CLUB44 RECORDS have signed the married musical team of Julie Benko and Jason Yeager for their first duo album Hand in Hand. Benko is a singer and actress who is currently the stand-in for “Fanny Brice” on Broadway’s Funny Girl; she performed the role last weekend. Jason is an acclaimedRead More →
May 5, 2022 4:38 p.m. (UTC+04:00) 376 By Laman Ismayilova Honored Artist Ruslan Huseynov performed a bass guitar cover on the soundtrack to the film “Once Upon a Time in America” (1984). The epic crime film was co-written and directed by Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone and stars Robert De NiroRead More →
Tamir Hendelman and his trio bring jazz, classical, blues, standard, Israeli and Brazilian influences to Ravenscroft Hall. For Hendelman, now among jazz’s top musicians, playing the piano has become a ticket to tour the world, from Israel to Los Angeles, from Japan to Thailand – and on April 16 atRead More →
English saxophonist Iain Ballamy first met the late Irish poet Matthew Sweeney in the late 1990s while filming a jazz TV series shot in Southampton. The couple had a passionate and mutual love of jazz, but the connection between them seemed more powerful, immediate and unspoken. “I think by theRead More →
The Grammys embrace all of its Vegas-style glitz and glamour. After a two-month postponement and relocation, the 64th annual Grammy Awards took place on Sunday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. The ceremony welcomed comedian and host Trevor Noah for a second year, who avoided potential scandal after last week’sRead More →
A historical marker will be dedicated to the late Maurice Rocco, an internationally renowned jazz musician and actor born in Oxford. The event will take place at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 19 at Woodside Cemetery. All are welcome. The Oxford NAACP and the Smith Library of Regional History collaboratedRead More →
Dennis González, whose career as a musician and jazz artist took him all over the world when he was not teaching mariachi music and traditions to children in Dallas, has died. He was 67 years old. Gonzalez said the lawyer in October that he had been very ill since 2019,Read More →
ROCHESTER, NY (WROC) — The smooth sounds of saxophonist and composer Judah Sealy are now No. 1 on Billboard’s Smooth Jazz charts. The results are released on Wednesdays, but Sealy confirmed to News 8 on Tuesday that when they were released, her song titled “Stylish” would top. The track wasRead More →
Image via Nate Chinen, NPR. Feasterville final resting place of jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan. Lee Morgan, a prominent jazz trumpeter in the 1950s and 1960s, had a tragically short career. The 33-year-old entertainer was killed by his common-law wife in 1972 and buried next to his father at White ChapelRead More →
The Irish music community is mourning the death of jazz flautist Brian Dunning at the age of 70. Hailing from Stoneybatter in Dublin, where he grew up alongside jazz singer Honor Heffernan, Dunning was a pioneer of Irish jazz and one of the first to attempt a fusion between jazzRead More →
Celebrate Black History Month at SOPAC’s Herb + Milly Iris Gallery with photography by local notable, Patrick Hilaire. The Light exhibition [+Sound]exhibited from February 1 to 28, features 25 of Hilaire’s superb black and white portraits of jazz musicians. The late Grammy-winning jazz musician Roy Hargrove. Photo by Patrick HilaireRead More →
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The suspect in the murder of longtime New Orleans jazz trumpeter Brian Murray turned himself in to law enforcement hours after he allegedly shot his girlfriend’s father, then ran away with his own one-year-old son on Monday. Before surrendering to the police and returning the childRead More →
Mark Levine, a pillar of the Bay Area jazz music community for decades, died Jan. 27 of pneumonia. The acclaimed musician, who was also a noted educator and author, was 83. News of his death quickly spread on social media, with his many friends and admirers posting tributes to theRead More →
Beegieadair.com Jazz musician and WKU alumnus Bobbe Gorin “Beegie” Adair died on Sunday, January 23 at the age of 84. Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly referred to the Jazz Hero Award as the International Jazz Hero Award. The Herald regrets this error. Jazz musician and WKURead More →
James Mtume, a jazz/R&B artist, producer and percussionist who performed with Miles Davis and scored a 1983 pop hit with “Juicy Fruit”, died at 76 over the weekend. No official cause of death was available at press time, with Fork first reporting the musician’s passing and an official statement fromRead More →
Willie Bradley, South Carolina State University alumnus, freelance jazz recording artist and trumpeter, has won the Smooth Jazz Network’s 2021 Artist of the Year. Bradley’s honor was featured in the 2021 year-end edition of Beats Magazine. Bradley was one of 12 finalists for Best Jazz Artist. His song “It’s MyRead More →
When he wasn’t busy recording the greatest jazz concert of all time, famed jazz pianist Charles Mingus apparently dabbled in feline potty training, going so far as to produce a “CAT-alog for toilet training your cat.” WNYC reported on this odd pastime in 2014, which you can listen to below.Read More →
