Horace Silver News

The University of Iowa Jazz Repertory Ensemble directed by Brent Sandy and the Johnson County Landmark under the direction of John Rapson will share a concert of big band standards and arrangements at 8 p.m. today in the Second Floor Ballroom of the Iowa Memorial Union.

Bassoonist Smith takes a clutch of bebop, post-bop and blues standards and play them in a solid and accomplished nature.

The Legendary Drummer Billy Cobham's new CD Palindrome is set to be released at the beginning of 2010.

Reviewing the Art Farmer Jazz Icons DVD the other day stimulated thoughts of his unique place in the pantheon of major jazz soloists.

Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage is one of my favorite CDs, as definitive a statement of Hancock's jazz artistry as, say, A Song for My Father is for Horace Silver's craft, or Giant Steps for John Coltrane's. But Maiden Voyage , particularly the title track, has that sense of relentless, questing motion that energizes me about all journeying.

The 27th annual Fond du Lac Jazz Festival will be held on Friday, Oct. 16, and Saturday, Oct.

The small-group jazz we associate with Blue Note Records is so much like pizza: Even the least of it satisfies, and the best of it floods us with pleasure.

For three decades now musician James McRae has been living and breathing his art.

Whether you call it hard bop or soul jazz, small bands like Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers and the Cannonball Adderley and Horace Silver quintets made some of the era's best-loved music, combining tight ensembles with emotional solos that produced a bluesy, church-driven sound.

CHERRY Burton Arts is resuming activities following the summer break with a lively event featuring flamenco musicians.

Yearning, uplift, and ancestry permeate this celebration of late vocalist Leon Thomas, a leading figure of post-Coltrane spiritual jazz who combined deep melodicism with a signature yodel-like technique on classics like Pharoah Sanders's "Creator Has a Master Plan.'' Here, singer Dwight Trible channels Thomas with uncanny tone and feeling on that ...

SOUL JAZZ OF THE 60s Music of Art Blakey, Cannonball Adderley, Horace Silver Featuring: Kenny Washington, Wess Warmdaddy Anderson, Nnenna Freelon, Louis Hayes, Nicholas Payton, Terell Stafford & More! Who/What: Jazz at Lincoln Center offers the soulful and swingin sounds of an explosive era in music with Soul Jazz of the 60s.

JAZZ comes to town with a swing in its step as the Pete Canter Quartet prepares to play at Ilminstera s Meeting House on Friday.

"I'm going to let my hair down. My message will be music tonight," said the city councilor, who played keyboard with Northeastern professor Zeke Martin's jazz ensemble after schmoozing with his guests.

S., Seattle; $10 . In the compressed, sometimes circular history of jazz, the freshest ideas often come from the past.

During the 1950s, the careers of trumpeter Miles Davis and saxophonist Sonny Rollins were ascending to their eventual legendary statuses, due to their great musical talents and in spite of their dangerous vices.

This classic, remastered set is a must-have for all jazz aficionados. The two discs cull 25 tracks taken from five recording dates at several New York studios and at Rudy Van Gelder's iconic facility in New Jersey between January 1951 and March 1956.

SAXOPHONIST Pete Canter will be blowing up a storm when he performs with his band at the Meeting House Arts Centre in Ilminster on Friday, September 11.

Chicago pianist Ben Neuman explores the realm of piano trio jazz for his debut release Introductions .

If drummer Louis Hayes intended to recreate the classic sounds of, well, Louis Hayes recordings on The Time Keeper , he succeeded.