourth leader on that tally, and his third in-a-row. The new album -- which was released on March 16 via ...
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| Jazz pianist Greg Hester of Cloverdale is still making music He also helped run an after-school music program at Cloverdale High School. On Saturday at 7 p.m., he will perform alongside Bay Area virtuosos Roger Glenn, Tommy Kesecker and Yancie Taylor as part of the main event during the Sonoma Mendocino Coast Whale and Jazz Festival at the Gualala ...
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| UConn Jazz reminisces on pivotal musical styles of the 1960s The program was titled "The Swingin' Sixties" and featured works written by key jazz composers and musicians of the 1960s. The image of the 1960's vibrant and transformative spirit was epitomized through jazz and Thursday's concert was UConn jazz students' way of recognizing that through paying ...
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| The Latin Jazz Collective brings feel-good jazzy tunes to Haute Enchilada. Percussionist John Nava describes the differences between East Coast jazz and West Coast jazz as if he's talking about culture at large: The former "has a more aggressive feel," while the latter is "a bit more laidback." With the Latin Jazz Collective, he plays a mix of those two brands of jazz, as well as ...
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| Dan Weiss's Starebaby Mines the Loud Ground Where Jazz and Metal Meet In January, an audience at the New School was treated to a surprising sonic shift: placid jazz quickly evolving into punishing metal. The instrumental quintet Starebaby began performing "The Memory of My Memory" in ballad mode, easing into a swaying, dreamlike melody. But before long, the tempo ...
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| 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend It's not every alto saxophonist's way, but with Ms. Fuller's blend of impeccable straight-ahead-jazz chops and gospelly inflections, it's engrossing. Later this spring, she will release "Diamond Cut," her first album in six years. She plays this weekend with the pianist Shamie Royston, the bassist Mimi Jones ...
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Tickets on sale Monday for 'Flood of Jazz' BROOKINGS – Once a year, Brookings High School band, choir and strings players all unite to present an evening of jazz music. The eighth annual Flood of Jazz features music from jazz icon George Gershwin. The must-hear musical experience will start at 7 p.m. April 20 in the Volstorff Ballroom of the ...
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