Urban Jazz, Page 37

 
On The Winds of Change, Five-Time GRAMMY® Award Winner and 16-Time GRAMMY® Nominee Billy Childs Leads a Dream Quartet Featuring Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, Bassist Scott Colley and Drummer Brian Blade
 
Much of the Music on The Winds of Change Is Inspired by
Film Noir and Nostalgia for the Los Angeles of Childs’ Youth
 
As a composer, Billy Childs is a master of two genres: jazz and modern classical music. Simultaneously, he is one of our most dazzling jazz pianists.

 
Drummer and Composer Kendrick Scott
Releases “One Door Closes, Another Opens”
With Accompanying Live Performance Video
 
February 10, 2023: Today, drummer and composer Kendrick Scott released his new single “One Door Closes, Another Opens” with an accompanying live performance video. The song is the second single from his upcoming full-length Corridors — releasing March 3rd, Corridors is Scott’s third album for Blue Note Records…

 
Award-winning, saxophonist, composer,
vocalist, bandleader and educator
Fostina Dixon
releases her new recording,
New Beginnings on Friday, February, 10
 
WILMINGTON, DE – February 7, 2023 – For an astonishing number of decades, alto, soprano, and baritone saxophonist Fostina Dixon has performed and recorded with a star-studded roster of musicians, from Frank Foster, Roy Ayers, and Abbey Lincoln, to Melba Liston, Gil Evans, and Marvin Gaye;

 
GRAMMY® Award-Winning Bassist/Composer Christian McBride
Shares New Track “Prime”
From His Far-Reaching New Jawn Project
 
Christian McBride’s New Jawn: Prime
Out February 24th
Via Brother Mister Productions/Mack Avenue Music Group
 
February 6, 2023: Today, 8-time GRAMMY® Award winner Christian McBride has shared the title track from his upcoming album Christian McBride’s New Jawn: Prime.

 
SAXOPHONIST AND COMPOSER WALTER SMITH III
MAKES HIS BLUE NOTE DEBUT WITH APRIL 7 RELEASE OF
return to casual
 
LISTEN TO THE LEAD SINGLE “CONTRA”
FEATURING TAYLOR EIGSTI, MATT STEVENS, HARISH RAGHAVAN & KENDRICK SCOTT
 
Saxophonist and composer Walter Smith III has signed with Blue Note Records and enters a new era of his band leading career with the April 7 release of his remarkable label debut return to casual, the long-anticipated follow-up to his self-released 2014 recording still casual.