Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance on CBS Evening News

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Arturo O'Farrill, Jazz, The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

WHAT:
Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra will be featured on a CBS Evening News national broadcast.

The network will broadcast an interview with O’Farrill, which was recently filmed at Birdland in New York City. Topics of discussion will include the O’Farrill family, nonprofit Afro Latin Jazz Alliance and its resident Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, educational outreach, Cuba, and the recent GRAMMY© category cutbacks. Performance footage of the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra’s recent 10th Anniversary benefit at Symphony Space and a recent performance at Birdland will also be broadcast.

WHEN:
* Saturday, February 4 at 6:30PM EST

* Day and time subject to change – alternate air-date will be Sunday, February 5 at 6:00PM EST

WHERE:
CBS (check your local listings )

For more information on the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance and Orchestra,
please visit: afrolatinjazz.org

..:: SOURCE: DL Media ::..

Yolanda Brown ]|[ April Showers May Flowers [Black Grape Records, 2012]

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Jazz, Saxophone, Yolanda Brown

Yolanda Brown, April Showers May Flowers

Yolanda Brown ]|[ April Showers May Flowers –MP3– [Black Grape Records, 2012]

[Biography] – Frankly, it isn’t easy, because by simply stating all that YolanDa Brown has achieved over these past few years in music – and she has done so entirely under her own steam – it really is difficult not to wander into the path of hyperbole.

So let us start by asserting that YolanDa Brown is a one-off, very much a woman of her time, and one of the precious few truly independent artists whose DIY ethic hasn’t hindered the progress of her career but instead has laid the kind of foundations that could endure for decades.

YELLOWJACKETS Founding Member JIMMY HASLIP to Take Year-Long Hiatus

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Bass, Jazz, Jimmy Haslip, Yellowjackets

BASSIST FELIX PASTORIUS TO FILL IN

Jimmy Haslip of The Yellowjackets

Recently celebrating their 30th anniversary as a recording and touring group, the GRAMMY® Award winning Yellowjackets announce that bassist Jimmy Haslip will take a year-long hiatus. The longstanding member and co-founder of the band will use the time to focus on his family as well as pursue other artistic challenges. Bassist Felix Pastorius, son of legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius, has been selected to fill in for Haslip.

“The primary reason for my hiatus is so that I can spend more quality time with my family,” says Haslip. “I spent ten months on the road last year. The break will give me an opportunity to spend more time at home as well as work on other artistic endeavors, such as independently producing projects.” Haslip adds, “This was not a rash decision and there is no animosity by any means. Everybody is still friends and I’m excited for the band and their upcoming plans with Felix.”

Enrico Rava Quintet -[]- Tribe [ECM, 2012]

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Enrico Rava, European Jazz, Jazz, Trumpet

Enrico Rava Quintet, Tribe

Enrico Rava Quintet -[]- Tribe –MP3– [ECM, 2012]

[Biography] – This hugely popular trumpet player (born in Trieste, Italy in 1939) almost single-handedly brought Italian jazz to international attention. He began playing Dixieland trombone in Turin, but after hearing Miles Davis, switched instruments and embraced the modern style. Other key meetings were with Gato Barbieri, with whom he recorded movie soundtracks in 1962, and Chet Baker. He began to play with Steve Lacy; he also teamed up with South African expatriates Louis Moholo and John Dyani and recorded The Forest and the Zoo (ESP) live in Argentina. In 1967, he moved to New York, playing with Roswell Rudd, Marion Brown, Rashied Ali, Cecil Taylor, and Charlie Haden. In a brief return to Europe, Rava recorded with Lee Konitz (Stereokonitz, RCA) and Manfred Schoof (European Echoes, FMP). From 1969 to 1976, he was back in New York, recording Escalator Over the Hill with Carla Bley’s Jazz Composers’ Orchestra. After his first album as a leader, Il Giro del Giorno in 80 Mondi (Black Saint), he began to lead his own pianoless quartets and quintets. His recorded output numbers 100 records, 30 as a leader. –Francesco Martinelli | AllMusic.com

..:: SOURCE: All Music.com ::..