THE JAZZ CHILL CORNER VALERIE TROUTT - THE SOUND OF PEACE |  |
- VALERIE TROUTT - THE SOUND OF PEACE
- NEW RELEASES - PETE MILLS - SWEET SHADOW; GUIDA DE PALMA & JAZZINHO REMIXED BY BLUEY; BERNIE WORRELL ELEVATION
- WAYNE WALLACE’S LATIN JAZZ / JAZZ LATIN EARNS GRAMMY NOMINATION FOR “BEST LATIN JAZZ ALBUM”
- COMPOSER MARIA SCHNEIDER AND HER ACCLAIMED 2013 CD WINTER MORNING WALKS FEATURING SOPRANO DAWN UPSHAW NOMINATED FOR THREE GRAMMY AWARDS
- LEGENDARY JAZZ GROUP WEATHER REPORT WORKING ON NEW LEGACY PROJECT
- NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL®: NOW 60 TOUR FEATURES KARRIN ALLISON, ANAT COHEN, RANDY BRECKER AND OTHERS...
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Posted: 12 Dec 2013 08:02 AM PST
Oakland singer-songwriter Valerie Troutt's father is a blues and jazz singer-guitarist and her mother a preacher. She grew up singing gospel music at Bishop Walter Hawkins' Love Center Church, studied jazz at The New School in New York City, and spent two years as a member of Linda Tillery's Cultural Heritage Center Choir. All of those influences shine through the music on her first full-length CD, The Sound of Peace.
There was a time when black love was divine and music was her child/Through her smile lays our history of pain and laughter/Spirit guide us along, she sings on "Dienda," a ballad by the late Kenny Kirkland to which she set lyrics. Maya Kronfeld's elegant piano chords supply the sole accompaniment as Troutt caresses the plaintive melody in sustain-rich, at times breathy, mezzo tones. It's the most satisfying song of the bunch.
Other players, including bassists David Ewell and Raul Perales, drummers Darian Gray and Darrell Green, tenor saxophonist Howard Wiley, guitarist Eric Volger, and harmony vocalist Solas B. Lalgee, join in on the remaining nine numbers, seven of them penned by Troutt. An optimistic attitude permeates many of her tunes, particularly the self-affirming title track and the simultaneously swinging and funky "Suddenly Awake." And the singer's arrangements of Bart Howard's "Fly Me to the Moon" and Rodgers and Hart's "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" take those familiar standards down rhythmic roads much less traveled. (self release) ~ Lee Hildebrand, EBX
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Posted: 12 Dec 2013 07:48 AM PST
PETE MILLS - SWEET SHADOW (FEATURING MATT WILSON / PETE MCCANN / MARTIN WIND / ERIK AUGIS)
A native of Toronto Canada now living in Columbus, OH saxophonist Pete Mills has been widely heralded for his "virtuosic" and "gorgeous" and "versatile tenor-kick-butt" player (David Franklin, JazzTimes). He's released three previous CDs: two on Summit Records: Fresh Spin and Art and Architecture. His debut CD was Momentum (COJAZZ Records). As a sideman he appears on over a dozen CDs including those by guitarist Stan Smith, saxophonist Chad Eby, the eclectic ensemble Madrugada, the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, the Paul Ferguson Jazz Orchestra and the Columbus Jazz Orchestra. Mills holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the University of North Texas.
Sweet Shadow features some of the brightest voices in jazz today - Miills, drummer Matt Wilson, guitarist Pete McCann, bassist Martin Wind and up-and-coming pianist Erik Augis. The CD features nine Mills originals, two free-form duos with Matt Wilson as well as a stellar version of "The Star Crossed Lovers" and a trio version of Rahsaan Roland Kirk's "Serenade to a Cuckoo."
GUIDA DE PALMA & JAZZINHO - ABRACO DA BOSSA (INCOGNITO LOUNGE MIX FEATURING BLUEY)
Jean Paul Maunick AKA Bluey, founder of the legendary Incognito has remixed Guida de Palma & Jazzinho's Abraco Da Bossa. From Guida de Palman herself..."Abraço da Bossa is a piece I initially penned on my own and then with the help of Cristina Rajão for the lyrics and Christopher Pedley from the Baker Brothers for the music. Bluey, who often works with my producer Graham Harvey, kindly offered to "help the cause" by doing a remix. Of course we accepted immediately. With the help of his partner in groove, sound engineer, programmer, multi instrumentalist and all around studio wizard Richard Bull, they created an entirely new version of our song. Working on the track, there is also Matt Cooper, an amazing pianist with whom I had a band a zillion years ago, as well as Trevor Mires the trombonist and Sid Gauld on trumpet. The result is this almost lascivious 95bpm lounge mix which should get couples in the right mood; if you see what I mean."
