Norah Jones, Esperanza Spalding, and Angelique Kidjo’s Remain in Light are among the artists set to perform the 2022 Newport Jazz Festival, which takes place at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island July 29 through July 31.
The lineup also includes the Fearless Flyers, Terence Blanchard, Pj Morton, the Ron Carter Quartet, BadBadNotGood, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Lettuce, and Cory Wong, among many others.
Christian McBride, who serves as the Newport Jazz Artistic Director, will also play his annual Jawn Jam featuring Makaya McCraven, Chris Potter, Vijay Iyer, and Brandee Younger & Mike Stern.
The lineup also includes the Fearless Flyers, Terence Blanchard, Pj Morton, the Ron Carter Quartet, BadBadNotGood, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Lettuce, and Cory Wong, among many others.
Christian McBride, who serves as the Newport Jazz Artistic Director, will also play his annual Jawn Jam featuring Makaya McCraven, Chris Potter, Vijay Iyer, and Brandee Younger & Mike Stern.
- 3/24/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
The first jazz festival of the quarantine era will take place next week.
An impressive lineup of A-list names in the genre will come together virtually for Live From Our Living Rooms, an online music festival and fundraiser. Guitarist Bill Frisell, pianist Chick Corea, bassist Christian McBride, vocalist Becca Stevens and many others will livestream performances from their homes, raising money for New York musicians facing canceled shows due to the Covid-19 crisis.
Running from April 1st through April 7th, the festival will feature two nightly performances, as well as...
An impressive lineup of A-list names in the genre will come together virtually for Live From Our Living Rooms, an online music festival and fundraiser. Guitarist Bill Frisell, pianist Chick Corea, bassist Christian McBride, vocalist Becca Stevens and many others will livestream performances from their homes, raising money for New York musicians facing canceled shows due to the Covid-19 crisis.
Running from April 1st through April 7th, the festival will feature two nightly performances, as well as...
- 3/27/2020
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
“Old Town Road” was everywhere last year, but Melissa Aldana somehow managed to escape its grasp. The first time the jazz saxophone star heard the song that dominated 2019 was earlier this week, when she learned how to play “Old Town Road” on the tenor.
The Chilean-born, New York–based Aldana is nominated for Best Improvised Jazz Solo at the 2020 Grammy Awards for her performance on “Elsewhere,” a track off her quintet’s 2019 album Visions. In honor of the upcoming Grammys, Rolling Stone invited Aldana — who won the Thelonious Monk International...
The Chilean-born, New York–based Aldana is nominated for Best Improvised Jazz Solo at the 2020 Grammy Awards for her performance on “Elsewhere,” a track off her quintet’s 2019 album Visions. In honor of the upcoming Grammys, Rolling Stone invited Aldana — who won the Thelonious Monk International...
- 1/24/2020
- by Reed Dunlea
- Rollingstone.com
“Rare Beauty,” a standout track from Joe Lovano’s new album Trio Tapestry, starts with a deep, resonant tom-tom rumble from drummer Carmen Castaldi. Lovano’s tenor saxophone and Marilyn Crispell’s piano enter with a snaking, up-and-down line, which Castaldi accompanies and answers. The way the instruments swirl together, intuitively tracing out the chant-like theme without settling into a steady rhythm, instantly recalls a sound pioneered by the late drummer-composer Paul Motian.
From the early Eighties on, Joe Lovano’s saxophone presence, magisterial yet poignant, was a key part of that sound.
From the early Eighties on, Joe Lovano’s saxophone presence, magisterial yet poignant, was a key part of that sound.
- 1/27/2019
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
Today being international jazz day, there will be much celebrating of the greatness of its history. I’ve done that in the past; it is a great history. But it is not all back in historical times; jazz lives, and evolves, and continues to be great. Yet how many lists of the greatest jazz albums include anything from the current century?
That they do not is no indictment of them; only sixteen percent of the years when recorded jazz has existed (not counting the present year yet) are in the twenty-first century, after all, and some prefer to bestow the label of greatness after more perspective has been achieved than sixteen (or fewer, for newer releases) years.
Nonetheless, if people are to respect jazz as a living art form, a look back at the best of its more recent releases seems worthwhile. Here’s one man’s “baker’s dozen...
That they do not is no indictment of them; only sixteen percent of the years when recorded jazz has existed (not counting the present year yet) are in the twenty-first century, after all, and some prefer to bestow the label of greatness after more perspective has been achieved than sixteen (or fewer, for newer releases) years.
Nonetheless, if people are to respect jazz as a living art form, a look back at the best of its more recent releases seems worthwhile. Here’s one man’s “baker’s dozen...
- 4/30/2016
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
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