• The Volunteered Slaves-Nouveau single Astronaef Disponible en digital chez Day After Music
    Wednesday, January 20, 2021 from JazzWorldQuest - Jazz News With A Global Perspective
      The Volunteered Slaves Nouveau single Astronaef Disponible en digital chez Day After Music Les  Volunteered Slaves  reviennent avec un cinquième opus, une ode à l’espace. Le disque appelé  SpaceShipOne  est...
  • John Legend, Garth Brooks, Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake And More To Perform
    Wednesday, January 20, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
    Lady Gaga will perform the national anthem for the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Jan. 20. Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez will co-headline the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on Wed, Jan. 20. The day features a variety of performances from other musical artists.
  • JazzWorldQuest Showcase 2021: Marc Hoffman - ALWAYS WAITING Label: Virillion Music
    Wednesday, January 20, 2021 from JazzWorldQuest - Jazz News With A Global Perspective
    The timing is finally right for the release of Marc Hoffman’s, Always Waiting, an album of 10 new originals. “There was a lot of stop and start with this project, thanks to pauses for a couple of film projects and a deadline for a...
  • Lila Downs' New Song Is About Indigenous Workers' Invisible Labor
    Wednesday, January 20, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
    Lila Downs Downs speaks with Rachel Martin about "Dark Eyes," a song inspired by essential workers from Native American communities who are often overlooked.
  • Billie
    Wednesday, January 20, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Becca Stevens and Elan Mehler: Pallet On Your Floor
    Wednesday, January 20, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Elan Mehler is well known as a producer and as co-founder of the all-vinyl Newvelle Records label, which he co-founded in 2016. Mehler's pianist-composer bona fides are long-established. His eight recordings to date have reflected a wide...
  • Nicole Glover Trio at Smalls Jazz Club
    Wednesday, January 20, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Hal Galper Quintet: Live At The Berlin Philharmonic 1977
    Wednesday, January 20, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    It must be gratifying to accomplish everything you set out to do. Pianist Hal Galper says he has done just that. And, after a career that included work with trumpeter Chet Baker and saxophonists Cannonball Adderley and Stan Getz , along...
  • Dezron Douglas and Brandee Younger, Samuel Blaser and Pia Hernandez
    Wednesday, January 20, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Kari Ikonen: Impressions, Improvisations and Compositions
    Wednesday, January 20, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Twentieth century artists were often known to power their creative process with a jazz soundtrackand#151;Jackson Pollack's frenzied brushstrokes supposedly sparked by bebop horn spurtsand#151;while further back loftily enlightened...
  • Jazz Fusion from the '70s with Stanley Clarke, Return to Forever, Al Di Meola, plus much more
    Wednesday, January 20, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Various Artists: New Orleans Mambo: Cuba to NOLA
    Wednesday, January 20, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    The distance between New Orleans (Louisiana, USA) and Havana (Cuba) is almost exactly 670 miles, about a two-hour flight. But it takes only one listen to Putumayo Records' anthology New Orleans Mambo: Cuba to NOLA to bridge the distance...
  • Trump Pardons Steve Bannon, Lil Wayne In Final Clemency Flurry
    Wednesday, January 20, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
    Steve Bannon leaves federal court on Aug. 20 after pleading not guilty to charges he defrauded donors to an online fundraising scheme to build a southern border wall. Bannon and Lil Wayne were two of dozens of people granted clemency by Trump just hours before his terms comes to a close.
  • AWARD / GRANT: Roman Miroshnichenko Nominated In The Hollywood Music Awards And Wins Global Music Award
    Wednesday, January 20, 2021 from All About Jazz News
  • EDUCATION: World-Renowned Voice Teacher Jeannie Gagné Launches A New Subscription Series To Empower Singers And Transform Their Singing And Performing
    Wednesday, January 20, 2021 from All About Jazz News
  • Howard University's Marching Band To Perform During Inauguration
    Tuesday, January 19, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
    Howard University's Showtime Marching Band will be part of the inaugural activities. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, a Howard graduate, often included drum lines in her campaign events.
