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| Jazz music highlights spring events [Glenwood/Glenelg/Dayton] Glenelg High School's Jazz Ensemble will be performing in the "Jazz Under the Stars" on Saturday, May 26, at Chapel View Farm in Woodbine. The ensemble, directed by Christopher Winters, will perform along with Junkyard Saints, their special guest artists. This seven member local band performs its ...
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All that jazz as music vehicle to connect Charlotte Lonnie Davis, president and CEO of Jazz Arts Initiative, has been using jazz to connect Charlotteans for over a decade. In preparing for their 11th season with the vision and goal of their music creating further connections, Davis has seen significant strides in the arts since JAI's launch. "I have seen lots of ...
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| Violinist Lucine Fyelon to headline Oklahoma City Jazz Festival Deep Deuce was the heart of Oklahoma City's African-American neighborhood in the 1920s and '30s, and during that time the district was known for its incredible jazz music. Classical hip-hop and jazz violinist Lucine Fyelon will be this year's headliner. The 2018 festival supports the YWCA and music ...
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| Ramsey Lewis' farewell and Nicole Mitchell's return highlight Jazz Fest lineup A farewell performance by Chicago pianist Ramsey Lewis, a themed concert by Orbert Davis and the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic and homecoming sets by former Chicagoans Nicole Mitchell and Kurt Elling will headline the 40th annual Chicago Jazz Festival, running Aug. 29 through Sept.
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| Jazz Educators Or Not? Trumpeter Visits IWU Ensemble It's odd hearing the director of a university jazz program argue that he is NOT an educator. "We're just old musicians who want to bring everything we've learned in this business to the younger generation and inspire them to play some music," said Illinois Wesleyan University Director of Jazz Glenn ...
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| 'Jazz and Justice': Where art meets activism "Jazz musicians are the starting point, but the focus is on art, activism and social change," said Anderson. "As we know, and as Dr. King acknowledged at the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival, jazz musicians and the jazz culture paved the way for the Civil Rights Movement because it was in jazz clubs that for the ...
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| 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend BROOKLYN RAGA MASSIVE WITH AMIR ELSAFFAR at the Jazz Gallery (April 20-21, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.). What raga is to South Asian music — a system of melodic patterns that also serve broadly as a guide — maqam roughly is to Arab, Turkish and Persian music. At this concert Mr. ElSaffar, ...
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| Jazzing up the downtown: Eau Claire Jazz Festival draws large crowd Dawson Redenius practiced his gold-plated trumpet outside Friday afternoon, getting ready to play a pair of shows with his band As of Now as part of the Eau Claire Jazz Festival. Redenius, 19, of Fort Atkinson is a UW-Eau Claire freshman student majoring in music education. This marks his second ...
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| Jazz and Puppetry Work in Tandem in "Rhapsody in Plastic" A show on Thursday, April 19 will combine puppetry and jazz music for a unique storytelling performance. The show, which is titled "Rhapsody in Plastic," will take place in the Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public. "Rhapsody in Plastic" will be a collaborative effort from ...
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| Nathan Davis, Jazz Saxophonist and Educator, Is Dead at 81 Nathan Davis, a jazz saxophonist, composer and educator who helped establish a place for African-American music in the academy, died on April 8 in Atlantis, Fla. He was 81. His death, at the JFK Medical Center, was confirmed by his son, Pierre, who said the cause was congestive heart failure.
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