Cedar Walton News

My return visit to to Freihofer's Jazz Festival after an eight-year absence reminded me very quickly that this two-day event remains one of the summer season's great jazz lawn parties.

The 2009 Caramoor International Music Festival , hailed by The New York Times as '... the loveliest Festival of them all," presents its 16th Annual Jazz Festival on August 1 and 2 at the Venetian Theater.

Cedar Walton 's three-year association with The Jazz Messengers is what drew me to his set at Harro East last night.

When renowned jazz critic Leonard Feather was asked about this record, he said something favorable.

Deborah Brown is one of the finest jazz vocalists in the business, a singer’s singer with a magnificent voice and mind-boggling technique.Nevertheless, despite being very possibly one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, she is less well-known in the U.S. than in Europe and elsewhere.Perhaps the reason for her missing in action status is ...

Compiled by B.J. Hammerstein, Free Press Staff Writer and editor of Detroit.Metromix.com. * May 22, 2009 The Detroit-bred saxophonist, multi-reedman and composer Yusef Lateef has been named an NEA Jazz Master for 2010 by the National Endowment for the Arts.

With jazz musicians as venerable as 82-year-old Lou Donaldson and 75-year-old Cedar Walton already announced as stalwarts in next season's Art of Jazz series at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, this season ends this weekend with a rare double bill of a couple of much-lionized and universally respected jazz fiftysomethings: singer Kendra Shank and ...

From his early days with Kenny Dorham and J.J. Johnson through his stints with Hank Mobley, Milt Jackson, Lee Morgan, and many more jazz giants, Cedar Walton has been a first-call pianist since the late-1950's. While with Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Walton composed some of the group's most innovative tunes, including "Mosaic," "Ugetsu," and ...

Denver-based pianist Ben Markley, winner of the 2007 ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award , is a well-studied musician whose achievements thus far demonstrate a willingness to stand apart from the multitude of ...

The pianist Cedar Walton has been a mainstay of New York jazz circles since the 1950s, usually working in small-combo mode.

The Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music is presenting an evening with jazz great Cedar Walton at Long Island Universitya TMs Kumble Theater on Feb.

The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music concert series "Jazz at the Conservatory" presents an evening with Cedar Walton at the Kumble Theater, Long Island University .

The Blue Note Records 70th Anniversary Tour pulls into town this Thursday with a show by the Blue Note 7 at Royce Hall.

The New York Times' jazz and pop but mainly jazz critic Ben Ratliff is taking questions from the readers about pop, but mainly jazz: In the last 60 years, people almost completely stopped dancing to jazz, and ...

It doesn't matter if you like acid, traditional, easy listening or none of the above.

A savvy veteran of jazz's hard-bop heyday, pianist Cedar Walton has always been in high demand.

Pianist, composer and arranger Cedar Walton and acclaimed trumpeter Roy Hargrove join forces to make beautiful music in the second concert of Jazz at Lincoln Centers Duo Tones series.

These six women cover a variety of styles, and all are well worth a listen. Some are international, others regional singers who are just getting their due.