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                  <updated>2025-03-25T05:40:49+00:00</updated><entry><id>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/a-new-bio-on-gene-krupa-who-made-drumming-swing</id><title type="html">BOOK / MAGAZINE: A New Bio On Gene Krupa, Who Made Drumming Swing</title><link type="text/html" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/a-new-bio-on-gene-krupa-who-made-drumming-swing" /><content type="html"><![CDATA[The first definitive biography of the pioneering drummer and bandleader who brought percussion from back to center stage, influencing generations of musicians from jazz to rock—and beyond  The Master of Drums: Gene Krupa and the Music He Gave the World (on sale April 29, 2025) is the first comprehensive biography of groundbreaking, controversial drummer and bandleader Gene Krupa, indisputably the most famous drummer in history... ]]></content><author><name>AllAboutJazz.com</name></author><updated>2025-03-25T05:40:49+00:00</updated></entry><entry><id>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/oh-jazz-launches-oh-jazz-global-stage-a-new-thematic-series-in-collaboration-with-cineplex-canada</id><title type="html">PERFORMANCE / TOUR: Oh! Jazz Launches Oh! Jazz: Global Stage – A New Thematic Series In Collaboration With Cineplex Canada</title><link type="text/html" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/oh-jazz-launches-oh-jazz-global-stage-a-new-thematic-series-in-collaboration-with-cineplex-canada" /><content type="html"><![CDATA[This innovative project will bring recorded jazz performances from clubs around the world to select cinemas in major cities, creating an immersive experience for jazz lovers.  Launching in March, the series will feature three distinct themed cycles each month: “Women in Jazz,” “Jazz Appreciation Month,” and “Discover Flamenco Jazz”—offering audiences the chance to enjoy performances by exceptional musicians while exploring the magic of contemporary jazz and its diverse influences.... ]]></content><author><name>AllAboutJazz.com</name></author><updated>2025-03-24T23:40:00+00:00</updated></entry><entry><id>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/acclaimed-italian-music-director-andrea-dionisi-will-lead-two-artistic-residencies-in-boston</id><title type="html">MUSIC INDUSTRY: Acclaimed Italian Music Director Andrea Dionisi Will Lead Two Artistic Residencies In Boston</title><link type="text/html" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/acclaimed-italian-music-director-andrea-dionisi-will-lead-two-artistic-residencies-in-boston" /><content type="html"><![CDATA[Andrea Dionisi, the renowned Italian jazz fusion musician, is preparing to embark on an exciting new chapter in his career with upcoming artistic residencies at two of Boston's most prestigious music venues. Famed for his innovative prowess as a music director, arranger, and drummer, Dionisi's path in music has been paved with artistic excellence... ]]></content><author><name>AllAboutJazz.com</name></author><updated>2025-03-24T05:40:49+00:00</updated></entry><entry><id>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/drummer-andrea-dionisi-redefining-european-jazz-fusion</id><title type="html">MUSIC INDUSTRY: Drummer Andrea Dionisi: Redefining European Jazz Fusion</title><link type="text/html" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/drummer-andrea-dionisi-redefining-european-jazz-fusion" /><content type="html"><![CDATA[European jazz fusion has found a unique voice in Andrea Dionisi, a 31-year-old Italian drummer, arranger, and music director, whose visionary approach has placed him at the forefront of an innovative wave, reports music critic Vittoria Spada from Trentino-Alto Adige. Renowned for his ability to blend free-flowing jazz with classical music, folk Italian dance patterns, and electric beats and create mesmerizing auditory experiences that redefine the boundaries of modern jazz, Dionisi’s creative achievements and daring synthesis place him firmly alongside the most respected figures in the industry.... ]]></content><author><name>AllAboutJazz.com</name></author><updated>2025-03-23T05:40:49+00:00</updated></entry><entry><id>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/saxophonist-composer-jordan-vanhemert-draws-inspiration-from-petersonal-and-cultural-adversities-on-his-new-album-survival-of-the-fittest-set-for-may-16-release-by-origin-records</id><title type="html">RECORDING: Saxophonist-composer Jordan VanHemert Draws Inspiration From Petersonal And Cultural Adversities On His New Album 'Survival Of The Fittest,' Set For May 16 Release By Origin Records</title><link type="text/html" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/saxophonist-composer-jordan-vanhemert-draws-inspiration-from-petersonal-and-cultural-adversities-on-his-new-album-survival-of-the-fittest-set-for-may-16-release-by-origin-records" /><content type="html"><![CDATA[Tenor saxophonist and composer <a target="_blank" href="//www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/jordan-vanhemert">Jordan VanHemert</a> considers the twin poles of adversity and resilience with Survival