From The Washington Post
Brazil is changing. Caetano Veloso is forever.
By: Chris Richards
When Caetano Veloso sings, it sounds more powerful than reality, but he knows it’s real. For all of the whimsy, beatitude and hallucinogenic sensuality in his music, the colossal Brazilian songwriter has always been an artful pragmatist, a devout atheist and an unwavering skeptic of the hippie-dipped mysticism that fogged the dawn of his recording career way back in 1967. It’s made him unsolvable and eternal. We’ll never be able to touch the music falling from Veloso’s lips, but we can still believe in it.
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Politics weren’t mentioned explicitly during Monday night’s concert, but if Veloso’s long-term proposition involves waving off the iron fist of authoritarianism with harmonies of every color, he was obviously carrying out his life’s work onstage, filling the air with shimmering pleasure, and a latent suggestion of dread, too. All the... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 18th, 2019 in News
Hailed by The New York Times as ‘a drummer around whom a cult of admiration has formed,’ Mark Guiliana brings the same adventurous spirit, eclectic palette and gift for spontaneous invention to a staggering range of styles. Equally virtuosic playing... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 12th, 2019 in News
New video from Kneebody – the title track off their Edition Records EP, featuring the amazing vocalist (and fellow IMN artist) Michael Mayo! “By Fire” by Hiatus Kaiyote Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 12th, 2019 in News
From BMI
Terence Blanchard to be Named a BMI Icon at 2019 BMI Film, TV & Visual Media Awards
BMI is proud to announce that film composer and celebrated jazz musicianTerence Blanchard will be named a BMI Icon at the... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 12th, 2019 in News
From NPR alt.latino
‘Medicine’ To Make You Feel ‘Inmortal’: Our Favorite Latin Songs This Week
By: Felix Contreras, Stephanie Fernández, Jacqueline Reed
Lila Downs, “Cariñito”
Lila Downs has been making music that is both extremely popular and artistically exquisite for... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 11th, 2019 in News
From Libera Awards
Congratulations to Deva Mahal on her Libera Award nomination for Best Blues Album for Run Deep!
Click here for the full list of nominees Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 11th, 2019 in News
From 90.9 WBUR
Berklee’s Institute Of Jazz And Gender Justice Aims To Combat Sexism In Jazz
By: Amelia Mason
Though systemic sexism touches all corners of the music industry, jazz is an especially male-dominated field, subject to its own particular... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 10th, 2019 in News
From The Boston Globe
Soaring jazz from Jason Moran’s BANGS trio at Sanders Theatre
By: Bill Beuttler
The Jason Moran set that World Music/CRASHarts brought to Sanders Theatre Sunday night, BANGS featuring guitarist Mary Halvorson and cornetist Ron Miles, was... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 9th, 2019 in News
From The Roanoke Times
Jazz guitar icon brings his Combo 66 to Jefferson Center on Friday
By: Tad Dickens
Sometimes he plays jazz/funk. Sometimes he plays countrified jazz. Sometimes his jazz is loaded with electronic music, or rock, or soul.... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 9th, 2019 in News
From World Music Central
INTERVIEW WITH DAYMÉ AROCENA
By: Tony Hiller
There’s a revolution happening on the music front in Cuba led by a visionary group of millennials that’s banging down post-Buena Vista Social Club doors with an intoxicating mix... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 9th, 2019 in News
From The Calgary Herald
Canadian Bria Skonberg among young musicians taking Monterey Jazz Festival on the road
By: Eric Volmers
Once called ‘one of the most versatile and imposing musicians of her generation’ by the Wall Street Journal and listed... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 8th, 2019 in News
From KCUR 89.3
Seg. 1: Missouri’s ‘Wayfair Fix’ | Seg. 2: Saxophonist Joshua Redman
By: Steve Kraske & Devin Davis
Segment 2, beginning at 19:55: Jazz musician Joshua Redman on his time in the music industry.
