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On her latest disc, En Este Momento, the Chilean jazz singer Claudia Acuna blends jazz and Latin music in a way that accentuates the best of both. Instead of sambas and bossas with long solos over them, lush jazz forms get a Latin accent from Acuna’s singing, the acoustic guitar of Juancho Herrera and the gentle rhythm section of Omer Avital and Clarence Penn.
George Wein: Back to Doing His Thing
Not many people stand in shoes similar to the ones in which jazz impresario George Wein now finds himself. Having invented the jazz festival more than half a century ago, his name is synonymous with the Newport Jazz Festival, his first and most well-known child of that genus.
Jazz Festival Will Return to NY
George Wein, the longtime producer of the New York festival, announced today that he has a new sponsor for two jazz festivals, including a major one in New York next summer..
Esperanza... hope for the future
Esperanza is the Spanish word for hope, notes the biography posted on Esperanza Spalding’s website, and that’s fitting because she “might well be the hope for the future of jazz and instrumental music.”.
Tony Bennett: Good LIfe in Astoria
Tony Bennett & his wife Susan, along with their Eploring the Arts Foundation helped open the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Long Island City, NY, which will be moving to a new builing.
Just Asking...Christian McBride
This week, Christian McBride, one of jazz’s premier bass players, released the debut album by his quintet Inside Straight. “Kind of Brown” is a feisty, upbeat acoustic jazz recording featuring seven McBride compositions.
Dave Brubeck: An Unlikely Hit
In 1959, jazz pianist Dave Brubeck topped the pop charts and shook up the notion of rhythm in jazz with an odd-metered song called "Take Five."
Mos Def Live on Letterman
Peforming tracks from his new album, "Quite Dog" Mos Def will be performing with a different group at the festival on Saturday, August 8.
Cuban Pianist Rodriguez's Welcome
Talk about a dream come true. Just five months after being granted political asylum in the United States, the Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez won a place on the slate of performers at the 31st annual Playboy Jazz Festival.
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