Sunday, April 29, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Lowell Jazz Day Camp Hosts an Open House on Sunday, April 29
The Lowell Jazz Day Camp program is holding an open house for prospective students on Sunday, April 29, 2012 from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. at The Space, the region's premier recording studio and rehearsal space, located at 150 Western Avenue in Lowell.
The two-week, intensive jazz camp runs this year from July 16-27, 2012, and is headed by Stanley Swann III, well-known jazz drummer and director of the program. The outstanding faculty lineup includes Frank Wilkins, piano; Semenya McCord, vocals; Mark Michaels, guitar; Thomas Hebb, bass guitar; Artie Barbato, trumpet, and Paul Combs, saxophone.
For more information, or to RSVP to the open house, call 978 459-4755.
Find year round details on jazz throughout Massachusetts by visiting MassJazz.com.
For tourist information, go to MassVacation.com or MerrimackValleyCVB.org.
Live Jazz in Greater Boston and Across Massachusetts on Saturday, April 28
Japanese Pianist Keiko Matsui
Also, the 6th annual Jazz Week, organized by JazzBoston, is underway in dozens of venues throughout the area. For a full schedule of Jazz Week activities, click here.
Boston/Cambridge
Keiko Matsui
Doubletree Suites Hilton Hotel
400 Soldiers
Field Road
Allston, Boston
Dancing with bOp! / BC Jazz Band
O’Neill Library
Plaza
Chestnut Hill
Steve Soares Trio
Prudential Tower
800 Boylston Street
Spring Swing Sunday Jazz Band
Harvard Jazz Band
Harvard Jazz Band
Science
Center
Atlas Soul
Charles
Hotel
One Bennett
Street
Harvard Square,
Cambridge
North of Boston
Toni Lynn Washington
15 Kearney Square
Lowell
Lowell
Boston
Horns Reloaded
285 Cabot
Street
Beverly
A Tribute to Duke
Ellington
Monadnock Chorus
Peterborough Town House
Peterborough Town House
South of Boston & Cape Cod
Ring Brothers Market
485 Rt. 134
South Dennis, Cape Cod
Western Mass
George Schuller Trio
For year round details on jazz concerts, night clubs, radio stations,
campus events, weekend brunches and jazz activities throughout
Massachusetts, visit MassJazz.com
Friday, April 27, 2012
Governor Deval Patrick Issues Jazz Month Proclamation in Massachusetts
Governor Deval Patrick declared April 2012 to be Jazz Month in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The proclamation, issued to coincide with the Smithsonian Institute's Jazz Appreciation Month across the nation, praises the legacy of jazz as an American art form and the contributions of Massachusetts jazz performers like Chick Corea from Chelsea, Roy Haynes from Roxbury, Phil Woods from Springfield and many others.
And the proclamation points to the 6th annual Jazz Week in greater Boston sponsored each year by JazzBoston, which takes place April 27 through May 6, 2012.
For year round details on jazz concerts, nightclubs, campus events, Sunday brunches, radio stations and jazz festivals throughout Massachusetts, visit MassJazz.com.
For tourist information, contact the Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism at MassVacation.com.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Saxophonist Steve Coleman and Five Elements Perform at UMASS/Amherst on Thursday, April 26
Alto sax player, composer and philosopher Steve Coleman and his band, Five Elements, perform in concert at the Bezanson Recital Hall on the University of Massachusetts at Amherst campus at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets are $12 for adults and $7 for students and can be purchased online or at the door.
Born in Chicago in 1956, Colman is an influential figure in jazz circles, especially in the New York City area, where he has made his home since 1978.
The concert is part of the Magic Triangle Series, produced by WMUA-91.1FM and the Fine Arts Center at the University of Massachusetts
For a schedule of upcoming concerts at UMass/Amherst, click here.
For year round jazz across Massachusetts, visit MassJazz.com.
Tourists can find information by visiting MassVacation.com.
Jazz Pianist Fred Hersch Presents Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass at Jordan Hall on April 26
Dominique Eade
The concert is free and open to the public.
