Ebo Taylor – Life Stories Ebo Taylor Life Stories (Strut STRUTO72CD, 2011) Ghana’s Ebo Taylor has been creation strain for some-more than half a century, initial as a frontman, arranger and composer with large bands personification in a highlife character that became extravagantly renouned in a 1950s. Furthering his low-pitched preparation in London in a [...]

Howard Pitkow/Courtesy of Posi-Tone Records The Captain Black Big Band, led by Orrin Evans (left). Enlarge Salvatore Corso/Courtesy of Posi-Tone Records Orrin Evans. Salvatore Corso/Courtesy of Posi-Tone Records Orrin Evans. Bandleader Orrin Evans will attend in a live talk and online discuss this Friday, Mar 25 during 1:30 p.m. ET. For some-more details, visit NPR [...]

Click print to enlarge Young musicians are flocking to Santa Cruz County from all over California this weekend to take place in a 25th Santa Cruz Jazz Festival, holding place during a new song comforts on a campus of Cabrillo College. Many of a West Coast’s excellent middle-school and high-school jazz players will perform for [...]

What do The Beatles, Big Bands, Beach Boys and Broadway all have in common besides a minute “B”? Their songs and genres are all featured during a Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra unison on Mar 26 during 7:30 p.m. during Inter-Lakes Community Auditorium. Also on a evening’s module are tributes to Michael Jackson, Louis Armstrong, Leroy [...]

Hartt celebrates a alumni this open with dual alumni reunion concerts. On Monday, Apr 21, 3 alumni of a Vocal Studies Division perform during 7:00 PM in Wilde Auditorium on a University of Hartford’s categorical campus, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford. On Monday, Apr 25, several alumni of Hartt’s Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz perform [...]