Jazz
ARTEMIS Redefines Jazz Beyond Gender Stereotypes
ARTEMIS Redefines Jazz Beyond Gender Stereotypes and leading the charge toward a more inclusive and diverse musical future.
Edward A Kliszus
ARTEMIS Redefines Jazz Beyond Gender Stereotypes and leading the charge toward a more inclusive and diverse musical future.
2025 NEA Jazz Masters Honorees Revealed: The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates the 2025 NEA Jazz Masters, honoring luminaries who transformed jazz music.
Celebrating Bud Powell’s Jazz Legacy Today – his innovative spirit, complex harmonies, and captivating melodies set a standard that continues to influence.
NEW YORK – Gabrielle Stravelli and the Brian Newman Band at the Midnight Theatre, a night of jazz with sophistication, confidence, elegance, and style.
NEW YORK – John Pizzarelli and the Swing 7 at Birdland, an evening of sublime, swinging music that connects to what is the best of us.
Jazz lovers will want to see and hear the Arthur Kell Speculation Quartet. With the opening sounds tonight at the fabulous Smalls Jazz Club set in Manhattan’s West Village, one sensed the culmination of 50 years of evolution of fusion first expressed by Chick Corea, Gary Burton, and Wayne Shorter.
Trombonist/composer Conrad Herwig and the Latin side all-stars ascended the stage to deliver their first musical offering. Splendid charts, extended improvisation, artistic interaction, virtuoso performances, a tight horn section, and a solid rhythm section immediately lit the room. A powerhouse of Latin rhythmic fire by drummer Robby Ameen and percussionist Mauricio Herrera on congas ignited an astounding sojourn.
This American Symphony Orchestra masterfully employed a sumptuous mix of 19th century symphonic intones and swing band idioms, commanding energetic themes, instrumental soloists as jazz tradition demands, rich tone colors, and moments of sublime beauty with lush strings, harp, flute, cello solos, and Ellington’s beautiful melodies.
Sound, lighting, ambiance, and music, were marvelous this evening for Billy’s Stritch’s Birthday Bash at the wonderful Birdland’s Theater. Stritch was classically debonair, elegant, handsome, and looking sharp in his light blue suit, crisp white shirt, and jacket adorned with a pocket handkerchief. He mentioned something about “ age 59”, but I heard a fellow audience member call out “27”.
