The first annual Asian-American Jazz Festival is set to unfold over three days in Los Angeles. Headliners include pianist Hiromi, Filipina singer Charmaine Clamor, Korean jazz quintet Prelude, and the champion of the 2006 London International Vocal Jazz Competition, Filipino Mon David. Those performers will be complemented by an eclectic [...]
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A Welcome Turn of Events
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009Â Omara Portuondo, the lovely Cuban singer and dancer who will turn 80 on October 29, has been granted a travel visa to perform two shows in the United States. A member of the Buena Vista Social Club who celebrated her 60th year as an entertainer with last year’s release [...]
Read more >>James P. Johnson’s Last Rent Party
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009James P. Johnson, the father of stride piano, the composer of “The Charleston” and “The Carolina Shout,” and one of the founders of modern jazz piano, lies in an unmarked grave in the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Queens, New York. To remedy that unfortunate situation, the James P. Johnson Foundation [...]
Read more >>Berklee Honoring Brubeck at Monterey
Thursday, August 27th, 2009On September 20, during the third and final night of the 52nd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, legendary pianist Dave Brubeck will have something in common with Bonnie Raitt, Sting, Loretta Lynn and Gloria and Emilio Estefan: an honorary Ph.D. in music from Berklee College of Music. Â Berklee President Roger Brown [...]
Read more >>Murphy Tribute
Monday, August 24th, 2009Jazz vocalist extraordinaire Mark Murphy, a six-time Grammy nominee, has inspired many up-and-coming jazz singers. On Tuesday, October 20, an all-female contingent of Murphy protégés – all of them now renowned vocalists in their own right – will gather at Yoshi’s Oakland to celebrate their mentor’s influence through songs, stories [...]
Read more >>Corea, Clark & White: Live in Hollywood
Thursday, August 6th, 2009Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White will be joined by singer Chaka Khan, violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and Return to Forever’s original guitarist, Bill Connors, at the Hollywood Bowl on September 2 for one show only. Khan (featured on a 1982 Lenny White-produced project, Echoes of an Era, with Corea, [...]
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