Entries Tagged as 'Jazz Music Links'
Enrico Rava Quartet with Gianluca Petrella: This Wild Dance
The senior statesman, and easily the most recognizable name in Italian jazz, trumpeter Enrico Rava returns with a revised quintet line up on This Wild Dance. Rava, who early in his career worked with saxophonist m: Steve Lacy , pianist m: Mal Waldron and trombonist {{m: Roswell…
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·Staying on the Watch by Sonny Simmons
Alto saxophonist Sonny Simmons embraces music with his whole body, soul, mind and spirit; that much is clear from Staying on the Watch, recorded in August 1966 and reissued by ESP-Disk in 2010. Amazon.com Widgets In retrospect, Staying on the Watch is tinted with distinct shades of an approach that is more mystical and all-embracing; […]
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·MySpace Offers Rock and Jazz Classics
MySpace is luring in older users with free streaming music from Lionel Richie, Neil Young, The Cure and many others. MySpace Offers Rock and Jazz Classics
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·Playboy Jazz Festival Announces Lineup
Copyright 2009 Leroy Hamilton / Playboy Quincy Jones had a twofold purpose in taking the podium at Wednesday’s announcement of the 31st annual Playboy Jazz Festival. First he continued his advocacy for a secretary of the arts Cabinet position; second he introduced 23-year-old Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez, whom he has taken under his wing over […]
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·Seabreeze Jazz Festival Moves to Northwest Florida’s Gulf Coast
Jazz-lovers and sun-seekers across the nation are getting ready to “shake off those winter blues”–with a remedy of white sands, beautiful water, and the best in smooth contemporary jazz. The coastal beach setting of the Pier Park Amphitheater in Panama City Beach will “come alive” as the 2009 ResortQuest Seabreeze Jazz Festival makes it way […]
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·Dominican Marie Claire Giraud for Jamaica Jazz and Blues – and beyond
However, improvisational music has not gained half as much ground on the consciousness of Dominicans and probably never will, Jazz being what it is, a niche genre. Still for all, there is a cadre of Dominican Jazz musicians who continue to plug away, hoping to build a Jazz scene on the island. At the forefront […]
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·Trinidad’s Etienne Charles Trumps Live Art Event
Imagine that. Imagine the possibilities that the Jazz idiom offers the creative and the daring. Imagine Trinidadian trumpeter Etienne Charles’ music being used as a soundtrack to a live art painting event starring Mark Wiener. Art Interactive with Mark Wiener & Etienne Charle from Roger Smith Life on Vimeo. Mark Wiener, an abstract painter from […]
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