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CD Review: 28 July 2010
Manu Katché's
Third Round
Following on from "Neighbourhood" and
"Playground", the latest installment of the music of the French drummer
Manu Katché.
Club Dates & Concerts
July 2010
Jazznet picks
for Europe and North America
Daily updates!
News: 15 May 2010
Lena Horne: In Her
Own Voice on PBS and Online Stream
As the first
African American performer to sign a long-term contract with a major
Hollywood studio, Lena Horne personified both the glamour of Hollywood and
the reality of a lifetime spent battling racial and social
injustice.
News: 3 May 2010
New York
Memorial To Honor American Master Photographer Roy
DeCarava
The renowned photographer Roy DeCarava expressed an
early desire to address the lack of artistic attention given to the lives
of Black Americans.
News: 4 April 2010
Jazz Trombonist and
Journalist Mike Zwerin Dies at 79
An astute journalist and
a gifted stylist, Mike Zwerin has left a rich legacy of writings on the
twentieth century's most important jazz musicians.
Interview: 7 March 2010
Chick Corea
& The "Bushido" Code of Jazz
The jazz legend sits down
with our C.B. Liddell in Tokyo and offers his take on "the code" that has
shaped his career and his relationship with his audience.
News: 26 February 2010
Abu Dhabi
Coaxes Marsalis to Visit the Arab World
As part of the
2010 Abu Dhabi Festival, jazz icon Wynton Marsalis makes his debut in the
Arab world among a stellar roster of performers.
Portrait: 10 November 2009
The Johnny
Mercer Centenary: Lyrical Splendor
The month of November
2009 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Johnny Mercer.
Songwriter, vocalist, but above all lyricist, he walks shoulder to
shoulder with the greatest talents of the 20th century. But our C. Davis
Remignanti points out three areas where Mercer was (arguably)
unequaled.
CD Review: 7 November 2009
George Benson:
"Songs and Stories"
Ten-time Grammy winner George Benson
continues to carefully construct a catalog of releases that appeal to a
growing and varied audience, without compromising his craft.
Archives: 7 November 2009
George Benson: The Ticking Of The Clock
Is Loud
Seen:
The Jazz
Century Opens at the CCCB in Barcelona
A mega multimedia show in
Barcelona, featuring over 1000 exhibits, explores the many and
varied influences of jazz on the visual arts and world culture.
News
Winners, 2009 Jazz
Awards
Mike Zwerin, one of the earliest contributors to
Culturekiosque in Paris, is the recipient of the award for Lifetime
Achievement in Jazz Journalism.
Seen:
Jazz Jam:
Eldar Djangirov
The young Russian jazz pianist continues
his quest to shake his reputation as a prodigy and gain acceptance as a
mature talent.
Portrait
Mariza, the Fresh New Diva of
Fado
Having survived near-extinction, the music that defines the
heart of Portugal has a new reigning diva who, like the music itself,
blends an African heritage with the spirit, light and spontaneity of
modern Lisbon.
Interview Archive
Keith Jarrett: Zen in the Art of
Jazz
With a tour of Japan coming up in April and May,
world-renowned jazz pianist Keith Jarrett talks to culture journalist C.
B. Liddell in Tokyo about his music.
Jazznet Archives: Special Feature
Sons of Miles
A 41-part series featuring
personal reminiscences and interviews of Miles Davis and the leading jazz,
rock and pop musicians he influenced during his long career, by Mike
Zwerin, one of Miles' early sidemen. |