BERNIE WORRELL ELEVATION - THE UPPER AIR: SOLO PIANO
A really surprising change from keyboardist Bernie Worrell – not the funky electric work he cut with George Clinton, nor the darker sounds he did with Bill Laswell – but a sublime album of solo piano that shows a whole new side of Bernie's talents! The album is produced by Laswell, but has a very different vibe than any of their previous collaborations – and the tunes are open, spacious, and very lyrical – almost in Keith Jarrett solo territory at times, with a similar sense of room between the notes. And although most tunes are compositions, they're taken in a very personal way that really transforms them – unique versions of songs that include "Redemption Song", "I Wanna Go Outside In The Rain", "In A Silent Way", "I'd Rather Be With You", "Ooh Child", and "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat". ~ Dusty Groove
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Posted: 12 Dec 2013 07:27 AM PST
"An earnestly grooving statement from Bay Area trombonist Wayne Wallace…great."
— Brad Farberman, DownBeat
"Gorgeous playing dominates along with highly inventive arrangements. Wallace's trombone shifts easily from a seductive, warm ballad style to powerful statements on uptempo tunes. Every track
offers a surprise and plenty of chops to back them up." — Marc Myers, JazzWax
World-renowned trombonist, composer, arranger, and producer Wayne Wallace has earned a GRAMMY nomination for "Best Latin Jazz Album" for his CD Latin Jazz / Jazz Latin his seventh CD on the Patois label. The CD, which topped the radio charts and earned rave reviews and a place on numerous top CDs of the year lists, displays all the thrilling interplay, melodic invention, and blazing improvisational flights that distinguish his music. Every tune reflects the flow of rhythmic currents between Caribbean and African-American communities. The project features The Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet with special guests including 77-year-old percussion patriarch Pete Escovedo and 17- year-old rising flute star Elena Pinderhughes, plus violinists Mads Tolling and Jeremy Cohen.
This is the second Grammy nomination for "Best Latin Jazz Album" which The Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet has earned and the sixth time Wallace — a San Francisco native now splitting his time between the Bay Area and the Midwest where he's a professor at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music — has been nominated for a GRAMMY for one of his own projects.
"This is a tremendous honor," says Wallace. "All the members of the quintet and I are deeply thankful for the consideration of the Recording Academy, as well as the support of our families, musical peers, and our extended family in the community. We very much appreciate your continued support."
In a career spanning four decades, Wallace has collaborated with a dazzling array of artists including Count Basie, Ray Charles, Joe Henderson, Carlos Santana, Lionel Hampton, Earth Wind & Fire, Sonny Rollins, Aretha Franklin, Tito Puente, Lena Horne, Stevie Wonder, John Lee Hooker, Earl "Fatha" Hines and cellist Jean Jeanrenaud. Wallace was a driving creative force behind some of the Bay area's most creative ensembles, including the Machete Ensemble, and Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra. One of his generation's most eloquent trombonists, he's been named in DownBeat polls as a leading force on the horn. Known to many as "The Doctor" for his production skills, Wallace is also a lauded composer
and educator. He heads up Patois Records, which has released a rapidly growing catalog of acclaimed CDs.
