Ernie Watts News

Going to a Steely Dan concert is like riding in a luxury car; you know just what you're going to get: a smooth, comfortable ride.

Sarajevo Jazz Festival Opens Sarajevo Sarajevo The 13th annual Sarajevo Jazz Festival opened here on Tuesday with a performance by the US singer Kurt Elling, one of the world's most distinctive male vocalists in jazz today.

YOSHI'S: I've been out on the West Coast catching some fantastic music. On the Jazz side, the highlight has to be Yoshi's in San Francisco on Fillmore.

Well-traveled jazz saxophonist Ernie Watts enjoyed his first performance in Las Cruces so much last year that he decided to double his pleasure this year.

When Johnny Hartman and John Coltrane recorded their one and only album together they created a moment that shaped the art of vocal jazz.

There's some oddball stuff in town this week, lotsa different degrees of differentness.

In 2006, Kurt Ellling, who has blossomed into the most striking male vocalist in jazz, created a concert tribute to the one album made by tenor sax legend John Coltrane, his landmark quartet of the early 1960s and the obscure, baritone singer Johnny Hartman.

The new live CD from Grammy nominated jazz vocalist Kurt Elling, Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman , is in stores today via Concord Jazz.

Three saxophonists and a pianist, only two of whom are known as much for their writing as their improvising, are the subjects of these four tribute/homage albums concentrating on their compositions.