With Hersch on piano, the concert showcases vocalists Dominique Eade and Tommy Boyton, along with Andrew Halchak on alto saxophone, clarinet, and bass clarinet; Wyatt Palmer, tenor saxophone; Jake Baldwin, trumpet; Tim Shneier, trombone; Valerie Thompson, cello; Ehud Ettun, bass, and Connor Baker, drums.
For details on jazz throughout the year in Massachusetts, visit MassJazz.com.
For visitor information, go to MassVacation.com and BostonUSA.com.
Cornell Coley and Afro-Latin Jazz Trio Perform at Doyles on April 25
Jamaican born musician Cornell Coley leads his Afro-Latin Jazz Trio in a benefit night for the Egleston Square Main Street group at Doyle's Cafe in Jamaica Plain, Boston on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Master of Ceremonies for the night is Skippy White.
For more information on the benefit, click here. Or follow Egleston Square Calendar of Events for future activities.
Find year round details on jazz in Massachusetts by visiting MassJazz.com.
For visitor information go to MassVacation.com and BostonUSA.com.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Berklee's Rethink Music Conference Takes Place at Hynes Convention Center in Boston on April 22-24
Berklee College of Music is presenting Rethink Music, a gathering of music industry leaders, musicians, academics, and technological pioneers, takes place at the John B. Hynes Conference Center in Boston's Back Bay on April 22-24, 2012.
The hands-on conference, produced by Berklee, "is designed to bring music stakeholders together to discuss business models for the future, examine copyright challenges in the digital era, and analyze technological innovation in music and its distribution. Centered around transforming the music industry, Rethink Music's programming does not just focus on discussing change, but rather making it happen," according to the conference description.
To view the schedule of activities on Monday, April 23 and Tuesday, April 24, click here. See list of speakers.
You can find year-round details on jazz in Massachusetts by visiting MassJazz.com.
For information about visiting Massachusetts, go to MassVacation.com and BostonUSA.com.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Jazz Bassist Esperanza Spalding Performs Earth Day Concert at Boston's Orpheum Theatre on April 22
Grammy Award winning artist Esperanza Spalding is performing at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Boston on Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. The concert is presented by World Music/CrashArts.
Tickets to the show can be purchased online or at the door.
The concert is an official Earth Day event.
Find year round details on jazz in Massachusetts by visiting MassJazz.com.
For visitor information, go to MassVacation.com and BostonUSA.com.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Next up at Fenway Park: Pee Wee Russell, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and Ray Charles
Fenway Park, which celebrates its 100th anniversary today as America's beloved baseball field, hosted the first annual Boston Jazz Festival on August 21-23, 1959.
The festival was organized by Boston's famous music impresario George Wein, an avid Red Sox fan and founder of the Newport Jazz Festival. Sheraton Hotel sponsored the event.
The line-up at the time, and in retrospect, was an all-star cast of some of the world's greatest jazz musicians, including legends Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Oscar Peterson, Pee Wee Russell, Roy Eldridge, Thelonius Monk, Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond, and the Modern Jazz Quartet.
Vocalists Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and Mark Murphy performed, and so did Ray Charles, who represented "a link between the old blues that was heard on the streets and in the churches of the South and the present clamor of the latest teen-age idol," wrote Fr. Norman O'Connor, jazz columnist for The Boston Globe and chaplain at Boston University. O'Connor, also an MC at the festival, was known as the jazz priest.
Japanese pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi, who graduated from Berklee that year, played with her trio, and local favorite Herb Pomeroy from Gloucester performed with his Big Band.
According to Globe reports, the festival averaged 5,000-7,000 people each night over the three-day event.
Wein, in his book, Myself Among Others: A Life in Music, writes that Red Sox players used to frequent his jazz
club, Storyville in Kenmore Square,
after the games, to hear stars like pianist Erroll Gardner and others.