The Grammy Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, January 26th, 2014, in Los Angeles. For a complete list of nominees for the 56th annual GRAMMY Awards go to http://www.grammy.com/nominees Latin Jazz / Jazz Latin has earned wide acclaim:
"Trombonist Wayne Wallace and his Latin Jazz Ensemble have a well-oiled record-making machine that seems incapable of turning out a subpar album… Wallace's trombone recalls the great trombone sections of the great Latin conjuntos, while his solos have the panache and lyrical intelligence of the late trumpeter Clifford Brown's improvisational style." – Jeff Dayton-Johnson, All About Jazz
"Wallace's dazzling and spirited arrangements of both his own substantial compositions and four jazz classics help to make this album one of the most significant in Latin jazz so far this year." – Scott Albin, JazzTimes.com
Five stars. "For the Latin jazz scene it is a pleasure to have a new piece from the brilliant composer and musician Wayne Wallace. This time around the five-time Grammy Award nominee brings us Latin Jazz / Jazz Latin, a powerful and tremendous ten-themed album where he showcases his incredible knowledge and his great playing, composing and arranging." – Oscar Montagut, Latin Jazz Network
"Wallace… seems to have concocted the right formula to keep you moving while slipping in a little education too. Latin Jazz / Jazz Latin is an absolute joy from start to finish." – Stuart Kremsky, Mr. Stu's Record Room
"Yet another triumphant project from trombonist, composer, and bandleader Wayne Wallace, whose quintet continues to display a quality that is the holy grail of Latin jazz ensembles: the fiendishly difficult juxtaposition of utter tightness and rubbery looseness that makes Afro-Latin grooves possible… Highly recommended to all fans of Latin jazz." – Rick Anderson, CD HotList
"San Francisco-based trombonist Wayne Wallace had the cojones to call his latest album Latin Jazz / Jazz Latin. That's okay, because Wallace has the musical talent to back it up." – Curtis Davenport, Jazz Inside
"If you have a hankering for Latin music that will set you soul on fire and cause you to dance around the house, Latin Jazz / Jazz Latin is what you want. As he has done throughout his career, Wayne Wallace hits all the right notes, ably supported by his fine Quintet." – Richard Kamins, Step Tempest
"Horns, percussion and danceable rhythms are an essential combination for Latin jazz. Add to that stellar performances from all players, including guest musicians, and a biographical sketch of each song, and you get Latin Jazz / Jazz Latin." – Woodrow Wilkins, The Jazz Writer
"The repertoire, instrumentation and even the generations of participants speak to the whirling, cyclical energy of the genre. A deft blend of jazz standards and originals provides the platform for Wallace's soaring and soulful artistry." – Jim Byers, Port of Harlem
"Wallace has been perfecting the small-combo Latin-jazz vibe for many years, and each new album is a delight. The ensemble's 2013 release is called simply, and accurately, Latin Jazz / Jazz Latin. Once again, the group displays a mastery of the various rhythms of the Latin side of their double helix, while soulfully bringing jazz with the other strand." – Jeff Dayton-Johnson, KUSP Featured Album August 2013
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Posted: 12 Dec 2013 07:19 AM PST
"Best Contemporary Classical Composition," "Best Classical Vocal Solo"
and "Best Engineered Album, Classical"
World-renowned Minnesota-born, New York-based composer/orchestra leader Maria Schneider's CD Winter Morning Walks featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw, has earned three 2014 Grammy nominations. Winter Morning Walks has been nominated in the categories of Best Contemporary Classical Composition (Winter Morning Walks), Best Classical Vocal Solo (Dawn Upshaw) and Best Engineered Album, Classical (David Frost, Brian Losch & Tim Martyn, engineers; Tim Martyn, mastering engineer).
Winter Morning Walks features two commissioned works composed and conducted by Schneider with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Australian Chamber Orchestra, and poetry by Ted Kooser and Carlos Drummond de Andrade (English translations by Mark Strand). Blurring the line between classical and jazz, Winter Morning Walks - released in March of 2013 through ArtistShare® (www.artistshare.com) and available exclusively through MariaSchneider.com - is one of the first-ever fan-funded CDs to feature major orchestras and be released without in-store distribution.
"It feels amazing to have accomplished all of this, again through ArtistShare's fan-funding. I know of no one else that has fan-funded such a large-scale classical recording. In times when long-standing arts organizations are going out of business left and right, you can be sure I'm thankful to the fans I found through ArtistShare. ArtistShare has created the only fan-funding platform that allows me to share my world with my fans, as I go through the time-intensive, hair-raising process of writing music and make a recording such as this. And musically, what a thrill to have worked with Dawn, these two great orchestras, these world-class engineers and producer, and to connect them to three musicians from my world, Scott Robinson, Jay Anderson and Frank Kimbrough. Additionally, I loved this poetry so much, and to finally incorporate artful words with my music has been entirely inspiring. This has been a dream project."
Winter Morning Walks brings together two preeminent figures in jazz and classical music. Schneider, who is admired worldwide for her work with her stellar orchestra, has won two GRAMMY Awards and has been nominated for eight more. Writing for TIME Magazine, Terry Teachout said, "To call Schneider the most important woman in jazz is missing the point two ways. She's a major composer-period." Upshaw was deemed "one of the most consequential performers of our time" by the LA TIMES, and is a multiple GRAMMY winner, MacArthur Fellow and frequent performer at the Metropolitan Opera.
