| contacts | |||||||||||||||||||
| Latest News! jazz, blues, world music | ||||||||||||||||||||
20.09.2024 Matt Panayides is a guitarist who has long had his own style. His harmonically adventurous playing, at times a bit reminiscent of Jim Hall and Pat Martino, is filled with fresh and personal chord voicings. While his previous recording, Field Theory, put the focus on electronics, With Eyes Closed has more of an acoustic sound. This is not only Panayides' first trio album, but his first to concentrate on jazz standards. read more 20.09.2024 The global pandemic was costly in terms of lives, misery and missed opportunities for all ages. For some in the early chapters of their lives, it was a lost attempt at having a crush during junior high, the excitement emanating from high school dances and proms or finding romance in university. But Toronto-based blues/jazz chanteuse Tanya Wills has encapsulated that feeling of youthful optimism for finding love in such hard, challenging times with her latest single, read more 20.09.2024 Ready to ascend to guitar heaven? Acclaimed and incendiary plectrists Andrew Synowiec and Oz Noy take you there on their co-led quartet release Recreational Substance. Backed by the monster rhythm section of bassist Hadrien Feraud (John McLaughlin's 4th Dimension, Chick Corea's Vigil) and drummer extraordinaire Marvin "Smitty" Smith (Dave Holland, Steve Coleman, Tonight Show with Jay Leno band), the two meld their off-the-charts jazz virtuosity with ferocious rock and funk energy. read more 20.09.2024 For many, the images and scenes of childhood remain stark and illuminated, a technicolor memory lit up with emotion and nostalgia. For bassist and composer Luke Sellick, the classic childhood toy of the View-Master - that reel of vibrant images one clicks through to send one's mind soaring to new worlds - is a joy that has stuck with him in the back of his mind. read more 19.09.2024 Sugah Hoof Records is proud to announce the November 1 release of Full Cream, the debut from a collective of four celebrated and innovative musicians comprising Greg Ward and Ziv Ravitz alongside GRAMMY-Award winners Matthew Stevens and Leo Genovese. read more  19.09.2024 Acclaimed trumpet player, composer, and unifying force David Weiss issues Auteur, spotlighting original music, never-before-recorded compositions from Freddie Hubbard and Slide Hampton, and the newest iteration of his award-winning band. His fourth release with the David Weiss Sextet — and the outfit's first in 10 years — Auteur features brilliant and penetrating orchestration and a virtuosic unity among bandmates, comprising longtime collaborators Myron Walden on alto saxophone and EJ Strickland on drums, and recent members Nicole Glover on tenor saxophone, David Bryant on piano, and Eric Wheeler on bass. read more19.09.2024 Idiosyncratic, large-scale and in its fundamental disposition one of a kind, Florian Weber's Imaginary Cycle, conceived for the unique instrumentation of brass ensemble and piano, is a hybrid of multiple musical languages that seamlessly blends the harmonious with the oblique. read more
04.09.2024 Canadian singer-songwriter Gracie Ella conveys a beautiful combination of soulful vocals, vulnerable songwriting, and a wide array of diverse influences in her music. Through her art, the Toronto, ON native wants more than anything to comfort listeners. On her latest single, "Skin, " Ella shares how confident she has become with herself and how she doesn't desire anything but her own independence and invincibility. read more 02.09.2024 On Friday September 13, The Linwood Taylor Band, with special guest Sol Roots, perform at the intimate concert hall and supper club, The Room at Cedar Grove, which is located on Delaware's scenic coast. The Room at Cedar Grove regularly showcases some of the very best in Mid Atlantic area blues, jazz, and rock talent. read more 07.08.2024 The Wheaton Arts & Entertainment District, in Wheaton Maryland, has partnered with the iconic Chuck Levin's Washington Music Center for this year's TGIF Summer Concert Series, offering after-work celebrations on Friday evenings. The weekly series, which continues through Aug. 30, will feature bands ranging from The Nighthawks, Sol Roots, Chopteeth, and Gordon Sterling and The People. read more  17.06.2024 On Thursday June 13, the Sol Roots Band with guest Vince Evans perform a special concert of dynamic funk, heartfelt jazz, and deep blues and soul, at JV's Music Room located in Northern Virginia. Hailed as a fierce guitarist and soulful vocalist, Sol Roots has toured around the world with many musical legends. His monthly residency concerts at the legendary JV's Music Room in Northern Virginia feature an array of special guest appearances of world-class performers. For the month of June 2024, the special guest will be the powerful keyboardist and vocalist Vince Evans. read more
18.09.2024 The Vermont Jazz Center is excited to lift off its 2024-25 concert season on Saturday September 21st with the dynamic Trinidadian trumpeter, composer and percussionist, Etienne Charles. Etienne Charles has traveled the world, seeking connections and differences between the rhythms and forms of Caribbean folkloric music. His band, Creole Soul, is his musical laboratory. read more 06.09.2024 The seamstress of worlds and words, Carmen Souza, returns with her eleventh album Port'Inglês (English Port). This Arts Council England supported album releases through Galileo Music Communication on 27th September 2024, with the launch concert taking place on 30th November at London's Crazy Coqs. read more 06.09.2024 On Friday, August 23, 2024, Apollo Chamber Players releases their seventh album, Trace of Time, as a digital release on Azica Records. In this project featuring works by Héctor Del Curto, Julia Smith, Jessie Montgomery, Adolphus Hailstork, Astor Piazzolla and Agustín Bardi, Apollo brings together a diverse patchwork of cultural stories seen partly through the lens of how they linger in our memories as time passes. read more 20.08.2024 Transylvanian Dance takes as its starting point transcriptions of folk songs and dance tunes collected by Béla Bartók a century ago. For Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri, these pieces have become "springboards and sources of melodic material" for performances "that capture the spirit of the original yet allow us to improvise and bring our own world to them…" read more
|
Last News! jazz, blues, world music
|
| jazz news | |||||||||||||||||