Saxophonist Joshua Redman began... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 5th, 2019 in News
From At Large Magazine
DIAMONDS & DYNAMITE
By: Jennifer Parker
If you don’t know who Donna Grantis is, you might know her music and if you don’t know her music, you just might know the names of some of the... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 5th, 2019 in News
From The Mercury News
Music icon Caetano Veloso and sons come to Oakland to sing against oppression
By: Andrew Gilbert
Touring for the first time with his sons, Veloso shares the stage with Moreno, Zeca, and Tom Veloso, reprising an... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 5th, 2019 in News
From Jazziz Magazine
Snarky Puppy, Marvin Gaye, Martin Freeman: The Week in Jazz
By: Matt Micucci
New Release Cheat Sheet – Quiana Lynell, A Little Love (Concord Jazz)
In 2017, Texas-born vocalist extraordinaire Quiana Lynell won the coveted Sarah Vaughan... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 5th, 2019 in News
From The Bay State Banner
Q&A with Regina Carter
By: Scott Haas
Regina Carter is back in town. The jazz violinist, who studied at New England Conservatory for two years in the early 1980s, returns to Scullers jazz club in... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 4th, 2019 in News
From Connect Savannah
Savannah Music Festival Review: Noura Mint Seymali and Fatoumata Diawara
By: Jim Morekis
One of the great services the Savannah Music Festival provides every year is bringing in a variety of world music to town – particularly... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 3rd, 2019 in News
From The Dartmouth
Jazzmeia Horn’s performance will be a moving addition to jazz history
By: Elizabeth Garrison
On Wednesday, Grammy-nominated Jazz singer Jazzmeia Horn will be performing at the Hopkins Center of the Arts at 7 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium.... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 3rd, 2019 in News
From CBS SF BayArea
Brazilian Legend Brings Family Band To Oakland’s Paramount
By: Dave Pehling
A living legend of Brazilian music returns to the Bay Area this week when Caetano Veloso headlines Oakland’s Paramount Theatre on Friday with a band... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 3rd, 2019 in News
From Earshot Jazz
Jack DeJohnette, Joe Lovano, Esperanza Spalding, Leo Genovese: The Spring Quartet
It’s a large stage that can contain this much multi-generational talent: saxophonist Joe Lovano and drummer Jack DeJohnette, plus two younger virtuosos, bassist Esperanza Spalding and... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 2nd, 2019 in News
Brad’s new album, Finding Gabriel, releases on May 17th on Nonesuch Records. Brad says, “The music initially sprang out of a new synth I was discovering – the Dave Smith/Tom Oberheim OB-6 featured on several tracks. I built up many... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 2nd, 2019 in News
From The Post and Courier
Eclectic Savannah Music Festival enters new phase after recent departures
By: Adam Parker
[…] I confess I can’t get Dayme Arocena out of my head. Youthful, short, stout, sensual, expressive, she commanded the Charles H.... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 2nd, 2019 in News
From The Toledo Blade
Jazz vocalist Lynell earns more than a little love
By: Tom Henry
A pretty impressive debut album by New Orleans-based jazz vocalist Quiana Lynell is set for national release on Friday. Lynell is a singer who... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 2nd, 2019 in News
From All About Jazz
Children Of The Light Al Teatro Golden Di Palermo
By: Maurizio Zerbo
ConTerry Lyne Carrington al posto di Brian Blade, il trio di Danilo Pérez ha raggiunto risultati oggi difficilmente eguagliabili sul piano della logica jazzistica... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 1st, 2019 in News
From BMW Group
BMW Welt Jazz Award finalists 2019 announced
By: Thomas Girst
After six spectacular matinees, the BMW Welt Jazz Award 2019 enters its final round on 4 May, with a play-off between the Maciej Obara Quartet and Rudresh... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 1st, 2019 in News
From Billboard
Omara Portuondo to Give Her ‘Last Kiss’ to Audiences on Final Tour
By: Judy Cantor-Navas
Omara Portuondo, the 88-year-old Cuban legend known to many as the female voice of the Buena Vista Social Club, has announced an international... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 1st, 2019 in News
From WBGO
No Foolin’ in Take Five: Sharp New Music By Joel Ross, Jon Batiste and Quiana Lynell
By: Nate Chinen
Quiana Lynell, ‘Move Me No Mountain’
Two years ago, when Quiana Lynell took first prize at the Sarah Vaughan... Read The Full Article
Posted Apr 1st, 2019 in News
From The Financial Times
Joshua Redman Quartet: Come What May – redefining contemporary jazz
By: Mike Hobart
Redman has been touring with Aaron Goldberg, Reuben Rogers and Gregory Hutchinson on piano, bass and drums for over 20 years though, surprisingly,... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 29th, 2019 in News
From Jazziz
10 New Jazz Albums You Need to Know About: April 2019
By: Matt Micucci
Mark Guiliana, BEAT MUSIC! BEAT MUSIC! BEAT MUSIC! (Motéma Music)
Release date: April 12
Drummer-composer Mark Guiliana’s Beat Music is an ensemble of forward-thinking... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 27th, 2019 in News
From CapitalBop
WHY YOU NEED TO HEAR BEN WENDEL ‘” ONLINE AND IN PERSON
By: Jamie Sandel
Saxophonist Ben Wendel’s latest album, The Seasons, evokes emotional impressions of every time of year, passing through stages of bustling life, warmth, and... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 27th, 2019 in News
From The Current
Donna Grantis brings ‘Diamonds & Dynamite’ to The Current studio
By: Mark Wheat, Cecilia Johnson & Lydia Moran
Donna Grantis is the featured player in her new band, and she doesn’t even need a mic. Three years... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 27th, 2019 in News
From The Boston Globe
Jazzmeia Horn is just beginning to make her voice heard
By: Jon Garelick
From the first track of Jazzmeia Horn’s 2017 ‘A Social Call,’ it’s not difficult to see why she won the 2015 Thelonious Monk... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 25th, 2019 in News
From Cincinnati CityBeat
Trumpeter Avishai Cohen Plays Penultimate Show In Xavier’s 2018-2019 Jazz Series
By: Mike Breen
Trumpeter and composer Avishai Cohen is among the most critically-acclaimed musicians in modern Jazz, earning high praise from all over the world, including... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 22nd, 2019 in News
From The Augusta Chronicle
Savannah Music Festival: Daymé Arocena will treat Savannah to Cuban jazz rhythms
By: Jim Reed
One international artist whose work has not only benefited substantially from the American jazz idiom, but has also enjoyed tremendous acclaim... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 22nd, 2019 in News
From Exclaim!
