The First Annual “Saddle Up for the Jazz Fest Wellington” takes place on February 10th and 11th. As a JAZZIZ subscriber, you get FREE back stage passes. Subscribers, email service@jazziz.com to make your request.
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Bill Frisell in Portland
Thursday, January 5th, 2012Guitarist Bill Frisell is scheduled to perform a two-night program titled “For Portland Only” at the Portland Jazz Festival at the end of February. The first night’s performance, on the 24th, will take place at The Crystal Ballroom, and will feature the ever-innovative axman and his band paying tribute to [...]
Read more >>Discovering Ellington at Strathmore
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011From February 3-20, 2012, Strathmore—an arts center located a half-mile outside the Capital Beltway in North Bethesda, Maryland—will stage its “Discover Ellington” festival. Through performances of hallmark Ellington compositions and seminal works, as well as lectures by experts, the event will examine Ellington’s contributions to American music by tracing his [...]
Read more >>Unearthed Wes Montgomery
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011Fans of late guitarist Wes Montgomery should mark March 6, 2012 on their calendars, for that is the date that Resonance Records will release Echoes of Indiana Avenue, the first full album of previously unheard Montgomery music in more than 25 years. For what it’s worth, Montgomery would’ve been 88 [...]
Read more >>Ed Reed Heads East
Friday, December 16th, 2011San Francisco Bay Area jazz vocalist Ed Reed and his quartet will be performing three dates on the East Coast January in support of his third CD, Born to Be Blue. He’ll be at the Jazz Standard on the 17th, his  1/17, his third visit to the New York club [...]
Read more >>The Whalum Brothers Do Coltrane and Hartman
Friday, December 9th, 2011On Valentine’s Day, 2012, Rendezvous Music will release a very ambitious album by saxophonist Kirk Whalum and his vocalist brother, Kevin. Titled Romance Language, the CD reinterprets all six songs that comprise John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman’s self-titled 1963 album. The brothers round out the disc with five ballads of [...]
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