Khalil Shaheed Jazz Trumpeter
Three weeks ago, the Oakland resident was teaching at Oaktown Jazz Workshops, the youth music program he founded in 1994. “He kept doing it as long as he could,” said his widow, Kate Shaheed. The renowned jazz musician died Friday at his home in Read more
Esperanza Spalding, Radio Music Society CD
New York Times
ONE year later there was no jaw-dropping upset, no demure acceptance speech, and no fresh affront to Justin Bieber’s watchful fan cabal. This time around Esperanza Spalding caused less of a stir at the Grammy Awards, where she’d prevailed as best new artist in 2011, shocking a field that included Mr. Bieber and another platinum-selling megastar, the rapper-crooner Drake. Read more
Ledisi
Time: Saturday, March 17, 3 P.M. – 12 Midnight
Sunday, March 18, 3 P.M. – 12 Midnight
Location: SunLife Stadium
2269 Dan Marino Boulevard
Miami Gardens, FL
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COST:
Tickets available at TicketMaster
General Admission Advance Purchase: $45 one day ticket, $75 two-day ticket
Day of Show Purchase at the Gate: $57 one day ticket, $95 two-day ticket
Kenny G
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The performers for 2012 Edition are for Saturday: Ledisi (recently named “The Next Patti LaBelle by Patti Labelle”), KEM,the queen of neo-soul Jill Scott, old school human beat box Doug E. Fresh and the timeless jazz superstar Ramsey Lewis.
The line-up for Sunday are nine time Grammy winner Mary J. Blige, Nicole Henry, jazz saxophonist Kenny G and R & B Legend Patti LaBelle and jazz guitarist Kevin Eubanks.
Saturday, March 17, DOORS OPEN 3 P.M.
Jody Hill 4 P.M. Ike and Val 4:30 P.M.
Ramsey Lewis 5 P.M. Douge E. Fresh 6:15 P.M.
Ledisi 7:30 P.M. Kem 9 P.M. Jill Scott 10:30
Sunday, March 18, 2012 DOORS OPEN 3 P.M.
Sensere 4 P.M. Nicole Henry 4:30 P.M.
Kevin Eubanks 5 P.M. Kenny G 6:15 P.M.
Patti Labelle 7:50 Mary J. Blige 9:20
CAMILLE YARBROUGH
Time: Monday March 12th 7:15pm
Doors open 6pm
Location: For My Sweet
1103 Fulton Street Franklin Av & Classon Av
718 857-1427 917 757-0170
jazzymondays@gmail.com
Brooklyn, New York
COST: 10.00 Cover
DESCRIPTION:
Camille migrated from the windy city of Chicago and in New York has developed a reputation as a multi-talented renaissance woman. A poet, writer, singer and trendsetter, she is recognized as a hip hop foremother. From her weekly TV show “Ancestor House”, she has elevated as an African cultural icon. Don’t miss Camille Yarbrough and bring the family.
About:For My Sweet/Jazzy Mondays:
For My Sweet is a garden and event space located at 1103 Fulton Street in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Jazzy Mondays is growing as Brooklyn’s premier spot for Jazz and live entertainment on Monday nights.
Justin Faulkner
For the last three years, audiences have been walking into shows by Branford Marsalis and other headliners and walking out talking about Justin Faulkner.
The drummer joined Marsalis’ group on his 18th birthday while still a high school senior; Ben Ratliff of the New York Times described him soon after as playing with “the cutthroat sensibility of the very young with something to prove. At the same time, Mr. Faulkner is listening and attuned to sound.” Read More
Jazz Pianist Willie Pickens
Chicago Tribune – Jan 26, 2012
Howard Reich Arts critic
When jazz master Willie Pickens sits down at the piano this weekend at the Green Mill Jazz Club, listeners will hear an 80-year-old artist who has made zero concession to the passage of time.
If recent performances are any indication, in fact, Pickens sounds thoroughly energized, the muscularity of his pianism enhanced by the intellectual heft of his work. Read More
Kris Bowers
COST:
General Admission $25
Main Stage Members $20
Students & Seniors $15
DESCRIPTION:
Kris Bowers, a native of Los Angeles, began studying piano privately at the age of nine. Beginning his formal lessons in classical music, Kris found it hard to concentrate on just one genre as he was surrounded by the sounds of old school R&B and Funk at home, and the Hip- Hop and Pop of his generation. While at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA), Kris received numerous awards, accreditations and scholarships, and in 2006, he graduated from LACHSA and moved to New York to continue his studies at the Juilliard School.
