Jimmy Greene – “Flowers – Beautiful Life, Volume 2” – Available April 28
AVAILABLE NOW on Mack Avenue RecordsSaxophonist Jimmy Greene Further Memorializes the Life of Late Daughter with Groove-Filled Release, Flowers — Beautiful Life, Volume 2 Ana Márquez-Greene was One of Many Victims of Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting in December 2012 Upcoming Jimmy Greene Performances: April 27 – April 30 | Jazz Standard | New York, NY…
Read MoreDetroit Jazz Festival Announces 2017 Artist Line-up
The Detroit Jazz Festival, the world’s largest free jazz festival, has announced its full artist lineup for the 38th annual Labor Day weekend event. The lineup, which is filled with rich and diverse jazz talents, is anchored by 2017 Artist-in-Residence Wayne Shorter, a revolutionary saxophonist and composer globally recognized for his immense contributions to jazz…
Read MoreAriel Pocock – “Living In Twilight” – Available June 9
In photography it’s known as “Magic Hour,” that time just after sunrise or just before sunset when everything glows with a golden intensity and reality becomes imbued with the Technicolor majesty of a dream. That liminal space, with its warm, inviting sheen and intoxicating air of mystery, is where singer/pianist Ariel Pocock finds herself on…
Read MoreKathleen Potton – “NERO” – Available May 19
Though the title of her debut album, NERO, is a winking homage to the influential Laura Nyro, Australian-born singer-songwriter Kathleen Potton isn’t interested in simply paying tribute. Instead, Potton has imbibed the lessons of Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush and other singular female songwriters both musically and in the distinctive paths they have cleared through…
Read MoreSean Jones – “Live from Jazz at the Bistro” – Available May 26
The young jazz veteran trumpeter Sean Jones believes passionately in championing the creative arc of artists who are committed to their life journey. “I think the progression of the art form [jazz] comes with people being allowed to be themselves in their rawest form with no compromise,” he has noted and added, “My body of…
Read MoreRegina Carter – “Ella: Accentuate the Positive” – Available April 21
“Ms. Carter is widely considered the finest jazz violinist of her generation, a hard-charging soloist whose precisely focused tone and graceful way with a ballad hint at her long years of classical training.” – The New York Times A hundred years after her birth, the ever-eloquent Ella Fitzgerald continues to teach us lessons. Regina Carter has chosen…
Read MoreDetroit Jazz Festival: Announces Wayne Shorter as 2017 Artist-in-Resident
The Detroit Jazz Festival, the world’s largest free jazz festival, is thrilled to announce legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter as its 2017 Artist-in-Residence. Through this role, Shorter will act as an ambassador for the Festival, support the Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation’s efforts to enhance year-round jazz music education opportunities, and thrill music enthusiasts…
Read MoreSteve Davis – “Think Ahead” – Available May 26
In life as in jazz, you never know what’s coming around the next corner — so it’s always best to think ahead. Trombonist/composer Steve Davis not only offers those two words as a sound piece of advice on his new album, Think Ahead, but exemplifies the art of putting it into action. Out May 26 from…
Read MoreSomi – “Petite Afrique” – Available March 31
Pulsing with Harlem’s rhythms and sonic ambiance, Somi’s Petite Afrique is an homage to her New York City upper Manhattan neighborhood, and one of the Meccas of the African diaspora. In the village of Harlem, along west 116th Street from Malcolm X Boulevard to Frederick Douglass Boulevard, African immigrants build American lives. Populated predominantly by a Francophone, West African…
Read MoreAvailable Now: Cameron Graves – “Planetary Prince” – Mack Avenue Records
The release of Kamasi Washington’s The Epic last year marked a seismic shift in the jazz landscape and the game-changing arrival of the genre-blurring Los Angeles collective West Coast Get Down. That evolution continues with the release of Planetary Prince, the debut album by visionary pianist, keyboardist, composer and WCGD founding member Cameron Graves. Upon…
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