In 2004 Schneider pioneered the fan-funding model by becoming the first artist to sign with ArtistShare® to release Concert In The Garden, the first web-exclusive recording to win a GRAMMY. She won a subsequent GRAMMY for her composition, "Cerulean Skies," on her acclaimed 2007 CD Sky Blue.
Schneider is currently working on her next CD to be recorded next August (2014). "I feel like I've been playing hooky on my band in the last few years while doing these orchestral projects, but now I have a renewed energy to write for my own group and finally record them after a too-long hiatus. It's high time."
Schneider's Grammy-nominated composition, "Winter Morning Walks," consists of nine songs and includes poetry by U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, Ted Kooser. The title is taken from his book of the same name. Three musicians long associated with Schneider's jazz orchestra, Jay Anderson (bass), Frank Kimbrough (piano), and Scott Robinson (alto clarinet + bass clarinet), seamlessly add colorful improvisation throughout these pieces.
The Grammy Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, January 26th, 2014, in Los Angeles.
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Posted: 12 Dec 2013 07:13 AM PST
Seminal jazz group Weather Report rises again with the Weather Report Legacy Project and crowdfunding initiative. The new project, launching December 9, 2013, will support the creation of a documentary, "Calm Before the Storm." The film documents the group from its beginnings in 1970, through their 16 year and 17 album career, anchored by legendary founders and jazz legends Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter.
The Weather Report Legacy Project was created by Tony Zawinul, son of the late Joe Zawinul and head of the Zawinul Estate, as well as Weather Report co-founder Wayne Shorter. Tony will direct the upcoming documentary and brings unequaled access to the life and mind of his father Joe. Others involved in the project include former Weather Report members Peter Erskine, Alphonso Johnson, and Robert Thomas Jr. to name just a few.
Tony Zawinul noted, "We've seen phenomenal fan support from every corner of the world. Weather Report had millions of fans over the years and it's a joy to see their reactions to this landmark initiative." Shorter added, "Taking myself out of it, this is a chance to find out something that happened because of a group of people who have gone down a trail less tread upon in the music world. I give the project a thumbs-up."
Since March 2013, nearly 100,000 new fans have joined the movement on Facebook and over 1000 fans have pre-committed to supporting as well as providing personal endorsements for the crowdfunding campaign. Endorsements can be found on the Legacy Project website at WeatherReportMusic.com. Peter Erskine added, "Weather Report is the closest thing that jazz had to the Beatles. The fans are still worldwide and hungry for the band's legacy."
The crowdfunding project will launch on http://www.indiegogo.com/at/weatherreport where fans can pledge for many rare incentives including a "Heavy Weather" Platinum Record, Jaco Pastorius tour memorabilia, VIP tickets to the 2014 Weather Report Legacy Tour, unreleased recordings from Joe Zawinul's personal collection of tapes, dinner with Wayne Shorter and Peter Erskine, and even a chance to be interviewed for the documentary.
For more information or interviews with the Legacy Project team, contact "Calm Before the Storm" producer Danny Kastner at dannyk@weatherreportmusic.com or 310-692-4960.
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NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL®: NOW 60 TOUR FEATURES KARRIN ALLISON, ANAT COHEN, RANDY BRECKER AND OTHERS...
Posted: 12 Dec 2013 07:54 AM PST
In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the world-renowned Newport Jazz Festival® (August 1-3, 2014), clarinetist/saxophonist Anat Cohen, vocalist/pianist Karrin Allyson, bassists Larry Grenadier and Ben Allison, pianist Peter Martin, guitarist Mark Whitfield, trumpeter Randy Brecker, and drummer Clarence Penn embark on the 17-city "Newport Jazz Festival®: Now 60" Tour, February 8 - March 30, 2014, with more dates during June, July and August in North America and Europe.
This multi-gender, multi-national and multi-generational group of musicians was especially selected by festival founder/producer George Wein, in conjunction with his long-time associates and the tour's producers, Danny Melnick of Absolutely Live Entertainment, LLC and Darlene Chan of FestivalWest, Inc., to represent the incredible diversity of talent that the Newport Jazz Festival® has presented over the last six decades. (Melnick is also the associate producer of the Newport Jazz Festival®.)
