Jack Dejohnette News

For more than 20 years, singer/songwriter, pianist/composer, and band-leader Bruce Hornsby, has proven to be a survivor in an ever changing music environment.

Ticket sales for this year's festival were up 35% on last year. Over 1,000 musicians from some 29 countries are playing at over 80 venues around the city in the event, which is now ranked as being in the top three jazz festivals in Europe.

"Introducing The New 5" is a fresh post-bop debut with a classic quintet vibe. This compilation is the perfect fusion of classic and contemporary jazz.

If you're a jazz misanthrope you probably think first to "shoot the piano player," a saying taken from the Francois Truffaut film of the same name, Tirez sur le pianiste .

Last week, the legendary jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette graced the stage of the Berklee Performance Center to present a program charting the past and future directions of his music.

THE LA JAZZ PRO CONNECTION will present FIVE HOURS with LARRY GOLDINGS - Piano and Organ on Sunday 11a-4p November 1, 2009 Upstairs at Vitellos.The schedule will be 11a-1:00p Master Class & Improv all instruments welcome 1p-2p Networking lunch -2-4 Master Class & Playing with the PRO"S.Beginners, young professionals and working Pro's! Music fans ...

Bruce Hornsby -- "You can count on two or three hands the amount of people who have had lengthy, lengthy runs as Top 40 artists.

Where to begin? The early days in Chicago, between blues, bebop, and the mid-'60s avant-garde? The time in Charles Lloyd's band, or the years with Miles Davis when the master went electric with "Bitches Brew''? The four-decade friendship with Keith Jarrett and the subtle intimacy of their jazz standards trio? The Indian-infused work with Alice ...

A film featuring Hudson Valley resident, Grammy winner and former Miles Davis sideman Jack DeJohnette will be shown Saturday during the Woodstock Film Festival.

Notes from the Net: A Free Miles Davis Download; a Lester Bowie Tribute; the "Death" of Jazz, Continued; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews, and More SOURCE: St.

Notes from the Net: A free Miles Davis download; a Lester Bowie tribute; the "death" of jazz, continued; plus news, reviews, interviews, and more Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St.

ROSS WEITZNER/ASSOCIATED PRESSBruce Hornsby recently scored a film and is now developing a musical.

Percussion fans are invited to experience Drum Boogie, a free one-day music festival from noon to 7 p.m. Saturday on the lawn of Cornell Park in the Rondout Historic District of Kingston.

Percussed instruments may have been the original means of creative expression and communication, the musical beat tapping and pounding out the rhythms of human life itself.

Following a critically acclaimed box-set, a duet recording with Ricky Scaggs and a jazz trio album w/ Christian McBride & Jack DeJohnette , the beloved songwriter/pianist/vocalist Bruce Hornsby returns to the format that has brought his greatest commercial success.

The festival, which runs from October 23-26, will include headline acts such as sax player Pharoah Sanders, drummer Jack DeJohnette and stunning vocalist Kurt Elling.

It's been a while since Jack DeJohnette made a CD as a leader that fit so perfectly into the jazz genre as Music We Are , a straightforward recording of his trio with pianist Danilo Perez and bassist John Patitucci .

There is something pleasantly unassuming about John Surmana s stage demeanor, which is a bit of contrast to the conspicuously large baritone saxophone he has mastered.

Keith Jarrett is one of the most significant jazz pianists to emerge in the latter decades of the 20th century.

Brother's Keeper [Shanachie] California saxophonist Karl Denson grew up listening to R&B, funk, jazz, punk rock, pop and soul, in the process becoming convinced that forming a hybrid based on all of these styles was as natural as breathing the air.