Yardbird Suite Virtual Series Continues This Week
09 July, 2020
Since Friday May 1, Yardbird Suite, Edmonton's premiere jazz venue since 1957, has been presenting a series of online performances for the Yardbird Suite Virtual Series. Since it started the Series has accumulated over 30,000 views. Edmonton audiences have been watching local jazz musicians on Yardbird ...
| Drummer Joe Porcaro Dies At 90
08 July, 2020
Joe Porcaro, a veteran jazz drummer and educator whose three sons co-founded Toto, has died at the age of 90.
"The Porcaro family is heartbroken to announce the passing of our beloved patriarch, Joe Porcaro," Steve Porcaro wrote on Facebook. "Surrounded by his wife Eileen and his family, Joe passed ...
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My Coma Dreams Available For Free Streaming Beginning July 17
08 July, 2020
My Coma Dreams, the extraordinary jazz theater piece based on the personal experience of Grammy-nominated pianist/composer Fred Hersch, who survived a two-month medically induced coma, will be available for free streaming beginning Friday, July 17 via YouTube. This video is best experienced with headphones ...
| Jorja Smith Releases Powerful New Video For "Rose Rouge" From "Blue Note Re:Imagined"
03 July, 2020
Jorja Smith has released a new video for "Rose Rouge" from the forthcoming album Blue Note Re:imagined. Directed by Samona Olanipekun, the video weaves together footage from the recent Black Lives Matters protests across the globe, creating a powerful backdrop to the song's insistent repeated lyric: ...
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Sara Serpa Featured In Livestream Concert Presented By Hot Clube De Portugal, July 3
02 July, 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://www.crowdcast.io/e/sara-serpa--andr-matos/register.
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| Elegant, Sophisticated Classical Pianist/Vocalist Releases World Jazz EP
30 June, 2020
Now dropping to radio stations around the world and set to spin in July the new Bergamot Rose EP hits the mark magnificently. The sought after Washington DC Pianist/Vocalist/Songwriter Jennifer Bergamot-Rose continues her romp into the world jazz market with the announcement of her latest EP titled ...
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Gerald Clayton Releases New Single "A Light" From "Happening: Live At The Village Vanguard"
29 June, 2020
Pianist Gerald Clayton has released "A Light," another new track from his forthcoming Blue Note Records debut Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard out July 10. Recorded at the legendary NYC jazz club with a quintet of longtime collaborators—Logan Richardson on alto saxophone, Walter Smith III on ...
| Sara Serpa Featured In Livestream Concert To Celebrate Recognition
27 June, 2020
On Sunday, June 28: Art Is Live will present groundbreaking vocalist and composer Sara Serpa in a live-streamed concert at 5 p.m. EDT to celebrate her multimedia masterpiece Recognition. She will be accompanied by guitarist André Matos. For information visit https://www.artislive.net/.
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Immanuel Wilkins To Release Debut Album "Omega" Produced By Jason Moran On August 7, 2020
26 June, 2020
Alto saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins delivers an expansive opus about the Black experience in America on his remarkable debut album Omega, which will be released August 7 on Blue Note Records. Omega was produced by Jason Moran and features a next-generation quartet with pianist Micah Thomas, ...
| Hear "Hipsippy Blues" From Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers' Never-Before-Released Album "Just Coolin'"
24 June, 2020
July 17 will see the release of Just Coolin', a never-before-released studio album by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers that was recorded on March 8, 1959 in Rudy Van Gelder's Hackensack, New Jersey studio. The session featured a short-lived line-up of The Jazz Messengers with drummer Art Blakey, trumpeter ...
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Bill Frisell Releases "We Shall Overcome" From New Trio Album "Valentine" Out August 14
23 June, 2020
Acclaimed guitarist Bill Frisell has announced his newest project Valentine - the debut recording of his trio with bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Rudy Royston - which will be released August 14 on Blue Note Records. Frisell has also released the album's closing track "We Shall Overcome," the Civil ...
| Raices Jazz Orchestra With Tony Succar & Pablo Gil Premiere Video Release Announced June 26
23 June, 2020
Raices jazz Orchestra (RJO) continues sharing content from their powerful self-titled debut album with the release of "Mas Que Nada", a video clip shot on location in Portoalegre (POA), Brazil's southern metropolis. RJO's version of Jorge Ben's classic composition "Mas Que Nada" is the third track in ...
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Derrick Hodge Releases New Single "Heartbeats" From "Color Of Noize" Out June 26
22 June, 2020
Bassist, composer, and producer Derrick Hodge has released "Heartbeats," the stunningly beautiful 2nd song to be revealed from his forthcoming album Color of Noize, which will be released June 26. Color of Noize is the band, the concept, and the album, and the project reflects a melting pot of influence ...
| Ezra Collective Rework Wayne Shorter's "Footprints" For "Blue Note Re:Imagined"
20 June, 2020
London quintet Ezra Collective has released their new version of Wayne Shorter's classic composition "Footprints," which was originally recorded on the legendary saxophonist's 1966 Blue Note album Adam's Apple. The track is the second single to be revealed from Blue Note Re:imagined, a forthcoming collection ...
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Derrick Hodge Releases New Single "Heartbeats" From "Color Of Noize" Out June 26
20 June, 2020
Bassist, composer, and producer Derrick Hodge has released "Heartbeats," the stunningly beautiful 2nd song to be revealed from his forthcoming album Color of Noize, which will be released June 26. Color of Noize is the band, the concept, and the album, and the project reflects a melting pot of influence ...
| Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile Reunite Grammy Award-Winning Group For Not Our First Goat Rodeo Album Available Now
20 June, 2020
Sony Music Masterworks today releases Not Our First Goat Rodeo, the long-awaited follow-up album to the GRAMMY Award-winning The Goat Rodeo Sessions, with Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile. Making its debut alongside the new album is a live performance video for the song "The Trappings," ...
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Unheard Thelonious Monk Recording Of A Surprise 1968 High School Performance Finally Set For Release
20 June, 2020
In the fall of 1968, a sixteen-year old high school student named Danny Scher had a dream to invite legendary jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk and his all-star quartet to perform a concert at his local high school in Palo Alto, CA. In a series of twists and turns, against a backdrop of racial ...
| Jazz Intensive, Theatre Workshops Go Virtual This Summer At Oakland University
19 June, 2020
Oakland University's School of Music, Theatre and Dance is offering virtual summer workshops this year, including a Summer Virtual Jazz Intensive featuring violinist Regina Carter, jazz drummer Sean Dobbins and flutist Nancy Stagnitta from July 20-24.
The OU Summer Virtual Jazz Intensive will focus ...
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World Jazz Band Special EFX Emerges From Quarantine Ready To Shine
17 June, 2020
GRAMMY nominated world music-contemporary jazz band Special EFX was in Denver one month into their concert tour promoting their 21st album, "All Stars," when the coronavirus pandemic forced their return home to shelter in place. For band leader Chieli Minucci, home is the epicenter of COVID-19 in the ...
| Gregory Porter Addresses Racial Prejudice On Soulful New Single "Mister Holland"
16 June, 2020
Gregory Porter has released "Mister Holland," a soulful new song with a pointed underlying message about acceptance and racial prejudice from his forthcoming album ALL RISE, which will be released August 28 on Blue Note Records.
Porter's version of protest can be worldly or down-home, as on "Mister ...
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