Ex-Prince Guitarist Donna Grantis Channels Prince, Toronto and Improvisation on New Album ‘Diamonds & Dynamite’
By: Ryan B Patrick
“Prince was and is an inspiration; there are so many things that I’ve learned from him that I really... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 22nd, 2019 in News
From Billboard
Quiana Lynell Wants to Share ‘A Little Love’: Exclusive Premiere
By: Gail Mitchell
One mark of a gifted singer is how well he or she can reinterpret a classic composition and make it their own. The classic in... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 21st, 2019 in News
From The New York Times
For Etienne Charles, Jazz and Caribbean Music Are One and the Same
By: Giovanni Russonello
[…] Mr. Charles, 35, has been uniting Trinidadian methods with jazz ideas since he moved to the United States in... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 21st, 2019 in News
From The Mercury News
Brad Mehldau explains how a dream inspired latest acclaimed album
By: Jim Harrington
Brad Mehldau is heading back to the area for five shows. The phenomenally talented jazz pianist is supporting his latest acclaimed recording, ‘Seymour... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 20th, 2019 in News
From Houstonia Magazine
Making Space for A New Kind of Jazz Quartet
By: Hannah Che
If you thought Mark Guiliana’s new group, Space Heroes, had something to do with astronauts, think again. “I get asked about the name a lot... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 20th, 2019 in News
From Associated Press
Review: Ex-Prince guitarist Donna Grantis explores fusion
By: Pablo Gorondi
Recorded live-to-tape in just two days, a pace similar to that of many great jazz albums, Diamonds & Dynamite is an experimentally adventurous set, which contains ample... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 20th, 2019 in News
From CTV – Your Morning
Guitarist Donna Grantis shares her story of being discovered by Prince on YouTube
Donna Grantis speaks with CTV about her new album and the story of being discovered by Prince. Watch the full interview below.... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 19th, 2019 in News
From ArtBurst Miami
SINGER DAYMÉ AROCENA TALKS NINA SIMONE, LA LUPE ON WAY TO GLOBAL CUBA FEST IN MIAMI BEACH
By: Fernando Gonzalez
In the music of Cuban singer and songwriter Daymé Arocena, Santeria rhythms brush against rumba and samba... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 19th, 2019 in News
From BBC Radio 3
Brad Mehldau, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, Trio Isimsiz – In Tune
By: Sean Rafferty
Sean Rafferty presents top-class live music, with performances by jazz pianist Brad Mehldau whose new Piano Concerto premieres tomorrow with the Britten Sinfonia.
Listen... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 18th, 2019 in News
From WBGO
Take Five: New Music From Joshua Redman, Tom Harrell, Patricia Barber, and Elder Ones
By: Nate Chinen
Joshua Redman Quartet, ‘How We Do’
Late last week Nonesuch Records announced Come What May, a forthcoming album by the Joshua... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 18th, 2019 in News
From North Shore News
Afropop superstar Fatoumata Diawara extends her reach on Fenfo
By: John Goodman
Fatoumata Diawara has built a modern global career from her traditional West African roots. Last month the Afropop superstar performed live on the Grammy... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 18th, 2019 in News
From WDET: Ann Delisi’s Essential Conversations
Ann Delisi’s Essential Conversations: Terri Lyne Carrington and Esperanza Spalding
By: Ann Delisi
Hosted by Detroit storyteller Ann Delisi, this interview series recognizes the creative spirit of local and national celebrities. In each episode,... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 18th, 2019 in News
From WMOT
If You Love Bluegrass And 80s Pop, Love Canon Has You Covered
By: Craig Havighurst
Covers of pop songs have been commonplace in bluegrass music since the late 1960s, when The Dillards, Flatt & Scruggs, The Country Gentlemen... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 18th, 2019 in News
From NOW Toronto
What Donna Grantis learned from playing with Prince
By: Michael Rancic
Mississauga-born Grantis played co-lead guitar in Prince’s 3RDEYEGIRL and the New Power Generation band, who backed him in the period before his death in 2016. On... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 17th, 2019 in News
From MusicRadar
Donna Grantis: “It’s all about rhythmic precision and the attack on your notes – that’s one of the things Prince instilled in me”
By: Amit Sharma
‘I have such good memories of being in London,’ begins guitarist Donna... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 15th, 2019 in News
From Steamboat Pilot & Today
Ladysmith Black Mambazo spreads peace, love, strength through music at Strings
By: Julia Ben-Asher
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS ‘” Albert Mazibuko has been singing and touring the world with South African a cappella singing group Ladysmith Black... Read The Full Article
Posted Mar 15th, 2019 in News