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03.04.2025 Jazz musicians who double or triple educators, presenters and support-group organizers. Festival producers from Tucson to Northhampton, from the San Diego-Tijuana Borderland to Guelph, Ontario. The writer and scholar who founded Jazz Appreciation Month, the Jazz Foundation of America's Executive Director, and the woman whose persistence has paid off in greater opportunities and visibility for other women as players and stars. read more 03.04.2025 Tyrone Birkett presents Sonic Sanctuary II : The Luminous Darkness is a music experience countering chaos and despair with revival, joy and resilience. A safe gathering place where we hear the freedom of jazz improvisation and fervent Black church sonics, with solace and healing in the community. read more 03.04.2025 Grammy-winning saxophonist, composer and producer Joe Lovano is fearless in finding new modes of artistic expression. With a Grammy win for his 52nd Street Themes and 14 other nominations, he has won DownBeat Magazine's Critics and Readers Polls countless times as Tenor Saxophonist, Musician of the Year, Jazz Album of the Year and Triple Crowns from DownBeat. read more 03.04.2025 Paul Hecht is a multifaceted artist with expertise that spans far beyond the discipline of music. A trained jazz pianist whose language and form was nurtured through an early encounter with Yusef Lateef, Hecht quickly became fascinated with realms of creativity outside a single genre and medium. read more 03.04.2025 Hailed as a "fully committed saxophonist and visionary" by The New Yorker, Ingrid Laubrock has evolved a distinctive, fascinatingly complex and richly layered sonic vocabulary that spans her efforts as an improviser, as leader of her own diverse ensembles or, as in the case of her captivating new album Purposing The Air, as composer and conceptualist for other musicians. read more 02.04.2025 "The drummer drives and unifies, drummer Alex Kautz ties his native Brazil's breezy if sometimes wistful sensibility to contemporary, light- gaughet compositionally based fusion". Downbeat magazine read more 02.04.2025 Vinyl Album Launch – PizzaExpress Jazz Club, Soho – 8th April 2025 "Jo Harrop's music comes straight from the heart. I heard it in her voice the very first time I listened to her." Larry Klein (Producer – The Path Of A Tear) "A very fine jazz artist. When she sings, she moves me." Iggy Pop – BBC 6 Music 'A rare mix of delicacy and boldness. Sheer perfection.' The Guardian read more
03.04.2025 People of all Faiths Welcome to In-The-Bowery 's Good Friday Blues Service 4.18.25 12:00-3:00 pm A dramatic Good Friday experience with Blues and Jazz music Preachers: Pádraig Ó Tuama, Nell Gibson, the Rev. Nontombi Naomi Tutu read more 07.03.2025 On Friday March 7, the Sol Roots trio performs a night of dynamic funk, upbeat jazz, deep blues and soul, and hypnotic rhythms at Two Nineteen in Old Town Alexandria, VA. read more 04.03.2025 The Maitland Jazz and Blues Festival presented by Duke Energy on April 4-5, 2025 will showcase some of the best local and touring artists – 12 bands in all – on two stages for a non-stop music celebration along with great food and drinks, crafts and vendors and lots of kids activities. read more 28.02.2025 The Blues are the roots of African American music today. Blues On The Patio, Spring/Fall series, features local and regional Blues artists. This series provides a network of association for area Blues lovers and build upon the Blues Education program by encouraging youth participation. Admission is FREE! read more
03.04.2025 In the midst of the worldwide success of "Bossa Nova Noites I: Bahia Nights", which continues to gain traction on international radio (50 countries, in 150 markets, including 40 of the 50 U.S. states), "Broken Promises" is the latest single from Bossa Nova Noites, bringing together an extraordinary lineup of musicians from Brazil and the U.S. read more 01.04.2025 On Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025 at 7pm at Kostabi World, Composers Concordance presents the Leo Genovese & Franz Hackl Duo, performing their repertoire plus new compositions for trumpet and piano. Featured on the program are the premieres of Genovese's 'Wait a Day' and Gene Pritsker's 'Imminent, ' as well as music by Franz Hackl and Mark Kostabi. read more 07.03.2025 Considered the most important musician in the history of Afro-Cuban based dance music (Salsa/Son), Arsenio Rodriguez was indeed transformative. A master of the mandolin sounding Cuban Tres, he was the the first to add the conga drum to band performance, the piano to play son/salsa, developed the multi-horn mambo concept and created the son montuno, the rhythmic foundation of salsa. read more 28.02.2025 Eight years after Blue Maqams, Anouar Brahem returns with a new project, and a programme of powerfully-moving pieces for oud, cello, piano and bass. Asked about the nature of his artistic journey, Brahem has drawn analogies with the growth of a tree, its branches spreading out above ground, while roots dig ever deeper. read more |
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