of the Fittest, arriving May 16 on Origin Records. VanHemert’s fifth release as a leader, the album of post-bop jazz finds him leading a sextet with a jaw-dropping all-star lineup: trumpeter Terell Stafford, trombonist Michael Dease, pianist Helen Sung, bassist Rodney Whitaker, and drummer Lewis Nash.... ]]></content><author><name>AllAboutJazz.com</name></author><updated>2025-03-22T05:40:49+00:00</updated></entry><entry><id>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/seasoned-blues-rock-enclave-the-tasty-kings-team-up-with-blondie-chaplin-for-confident-all-star-laden-lp</id><title type="html">RECORDING: Seasoned Blues-Rock Enclave The Tasty Kings Team Up With Blondie Chaplin For Confident All-Star Laden LP</title><link type="text/html" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/seasoned-blues-rock-enclave-the-tasty-kings-team-up-with-blondie-chaplin-for-confident-all-star-laden-lp" /><content type="html"><![CDATA[Founded by songwriter/musician, Andrew Morse, NYC-based group The Tasty Kings take flight on Native Tongue, their third full-length album (Stand Clear Music), this one with vocalist <a target="_blank" href="//www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/blondie-chaplin">Blondie Chaplin</a>, a six-decade journeyman from South Africa who’s toured/performed with The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, Rick Danko, Jeff Beck, Brian Wilson and many more.... ]]></content><author><name>AllAboutJazz.com</name></author><updated>2025-03-21T23:40:00+00:00</updated></entry><entry><id>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/jazzweek-radio-chart-march-24-2025</id><title type="html">RADIO: JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 24, 2025</title><link type="text/html" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/jazzweek-radio-chart-march-24-2025" /><content type="html"><![CDATA[ All About Jazz publishes the weekly JazzWeek Radio Chart. Discover new releases, track chart movement, and learn what is being played on jazz radio stations in the United States. Enjoy!   TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks  1 1 1 <a href="http://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/musician.php?id=11556" target="_blank">Yellowjackets</a> <a href='http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DPL5CM9M?ie=UTF8andtag=alabja00-20' target='_blank'>Fasten Up</a> (<a href="http://www.jazznearyou.com/entity.php?id=1954" target="_blank">Mack Avenue</a>)... ]]></content><author><name>AllAboutJazz.com</name></author><updated>2025-03-21T06:59:00+00:00</updated></entry><entry><id>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/perfection-lennie-tristano-wow-1949</id><title type="html">VIDEO / DVD: Perfection: Lennie Tristano - Wow (1949)</title><link type="text/html" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/perfection-lennie-tristano-wow-1949" /><content type="html"><![CDATA[Between bebop in the midand#151and late 1940s and hard bop in the mid-1950s and beyond, an exciting but short-lived jazz style surfaced known as cool. The movement was a product of formally educated jazz musicians who, at the tail end of the '40s integrated classical and jazz. The artists were had started out in bop but chose to create a form that was dryer independent of the blues... ]]></content><author><name>AllAboutJazz.com</name></author><updated>2025-03-21T00:00:00+00:00</updated></entry><entry><id>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/exciting-new-free-improvisation-album-release-by-billie-davies</id><title type="html">RECORDING: Exciting New Free Improvisation Album Release By Billie Davies</title><link type="text/html" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/exciting-new-free-improvisation-album-release-by-billie-davies" /><content type="html"><![CDATA[A new album release by drummer <a target="_blank" href="//www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/billie-davies">Billie Davies</a>, Retrospectives (In The Key Of Jazz). A retrospective of never before released music created during a 6 year period, 82 minutes of Free Improvisation, Beyond Jazz, Avant-garde in the key of Jazz music.... ]]></content><author><name>AllAboutJazz.com</name></author><updated>2025-03-20T05:40:49+00:00</updated></entry><entry><id>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/prolific-pianist-composer-to-release-epic-medieval-progressive-jazz-masterpiece-scenes-from-the-dark-ages-march-28th-on-l-and-h-production</id><title type="html">RECORDING: Prolific Pianist/Composer To Release Epic, Medieval, Progressive/Jazz Masterpiece, 'Scenes From The Dark Ages,' March 28th On Landh Production</title><link type="text/html" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/prolific-pianist-composer-to-release-epic-medieval-progressive-jazz-masterpiece-scenes-from-the-dark-ages-march-28th-on-l-and-h-production" /><content type="html"><![CDATA[“I dreamed about being born in medieval times,” says composer Yelena Eckemoff.  