Storms/Nocturnes Trio -][- VIA – [Origin Records, 2011] –

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Geoffrey Keezer, Jazz, Joe Locke, Origin Records, Pianist, Saxophonist, Tim Garland, Vibraphonist

“This trio truly sizzles with virtuosity and creativity. Tim, Geoffrey and Joe make an amazing trio.” —Chick Corea

Storms Nocturnes Trio - VIA

Storms/Nocturnes Trio -][- VIA –Mp3– [Origin Records, 2011]

With VIA, the third album by the chamber jazz trio Storms/Nocturnes, British saxophone legend Tim Garland, world leading vibraphone virtuoso Joe Locke and recent Grammy nominee, pianist Geoffrey Keezer, create a unique three-way dialogue of captivating, immersive music. Bringing their different styles and backgrounds together, they create music which can be spacious or immensely complex, delicate but often approaching orchestral depth, and collectively find their way into a new mood or feel before the listener knows they have left the old one.

Their spontaneous interaction, the dovetailing, the assertion of contrasting yet mutually supportive roles are all taken to a new level on this recording. This enduring international alliance of Jazz giants is celebrating its tenth anniversary with this album and concerts throughout Europe and the U.S.

For more information about the Trio, visit www.stormsnocturnes.com/ and listen to samples of this extraordinary recording.

Marcus Shelby Pays Tribute to Dr.King on April 4 [Soul of the Movement Meditations on MLK]

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African American, Bass, Faye Carol, Gabe Eaton, Howard Wiley, Jazz, Jeannine Anderson, KENNY WASHINGTON, Marcus Shelby

Marcus Shelby

April 4, 1968 is a tragic day in our country’s history. It marks the day that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, TN.

Bassist/composer Marcus Shelby, whose family is from Memphis, TN, pays tribute to Dr. King on April 4 with 4 new videos featuring music from Shelby’s widely acclaimed CD “Soul of the Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”

This is a very personal project for Shelby, who had several family members in the “I Am A Man” march and several who were arrested in the struggles. —Ann Braithwaite

More videos celebrating “Soul of the Movement” featuring the incomparable Marcus Shelby “Memphis: I Am A Man,” We’re a Winner” and “Take My Hand Precious Lord.”

..:: SOURCE: BKMusicpr.com ::..

Coming Up at The Cornelia Street Cafe – Paul Motian, The 5th Annual BJU Festival, Dan Tepfer w/Special Guest Gary Peacock and much more!

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Jazz, THE 5TH ANNUAL BJU FESTIVAL, The Cornelia Street Café

The Cornelia Street Café is a true New York City landmark, an epicurean destination, an artist’s café that cultivates and inspires, and one of the few remaining Greenwich Village bastions for creative music, spoken word, art, theatre, cabaret and much more.

Saturday & Sunday, April 2 & 3, 9:00 & 10:30 PM
THE 5TH ANNUAL BJU FESTIVAL
Featuring more than 20 of your favorite NYC jazz musicians

For the past 5 years, The Brooklyn Jazz Underground (an artist-run collective) has built a solid reputation for their creative contributions to the NY jazz scene. This weekend’s 5th annual festival at the Cafe promises to be a firework of new and exciting music. The Brooklyn Jazz Underground also hosts a weekly radio show on the Progressive Radio Network and co-curates the weekly concert series, Underground Works at Sycamore in Brooklyn.

JAM (Jazz Appreciation Month 2011) WOMEN & JAZZ: TRANSFORMING A NATION

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Jazz, Jazz Appreciation Month 2011, Mary Lou Williams

JAM 2011-2 (Women and Jazz Transforming a Nation)

Jazz Appreciation Month 2011 – the 10th Anniversary – examines the legacies of jazz women, and their advocates, who helped transform race, gender and social relations in the U.S. in the quest to build a more just and equitable nation. The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, founded in 1937 at the Piney Woods School in Mississippi, will be the focus of the JAM Launch, a museum display and special online and public programming offered by the National Museum of American History to highlight the unique legacy of the school that music built and their dynamic, women’s jazz band.

The National Museum of American History (NMAH) has developed a 2011 JAM poster of the legendary jazz artist Mary Lou Williams to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Jazz Appreciation Month in April, 2011. The innovative jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who performed with Andy Kirk and the Clouds of Joy, Duke Ellington, and others is one of a handful of women jazz artists included in the new Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology that examines the history of jazz in music and narrative.

..:: SOURCE: Smithsonianjazz.org ::..