Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire’s star has been rising steadily in the jazz world since the release earlier this year of his debut disc on the Blue Note label, When the Heart Emerges Glistening. With that in mind, it’s hardly shocking that Akinmusire (pictured above) has been tapped to for the lead [...]
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Weekend in Montreal, Part III
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011(Editor’s note: Frequent JAZZIZ contributor Steve Futterman spent the 4th of July weekend at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. We asked him to share his thoughts and experiences. Here they are.) Whoever coined the phrase “wither into truth” was definitely on to something. On July 4th, Marianne Faithfull demonstrated that [...]
Read more >>Weekend in Montreal, Part II
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011(Editor’s note: Frequent JAZZIZ contributor Steve Futterman spent the 4th of July weekend at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. We asked him to share his thoughts and experiences. Here they are.) What is it about the sight of a beautifully designed and meticulously constructed guitar that makes a man’s heart [...]
Read more >>Weekend in Montreal, Part 1
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011(Editor’s note: Frequent JAZZIZ contributor Steve Futterman spent the 4th of July weekend at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. We asked him to share his thoughts and experiences. Here they are.) At the Montreal International Jazz Festival, you enter an alternate universe where music is free, the food is great, [...]
Read more >>Steve Wilson to Honor Davis, Coltrane, Coleman and Zawinul
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009In the next few weeks, saxophonist Steve Wilson will be firmly set in tribute mode. On December 10, he’ll join Jon Faddis and the Chicago Jazz Ensemble as a guest artist in the Windy City’s Harris Hall for a concert honoring the 50th anniversaries of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, [...]
Read more >>Nublu’s First Jazz Festival
Thursday, October 29th, 2009Trumpeter Eddie Henderson (pictured above) and drummer Al Foster are a couple of musicians among many who will perform at the first annual Nublu Jazz Festival in November. For those unaware, Nublu is an smallish, hip venue in Manhattan’s East Village that regularly stages a wide variety of eclectic music [...]
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