Walter Bishop, Jr. ( pianist ) was born on April 10, 1927 in New York City and passed away on January 24, 1998 at the age of 70 in Manhattan. posted by Robert J. Carmack twitter: @blues2jazzguy A pianist during the bebop era, he played and recorded with many jazz greats,…
Tag: world music
WORLD JAZZ MUSIC ICONIC DUO ~MICHAEL WHITE and LEISEI CHEN DUO
posted by Robert J. Carmack twitter:@blues2jazzguy Premiere: Inspirations for “Orbit” Video combining examples of Michael White’s past musical work with photographs by Leisei Chen and various artists that have inspired the new work Orbit, created by Leisei Chen. 32 minutes. Sponsored by 2013 DCA COLA Individual Artists Fellowship Award, premiered at Los Angeles Municipal…
WAYNE HENDERSON: THE LAST CRUSADE 1939-2014
posted by Robert J. Carmack twitter: @blues2jazzguy Wayne Henderson (1939-2014) Wayne Henderson born September 24, 1939 in Houston, Texas was soul-jazz and hard bop trombonist and record producer. In 1961, he co-founded the soul jazz/hard bop group, The Jazz Crusaders. Growing up in Los Angeles 1961, I was just learning about real jazz . One day while listening to a new local radio…
WOMEN IN JAZZ SOUTH FLORIDA INC. SUPPORTS ARTS SYMPOSIUM
Since 2007, Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc., has been a 501(c)(3) non-profit, educational organization that promotes women musicians, globally, through events, concerts, performances, clinics, lectures, workshops, articles, interviews, newsletters, courses, contacts, research, history, archives, websites, film, audio and video recording, and recognition. We propose to have a SYMPOSIUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS at The…
Award-Winning Playwright Set to Direct Hit Musical Revue Club Alabam
Award-winning Playwright and Poet, Tu’Nook has been tapped to direct the Theatre Perception Consortium’s production, The Club Alabam. It was announced recently by Robert J. Carmack, company Marketing and Media Consultant. Tu’Nook is an educator,performance poet,playwright and actress. She has been published in Guild Press Anthology, “Full Circle Eight”, UCLA’s Black English Student Association Journal “TAZ”…
HAPPY 75th HUGH MASAKELA ! APRIL 4 1939
posted by Robert J. Carmack @blues2jazzguy
JAM! CELEBRATE & SUPPORT JAZZ LIVE & RECORDED
APRIL IS JAZZ APPRECIATION MONTH Jazz Appreciation Month was created to be an annual event that would pay tribute to jazz as both a living and as a historic music. Schools, organizations, even governments, celebrate JAM with events ranging from free concerts to educational programs. The first year was 2001, and initial funding was provided by the…
MARSALLIS FAMILY & J.L.C.O. ORCHESTRA INVADES INDIANAPOLIS
Photo Expose’ by Photojournalist Ernest Gregory – New York,NY all rights retained by photographer
INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY:LARRY RENI THOMAS BOOK SIGNING
INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY BOOK SIGNING: THE LADY WHO SHOT LEE MORGAN by LARRY RENI THOMAS APRIL 30, 2014 @ 6:30 pm, Letters Book Shop 313 W. Main Street, Durham, North Carolina
MILES SMILES! DON CHEADLE MOVING FORWARD WITH MOVIE IN 2014
“Jazz Rap” with the Impresario Al Carter-Bey, the Impressario – the musical host with 30+ years of jazz radio experience, a musical library of 30,000 recordings; keeping the musical history of jazz alive. Jazz, America’s only original art form, as the American classical art form within the idiom of jazz. Join the impresario Al Carter-Bey, along…
hipstersanctuary.com 