UK: Jazz and films for Black History Month - VIDEO
Highlights include a performance by jazz legend Gary Crosby, acknowledged as one of the country's pioneers of British Black Jazz. There will be a pre-concert talk by Dr Jason Toynbee of the Open University, who will discuss his research project, ...
USA: CenterState Bank to sponsor jazz concerts at the Emerson Center
VERO BEACH — The Emerson Center, along with Presenting Sponsor CenterState Bank, is proud to announce the “Jazz on Sunday’s,” a trilogy of musical events to be introduced for Vero Beach’s upcoming social season. Music will be performed by the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra.
USA: Grace Kelly wows crowds on campus
From her first few notes, 19-year-old musical prodigy Grace Kelly displayed fluid technique and mind-blowing stage presence at her standing-room-only concert in Salem State's Recital Hall on Oct. 3.
UK: Wrexham International Jazz Guitar Festival hits town this weekend
ON OCTOBER 14 and 15, to celebrate over ten years of international jazz guitar events in North Wales, the Wrexham International Jazz Guitar Festival takes place in the town.
HUNGARY: Swinging In Budapest: Jazz Steps Band - Club Concert Series
"Jazz takes again center stage in the heart of Budapest, in the Arizona Pódium Hall of Hotel Astoria. The concert series featuring the 'Jazz Steps Band' will be held every third Friday night at 7 p.m.
USA: George Reed, an accomplished drummer and Elmira resident, passed away Sunday.
He was 89.Jazz drummer George Reed, who was a mentor to many young musicians, died Sunday at age 89 in the Chemung County Nursing Facility in Elmira following a long illness.
INDIA: Jazzing it up in Mumbai!
Groups such as The Cedar Walton Trio, The Cannonball Adderley Legacy led by drummer Louis Hayes, The Steve Turre Band, Jon Faddis, Helen Sung, The Beets Brothers, The Harsha Makalande Band and others will be playing at the festival. Romit Chatterjee, from the organising committee, says, “After several years, an international jazz festival is happening in Mumbai. The city has been getting international musicians from all other musical genres, so we thought it’s time to organise something on jazz. It’s going to be an annual event. We are already getting a huge response from the audience cutting across all age-groups.”
USA: Rehoboth hosts jazz festival, fundraises for cancers
Three-time Grammy Award nominee, Boney James, fires up the sellout crowd at last year's Jazz festival.
Dennis Santangini, president of the Delaware Celebration of Jazz, a nonprofit that produces the festival, has been directing the event for 15 years and said it will be producing 19 shows between Oct. 12 and 16 more than ever before.
TAIWAN: Taichung mayor hopes for attendance boost at city jazz fesitval
Taichung Mayor Jason Hu said Tuesday that the city's jazz festival, now in its ninth year, has become a major music festival in Asia, and he expressed hope that it will attract 1 million people next year. Hu said that in the initial years of the festival, a lack of funding and performers meant that the city had to call agents in Thailand, Japan and South Korea to seek bands willing to travel to Taichung to perform. Over the ensuing years, however, the festival has gained in popularity through word of mouth, Hu said, noting that he expects it to attract up to 800,000 people this year, up from last year's 750,000.
SERBIA: Pat Metheny: ‘Jazz is true blessing for me’
“The guitar is in my case just a translation vehicle. I have always been more interested in ideas than the guitar itself. I know there are people who are crazy about the instrument in itself and the way it fits in with the entire culture and all... but for me it is just a tool for dragging sounds out of my head and sending them out into the world.”
INDONESIA: Ambon in Tune With a Message of Peace
The island’s local musicians were joined by a strong international contingent at this year’s festival, including American jazz guitarist David Becker, French pianist Cedric Hanriot and the Ambonese-Dutch jazz and soul singer Jessica Manuputty.