Keyon Harrold spent 20 years developing his jazz career in New York. Now he works as a creative advisor for Jazz St. Louis. ST. LOUIS — Jazz St. Louis prepared for its fifth consecutive sold-out show as people flocked to Ferguson’s own trumpeter and composer, Keyon Harrold. “I studied musicRead More →
Love it or hate it, you’ve almost certainly heard Kenny G’s soprano saxophone, whether in an elevator or in your car. Here, Kenny G performs at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival in 2019, in Indio, CA. Amy Harris/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Amy Harris/Invision/AP Love it or hate it,Read More →
fame Joseph Jarman, 1937–2019. From nytimes.com Joseph Jarman, iconic free jazz musician and composer and Shinshu Buddhist priest, died at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in New Jersey on Jan. 9 at the age of 81. The cause of death was given as cardiac arrest following respiratory failure. Despite aRead More →
Breadcrumb Links PMN News PMN Life PMN Entertainment Author of the article: Reuters Jill Serjeant and Lisa Richwine Publication date : November 23, 2021 • November 23, 2021 • 2 minute read • Join the conversation Content of the article LOS ANGELES — Jazz musician Jon Batiste led Tuesday’s GrammyRead More →
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Dave Frishberg, a songwriter and jazz musician who reached his widest audience as a contributor to the lively Saturday morning TV show, “Schoolhouse Rock!” died Wednesday. He was 88 years old. >> Read more trending news Frishberg died in Portland, Oregon, his wife, April Magnusson, confirmed toRead More →
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Dave Frishberg, a songwriter and jazz musician who reached his widest audience as a contributor to the lively Saturday morning TV show, “Schoolhouse Rock!” died Wednesday. He was 88 years old. >> Read more trending news Frishberg died in Portland, Oregon, his wife, April Magnusson, confirmed toRead More →
RAndy Ross was a man of piercing, eloquent lyrics and memorable musical notes. Playwright, essayist, novelist, educator, composer and jazz saxophonist, Ross died on October 31, leaving behind a grieving family and community. Ross was a leader in school reform where he worked for over 20 years. In 2005, heRead More →
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Dave Frishberg, a songwriter and jazz musician who reached his widest audience as a contributor to the lively Saturday morning TV show, “Schoolhouse Rock!” died Wednesday. He was 88 years old. >> Read more trending news Frishberg died in Portland, Oregon, his wife, April Magnusson, confirmed toRead More →
Grammy-nominated jazz songwriter, singer and pianist Dave Frishberg died yesterday, according to a post on his Facebook page. His wife, April Magnusson, said he had been battling illness for several years. He was 88 years old. Frishberg had a long and varied career that spanned from the Greenwich Village jazzRead More →
By the time Joe Louis Walker turned 16, he was playing with touring artists like John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and John Mayall in his hometown of San Francisco. Today, 55 years later, he is one of those legends, on his own tour. Walker will perform at the Gas LampRead More →
Pittsburgh’s jazz family is dark today. One of his own, Hill Jordan, 50, died Wednesday of unknown causes. Jordan, known to many as “Hilly”, was a trombonist and leader of Hill Jordan & Slide Worldwide. He regularly performed at clubs and festivals in Pittsburgh and area. Many knew him forRead More →
Shogakukan announced Thursday that Shinichi Ishizukait is blue giant manga inspires an anime movie to be released in 2022. Ishizuka drew the artwork below to celebrate the announcement. Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the 10 volumes of Ishizuka blue giant manga series in five omnibus volumes. The company released the firstRead More →
Mike Renzi, who accompanied Tony Bennett, Mel Torme, Peggy Lee, Lady Gaga and others, died last week. NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with broadcaster Murray Horwitz, who had known Renzi for more than 40 years. (SOUNDBITE OF HARRY ALLEN AND MIKE RENZI “THE LAST BEST YEAR”) SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The greatRead More →
Jazz great Charlie Parker would have turned 100 in 2020, but COVID-19 has delayed the celebrations. Now, UNC Charlotte is honoring him with a series of “Charlie Parker 101” events. Left to right, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis in 1948. William Gottleib If you’re not yet a fan of jazzRead More →
Click to enlarge File: Luke Awtry Marty Fogel Walking down a path near the edge of the lake, Marty Fogel spotted a young man leaving with a fishing rod in hand. ARead More →
Sign up for the Morning Update and Madison Life newsletters “A genius is the one who most resembles him,” the great jazzman Thelonious Monk once said. And though Arun Luthra is too modest to call himself a genius or put himself in Monk’s league, the quote resonates with him. Luthra’sRead More →
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After serenading the world with his own brand of jazz for the past 18 months, Jim Clayton is looking forward to his first live concert in a long time. But it’s what the award-winning veteran jazz artist has been doing throughout COVID-19 that has won him applause from a gratefulRead More →
