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Eleven years ago, three undisputed titans of smooth jazz joined forces to become the supergroup known far and wide today as BWB. Those three gentlemen—trumpeter/flugelhornist Rick Braun, tenor saxophonist Kirk Whalum and guitarist Norman Brown—will be touring, beginning June 1, in support of their second release together, Human Nature (Heads [...]

Photo credit: Robert Ascroft A pledge campaign is underway to further fund a documentary about Wayne Shorter that was begun in 2006 and that is scheduled for release in 2014. The film, titled Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity, promises to be an intimate portrait of an artist who’s created a great [...]

Photo credit: Debra Gail White Boston-based pianist Laszlo Gardony released a solo disc titled Clarity on May 7. It’s a thoughtful, rhythmically varied and wonderfully executed piece of work on the Sunnyside label that arrives two decades after Gardony’s debut Sunnyside release, Changing the Standards—also a solo-piano album. By his [...]

Photo credit: Fabrizio Ferri Trumpeter Chris Botti (pictured above) is among the artists who will perform at the Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts, in Miami, during the 2013-14 season of “Jazz Roots—A Larry Rosen Jazz Series.” Currently celebrating its fifth anniversary, the jazz and educational series originated at the [...]

Ryan Truesdell – Photo credit: Shaun Mader Ryan Truesdell, the producer and conductor behind last year’s roundly lauded album, Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans, will play a six-night engagement in May at Manhattan’s Jazz Standard. Truesdell (pictured above) and his Grammy-nominated Gil Evans Project will begin their stand [...]