Jazz luminaries from Charlie Parker to Hank Jones, Arturo Sandoval to the Boswell Sisters will be celebrated this Summer and Fall on 12th STREET JUMP, public radio's jazz, blues and comedy jam. Recorded live! in Kansas City, where Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Big Joe Turner and other jazz greats got their starts, 12th STREET JUMP is broadcast weekly on twenty public radio stations around the country, as well as every Saturday night at midnight on 89.3FM KCUR, the home of 12th STREET JUMP.
Opera Exposures will present its first 2012 spiritual music recital on Sunday, April 22, at 3 PM at Saint Mark's Church, Second Avenue and 10th Street in Manhattan. Sopranos Natalie Bergeron, Krysty Swann and Cheryl Warfield will join tenor George Cornelius and Baritone Anthony Turner. Jonathan Kelly will be at the piano. The recital will be followed by a Reception and Dance with the cast. Tickets are $50 and $40 and include Reception and Dance Party with a live DJ immediately following the recital. Tickets may be purchased in advance by calling 917/402-8144 or visiting the Opera Exposures official website at www.operaexposures.org. They may also be purchased at the door.
Last night at Tribeca Performing Arts Center Highlights In Jazz producer, Jack Kleinsinger, presented saxophone legend Sonny Fortune with their annual award.
Opera Exposures will present its first 2012 spiritual music recital on Sunday, April 22, at 3 PM at Saint Mark's Church, Second Avenue and 10th Street in Manhattan. Sopranos Natalie Bergeron, Krysty Swann and Cheryl Warfield will join tenor George Cornelius and Baritone Anthony Turner. Jonathan Kelly will be at the piano. The recital will be followed by a Reception and Dance with the cast. Tickets are $50 and $40 and include Reception and Dance Party with a live DJ immediately following the recital. Tickets may be purchased in advance by calling 917/402-8144 or visiting the Opera Exposures official website at www.operaexposures.org. They may also be purchased at the door.
Justice for Jazz Artists has released the following statement: 'The top jazz artists in the world live and work in New York City-yet many older jazz musicians are forced to retire in poverty.'
Grammy Award-winning bassist and jazz artist Charlie Haden and his ensemble Quartet West are marking their 25th anniversary with a concert as part of the Center's own 25th milestone season.
Grammy Award-winning bassist and jazz artist Charlie Haden and his ensemble Quartet West are marking their 25th anniversary with a concert as part of the Center's own 25th milestone season.
FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed "Best of New York" by New York Magazine and "an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post will continue its Winter and Spring 2012 season with the return of the long-running Off-Broadway revue "OUR SINATRA: A MUSICAL CELEBRATION."
Birdland has announced the opportunity to receive one-on-one vocal instruction in a master class setting with acclaimed jazz vocalist and multiple Grammy nominee Jane Monheit.
FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed "Best of New York" by New York Magazine and "an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post will continue its Winter and Spring 2012 season with the return of the long-running Off-Broadway revue "OUR SINATRA: A MUSICAL CELEBRATION."
New York's jazz heart wasn't always located downtown. Once it was found on 52nd Street and before that on 125th, and for many decades its most powerful radio voice has been WKCR-FM on the campus of Columbia University. Just a few yards away, jazz finds an uptown home at Columbia's Miller Theatre. This season, Melissa Smey has programmed groups from the top of her wish list in a Jazz series that begins with the inventive Lionel Loueke Trio and the Renee Rosnes Quartet.
New York's jazz heart wasn't always located downtown. Once it was found on 52nd Street and before that on 125th, and for many decades its most powerful radio voice has been WKCR-FM on the campus of Columbia University. Just a few yards away, jazz finds an uptown home at Columbia's Miller Theatre. This season, Melissa Smey has programmed groups from the top of her wish list in a Jazz series that begins with the inventive Lionel Loueke Trio and the Renee Rosnes Quartet.
The Richard Sussman Quartet at The Kitano Thursday, July 28, 2011 performing the Original Compositions of Hank Jones featuring: Richard Sussman, piano, Dick Oatts, sax & flute, Jay Anderson, bass, Steve Johns, drums
Richard Sussman Quartet will performing the original compositions of Hank Jones at Kitano's Thursday, July 28, 2011. The Richard Sussman Quartet features: Richard Sussman, piano, Dick Oatts, sax & flute, Jay Anderson, bass, Steve Johns, drums.
The Kurt Elling Quartet with John McLean will perform July 29 at 7:30 pm at the Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown, NY, as part of the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival. Grammy-winner Elling will perform jazz standards as well as songs from his new album, The Gate.