"I've put together some excellent all-star ensembles in the past, but this group is really special to me," says Wein. "These musicians come from different parts of the country, different parts of the world and from different eras of jazz and they offer an excellent census of where the music has been, where it is and where it's going. Together, they represent the festival's 60-year goal: to bring the best and brightest jazz musicians to present musical experiences that fans will remember for a lifetime."
The tour venues include Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Emerson Concert Hall, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Berklee Performance Center, Boston, MA; the Merriam Theater, Philadelphia, PA; Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA; Old Town School Of Folk Music, Chicago, Il; and the Jazz Standard, New York, NY (See full schedule below)
THE ARTISTS
Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, clarinet/tenor saxophonist Anat Cohen, comes from a musical family that includes her brothers, saxophonist Yuval and trumpeter Avishai. She studied clarinet at the age of 12, and attended the Tel Aviv School for the Arts, the "Thelma Yellin" High School for the Arts and the Jaffa Music Conservatory. She played tenor saxophone in the Israeli Air Force Band, from 1993 to 1995, enrolled at the Berklee School of Music, and moved to New York City in 1999, where she worked with a number of bands including the Diva Jazz Orchestra, drummer Dudu Da Fonseca's Samba Jazz Quintet and the Choro Ensemble. In 2005, she created her own label, Anzic Records, and released Noir and Poetica (2007), Notes from the Village (2008), and Clarinetwork: Live at the Village Vanguard(2010). Hailed by Nat Hentoff as a musician who "...tells stories from her own experiences that are so deeply felt that they are very likely to connect listeners to their own dreams, desires and longings," Cohen's latest CDs, Claroscuro(2012), brilliantly blends jazz with New Orleans, African and Brazilian genres, and Tightrope (2013), her fourth release with her two brothers, together called the 3 Cohens.
The Philadelphia-born Randy Brecker - who constituted one-half of the famed Brecker Brothers Band with his saxophonist brother, Michael - has been one of the most diverse and in-demand trumpeters of the last four decades. He grew up playing in R&B, soul and rock bands in Philadelphia, and was influenced by Lee Morgan, Clifford Brown, Sonny Rollins and Miles Davis. He attended Indiana University from 1963 to 1965, where he played with Booker T. and The MG's and IU Big Band. He moved to New York City the next year, and worked with Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, the Duke Pearson Big Band, recorded two albums with Blood, Sweat and Tears, and worked in Horace Silver's quintet. Brecker was also a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and co-founded the seminal jazz fusion group, Dreams. With over 20 recordings as a leader to his credit, Brecker's latest CDs include Randy Brecker Plays Wlodek Pawlik's Night in Calisia (2013) and Brecker Brothers Band Reunion (2013).
Known as "The Marksman" when he burst on the scene during the "Young Lions" decade of the nineties, guitarist Mark Whitfield takes the approaches of George Benson, Grant Green and Kenny Burrell to a whole new level. A graduate of the Berklee College of Music, Whitfield has worked with a wide variety of musicians, from Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock and Carmen McRae, to Wynton Marsalis, Ray Charles and Betty Carter. He's also worked with many pop stars including Sting, Jill Scott, and Mary J. Blige. He released his debut CD, The Marksman in 1990, and has recorded over 11 releases as a leader, including his latest, Songs of Wonder(2009), a tribute to Stevie Wonder. He toured with the band Jazz Futures, which was created in 1991 by George Wein to celebrate the next generation of jazz.
Born in Great Bend, Kansas, raised in Omaha, Nebraska and Northern California, Karrin Allyson, "... brings a timbre that is part ice and part grain - incisive, original, and emotionally convincing" according to critic Gary Giddins. After graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1987 with a degree in classical piano and a minor in French, Allyson, gigged at a Kansas City nightclub, and signed with Concord Records in 1992, which released her debut recording, I Didn't Know About You. She has since recorded over 10 CDs as a leader including Footprints (2006), Imagina: Songs of Brazil (2008), Round Midnight (2011) and a holiday pleaser, Yuletide Hideaway (2013).
