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16.09.2024 Space in Time is my debut album as a leader. The title track draws inspiration from the books Only the Ball Was White by Robert Peterson and The Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski. Both works highlight the incredible athletic feats and adversity faced by black baseball players in the professional negro leagues. read more 16.09.2024 On the heels of a three-CD trio trilogy, spanning 2022-2023 and three major cities worth of sounds and musicians, bandleader and saxophonist Adam Larson formed "Hybrid"; a sax, bass drums trio featuring a musician from each of the albums of the trilogy. The result is a rhythm section consisting of KC-based drummer John Kizilarmut and Chicago-based bassist, Clark Sommers. read more 16.09.2024 While in New York City for the 2023 Jazz Congress, Sylvia Brooks felt compelled to make a pilgrimage to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Descending into the hallowed ground where nearly 3, 000 people lost their lives, she experienced a musical epiphany as "Amazing Grace" swept over her. read more  16.09.2024 Singer, composer and Seattle native Courtney Cutchins releases her debut album 'Grunge to Grace' with songs from her 90s youth. The album with six originals and three re-imagined anthems by grunge rock luminaries Nirvana and Soundgarden will be out on October 18. Cutchins sings with a luminous voice. She is a vivid storyteller, and prolific songwriter. "These deep, introspective grunge rock songs make sense to me, " said the singer who currently splits her time between the Big Apple and the Greater Savannah Area. "They fit the theme of this album, which is about living in your authentic truth. It's about the journey to become who you are and who you want to be." read more 16.09.2024 With his new solo program, Etudes/Quietudes, Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel celebrates the acoustic guitar, the instrument he switched to at the age of 13. (He had been trained to play classical music on violin.) The core of this new recording is a collection of concert etudes composed by .Muthspiel. Each of these 11 etudes explores a different aspect of the music for guitar, ranging from reflective to animated. The etudes are linked by four other pieces, such as Muthspiel's heartfelt homage to Bill Evans ("For Bill Evans"); a sarabande by Johann Sebastian Bach (on which he improvises with elements from the sarabande, consisting of 3 pieces); a theme by Paul Motian ("Abacus"), partly improvised; and a fast miniature called, "Triplet Droplet." read more14.09.2024 "Weird is at the forefront of what we do in Forq, " says the keyboardist and composer Henry Hey, breaking into a laugh. "We play groove-based improvised music. I don't really think of it as 'fusion, ' unless we're talking about fusing Ennio Morricone with gameshow music from the '70s, classic video-game soundtracks and D'Angelo." read more 14.09.2024 Longtime Wallace Roney tenor saxophonist and Berklee College of Music graduate Ben Solomon joins the Giant Step Arts roster with two albums: Echolocation, a quartet date recorded at Hunter College's Ida K. Lang Hall as part of Giant Step Arts' Open Recording Session/Concert series, and Chromatophores II, classical études for solo saxophone. 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
06.09.2024 The seamstress of worlds and words, Carmen Souza, returns with her eleventh album Port'Inglęs (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 18.08.2024 On Thursday, September 5th at 8:30pm Composers Concordance presents Gene Pritsker's Sound Liberation, which takes the stage of Birdland Theater to celebrate the release of the album 'Gene & The Strings'. Joining Sound Liberation for this event are violinists Lara St. John and Machiko Ozawa, they will perform compostions from the new album, originally for solo violin, but here arranged for violin and Sound Liberation read more
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