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Sara Serpa to Release New Album 'ENCOUNTERS AND COLLISONS' This Week
by Blair Ingenthron - November 10, 2024 The album features Serpa’s longtime collaborators Ingrid Laubrock on saxophone and Erik Friedlander on cello, joined by pianist Angelica Sanchez. Learn more here!...
Saxophonist Kevin Sun Releases First Live Album 'The Fate Of The Tenor' in March
by Michael Major - January 22, 2024 Recorded on the summer solstice in June 2022, The Fate of the Tenor documents Sun's working band with bassist Walter Stinson and drummer Matt Honor–a true rarity in modern jazz–on a particularly good night during his residency at Lowlands Bar, where he has performed every Tuesday since September 202...
Hays Street Hart Releases 'Bridges'
by Michael Major - October 31, 2023 Hays Street Hart's new album 'Bridges' is now available via Smoke Sessions Records. Featuring Kevin Hays, Ben Street, and Billy Hart. Hays Street Hart, the trio of pianist Kevin Hays, bassist Ben Street, and legendary drummer Billy Hart, recorded their acclaimed 2021 debut, All Things Are, under les...
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....
Hays Street Hart to Release 'Bridges' in October
by Michael Major - August 14, 2023 The album began its life as a performance in honor of Hart’s 80th birthday in December 2020, live streamed from an empty Smoke Jazz Club in the final weeks of that grueling pandemic year. Despite those adversities, the music they created that night was spectacular enough to convince all involved tha...
Pianist and Composer Fred Hersch Shares 'This Is Always' Single
by Marissa Tomeo - May 08, 2022 Revered pianist/composer Fred Hersch reemerged from the pandemic with one of his most ambitious and acclaimed projects to date: Breath By Breath, his first album ever pairing jazz rhythm section with string quartet. The album found Hersch's trio featuring bassist Drew Gress and drummer Jochen Ruecke...
Sara Serpa Featured In Livestream Concert Presented By Hot Clube De Portugal, July 3
by A.A. Cristi - July 01, 2020 On Friday, July 3, Hot Clube de Portugal will present groundbreaking vocalist and composer Sara Serpa in a live-streamed concert. Serpa is celebrating her multimedia masterpiece Recognition. She will be accompanied by guitarist André Matos and drummer João Pereira. For information visit https://ww...
Sara Serpa Featured In Livestream Concert To Celebrate 'Recognition'
by A.A. Cristi - June 18, 2020 ...
Dimensions Festival Announces Final Programme for 2020
by Kaitlin Milligan - February 04, 2020 Dimensions Festival completes its ambitious 2020 programme with the news that Underground Resistance Live, Ash Lauryn, Moritz Von Oswald, Batu, DVS1, JASSS, Voigtmann, Reiss, Youandewan, Huerta, Red Greg, Yak, Freakenstein, Charles Webster, LSDXOXO, Josh Cheon as well as new partners VBX, Love Muscl...
Dimensions Festival Announces Lineup for Final Year at Fort Punta Christo
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 31, 2019 Croatian essential mainstay Dimensions announces another forward thinking line up - pulling together all the fringes of the electronic music sphere for one last party at Fort Punta Christo from Wednesday 28th August - Sunday 1st September....
Slow & Steady Records Announces Release of Richard Sears' IRON YEAR
by Tori Hartshorn - September 20, 2018 Slow & Steady Records announces the release of Richard Sears' fifth album, Iron Year. Sears expands on the compositional palette from his previous album, Altadena, with new material written after moving to New York City in 2015, realized primarily for sextet. Iron Year draws inspiration from the Har...
Trumpeter Cuong Vu Rekindles Chemistry With Bill Frisell on Second RareNoise Release, 9/28
by Sarah Jae Leiber - September 18, 2018 As a follow-up to 2017's acclaimed Ballet: The Music of Michael Gibbs, Seattle-based trumpeter Cuong Vu joins forces once again with guitar great Bill Frisell, bassist Luke Bergman and drummer Ted Poor on the boundary-pushing quartet outing for RareNoiseRecords, Change in the Air. With all the membe...
Bryn Roberts & Lage Lund's HIDE THE MOON AND STARS On 10/26
by Tori Hartshorn - September 13, 2018 Hide the Moon and the Stars, the sublime new duo recording from pianist Bryn Roberts and guitarist Lage Lund, isn't the kind of jazz album that needs to be read about before it can be understood and enjoyed. It didn't premiere as part of a postmodern opera or multimedia performance; there isn't an o...
Cuong Vu's Change in the Air feat. Bill Frisell Out in Late September on RareNoise
by Tori Hartshorn - August 30, 2018 RareNoiseRecords was founded in 2008 by two Italians, entrepreneur Giacomo Bruzzo and music producer Eraldo Bernocchi. Located in London, the label's mission is to detect and amplify contemporary trends in progressive music, by highlighting their relation to the history of the art-form, while choosi...
Pianist/Composer Yelena Eckemoff Evokes Mystery & Allure of Arabian Desert on Quartet Outing "Desert," Set for Release May 4
by Robert Diamond - April 07, 2018 It takes a discerning eye, or in this case ear, to envision the desert as more than a vast, arid wasteland. Pianist/composer Yelena Eckemoff succeeds in musically portraying many of this daunting environment's mysteries and its boundless allure on her new recording, "Desert", to be release...
NYC Musician's Union Local 802 Announces Winner of Four-Year $40,000 Emerging Artists Project Grant: The Roxy Coss Quintet!
by Macon Prickett - April 02, 2018 The Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802 AFM today announced that the Roxy Coss Quintet is the winner of the union's groundbreaking Emerging Artists Project (EAP). The four-year grant program, launched in partnership with Orchestra of St. Luke's (OSL), has been designed to provide sup...
Dimensions Festival Announce First Wave Artists Including KRAFTWERK, Helena Hauff, Moodymann, and More
by Stephi Wild - February 07, 2018 From Wednesday 29th August 'til Monday 3rd September, world class spinners and breakthrough artists from around the globe return to the Adriatic coast for Dimensions' 7th Edition. Festival goers can indulge in sun soaked holiday vibes - raving all night and beach chilling all day, or can make the mo... |