Born in Voorschoten in 1961, grown up in Hoorn. Graduated with honeurs in 1985 at the Sweelinck Academy of Music in Amsterdam.
Won various prestigious prizes such as Wessel Ilckenprijs, Pall Mall Swing Award, AVRO broadcasting company “The Promise” and the attention of the media served him well. Since then he has a full agenda, p [...]
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Frits Landesbergen – drummer an...
Born in Voorschoten in 1961, grown up in Hoorn. Graduated with honeurs in 1985 at the Sweelinck Academy of Music in Amsterdam.
Won various prestigious prizes such as Wessel Ilckenprijs, Pall Mall Swing Award, AVRO broadcasting company “The Promise” and the attention of the media served him well. Since then he has a full agenda, p [...]
Anna Mjöll – Singer and songwri...
Anna Mjöll is an Icelandic jazz singer and songwriter. She uses Anna Mjöll as her performing name; her full name is Anna Mjöll Ólafsdóttir.
Biography
Anna Mjöll was born and raised in Reykjavík, Iceland. She is the daughter of guitarist, composer and arranger Ólafur Gaukur and singer, model and radio program director/producer Svanhildur Jako [...]
New Venue: SubCulture – NoHo, ...
SubCulture is a new venue bringing eclectic yet accessible music and creative arts performances to the vibrant NoHo neighborhood. A home away from home for those who love art in all its many facets, the venue plays host to a dynamic range of performances, genre-defying music series, and stimulating cultural presentations. With its intimate [...]
Dr. Judith Schlesinger is a psycholog...
Dr. Judith Schlesinger is a psychologist, author, educator, jazz critic, and musician. Trained in cognitive-behavioral and family therapy, her hats have included college professor and administrator, school psychologist and psychotherapist, book and CD reviewer, award-winning gardener, music producer, and chick singer/leader of the JS Fourtet. [...]
Terell Stafford, trumpet & fluge...
Terell Stafford has been hailed as “one of the great players of our time, a fabulous trumpet player” by piano legend McCoy Tyner. Known for being a gifted and versatile player with a voice all his own, Stafford combines lyricism and a deep love of melody with a spirited, adventurous edge. This uniquely expressive, well-defined musical talent [...]
Mark Gross – alto sax & fl...
Mark Gross swings and sings with soul and rhythm along today’s jazz vanguard. He constantly pushes the music forward, while staying true to the elements of the classic sound. Mark Gross has recorded on over 80 notable jazz recording, including 2 GRAMMY AWARD winning projects by the Dave Holland Big Band – ‘What Goes Around& [...]
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Virginia Wicks, 1920-2013 Jazz Public...
Few could have foreseen the prescience of a Look magazine headline for a 1954 photo feature entitled “Career Girl Press Agent” detailing the busy life of star publicist Virginia Wicks. At the height of her career in the forties and fifties, Wicks was an around-the-clock woman about town in New York and later Los Angeles, who prevailed in a [...]
50th Anniversary Oscar Peterson’...
Oscar Peterson’s album Night Train was released 50 years ago this spring. CBC Music traveled by train to Montreal with former Peterson sidemen, bassist Dave Young and Alvin Queen, and pianist Robi Botos, whom Peterson took under his wing during the last years of his life, for a concert recreating all of the music of Night Train. Watch [...]
Louis Armstrong House Celebrates Jazz...
Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month with Louis Armstrong!
The Museum’s got West End Blues …
Louis Armstrong House Museum is celebrating Jazz Appreciation month in style this April. 85 years ago, Louis Armstrong recorded one of his all-time masterpieces, “West End Blues,” one of the most important records in jazz history. For Jazz [...]
Ravi Coltrane
Praised for his music’s “elusive beauty” (DownBeat), and for his “style informed by tradition but not encumbered by it” (Philadelphia City Paper), saxophonist Ravi Coltrane takes a bold step in his creative journey with Spirit Fiction, his Blue Note Records debut.
Spirit Fiction features two different band lineups, each with a unique expre [...]
Matt Garrison
With confidence, lyricism, and a tonality that is suffused in warmth, saxophonist Matt Garrison fervently pursues the art-form of jazz as reflected in his own words, “I like to think that I am a translator of sorts. A jazz musician, in my opinion, is supposed to interpret the world around them and convert those situations and feelings [...]