The High Point Museum will present a new exhibit, “A Love Supreme: The Jazz of John Coltrane through the Eyes of Chuck Stewart,” from September 3 through December 3. 5 at 1859 E. Lexington Ave. at High Point. The exhibition, which is organized by the Grammy Museum, features 20 photographsRead More →
Venue owners and promoters have been scrambling to get the live entertainment stream going again at the end of the summer. Whether it’s the delta variant, government restrictions or national reluctance to be among the people, everyone is moving with caution. I spoke with American jazz musician, singer and trumpeterRead More →
A teenager who dismembered and buried the body of a vulnerable jazz musician before stabbing a second man to death days later has been named for the first time. William Algar, 53, was found decapitated in his flat in Nowell Road, Barnes, on January 3, 2020, before his limbs wereRead More →
Pascal Bokar Thiam.Afro Blue Grazz Band by Pascal Bokar / Courtesy Image Pascal Bokar Thiam thinks that there are many things listeners don’t know about the music they hear. “A lot of people don’t realize how complex, deep, and socially and culturally interesting American music is,” he said in aRead More →
instagram In a touching note accompanying throwback photos of the father-daughter duo, the former ‘The Breakfast Club’ star considers herself “very lucky” to have Bob Ringwald in her life. AceShowbiz – Molly Ringwald still mourns the loss of his father Bob Ringwald. Almost a week after the death of hisRead More →
Molly Ringwald’s father, jazz musician Bob Ringwald, died on August 3. He was 80 years old. Molly, 53, announced the news on Instagram on Saturday by sharing a handful of photos of her late father over the years. “It is with heavy hearts that my family says goodbye to myRead More →
Robert “Bob” Ringwald, jazz musician and father of actress Molly Ringwald, died August 2 at the age of 80. Ringwald shared the news via Instagram on Saturday along with a selection of photos. No cause of death has been revealed. “It is with heavy hearts that my family says goodbyeRead More →
The latest album from saxophonist and composer Dan Blake, DaFe, opens with a bizarre piano solo titled “Prologue—A New Normal.” The track is meant to warn of the world ahead of us if we don’t act on climate change. Blake’s warning is just the tip of his activism: Since 2015,Read More →
By JOHN STATON, Wilmington StarNews WILMINGTON, NC (AP) — When it comes to jazz, legendary label Blue Note has long represented the pinnacle of musical form, releasing albums by John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and many other jazz icons. Earlier this year, Wilmington-based composer and percussionist Joe Chambers –Read More →
Tenor saxophonist Jermaine Lockhart doesn’t just talk to animals. He also plays music for them at the Phoenix-area farm where he resides with his family. When he practices outdoors at home, his audience is made up of sheep, goats, chickens and ducks. “They are definitely curious,” he says Phoenix NewRead More →
Billy Tipton was someone in No ordinary man respectfully refers to a “regional jazz musician”. In the mid-1930s, he led a band that performed on radio stations and at Elks Lodges, Air Force bases, and nightclubs, first in his hometown of Oklahoma City, then in various parts of the country.Read More →
Johannes Wallmann got the recording for his new jazz album “Elegy For An Undiscovered Species” just under the wire. The director of jazz studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison gathered 14 musicians, including a string section, at the Hamel Music Center for a week in late February 2020 to recordRead More →
Salah Ragab: military commander by day, jazz musician by night Members of the Cairo Jazz Band with Salah Ragab. Source: Interstellar medium Imagine someone walking into a music store, grabbing “Ramadan In Space Time” and getting into the shazam. For someone who doesn’t know who Salah Ragab is, hisRead More →
“That’s when all the music really started here in Buffalo,” said Geraldine DiRe. “When all the musicians and artists saw what they could do, they moved forward… It was black and white, and they were all treated the same. It was wonderful what ‘he started.” While at UB, DiRe alsoRead More →
Dreher High School group principal Chris Lee, Dreher student Bryson Stakely and Richland One main group teacher Mary Lou Schweickert Musical instruments belonging to the late international jazz musician Roger Pemberton, who played with legends such as The Jackson 5, Judy Garland and Ray Charles, will continue to make musicRead More →
King Sukii , Associate Editor @KingSukii Susanna Osborne, more affectionately known as Sukii, is Associate Entertainment Editor for iOne Digital. The Spanish Harlem native started blogging in 2010 when she started covering hip-hop’s rising stars for GlobalGrind. Music (and entertainment in general) are areas Sukii continues to focus on asRead More →
A short documentary about a Qualicum Beach-based jazz musician has been nominated for an award by an American film festival. This month, local Shaw TV volunteer, Kerilie McDowall, learned that the short film she created with the help of the Shaw Spotlight team, In the Zone: Rick Kilburn, is aRead More →
