Guitarist and singer Tab Benoit walked away from the 33rd Blues Music Awards recently with three awards in hand. The Louisiana bluesman and environmental conservationist won in the “Contemporary Male Artist” category, he was named “B.B. King Entertainer of the Year” and his 2011 release Medicine took top honors in [...]
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Jack DeJohnette’s 70th Birthday Tour
Monday, May 14th, 2012Jack DeJohnette commenced his “70th Birthday Tour” in Eugene, Oregon, on May 9, with the debut of a trio that includes Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke. That same group headlines upcoming stands at Jazz Alley in Seattle (May 10-13) and Catalina’s in Los Angeles (May 15-20). The trio will return [...]
Read more >>Where Jazz Meets Pop
Monday, May 14th, 2012At Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Allen Room on the evenings of June 5th and 6th—then again on the afternoon of Sunday, June 10th—Michael Feinstein (pictured above) will be joined by Tony Award-nominated actress Jessie Mueller and pianist Loston Harris for the second annual presentation of Sweet & Low Down: How [...]
Read more >>Coming Soon: Rit on Blu-Ray
Friday, May 4th, 2012On June 19, guitarist extraordinaire Lee Ritenour will be available for the first time on Blu-Ray. That’s the day Eagle Rock Entertainment will be releasing Overtime, a disc that runs to almost three hours in length and that features an all-star supporting cast. Recorded over two days in a Burbank, [...]
Read more >>Unearthed Armstrong
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012On April 24, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings released one of Louis Armstrong’s last performances. Titled Satchmo at the National Press Club: Red Beans and Ricely Yours, the recording was made in 1971 during an award ceremony at the National Press Club in Washington D. C. Armstrong died five months later. Joined [...]
Read more >>Ted Drozdowski’s Big Shoes
Friday, April 13th, 2012JAZZIZ readers may know Ted Drozdowski as a sharp-eyed critic who periodically writes about blues music for this magazine and dozens of other publications. But what they might not know is that Drozdowski is himself an accomplished blues guitarist and singer with a special fondness for the raucous juke blues [...]
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