On March 31, Carnegie Hall hosted a tribute concert to David Bowie. Watch this video of Bettye LaVette covering “It Ain’t Easy” and rocking out!
BETTYE LAVETTE: “IT AIN’T EASY”
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The new production “Shuffle Along” is taking Broadway by storm, and it features choreography from the genius mind of Savion Glover. Check out their amazing website, and grab tickets to this once-in-a-lifetime event!
If you find yourself at the New Orleans Jazz Fest this year, be sure not to miss Grammy Award winner Jamison Ross! He’ll be performing on Saturday, April 30.
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The Washington Post has compiled an excellent feature of RED BARAAT, including a video performance from NPR!
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!
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.