Soul co-director Pete Docter considered casting the lead role as an actor or scientist, but opted for a jazz musician due to the career’s “selflessness”. Pixar Soul was almost a very different movie. Early in development, co-director Pete Docter considered centering the film around an actor or scientist. However, onceRead More →
It was the kind of year that felt like a punch. Jamie Foxx not only coped with the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, but his beloved sister DeOndra, who had Down syndrome, passed away. There’s a quote from her new movie “Soul” that she loved. “The line is, ‘The worldRead More →
No ordinary man (Canada) 80 mins. Stream online at the 2020 Vancouver International Film Festival from September 24 to October 7 on VIFF Connect We talk a lot about the importance of screen representation, but No ordinary man aims to vividly capture the emotional impact of acknowledging aspects of one’sRead More →
In the 1950s, when jazz clubs dotted Los Angeles, Mr. Niehaus was a fixture on the scene, alongside other legendary musicians including Chet Baker, Hampton Hawes, Shorty Rogers and Bill Holman. But it was on the road with Stan Kenton’s band that Mr. Niehaus rose to national prominence as theRead More →
Stanley Nelson’s deep dive into the world of a beloved music giant, Miles Davis: Birth of Cool, will make its nationally broadcast debut on the PBS series “American Masters” tomorrow night, February 25, at 9 p.m. Miles Davis during the “Round Midnight” recording session in June 1956. Don Hunstein/Sony MusicRead More →
As one of Miles Davis’ bandmates describes in “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool,” a Davis performance is like a chemistry experiment. Every night, the band took the stage to perform a controlled explosion, with Davis as the lead chemist: a little danger and a lot of precision. It’s justRead More →
Ridgefield provided the answer. One day, Watson took his car downtown to Bob’s Auto Shop and “created this friendship” with shop owner Bob Ford, he said. Ford is not the kind of guy who calls himself “cat”. “He’s a good old boy,” laughed Watson. What they have in common, WatsonRead More →
Adam Nely is a New York-based composer, vlogger and jazz bassist, and he has a problem with the movie Whiplash. Well, to be more specific, he has a lot of trouble with Whiplash. Damian Chazelle’s 2014 love letter to abusive student-teacher relationships invited audiences into the insular world of NewRead More →
King joined the UTSA faculty in 1995 and majored in jazz studies and music theory. (June 20, 2018) — Clarence Morgan King, Jr. lecturer in the music department of UTSA, died June 13 at the age of 63. A brilliant and passionate musician, King majored in jazz studies and musicRead More →
Wynton Marsalis has covered all the bases. Race. His role in removing Confederate statues in New Orleans last year. His deep antipathy for rap and hip-hop. And the damage he believes gender inflicts on African Americans. “I think it’s a lot more of a racial issue than tearing down theRead More →
The Nasher Museum presents “Precarity,” a new three-channel video installation created by London-based artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah. “Precarity” works with themes of risk, hybridity and the unfathomable to explore the city of New Orleans through the remarkable life and times of Charles “Buddy” Bolden, the first known person toRead More →
Just as Lee Morgan seemed poised to break the cycle of drug addiction that had plagued him for years, the 33-year-old jazz trumpeter died in 1972, the victim not of an overdose, as so many similar stories have finished, but with a bullet. The documentary “I Called Him Morgan”, whichRead More →
A documentary traces the brief life, trumpet career and volatile romantic history of Lee Morgan. (Luxury Submarine) Just as Lee Morgan seemed poised to break the cycle of drug addiction that had plagued him for years, the 33-year-old jazz trumpeter died in 1972, the victim not of an overdose, asRead More →
In the 1950s, some jazz musicians thought they couldn’t get that Charlie Parker “happy-sad feeling” without using drugs. So says a friend of saxophonist Frank Morgan in “Sound of Redemption”, a documentary that revels in joy despite some very sad events. Mr. Morgan was born into music. His father wasRead More →
The film delves into another association, with Joni Mitchell, whose albums ‘Hejira’, ‘Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter’ and ‘Mingus’ are unimaginable without Pastorius; calling him the bassist for these sessions somehow understates his role. Some of Pastorius’ most striking performance footage in film comes from Mrs. Mitchell’s 1979 tour with aRead More →
Lifelong jazz musician and educator clark terry is dead. He was 94 years old. Al Hicksdirector of the documentary about Clark’s life, keep on keep onRecount The Hollywood Reporter Saturday. He had been in poor health for several years due to advanced diabetes and entered hospice earlier this month, BillboardRead More →
The art of teaching In Words and pictures, starring Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche, an English teacher (Owen) at a prep school clashes with the new art teacher (Binoche), forcing the students to try to decide whether literature or art is better . Owen and Binoche deliver energetic performances underRead More →