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Julian Lage New Album Out Now; US Tour Starts in March
by Michael Major - March 01, 2024 Speak To Me was produced by Joe Henry and offers a series of dispatches from Lage's ongoing search for narrative beyond words. Intimate in tone and intention, the music travels a wide range of American music and delights in the deliberate crossing of wires between gospel hymn and rural blues, Califo... 
Julian Lage Announces New Album; Shares Two New Songs
by Michael Major - January 17, 2024 Speak To Me showcases the guitarist in a variety of settings, including solo acoustic, duo, his accustomed trio with bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Dave King, and a larger ensemble with keyboards (from Kris Davis and Patrick Warren) and woodwinds (Levon Henry). It's Lage's fourth effort for Blue N... 
Alon Nechushtan Presents 'Moving Voices' U.S. Tour Dates
by Michael Major - October 18, 2023 Alon Nechushtan's latest project, Moving Voices, is a jazz performance that aims to amplify immigrant voices and tell stories of extraordinary voyages. Join the international quartet on their East Coast tour in November 2023.... 
Tyshawn Sorey to Self-Release First Album of Covers 'Mesmerism' With Aaron Diehl & Matt Brewer
by Michael Major - May 04, 2022 Mesmerism meets drummer Tyshawn Sorey featuring pianist Aaron Diehl and bassist Matt Brewer. Sorey – a 2017 MacArthur Fellow, Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania, collaborator with Vijay Iyer, Kris Davis, Roscoe Mitchell, Hafez Modirzadeh, Myra Melford, Marilyn Crispell and other mu... 
Ches Smith and His Quartet Release 'Interpret It Well' LP
by Marissa Tomeo - May 01, 2022 “Interpret it well,” reads the script text in Raymond Pettibon’s mysteriously evocative drawing. A few thick black ink strokes describe an enigmatic landscape – the telephone poles, the railroad track and the building in the distance seem obvious enough as markers of desolation, but the swirl of lin... 
Matthew Stevens Will Release 'Pittsburgh,' a Solo Acoustic Guitar Album
by TV News Desk - June 28, 2021 By September 2020, Stevens was hunkering down in his wife’s family's hometown of Pittsburgh, still busy with adjunct teaching (virtually) at Baltimore’s Peabody Institute while navigating his way through the crisis.... 
Jazz Journalists Association Announces 2021 Jazz Awards Winners
by A.A. Cristi - May 07, 2021 As trending in the greater jazz community, creative women earned significant recognition: Composer-orchestra leader Maria Schneider, whose album Data Lords (ArtistShare) is Record of the Year, and drummer-producer educator Terri Lyne Carrington, Jazz Musician of the Year, won multiple awards. Women ... 
2021 JJA Jazz Awards Winners Announced
by Sarah Jae Leiber - May 06, 2021 See all results of JJA members' 25th annual voting in 47 categories that honor writers, photographers, broadcasters, books, documentaries, podcasts and live-stream productions as well as musicians' achievements, at JAJazzAwards.org. ... 
Eric Revis Flexes Conceptual Sensitivity With Release Of
'Slipknots Through A Looking Glass'
by A.A. Cristi - September 04, 2020 A highly skilled master of sound and sense, GRAMMY award-winning bassist and composer Eric Revis has crafted his artistic legacy around asking the same question again and again: Why not? Experimenting remains integral to his expression. Over the years, the critically-acclaimed artist's willingness t... 
Cory Smythe 'Accelerate Every Voice' Out This Friday
by A.A. Cristi - June 08, 2020 Pianist and composer Cory Smythe evokes cyborg choirs and coastal floods on Accelerate Every Voice, his second release for Pyroclastic Records and the follow-up to 2018 album Circulate Susanna. Bringing together five vocalists from the a cappella, new and improvised music scenes, AEV cradles Smythe'... 
61st Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Tickets On Sale Now
by A.A. Cristi - August 09, 2018 Three-day Arena and Grounds Ticket Packages for the 61st Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, September 21-23 are on sale now, and can be purchased online at montereyjazzfestival.org or by calling 888.248.6499.... 
Kristo Rodzevski's Releases THE RABBIT AND THE FALLEN SYCAMORE with Formidable Jazz Progressives
by Macon Prickett - May 25, 2018 The Rabbit and the Fallen Sycamore, the third album in a trilogy by singer-songwriter Kristo Rodzevski and his group of jazz progressives, will be released by Much Prefer Records today!... 
61st Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Package Tickets On Sale 5/1
by Tori Hartshorn - April 26, 2018 Three-day Arena and Grounds Ticket Packages for the 61st Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, September 21-23 go on sale Tuesday, May 1. Tickets can be purchased online at montereyjazzfestival.org or by calling 888.248.6499.... 
Kristo Rodzevski New Album, THE RABBIT AND THE FALLEN SYCAMORE with Formidable Jazz Progressives Out May 25
by Macon Prickett - April 26, 2018 The Rabbit and the Fallen Sycamore, the third album in a trilogy by singer-songwriter Kristo Rodzevski and his group of jazz progressives, will be released by Much Prefer Records on May 25, 2018.... |
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