Yelena’s newest album is not a rendering of early-music tropes in modern jazz feels. Rather, in her writing on this album Yelena synthesizes classical music constructs and her original melodies with the varied rhythmic and stylistic innovations of jazz, fusion, and world music from the 21st century... ]]></content><author><name>AllAboutJazz.com</name></author><updated>2025-03-19T23:40:00+00:00</updated></entry><entry><id>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/joe-pass-virtuoso-1973</id><title type="html">RECORDING: Joe Pass: Virtuoso (1973)</title><link type="text/html" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/joe-pass-virtuoso-1973" /><content type="html"><![CDATA[One of the best-selling jazz guitar albums up to 1973 was Joe Pass's Virtuoso. The jet black LP with Pass on the cover in shadow came out ahead of the December holidays and gave Norman Granz's Pablo label massive visibility. It also motivated a generation of listeners to take up the jazz guitar. Now Craft Recordings has remastered and released the album as a digital download and a 180-gram LP... ]]></content><author><name>AllAboutJazz.com</name></author><updated>2025-03-19T00:00:00+00:00</updated></entry><entry><id>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/veteran-drummer-composer-chris-parker-releases-heart-of-mine-may-14th</id><title type="html">RECORDING: Veteran Drummer/Composer Chris Parker Releases 'Heart Of Mine' May 14th!</title><link type="text/html" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/veteran-drummer-composer-chris-parker-releases-heart-of-mine-may-14th" /><content type="html"><![CDATA[Drummer and composer, Chris Parker, has dug deep into his musical history to honor composers, he grew up with including Ralph Burns, Nat Adderley, Bobby Timmons, Lalo Schiffrin, Thelonious Monk and Bob Dylan too, with the Quartet’s version of the title track, “Heart Of Mine.” For nearly fifteen years, the connection and empathy has grown stronger between the members and original compositions from Parker and Oyobe add to that musical spontaneity on this recording, their fourth.... ]]></content><author><name>AllAboutJazz.com</name></author><updated>2025-03-18T10:15:49+00:00</updated></entry><entry><id>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/horace-silver-north-sea-jazz-festival-1994</id><title type="html">VIDEO / DVD: Horace Silver: North Sea Jazz Festival, 1994</title><link type="text/html" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/horace-silver-north-sea-jazz-festival-1994" /><content type="html"><![CDATA[My apologies. TypePad, the platform on which JazzWax sits, experienced server problems and was down yesterday and this morning, keeping me from posting. Hey, it happens. [Photo above of Horace Silver in a publicity still]  Now that it's back up, I'm serving up an hour of <a target="_blank" href="//www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/horace-silver">Horace Silver</a> and his band at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 1994, a video that was only recently uploaded to YouTube... ]]></content><author><name>AllAboutJazz.com</name></author><updated>2025-03-18T00:00:00+00:00</updated></entry><entry><id>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/boyce-justice-griffith-displays-the-beauty-and-necessity-of-being-grounded-in-ones-principles-with-the-point</id><title type="html">RECORDING: Boyce Justice Griffith Displays The Beauty And Necessity Of Being Grounded In One’s Principles With 'The Point'</title><link type="text/html" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/boyce-justice-griffith-displays-the-beauty-and-necessity-of-being-grounded-in-ones-principles-with-the-point" /><content type="html"><![CDATA[Saxophonist and composer <a target="_blank" href="//www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/boyce-justice-griffith">Boyce Justice Griffith</a> emphasizes the beauty and necessity of being grounded in one’s principles with his concept album, The Point.  No matter one’s age, demographic, nationality, religion, or political affiliation, each human being undeniably has some treasured personal tenets that are held dear and are paramount to one’s definition of self... ]]></content><author><name>AllAboutJazz.com</name></author><updated>2025-03-17T10:50:00+00:00</updated></entry><entry><id>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/grammy-award-winner-catherine-russell-to-host-celebration21-jazz-power-initiatives-annual-fundraiser</id><title type="html">EVENT: Grammy Award-Winner Catherine Russell To Host Celebration21 - Jazz Power Initiative's Annual Fundraiser</title><link type="text/html" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/grammy-award-winner-catherine-russell-to-host-celebration21-jazz-power-initiatives-annual-fundraiser" /><content type="html"><![CDATA[Celebration21, the <a href="https://www.jazzpower.org/" target="_blank">Jazz Power Initiative</a> (JPI) annual fundraising event, will take place on May 21 at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Peter Norton Symphony Space (250 West 95th Street, Manhattan), from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. The event will pay homage to the long and rich, pioneering history of Jazz and the transformative power of jazz arts/music education... ]]></content><author><name>AllAboutJazz.com</name></author><updated>2025-03-16T23:18:00+00:00</updated></entry><entry><id>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/lineup-announced-for-rochester-international-jazz-festival-22nd-edition</id><title type="html">FESTIVAL: Lineup Announced For Rochester International Jazz Festival 22nd Edition</title><link type="text/html" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/lineup-announced-for-rochester-international-jazz-festival-22nd-edition" /><content type="html"><![CDATA[Marc Iacona and John Nugent, producers of the <a href="http://www.rochesterjazz.com/">Rochester International Jazz Festival</a>, in partnership with Rochester Regional Health, today announced the lineup for the festival’s 22nd edition.  