  • Folk Musician Peter Stampfel Pays Homage To 100 Favorite Songs On '20th Century'
    Tuesday, January 19, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
    A new five-CD set features Stampfel's recording of a favorite song for each year of the last century. The resulting collection is a wonderful survey of popular music — as well as lots of great fun.
  • Nora Brown: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
    Tuesday, January 19, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
    Nora Brown The 10th grader with a preternatural skill for the banjo performed a set of Appalachian folk music for Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST.
  • Punk And Harmony: Rising Rock Trio Palberta Finds A Sweet Spot
    Tuesday, January 19, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
    Palberta Just as soon as you think you have a frame of reference for the Brooklyn band's sound, it swerves into an entirely new direction. Palberta's new album, Palberta5000 , comes out Jan. 22.
  • Gabriel Garzón-Montano: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
    Tuesday, January 19, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
    Gabriel Garzón-Montano plays a Tiny Desk (home) concert. An eight-piece backing band, dressed almost entirely in white, helps Garzón-Montano bring the music of his latest album, Agüita , to life.
  • BIRTHDAY: Jazz Musician of the Day: Horace Parlan
    Tuesday, January 19, 2021 from All About Jazz News
  • Eivind Austad: That Feeling
    Tuesday, January 19, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Presenting an equal amount of originals and covers/standards, Norwegian pianist Eivind Austad 's New Orleans Trio channels The Big Easy's musical spirit through gospel-tinged ruminations, extended blues forms and a healthy portion of New...
  • Mirna Bogdanović: The Art Of Confrontation
    Tuesday, January 19, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Gregory Porter, Kronos Quartet, Alberto Pinton, Pat Metheny and More New Releases
    Tuesday, January 19, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Nir Felder: II
    Tuesday, January 19, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Six years after the release of his solo debut, Golden Age (Okeh, 2014), Nir Felder's follow-up II brings into sharper focus some of the guitarist's more compelling dichotomies as a player. His instrument of choice is the usually more...
  • Tenor Titans - Mark Turner Now
    Tuesday, January 19, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Michael Robinson: Lotus-Pollen
    Tuesday, January 19, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Multi-instrumentalist and composer Michael Robinson utilizes a unique amalgam of acoustic and digital technology to create captivating sonic tapestries. His genre-defying pieces are crafted with the rigour of a classicist yet they brim...
  • Ron Oswanski: Move On!
    Tuesday, January 19, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    In a 1977 magazine interview, New York Yankees Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson (in)famously referred to himself as "the straw that stirs the drink" for his team. On this trio set with organ player and composer Ron Oswanski and...
  • OBITUARY: Sammy Nestico (1924-2021)
    Monday, January 18, 2021 from All About Jazz News
  • JazzWorldQuest Showcase 2021:Kari Ikonen(Finland)-Album: Impressions, Improvisations and Compositions Label: Ozella Music
    Monday, January 18, 2021 from JazzWorldQuest - Jazz News With A Global Perspective
      Kari Ikonen(Finland)-Trance Oriental Composer: Kari Ikonen Album: Impressions, Improvisations and Compositions Label: Ozella Music Kari Ikonen recorded Impressions, Improvisations and Compositions on his historic Steinway in his...
  • Peter Archer: The True Inspiration of "Soul"
    Monday, January 18, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Interviews
  • What Is The Sound Of Grief? Osvaldo Golijov Puts It To Music
    Monday, January 18, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
    Composer Osvaldo Golijov (second from right) and three of his colleagues on Falling Out of Time: vocalists Wu Tong, Nora Fischer and Biella da Costa. In his newest work, Falling Out of Time , composer Osvaldo Golijov explores a painful subject — the death of a child. He was inspired by a unique literary work by Israeli writer David Grossman.
