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26.10.2024 Rebecca Kilgore's musical collaboration with composer and pianist Dave Frishberg began in the 1980s and included a five-year run at the Heathman Hotel in Portland, Oregon, among many other engagements. Following Dave's death in 2021, Ms. Kilgore and her husband, the talented arranger and trumpeter Dick Titterington, undertook the recording of a tribute album. read more 26.10.2024 Neil "Nail" Alexander is premiering his Piano Transformations at The William and Helen Richards Theatre in Orange Hall at 7:30 pm on Saturday, October 26, 2024. The venue of the concert, is located in Orange Hall at SUNY Orange. GPS 24 Grandview Ave, Middletown, NY where free parking is available in lot #1. read more 26.10.2024 October 28 (Monday) 5:30 & 8:30 PM – Birdland Theater Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks Catch Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks every Monday evening in January at Birdland Theater! Giordano, the recipient of a GRAMMY Award for his work scoring the HBO show Boardwalk Empire, is a master composer and arranger whose 11-piece band, The Nighthawks, recreate the jubilant 1920s jazz sound with amazing definition, using violins, tubas, banjos, and collector's item drum sets. read more 25.10.2024 Carpenters Legacy's Christmas album is now available on all streaming platforms! The album includes many of the Carpenters' beloved holiday hits, plus the new original Christmas song "Christmastime with You", composed and arranged by Ned Mills in the style of the Carpenters. Click here to read the official press release as seen on the Associated Press website. read more 25.10.2024 Versatile and Master Multi-instrumentalist, Composer, and Arranger T.K. Blue Announces Visionary New Album Planet Bluu - Out October 25, 2024 via JAJA Records Featuring T.K. Blue on Saxophone, Flute, and Kalimba, with Trumpeter Wallace Roney Jr., Pianist Davis Whitfield, Bassist Dishan Harper, and Drummer Orion Turre - with Special Guests Steve Turre and Dave Kikoski read more  25.10.2024 Aggeliki and Ariadne - a jazz vocalist and a classically trained soprano - have joined forces to create a unique take on the 1956 classic "I Put a Spell on You". Featuring sultry vocals and an impressive vocal range, this duet is sure to cast a spell on you and have you wondering what (or whom) these two sassy women are fighting over. Aggeliki and Ariadne are lifelong friends who hail from Greece and crossed paths in New York City. If you run into them during the day, you might mistake them for attorneys…because they are! read more25.10.2024 Stepping back into the realm of dating can be an intriguing or irksome conundrum for those who have recently separated, split up, or divorced. With the commitment to your former partner now just a memory, some simply appreciate the joys of dating from afar. That is to say not dating at all. It's this idea that planted the creative kernel for Toronto-area jazz/blues singer Tanya Wills' latest Latin-infused single "That's Love" from her new album She, out now. read more
14.10.2024 It's been eight years since R&B singer Eric Benét dropped an album. Now the vet is back on the scene and has tapped Tamar Braxton for an assist. "Something We Can Make Love To" features smooth and passionate vocals from both singers, set to an intimate and romantic mood. An alluring exchange of passionate lyrics can be heard over the three-minute track. read more 03.10.2024 Deep Digs, in cooperation with the B. B. King Estate, Universal Music Enterprises and INA France, will issue a sensational, previously unreleased B.B. King album, In France: Live at the 1977 Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival, as a limited two-LP set for RSD Black Friday on Nov. 29. 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
18.10.2024 A special recording project from Seikilo Ancient World Music from master lyre musician, Theodore Koumartzis, upright electric bassist, Jordan Koumartzis & lyre musician vocalist, Thanasis Kleopas read more  15.10.2024 Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Suite for Africa Best Jazz Performance: Suite for Africa PART I "Spirit Africa, Spirit Liberia" Best Engineered Album: Suite for Afric Best Instrumental Composition: Dancing Clouds Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals: Suite for Africa PART I, II and III Pianist/composer Amina Figarova pairs her stellar sextet with a choir of orphaned and at-risk children from Liberia on her masterful new album, featuring Wayne Escoffery, Bart Platteau, Alex Pope Norris, Yasushi Nakamura and Rudy Royston, joined by West Africa's Matsiko World Orphan Choir read more14.10.2024 67TH GRAMMY AWARDS BEST GLOBAL MUSIC ALBUM Sugilanon, Caroline Cabading on Patois Records A story about one family of a larger Filipino-American experience in San Francisco since the early 1900s. read more 10.10.2024 One of India's most versatile singers, Pratibha Singh Baghel's dream to perform ghazals at London's Royal Albert Hall, comes true on Sunday 17th November. In a sublime performance accompanied by South Asian musicians, Pratibha Singh Baghel celebrates ghazals and geet. Pronounced 'guzzle' – ghazals are poems that traditionally focus on romantic love, that lend themselves to being performed in a classical format with minimal musical accompaniment. read more
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