Hank Jones News

Celebrating 25 years at Manhattan School of Music!

Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Charlie Haden Quartet West have confirmed a live concert engagement at New York City's famed jazz club, Birdland, slated for March 22nd through March 26th (two sets each night). The live gigs will feature surprise guests and also launch the release of their new and seventh recording, Sophisticated Ladies, available March 22 on Emarcy/Decca.

Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Charlie Haden's Quartet West has been championed as one of jazz's most compelling bands. Their new and seventh recording, Sophisticated Ladies, opens the latest chapter in Quartet West's historic career. With Sophisticated Ladies, bassist and bandleader Charlie Haden brings to light lesser-known tunes delivered with refined improvisations that are equal parts romantic, classy, elegant and alluring. The core group of Haden (bass), Alan Broadbent (piano/orchestral string arrangements), Ernie Watts (tenor saxophone), and Rodney Green (drums) have an impressive cast of new collaborators on this album: six of contemporary music's top-tier vocalists, including Cassandra Wilson, Diana Krall, Melody Gardot, Norah Jones, Renée Fleming and Ruth Cameron. Sophisticated Ladies will be released everywhere March 22nd on Emarcy/Decca.

Native Soul CD Release Events Trumpets 4/9 & The Bahai Center 4/26

The New York Center of Photography and the Moving Image (NYCPMI), the newest addition to New York City's museum and cultural landscape, will present an exhibition of new and never-before-exhibited color and black-and-white photographs by photographers Ryan Paternite and Richard Conde featuring some of the 20th century's greatest jazz musicians in performance on the legendary Birdland stage.

New York's Longest Running Jazz Concert Series 38th Year presents Salute to Derek Smith Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 8 pm

New York's Longest Running Jazz Concert Series, Highlights in JAZZ 38th Year presents Salute to Derek Smith Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 8 pm

This year's Highlight In Jazz Concert series will have a slight change. Randy Sandke will sub for Warren Vache, who was scheduled to play during the Tribute to Derek Smith on Thursday, March 10.

Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 8 pm

New York's Longest Running Jazz Concert Series 38th Year presents Salute to Derek Smith Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 8 pm

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!! Catalina Bar & Grill will present a performance of the critically acclaimed CD of romantic ballads, "CORKY HALE…AND FRIENDS - I'M GLAD THERE IS YOU," featuring Corky Hale, Jazz pianist, harpist and singer with her friends, singers Sally Kellerman, Ariana Savalas, Tricia Tahara and Brenna Whitaker for One Night Only!!!

New York's Longest Running Jazz Concert Series, Highlights in JAZZ 38th Year presents Salute to Derek Smith Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 8 pm

Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Charlie Haden Quartet West have confirmed a live concert engagement at New York City's famed jazz club, Birdland, slated for March 22nd through March 26th (two sets each night). The live gigs will feature surprise guests and also launch the release of their new and seventh recording, Sophisticated Ladies, available March 22 on Emarcy/Decca.

New York's Longest Running Jazz Concert Series Presents a Salute to Derek Smith Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 8 pm. This event features: Dick Hyman, Ken Peplowski, Statesmen of Jazz, Randy Sandke, Houston Person, Aaron Weinstein, Nicki Parrott, Jackie Williams with Guest of Honor Derek Smith.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!! Catalina Bar & Grill will present a performance of the critically acclaimed CD of romantic ballads, "CORKY HALE…AND FRIENDS - I'M GLAD THERE IS YOU," featuring Corky Hale, Jazz pianist, harpist and singer with her friends, singers Sally Kellerman, Ariana Savalas, Tricia Tahara and Brenna Whitaker for One Night Only!!!

This year's Highlight In Jazz Concert series will have a slight change. Randy Sandke will sub for Warren Vache, who was scheduled to play during the Tribute to Derek Smith on Thursday, March 10.

Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 8 pm

In honor of Black History Month, Opera Exposures, a Staten Island-based not-for-profit organization devoted to furthering the careers of both seasoned and young professional singers at venues which are accessible and intimate, will offer its first musical program in St. Bartholomew's Chapel on Sunday, February 6, at 3:00 PM.

Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Charlie Haden's Quartet West has been championed as one of jazz's most compelling bands. Their new and seventh recording, Sophisticated Ladies, opens the latest chapter in Quartet West's historic career. With Sophisticated Ladies, bassist and bandleader Charlie Haden brings to light lesser-known tunes delivered with refined improvisations that are equal parts romantic, classy, elegant and alluring. The core group of Haden (bass), Alan Broadbent (piano/orchestral string arrangements), Ernie Watts (tenor saxophone), and Rodney Green (drums) have an impressive cast of new collaborators on this album: six of contemporary music's top-tier vocalists, including Cassandra Wilson, Diana Krall, Melody Gardot, Norah Jones, Renée Fleming and Ruth Cameron. Sophisticated Ladies will be released everywhere March 22nd on Emarcy/Decca.

New York's Longest Running Jazz Concert Series 38th Year- Highlights in JAZZ is Back!