  • BOOK / MAGAZINE: Fernando Rodríguez De Mondesert Releases New Book: 'Women In Jazz... In The Dominican Republic'
    Monday, January 18, 2021 from All About Jazz News
  • TH1RT3EN: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
    Monday, January 18, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
    TH1RT3EN performs a Tiny Desk (home) concert. Pharoahe Monch's fed-up rock band performs four songs for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
  • BIRTHDAY: Jazz Musician of the Day: Bobby Broom
    Monday, January 18, 2021 from All About Jazz News
  • Guillermo Bazzola: Lost and Found
    Monday, January 18, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Argentinian guitarist Guillermo Bazzola 's deep admiration for late flugelhornist and composer Kenny Wheeler began to blossom back in 1979, when Bazzola was only 17 years old and first discovered the trumpet player's early oeuvre... [...
  • Scott Sawyer: Night Visions
    Monday, January 18, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    As a North Carolinian, guitarist Scott Sawyer may not enjoy the visibility of his counterparts in better-known jazz meccas, but fans of contemporary jazz guitar shouldn't pass him up. With some smart songwriting instincts and a knack for...
  • New Releases, New Faces and More Jazz Capricorns to Celebrate
    Monday, January 18, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
  • Craig Taborn: Compass Confusion
    Monday, January 18, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Although a peerless pianist, Craig Taborn has been captivated by electronics since the age of 12, and he scratches that itch big-time on Compass Confusion. The role of post-production treatments in the creation of jazz records has a long...
  • The Dancing Devils of Djibouti: The Dancing Devils of Djibouti
    Monday, January 18, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    A historic cultural achievement, The Dancing Devils of Djibouti celebrates the first recording to emerge with international distribution from the East African nation of Djibouti. Djibouti, among the smallest and youngest nations of...
  • Gospel Singer Looks Forward To Virtual Inauguration Day Concert
    Sunday, January 17, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
    Gospel great Fred Hammond discusses his participation in "The 2021 Inaugural Gospel Celebration: An Evening of Inspiration and Unity," which will take place Wednesday.
  • AWARD / GRANT: London Researcher Receives Joint Funding From The US National Endowment For The Humanities (NEH) And The UK Arts And Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
    Sunday, January 17, 2021 from All About Jazz News
  • Phil Spector, Legendary Record Producer And Convicted Murderer, Has Died At 81
    Sunday, January 17, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
    Phil Spector in the studio in an undated photo. The famous — even infamous — producer, known for his "wall of sound," died Saturday. He produced records for The Ronettes, Ike and Tina Turner as well as The Beatles, among many others.
  • Emel: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
    Sunday, January 17, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
    Emel The Tunisian-born singer capped the second night of our Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST virtual festival.
  • Hit La Rosa: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
    Sunday, January 17, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
    Hit La Rosa The band explored the many facets of Peruvian cumbia music for its Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST performance.
  • Lumineers Co-Founder Jeremiah Fraites Releases First Solo Album
    Sunday, January 17, 2021 from NPR Topics: Music
    NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Jeremiah Fraites of the Lumineers about his new solo album, Piano Piano.
  • BIRTHDAY: Jazz Musician of the Day: Cedar Walton
    Sunday, January 17, 2021 from All About Jazz News
  • Erik Verwey: People Flow
    Sunday, January 17, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Dutch pianist Erik Verway lives in a houseboat on the river Amstel, in Amsterdam. His view takes in the shimmering water and the geometry of the right angled architectures jutting from the greenery of the shoreline. It is a view that...
  • Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project: Kites and Strings
    Sunday, January 17, 2021 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
    Ben Rosenblum uses a lot of different instrumental elements on this release. For starters, he himself plays both piano and accordion, and his sextet also features trumpet, reeds and guitar. In addition, vibraphone and trombone show up on...
  • Bill Evans and Frank Kimbrough
    Sunday, January 17, 2021 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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