"One of Gardner's most loyal listeners was Ted Williams, the Splendid Splinter of the Boston
Red Sox – and my boyhood idol. Years
later, after Williams had retired and moved out of the city, he claimed that
the thing he missed most about Boston was seeing Garner at
Storyville.”
For year round details on jazz festivals in Massachusetts, along with concerts, night clubs, campus events, hotel brunches and more, visit MassJazz.com.
For information about visiting Massachusetts and Boston, go to MassVacation.com and BostonUSA.com.
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
Glenn Miller Orchestra Performing at Rogers Center for the Arts in N. Andover on Friday, April 20
The world famous Glenn Miller Orchestra, led by trombonist Larry O'Brien, is performing at the Rogers Center for the Arts at Merrimack College in N. Andover on Friday, April 20, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets to the show are $30 for advance purchase ($25 in advance for students and seniors); or $35 at the door. Purchase by calling 978 837-5355 between box office hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Orchestra plays the original hits of the great bandleader Glenn Miller, and tours around the world, giving up to 300 concerts each year.
For year round details on jazz activities in Massachusetts, visit MassJazz.com.
To find out about visiting Massachusetts or the Merrimack Valley region, go to MassVacation.com or MerrimackValley.org.
NEC Presents Music of Jazz Visionary Bob Moses at Jordan Hall in Boston on Thursday, April 19
The NEC Jazz Orchestra, conducted by Ken Schaphorst will perform the music of composer, drummer, and percussionist Rakalam Bob Moses at Jordan Hall in Boston on Thursday, April 19, 2012, starting at 8:00 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public.
An NEC faculty member since 1983, Moses is a composer, drummer, poet, dancer and vision whose music reflects his lifelong quest for spirituality and mastery in a multitude of art forms.
The concert will feature Moses himself, along with fellow faculty member Jerry Leake and alumnus Tupac Mantilla '07 M.M. on percussion. Also joining in are vocalist Nedelka Prescod and fiddler Eden MacAdam-Somer, who has launched the NEC Continuing Education program in Contemporary Improvisation, in which Moses also teaches.
Find year round details on jazz throughout Massachusetts by visiting MassJazz.com.
For information about visiting Massachusetts, go to MassVacation.com and BostonUSA.com.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Michael Musillami Trio Performing at Johnny D's in Davis Square on Wednesday, April 18
The Michael Musillami Trio is performing at Johnny D's Uptown Restaurant & Club in Davis Square, Somerville on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 9:00 p.m.
For information about seating and dinner reservations, click here.
The band includes Musillami on guitar, George Sculler on drums and Joe Fonda on bass.
For more details on jazz activities in Massachusetts any time of the year, visit MassJazz.com.
For visitor information go to MassVacation.com and BostonUSA.com.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Northampton Jazz Workshop Takes Place on Tuesday, April 17
The line-up for April 17 includes pianist Paul Arslanian, bassist George Kaye, reeds player Carl Clements and drummer Bob Weiner.
Find year round jazz concerts, night clubs, festivals, radio stations and campus events throughout Massachusetts by visiting MassJazz.com.
For information on visiting Massachusetts, go to MassVacation.com.
Jazz Vocalist Kate McGarry Performs at Scullers Jazz Club on Tuesday, April 17
Jazz singer Kate McGarry is celebrating the release of her new CD, Girl Talk, at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets to the show are $20 and can be purchased online or at the door.
She is joined by her band members from the CD: Keith Ganz on guitar, Gary Versace on keyboards and Clarence Penn on drums.
On her new album, McGarry pays tribute to the great jazz performers who inspired her throughout her career, including Betty Carter, Anita O'Day, Carmen McCrae, Sheila Jordan and Shirley Horn.
Originally from Hyannis, Cape Cod, McGarry grew up in a musical household and studied jazz at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, studying with Archie Shepp before embarking on a dynamic career.
For a schedule of upcoming events at Scullers, click here.
For year round details on jazz in Massachusetts, visit MassJazz.com.
For visitor information go to MassVacation.com and BostonUSA.com.
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