The nine-day festival, one of the world's leading jazz festivals, runs June 20 to June 28... ]]></content><author><name>AllAboutJazz.com</name></author><updated>2025-03-15T23:49:00+00:00</updated></entry><entry><id>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/the-recording-industrys-music-performance-trust-fund-projects-grants-of-more-than-1-million-to-communities-celebrating-jazz-appreciation-month-in-april-2025</id><title type="html">MUSIC INDUSTRY: The Recording Industry’s Music Performance Trust Fund Projects Grants of More than $1 Million to Communities Celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month in April 2025</title><link type="text/html" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/the-recording-industrys-music-performance-trust-fund-projects-grants-of-more-than-1-million-to-communities-celebrating-jazz-appreciation-month-in-april-2025" /><content type="html"><![CDATA[Month-long investment throughout North America intends to benefit individuals and communities sharing this treasured American art form  The recording industry’s Music Performance Trust Fund (MPTF), a leading non-profit organization enriching lives and uniting communities through the power of music, is on track to distribute over $1,000,000 in... ]]></content><author><name>AllAboutJazz.com</name></author><updated>2025-03-14T23:41:00+00:00</updated></entry><entry><id>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/jazzweek-radio-chart-march-17-2025</id><title type="html">RADIO: JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 17, 2025</title><link type="text/html" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/jazzweek-radio-chart-march-17-2025" /><content type="html"><![CDATA[ All About Jazz publishes the weekly JazzWeek Radio Chart. Discover new releases, track chart movement, and learn what is being played on jazz radio stations in the United States. Enjoy!   TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks  1 14 1 <a href="http://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/musician.php?id=11556" target="_blank">Yellowjackets</a> <a href='http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DPL5CM9M?ie=UTF8andtag=alabja00-20' target='_blank'>Fasten Up</a> (<a href="http://www.jazznearyou.com/entity.php?id=1954" target="_blank">Mack Avenue</a>)... ]]></content><author><name>AllAboutJazz.com</name></author><updated>2025-03-14T07:00:00+00:00</updated></entry><entry><id>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/backgrounder-rosinha-de-valenca-1964</id><title type="html">VIDEO / DVD: Backgrounder: Rosinha de Valença (1964)</title><link type="text/html" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/backgrounder-rosinha-de-valenca-1964" /><content type="html"><![CDATA[Rosinha de Valença was a Brazilian singer-songwriter and one of her country's finest acoustic guitarists. Born Maria Rosa Canelas in 1941, she learned to play by accompanying music on the radio.   Translated into English, her professional name means Rosinha from Valença, a city in the state of Rio de Janeiro... ]]></content><author><name>AllAboutJazz.com</name></author><updated>2025-03-14T00:00:00+00:00</updated></entry><entry><id>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/double-vision-at-supple-music-series-on-march-31-a-jazz-and-visual-art-fusion</id><title type="html">PERFORMANCE / TOUR: Double Vision At Supple Music Series On March 31: A Jazz and Visual Art Fusion</title><link type="text/html" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/double-vision-at-supple-music-series-on-march-31-a-jazz-and-visual-art-fusion" /><content type="html"><![CDATA[Double Vision’s Landmark Performance at Supple Music Series A Multidisciplinary Jazz and Visual Art Experience That Showcases a Year of Innovation  <a target="_blank" href="//www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/double-vision">Double Vision</a>, the groundbreaking jazz ensemble led by <a target="_blank" href="//www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/hank-hehmsoth">Hank Hehmsoth</a> and <a target="_blank" href="//www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/dr-john-mills">Dr John Mills</a>, will present its most ambitious performance to date at the Supple Music Series on March 31, 2025.... ]]></content><author><name>AllAboutJazz.com</name></author><updated>2025-03-13T05:41:28+00:00</updated></entry></feed>