Join Us For The Special 35th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival Coverage & Interviews on T.U.M.S.! 2013 Good Morning Readers and whats happening? T.U.M.S. kicks off the week with a slew of special interviews with yours truly slated to perform this weekend at the 35th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival. It’s happening …
NEW YORK & LONDON, JUNE 6, 2013 – Blue Note Records, the world’s premiere jazz label, has launched an iPhone and iPod touch version of its Blue Note by Groovebug App, which was introduced for iPad last year, both versions available exclusively on the App Store.
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ISTANBUL, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In an unprecedented series of events worldwide, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz joined together to celebrate jazz as a universal language of freedom on April 30th. With events taking place in every country on the planet, International Jazz Day 2013 culminated in an evening concert at Istanbul’s Hagia Irene that was viewed live by millions around the world and featured pianists Herbie Hancock, John Beasley (Musical Director), George Duke , Robert Glasper , Ramsey Lewis , Keiko Matsui and Eddie Palmieri ; vocalists Ruben Blades , Al Jarreau , Milton Nascimento , Dianne Reeves , Esperanza Spalding (who also played bass) and Joss Stone ; trumpeters Terence Blanchard , Hugh Masekela and Imer Demirer ; bassists James Genus, Marcus Miller and Ben Williams ; drummers Terri Lyne Carrington and Vinnie Colaiuta ; guitarists Bilal Karaman , John McLaughlin , Lee Ritenour and Joe Louis Walker ; saxophonists Dale Barlow , Igor Butman , Branford Marsalis , Wayne Shorter and Liu Yuan ; clarinetists Anat Cohen and Husnu Senlendirici; violinist Jean-Luc Ponty ; Pedrito Martinez on percussion; tabla master Zakir Hussain ; trombonist Alevtina Polyakova ; and special guest Martin Luther King III.
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OYE!!! Album Release Coincides With
Four-Night Residency at SF Jazz May 30 – June 2
Featuring THE RHYTHM COLLECTIVE (May 30),
ALMA ADENTRO: The Puerto Rican Songbook (May 31),
IDENTITIES: Tales From The Diaspora (June 1) &
DUOS with LUIS PERDOMO & PAOLI MEJIAS (June 2)
Zenón Celebrates 10 YEARS with His Longstanding Quartet
In His VILLAGE VANGUARD DEBUT AS A LEADER – MAY 14-19
with Luis Perdomo, Hans Glawischnig & Henry Cole
The life of a jazz musician is often about fusing life experiences, creative coalitions, new ideas about rhythm, content, flow and innovative musical languages.
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CHART TOPPING SAXOPHONIST BONEY JAMES RE-SIGNS WITH CONCORD RECORDS AND PRESENTS NEW PROJECT THE BEAT
DUE FOR RELEASE APRIL 9, 2013
Guest Artists Include Raheem DeVaughn, The Floacist, Rick Braun
Three-time GRAMMY nominee Boney James has returned to former label Concord Records with a dynamic, genre-busting album The Beat. One of the most successful instrumental artists of our time with sales totaling over 3 million records, James’ new project fuses his R&B/Jazz roots with Latin rhythm and percussion.
Jazz Conversations with JaRon K. Eames is a compilation of more than 400 pages of delightful, insightful conversations with some of the most renowned musicians, producers and promoters in the jazz world. Noted jazz writer Nat Hentoff wrote in the book’s Foreword: “Although I have chronicled jazz musicians for more than 60 years now, I learned a lot more about why this music lifts so many spirits throughout the world by being present at these conversations … JaRon himself becomes a valuable part of jazz history.”
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“It’s scary,” said bassist Charles Flores (in Spanish) to keyboardist Elio Villafranca as they listened to the playback.
“This is so perfect that something must be wrong.”
Best friends and musical collaborators going back more than twenty years to
their student days in Havana, Flores and Villafranca were working on
Impressions of Graffiti, the 40-year-old Charles Flores’s first-ever
album as a leader.
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It’s official…“Miller Time” premieres this Sunday, January 6, on SiriusXM Satellite Radio!
Legendary bassist, composer, producer and two-time Grammy winner Marcus Miller pursues yet another creative avenue with “Miller Time,” his new show on SiriusXM’s Real Jazz featuring acoustic and electric jazz and anecdotes about the many stars with whom he’s worked intimately including Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, David Sanborn and his long time writing partner, the late Luther Vandross. The two hour show airs every Sunday at 6 pm and Tuesdays at midnight.
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Danilo Perez Named UNESCO Artist for Peace
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