The seventh annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival at Newark’s New Jersey Performing Arts Center is scheduled for Nov. 4-18. This year’s festival will present a wide variety of musicians, including a number of vocalists; Latin jazz artists like Eddie Palmieri; bassist Marcus Miller with David Sanborn and Lalah Hathaway; and the Legendary Count Basie…Read More
The 2018 Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Piano Competition is scheduled for Dec. 2 and 3 in Washington, D.C. Originally, the competition was to be held in October 2017, but it was postponed for a variety of reasons, including a marked uptick in other benefit events due to natural disasters. On the first day, at the…Read More
New York’s Winter Jazzfest, now in its 15th year, has announced a list of musicians who will appear at the 2019 festival, which is scheduled to run Friday, Jan. 4, through Saturday, Jan. 12. The festival will include a British jazz showcase, a 50th-anniversary celebration of ECM Records, and an opening-night concert featuring Meshell Ndegeocello,…Read More
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center has announced the five jazz vocalists who will compete in the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition on Sunday, Nov. 18, at 3 p.m. in Newark’s Victoria Theater. This year’s finalists are: Russian-born pianist and singer Oleg Akkuratov; New Orleans-based vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa; Australian singer Olivia Chindamo; Las Vegas-based singer Toscha…Read More
Pianist and composer Jason Moran will pay tribute to the legacy of James Reese Europe, the African-American bandleader who introduced jazz to France at the end of World War I, with the U.S. premiere of a new original piece at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The piece, titled…Read More
Resonance Records will celebrate its 10-year anniversary with a two-night run of shows at Birdland in Manhattan on Oct. 28 and 29. The company, which was founded by co-presidents Zev Feldman and George Klabin in 2008, specializes in releasing lost treasures of jazz, such as two sets of recently unearthed recordings by the guitarist Grant Green—Funk in…Read More
The Berklee College of Music will launch the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice at the end of this month (October 2018). The institute, founded by jazz drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, who will also serve as its artistic director, aims to focus on gender equity in jazz. “I am proud to serve as the…Read More
In a moving ceremony yesterday (Oct. 9) in Dix Hills, N.Y., the National Trust for Historic Preservation officially designated the building that was home to the family of John and Alice Coltrane between 1964 and 1973 as a National Treasure. This means that the Trust, through its National African American Cultural Heritage Fund, will join…Read More
Herb Alpert, the famed jazz trumpeter, also happens to be a visual artist, and on Thursday, Oct. 11, he will unveil more than a dozen of his abstract paintings and bronze sculptures to the general public at the Heather James Fine Art gallery in New York. An opening reception will be held at the gallery,…Read More
The singer and bassist Esperanza Spalding yesterday (Oct. 7) released the first installment of her new musical suite, 12 Little Spells, which she is unveiling to the public online via her website and Facebook and Instagram accounts. Spalding is putting out the project piece by piece—or spell by spell, in her parlance—every day at 12:12…Read More
