This new album is sort of a further evolution of the concept that this keyboardist-composer started with hit 2010 CD, ‘Now Is The Time’
Piano Great Chick Corea Continues World Tour
Posted October 6th, 2011 at 7:48 pm (UTC+0)
The gifted piano wizard will release a DVD chronicling his six-month long tour, the longest and biggest tour of the year in jazz
Renowned Pianist Makoto Kuriya Focuses on Maintaining Japan’s Jazz Identity
Posted June 24th, 2011 at 8:01 pm (UTC+0)
Makoto Kuriya talks with Jazz Beat about his experience with American jazz, how he felt as a Japanese playing American jazz in Europe, and his experience at Cairo Jazz Festival and the Nile cruise Karaoke
Jazz Legend Nat King Cole and the Untamed Wild West
Posted June 17th, 2011 at 9:09 pm (UTC+0)
Why banjo music reminds me of jazz icon Nat King Cole, the American Wild West, the majestic Rocky Mountains and the Marlboro Man?
Elegant Pianist Amina Figarova: From Baku to Amsterdam to New York
Posted May 12th, 2011 at 4:02 pm (UTC+0)
She was only two when she began to play piano in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. Internationally Acclaimed pianist Amina Figarova grew up listening to ‘lots and lots of music’ on Voice of America radio.
Memory Lane: Brubeck’s Take Five
Posted February 9th, 2011 at 8:23 pm (UTC+0)
When I hosted Jazz Club USA, I was amazed to have so many requests from listeners in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt and Iraq to play ‘Take Five’ by the Dave Brubeck Quartet
Imagine in Jazz
Posted January 31st, 2011 at 8:14 pm (UTC+0)
What I love about Imagine is that it is unique and features an amazing array of music superstars from every region of the planet, including India Arie, Jeff Beck, Pink, Seal, Omou Sangare and others
Cairo native 