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Blue Note Jazz Fest (NYC) Comes Around Again
After an extraordinarily successful first year, the Blue Note Jazz Festival will return from June 10 – 30, 2012 with over fifty shows throughout New York City. We, of course, have the list of TKA Artists slated to perform!
Preservation Hall Closed Out New Orleans Jazz Fest 2012
On paper at least, Sunday's closing set on the New Orleans Jazz Fest's Gentilly Stage was a celebration of Preservation Hall's 50th Anniversary. But it was much so much more. Review by Keith Spera for NOLA.COM
The Rebels and Seth Rogan
It was a star-studded night at the Soul Rebels’ Sunday Night Jazz Fest Party at Le Bon Temps Roule. Many stars including Seth Rogen, Craig Robinson, Jonah Hill, Aziz Ansari, and a host of other actors and the movie crew were in attendance. Post by the Soul Rebels for SOULREBELSBRASSBAND.com.
Delfeayo Plays the American Museum of Natural History
Jazz Musician and New Orleans native Delfeayo Marsalis talks about his concert "New Orleans: Culture Remixed" in honor of Jazz Appreciation Month. A video from NBC/NEW YORK
Tigran: A Fable
The young pianist Tigran possesses an almost intimidating virtuosity, a style that owes as much to Art Tatum's two-handed volubility and the sweeping refinement of Impressionist composers as it does to the spiraling, East-meets-West melodies of his Armenian homeland. Review by Charles Walker for ALL ABOUT JAZZ.
The NOLA interview: Why Charo Matters!
Watch a JazzFest preview interview with Bingo! Show star Ron “Ronnie Numbers” Rona and Doug MacCash of the Times Picayune, as they discusse TNOB!S influences from cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky to bomb shell Las Vegas entertainer Charo. From NOLA.COM
Fred Hersch reflects Whitman's verse with "Leaves of Grass"
Fred Hersch first read the earthy transcendentalist verse of Walt Whitman as an undergraduate at New England Conservatory in the mid-1970s, an encounter that made an indelible impression on the rapidly blossoming jazz pianist. Article by Andrew Gilbert for THE BOSTON GLOBE.
Whitman & Hersch: Leaves Of Grass
Hersch first read Walt Whitman at the New England Conservatory in 1976. In Paris 20 years later, by chance, he picked up a copy of Leaves Of Grass and his own Leaves Of Grass Oratorio was born. Coming full circle, Hersch brings his masterwork back to NEC. Preview by Joe Garelick for THE PHOENIX
Red Baraat Added To Bonnaroo
This year, Bonnaroo is proud to announce this year's collaboration with GlobalFEST, the team behind North America's most influential showcase of global music with RED BARRAT on the list to kick the party into high multi-cultural gear.
Jim Hall Trio & Julian Lage - The Times Review
Innocence and experience have almost always found a meeting place in jazz. At the Blue Note this week that's the case as the venerable guitarist Jim Hall augments his trio with the bright-eyed virtuoso Julian Lage. Review by Nate Chinen for THE NEW YORK TIMES.
