Yellowjackets: celebrating 30 years of achievements as one of the premiere jazz fusion/smooth jazz groups of our time
Jazz & Classical Mix with Dutch Saxophonist Aart van Bergen
Posted April 13th, 2011 at 5:21 pm (UTC+0)
Mixing jazz with classical music is a tough job when it comes to improvisation. But Aart van Bergen and his Crescent Double Quartet are up to the challenge.
It’s Jazz Appreciation Month Worldwide
Posted April 8th, 2011 at 2:43 pm (UTC+0)
It’s April, when jazz music fills the air in Washington, D.C. This year’s 10th anniversary coincides with Latin jazz master Candido Camero’s 90th birthday
Music When You Want It: Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz
Posted March 24th, 2011 at 1:57 pm (UTC+0)
It was in 1959 when famed American Alto Saxophonist Ornette Coleman walked into a Los Angeles studio and pioneered a new form of Jazz
Using Music to Appeal for Help for Japan’s Quake & Tsunami Victims
Posted March 16th, 2011 at 10:23 pm (UTC+0)
Using jazz music for help: The name of the song, One Wish, is telling, and the simple message is: Japan needs your help
Birdland in the Big Apple, New York
Posted March 3rd, 2011 at 8:11 pm (UTC+0)
Anytime I hear the word “Birdland,” I get nostalgic about Midtown Manhattan’s nightlife, specifically the Birdland Jazz Club, where fabulous music was once performed by legends
Jazz, From Iran to Costa Rica
Posted February 18th, 2011 at 3:37 pm (UTC+0)
I listened to Heat of the Sun for the first time while reading “The Iranians: Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation” by American writer Sandra Mackey
Cairo native 