Hailing from St. Louis, Missouri, pianist Peter Martin is one of the most rooted and revelatory musicians on the scene. The son of parents who were classical musicians, Martin studied the violin and the piano at the age of three. After he graduated from high school, he received the Presidential Scholar in the Arts award from President Reagan, attended The Juilliard School in New York on scholarship, where he studied with Martin Canin, and moved to New Orleans in 1990, where he has worked with Nicholas Payton, Germaine Bazzle, Chris Thomas, Alvin Batiste, Brian Blade and Victor Goines. Martin toured and recorded with artists such as Betty Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, Chris Botti, Joshua Redman, Christian McBride, Roy Hargrove, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. He also performed with the Berlin Philharmonic with Simon Rattle, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the Sydney Symphony. With over five CDs as a leader, his latest record, Set of Five (2009), is a solo piano tour de force.
Born in San Francisco, bassist Larry Grenadier took up the trumpet at the age of 10 before switching to the bass at 12. Four years later, he was playing at various gigs around his hometown, and sat in with Joe Henderson, Eddie Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, and George Cables. Grenadier earned a Bachelor's Degree from Stanford University in 1989, and worked with Stan Getz, who was Artist-in-Residence at the University. Grenadier moved to Boston and worked with Gary Burton, and later moved to New York City in 1991, where his work as a sideman included gigs with his wife, Rebecca Martin, Joshua Redman, John Scofield, Charles Lloyd, Mark Turner and Pat Metheny. He's been a member of pianist Brad Mehldau's trio since 2004. His CDs as a co-leader include Year of the Snake (w/Mark Turner and Jeff Ballard, 2012) and Costumes are Mandatory (w/Ethan Iverson, Lee Konitz and Jorge Rossy, 2013).
A native of Detroit, Michigan, and a graduate of Interlochen Academy, Clarence Penn attended the University of Miami and Virginia Commonwealth University, where Ellis Marsalis was a faculty member. He moved to New York City in 1991 and was hired by Betty Carter. Penn has worked with Stanley Clarke. Christian McBride, Michael Brecker, Dizzy Gillespie, Luciana Souza, Gary Burton, Joshua Redman, Richard Galliano, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Charlie Haden, Makoto Ozone and Maria Schneider. His CDs as a leader include Penn's Landing (1997), Play-Penn(2001), Saomaye(2002), A Master's Diary (2012) and Dali in Cobble Hill (2012).
Hailed by the Boston Globe as one of "... today's best young jazz musicians," bassist Ben Allison is one of the most ubiquitous bassists on the scene. The New Haven, Connecticut native has worked with an impressive and diverse array of artists, from Lee Konitz and Joe Lovano, to performance artist Joey Arias and US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Allison's 10 CDs as a leader include Seven Arrows (1996), Medicine Wheel (1998), Third Eye (1999), Riding the Nuclear Tiger (2001), Peace Pipe (2002),Buzz (2004), Cowboy Justice (2006), Little Things Run the World (2008), Think Free(2009), and Action-Refraction (2011). Allison's The Stars Look Very Different Today,is scheduled for release in December.
Featuring a diverse group of improvisers brought together to celebrate the anniversary of a legendary festival, these dates will no doubt present jazz with one foot in its proud past, and another pointing toward its bright future.
NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL®: NOW 60 2014 TOUR*
February 8 / Emory University, Atlanta, GA
February 13 / Berklee Performance Center, Boston, MA
February 15 / Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, Pittsburgh, PA
February 16 /Music Center at Strathmore, N. Bethesda, MD
March 4 / Jazz Standard, NYC, NY
March 5 / Jazz Standard. NYC, NY
March 6 / Jazz Standard, NYC, NY
March 7 / Jazz Standard, NYC, NY
March 8 / Jazz Standard, NYC, NY
March 9 / Merriam Theater, Philadelphia, PA
March 14 / Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA
March 15 / Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA
March 20 / Missouri Theatre, Columbia, MO
March 21 / SW Missouri State, Springfield, MO
March 22 / Gem Theater, Kansas City
March 23 / Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL
March 26 / Lake Michigan College, Benton Harbor, MI
March 27 / Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
March 28 / Capitol Center, Madison, WI
March 29 / Harris Theatre, Brookfield, WI
March 30 / Sheldon Concert Hall,
TOUR MUSICIANS
Anat Cohen - musical director, clarinet, tenor saxophone
Karrin Allyson - vocals, piano
Randy Brecker - trumpet
Mark Whitfield - guitar
Peter Martin - piano (all dates except February 15)
Clarence Penn - drums
Larry Grenadier - bass (all dates except March 4-15)
Bruce Barth - piano (February 15 only)
Ben Allison - bass (March 4-15 only)
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