April 2011

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Ruby Braff: The Beauty in Music – In Profile with Mick Carlon

Mick Carlon reminisces about the late trumpeter Ruby Braff

Etta James: The Early Years – Hearing Voices

Christopher Loudon on the release of a new compilation of vintage material from the legendary singer

John Boutte stills the crowd at New Orleans Jazz Fest

Published: Saturday, April 30, 2011, 7:24 PM Updated: Saturday, April 30, 2011, 7:47 PM John Boutte has never been hemmed in by one musical genre.

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Who Really Owns Gershwin?

Recent recordings of George Gershwin’s concert works and ‘Porgy and Bess’ may not be Americans’ idea of Gershwin&#151but is Gershwin, played with love and care and imagination.

“Who says that only Americans know how to play Gershwin?” asks Gramophone magazine this month as it hails a new Gershwin CD from the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the German orchestra that calls itself the world’s oldest. “By this time possibly nobody,” the British record guide answers its rhetorical self…

Robert Plant killed softly with Buddy Miller and Patty Griffin at Preservation Hall

Published: Saturday, April 30, 2011, 2:10 PM Updated: Saturday, April 30, 2011, 2:38 PM Last things first: Robert Plant sang at Preservation Hall Friday night.

FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Monterey Jazz Festival Announces Stellar 2011 Lineup, September 16-18

The 54th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, Sept. 16 through 18, will include hardliners Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Huey Lewis and The News and Poncho Sanchez and His Latin Jazz Band, starring Terence Blanchard, to name a few.

A variety of other jazz and blues greats totaling 500, will perform on eight stages, during three days at the Monterey, California , Fairgrounds. Among them are James Farm featuring Joshua Redman, the John Pizzarelli Quartet, An Afternoon in Treme with Dumpstaphunk and the Hiromi Trio Project…

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: George Kahn Quintet Returns to the Culver Club – With a Tribute to Horace Silver

The m: George Kahn Quintet, featuring George Kahn on piano, returns to the Culver Club in Culver City for an exciting night of West Coast Jazz on Friday, May 20th, 2011. The evening will feature music from George’s most recent highly regarded album, Secrets From The Jazz Ghetto, as well as a very special tribute to the great Horace Silver. Accompanying George Kahn will be: Larry Klimas on sax, John Fumo on trumpet, Karl Vincent on bass and M. B. Gordy on drums…

EDUCATION: Piano Lessons for Mothera€(TM)S Day? Online Course Helps Mom Destress

Mother’s day is rapidly approaching. Usually, the gifts given are flowers and chocolate. But it doesn’t have to be. At least not according to pianist and online teacher Edward Weiss.

Weiss owns and operates a website that teaches adults how to create their own music at the piano. And not just any music, but something called ‘new age’&#151a style that’s been around for over 25 years and that many women adore…

Michael Kaeshammer: ‘I started living my life from a different angle’

Most artists wait until their middle years before having a career crisis, but Michael Kaeshammer had his big moment of doubt when he was in his late 20s.

Gretchen Parlato: Stay In The Moment

The jazz singer has just released her third album, The Lost and Found. She says that after belting her vocals in the past, she took time to fine-tune the best style for her own voice.