Check out this video of Wynton Marsalis with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra featuring Damien Sneed and Chorale Le Chateau performing “Invitation: Come Join the Army”, a single off his upcoming album The Abyssinian Mass!
Author: TKA
Michael Goude for KPLU- In 2012, at age 24, drummer/vocalist Jamison Ross won the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, without singing a note. After all, it was a drumming competition. Part of the prize was a recording contract with the Concord Jazz recording label.
Earlier this year his record (titled ‘Jamison’) was released and this time it was his singing that caught the ears of critics and jazz fans, alike. And now he’s been nominated for a ‘Best Jazz Vocal Album’ Grammy award.
In this live Studio Session hosted by Abe Beeson, you’ll hear (along with three terrific songs) an extremely talented, genial young man talking about finding his was as a musician and about the astonishing fact that he originally had no plans to sing on this new record. It’s a good thing he changed his mind. Whether or not he wins a Grammy this time, he’ll have plenty of opportunities to do so in the years to come as he continues his ascent to jazz stardom.
(3/3/16)
Check out Wintergatan’s latest and greatest creation…a musical instrument featuring 2,000 marbles!
Fresh off a five date tour of the east coast with Talib Kweli, The Soul Rebels performed three sold out shows this past weekend in Brooklyn, NYC.
Check out the amazing performance of Kweli’s hit “Get By” here.
The BRIT Awards paid tribute to David Bowie with a performance from Lorde and members of Bowie’s backing bands over the years, including Mike Garson, Gerry Leonard, Earl Slick, Gail Ann Dorsey, Catherine Russell, and Sterling Campbell. The segment kicked off with a medley of some of his most enduring hits before Lorde came out to sing “Life On Mars?”. Bowie was posthumously awarded the Icon Award at the show — Annie Lennox introduced Gary Oldman, who accepted the award on his behalf.
(2/25/16)
Over a career that spans well over five decades. Bettye LaVette has fashioned herself into quite the song interpreter. Always one to completely rip a song down to its bones and come back with an arrangement that makes it completely her own (YouTube her performance of The Who’s “Love, Reign o’er Me” at the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors if you need more proof), LaVette’s recent string of records in what she calls her fifth career find her cherry-picking quite the eclectic array of canons. Along with the usual suspects like Lennon/McCartney, Dylan and Jagger/Richards, she’s also put her stamp on songs by Lucinda Williams, Fiona Apple, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Elton John and John Hiatt. Here is a trio of songs that she’s covered that really resonate for her and why.
Read more at the Long Island Weekly.
The 2016 Grammys saw three TKA artists take home awards. Congratulations goes to:
Bill Charlap & Tony Bennett: Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn: Best Folk Album
Cécile McLorin Salvant: Best Jazz Vocal Album
We would also like to congratulate Bettye LaVette and Jamison Ross on their 2016 Grammy Nominations.
“Hot Club of Cowtown” has a sound that’s all their own — a blend of hot jazz and western swing, and it’s pretty catchy. They’re out now with a new album “Midnight on the Trail,” that’s described by Elana James as an album that’s a mix of western swing and cowboy ballads.
Jake, Elana, and Whit sit down with AFMW to talk about their start, their super-fans, their most memorable moments on the road, the new album, and much, much more.
PALMBEACHPOST.COM- Legendary Cuban jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval first picked up his instrument at age 10 because he loved its versatile “personality.”
As he said a couple of years ago, “A trumpet can whisper very soft, very tender — and it can create a huge noise.”
IF YOU GO
What: The Arturo Sandoval Sextet
When: Wednesday, Feb. 24, 8 p.m.
Where: Society of the Four Arts (Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium), 2 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach, 33480
Tickets: $40 (balcony)/$45 (orchestra)
Contact: Visit fourarts.org or call 561-655-7226.
(2/3/16)
Read more at PalmBeachPost.com
PHILLY.COM –
You could have seen a lot of shows all over Philly on Friday night, but you couldn’t have heard better music – or had a better time – than at Chris’ Jazz Café, when Joey DeFrancesco, one of the greatest organists in jazz, held forth with his trio.