LONDON (AP) — Sir John Dankworth, the British jazz composer, saxophonist and band leader, has died. He was 82.
Jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine — who married Dankworth in 1958 after meeting during an audition for a spot with his band — announced her husband’s death before the finale of an anniversary concert at The Stables, the theater they founded together.
Monica Ferguson, the theater’s chief executive
NEWPORT, R.I. – Grammy-winning singer Chaka Khan leads the list of entertainers at the Newport Jazz Festival, which celebrates its 55th anniversary this weekend.
Chaka Khan will be joined by the George Duke Trio at the International Tennis Hall of Fame when the event kicks off Friday.
The future of the festival was uncertain this year because of financial problems with the event’s new producers. So, founder George
BOSTON – Jazz composer George Russell, a MacArthur fellow whose theories influenced the modal music of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, has died.
His publicist says Russell, who taught at the New England Conservatory, died Monday in Boston at age 86 of complications from Alzheimer’s.
Russell was born in Cincinnati in 1923 and attended Wilberforce University. He played drums in Benny Carter’s band and later wrote “Cubano
BOSTON (AP) — Jazz composer George Russell, a MacArthur fellow whose theories influenced the modal music of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, has died.
His publicist says Russell, who taught at the New England Conservatory, died Monday in Boston at age 86 of complications from Alzheimer’s.
Russell was born in Cincinnati in 1923 and attended Wilberforce University. He played drums
Amidst the current flurry of releases from young guns redefining the boundaries of jazz, this compilation gives a timely reminder of the established jazz values they are questioning. The Modern Jazz Quartet had a long, distinguished career because generations of listeners found their music cool and easy on the ear.
Their combination of piano, vibraphone, bass and drums gave the MJQ an instantly recognisable sparse sound that was
STOCKHOLM (AP) - Organizers say former Fugees singer Lauryn Hill will be the headline act for the Stockholm Jazz Festival in July.
Festival spokesman Gunnar Lagerman says the hip-hop and R&B singer will perform at the five-day event as part of a 10-stop European tour. It will be the second time Hill has headlined the festival. Other artists lined up for the July 15-19 festival include tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins and Brazilian singer Gilberto Gil.
The event celebrates
Rodriguez-Lopez, ex of At The Drive In and erstwhile guitarist, writer and arranger with nu-progressive tykes The Mars Volta has a work rate that, since his rejection of hard narcotics, made Prince look like a three-toed sloth on Mogadon, including countless solo projects, soundtracks and collaborations with the likes of Lydia Lunch. This first instrumental album for Stones Throw is a heavy, crushing, abstract indictment of global greed and (more…)
Catrin Finch’s debut on the venerable Yellow Label offers an accomplished performance of her own transcription for harp of Bach’s timeless Goldberg Variations.
First published in 1741 as an aria with 30 variations and originally composed for a two-manual harpsichord, the ever-amenable Goldbergs have been much and often treated (and occasionally mistreated) to a dizzying array of arrangements for everything, it seems, from jazz trio
The art of compiling an album is a hard one to master; even harder by a collective renowned the world over for their mixing rather than studio skills with first class guests onboard, travelling across genres. Not so for Berlin-based Jazzanova, who deliver 12 wonderful co-arranged / co-written tracks on this latest offering.
They artfully place different styles in a perfectly balanced narrative, never falling into predictable patterns,
KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — David “Fathead” Newman, a jazz musician who played with the Ray Charles Band and won fame as a tenor sax soloist, has died at age 75.
Newman played and recorded with a wide range of jazz and soul luminaries, such as Herbie Mann, Aretha Franklin and Aaron Neville. He also led a successful solo career.
He was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1990 for his work with Art Blakey and Dr. John.
