Randy Weston News

Willard Jenkins is currently completing work with Randy Weston on the jazz master's forthcoming as-told-to autobiography African Rhythms, composed by Randy Weston, arranged by Willard Jenkins.

Willard Jenkins is currently completing work with Randy Weston on the jazz master's forthcoming as-told-to autobiography African Rhythms, composed by Randy Weston, arranged by Willard Jenkins.

Grammy Award Winning Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Present "A Different Take / Randy Weston" November 5-6 at Symphony Space Thursday and Friday, November 5 and 6, 2009 at 8 PM Symphony Space Broadway at 95th Street New York, NY New York, New York Arturo O'Farrill and the Grammy-Award Winning Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra return to ...

On Saturday, November 21st at 6PM the UCPAC will launch its inaugural World Music Summit Series event with the World Jazz Summit.

October 15, 2009 Giants of Jazz 12 Giants of Jazz 12 honoring Jazz Master Randy Weston October 17, 2009 7:30 pm-10:30 pm When Randy Weston plays a combination of strength and gentleness virility and velvet emerges from the keys in an ebb and flow of sound seemingly as natural as the waves of the sea Langston Hughes Giants of Jazz 12 will be ...

This month, over a dozen pianists will participate in a free concert, Thelonious Monk at 92, at the World Financial Center in lower Manhattan.

October 11, 2009, 7:19 AM / Jazz Vijay Iyer Trio, "Historicity" . The most exciting new jazz pianist to come along since Jason Moran and D. D. Jackson, Iyer, at the age of 38, is the great current pianist in the rhapsodic Andrew Hill wing of the great percussive piano tradition .

Kurt Elling performs with pianist Lawrence Hobgood at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home to Jazz at Lincoln Center.

They had a marvelous time, those plucky non-conforming radio kids over at WBAI. They suspended regular programming with the evening news, flipped the switch for the incoming calls, and staged a marathon 55-hour appeal for funds to tide them over what they called their worst crisis in five years of broadcasting.

MONK AND AFRICA: Randy Weston plays a rare solo-piano concert October 12 at the Somerville Theatre.

Jazz piano prodigy Christian Sands is just 20, but he's already played on two Grammy Award shows and at Jazz at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. On Saturday, he opens the jazz-heavy, all-star 2009-10 season of the intimate Easton Piano Loft, celebrating its fifth year in the restored 1857 row home of music promoters Jim and Genevieve Luce at ...

SOURCE: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes When some things in jazz have been in retrenchment mode this year - festivals, magazines - here's a positive note for the future.

It was long ago, the end of summer in 1949. She was 13. But for Joan Landzberg, the memories will never go away.

Get your jazz on at Caramoor's two-day jazz fest this weekend in Katonah! On Saturday, check out Dianne Reeves and Strings Attached, the quartet of pianist Chuchito Valds, the Jean-Michel Pilc trio, pianist Cedar Walton and his band, the Gerald Clayton trio.

Jazzmobile, which presents New York's oldest continuous summer Jazz festival reaching approximately 100,000 annually, will kick off its 2009 summer season with a three-borough concert tour, featuring jazz great Randy Weston, on Sunday, June 21.