Since his arrival in New York, Kris has shared the stage and/or recorded with jazz artists such as: Terell Stafford, Vincent Herring, Louis Hayes, Casey Benjamin, and Kenneth Whalum III. In addition, he has continued working in a number of other genres, performing and/or recording with: Murs, Q-Tip, Josè James, Jay-Z and Kanye West. Kris can be heard on Kanye West and Jay-Z’s latest album, Watch the Throne. He has also had the good fortune to perform for notable individuals like Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and President Barack Obama.
Most recently, Kris was the winner of the 2011 Thelonious Monk Institute International Piano Competition, where he caught the attention of judges: Jason Moran, Herbie Hancock, Danilo Perez, Renee Rosnes, and Ellis Marsalis. He is currently attending Juilliard to earn his Masters degree in Jazz Performance, with a focus on film composition, and while there has studied privately with Eric Reed, Fred Hersch, Frank Kimbrough, and Kenny Barron.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) –
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World Renowned Jazz Musician Sam Rivers
Rivers died Monday of pneumonia in Orlando, Fla., according to his daughter Monique Rivers Williams. Rivers played soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica and piano and was notable as both a composer and arranger.
He began his career in Boston, playing with big bands, but was most influential in ‘60s and ‘70s when he played with artists such as Mile Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, T-Bone Walker and John Lee Hooker.In the 1970s, Rivers’ New York loft venue, Studio Rivbea, became a hub of the avant-garde jazz scene, creating a template for musicians creating their own performance space. He also released his own recordings, including Fuchsia Swing Song.
Born in Oklahoma to a gospel-singing family, Rivers was raised in Chicago and Little Rock, Ark. He started piano lessons as a child and later played trombone before settling on the tenor saxophone as his primary instrument.
World Renowned Jazz Musician Sam Rivers
Dec. 18 Ralph MacDonald, the composer of “Where is the Love” and “Just the Two of Us,” died Sunday in Connecticut at the age of 67, his family announced.
MacDonald, a longtime percussionist with Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band, won two Grammys for producing “Calypso Breakdown” and wrote most of the songs on Harry Belafonte’s landmark 1966 album “Calypso Carnival.”
The New York Daily News said MacDonald battled lung cancer and suffered a stroke in recent years that forced him to give up touring.
The Harlem-born MacDonald was the son of calypso musician MacBeth the Great and worked with a roster of prominent singers, including Aretha Franklin, Paul Simon, Amy Winehouse and Billy Joel. He also wrote “Where is the Love,” which Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway turned into a huge hit.
LOS ANGELES | Thu Dec 15, 2011
(Reuters) – Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis will join U.S. television network CBS as a cultural correspondent to provide coverage of cultural and educational topics, CBS said on Thursday.
Marsalis, 50, a nine-time Grammy award winner, will provide insight on a range of issues for CBS’ weekday morning news show and the network’s “Sunday Morning” segment.
His first appearance in his new role will be on January 16 — the national holiday marking the birthday of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr.
The trumpet player and composer has a long association with CBS and was friends with the network’s late newsman Ed Bradley.
Marsalis said he was looking forward to sharing with viewers “the incredible variety and richness of our national culture — from ballet to the blues, from barbecue to the backbeat.”
Marsalis has been the artistic director of jazz at the Lincoln Center in New York since 1987, performed with symphony orchestras around the world, and written a number of books.
LA Times
Ben Jaffe leads the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, which makes its home in a storied New Orleans venue when it isn’t touring the world. Jaffe, son of the group’s founders, marched in carnival parades while still in grammar school. Now a tuba player and bassist, he extends the group’s original mission: to keep the music of 1920s New Orleans alive and accessible to audiences, and to maintain the rawness sometimes rubbed off by the “Dixieland” movement and its genteel followers. Read More
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. NYT
Jazz at Lincoln Center has plans to expand abroad, creating a new jazz club in Doha, Qatar, and four other cities as part of an unusual partnership with the St. Regis chain of luxury hotels.Read More
washingtonpost.com
By Chris Richards, Published: December 2
Sonny Rollins remembers the weather. Sunshine. He remembers the band, too. Erskine Hawkins and Dud Bascomb each on trumpet, Paul Bascomb and Julian Dash both blowing tenor sax. But the other details come back blurry, rosy or deleted.
“It’s a fantasy land for me now,” says Rollins. “It’s in my dreams, in my mind.”
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