Freddie Hubbard News

John Beasley - a oePositootlya Veteran pianist-composer-arranger John Beasley gained invaluable bandstand experience on the road with such revered jazz elders as Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis while also recording with the likes of Chick Corea and Hubert Laws along with serving as musical director for Queen Latifah and Steely Dan.

Wednesday, October 28 Celebrate Hadley Caliman Seattle Art Museum, downtown 7:30pm $18 general, $10 students An all-star quintet featuring renowned saxophonist Hadley Caliman, the legendary Curtis Fuller , Larry Vukovich , Jeff Chambers , and Eddie Marshall concludes its Pacific Northwest tour in a special tribute concert to the Seattle-based tenor ...

S teve Davis has been the trombonist of choice for jazz giants ever since he was an undergrad at The Hartt School at the University of Hartford .

New York City trumpeter Ingrid Jensen is a modernist whose compelling abstractions are shaped by a warmly dark sound, fleet neo-bebop technique and deep emotional soul.

Stevie Wonder performs at the funeral for Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpet player Freddie Hubbard on Jan.

The last decade has seen Philadelphia jazz bass virtuoso Christian McBride expand his boundaries beyond traditional bop by experimenting with a myriad of different tones and textures, from fresh hip hop breakbeats on his amazing 2001 collaboration with fellow Philly musicians keyboardist Uri Cane and Roots drummer Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson as The ...

On the podcast, McBride talks about mastering the upright bass and about some of the artists hea s worked with, including his hero, James Brown, Freddie Hubbard and McCoy Tyner.

It's 10:45 p.m. on Sunday night. Indy Jazz Fest is over and I'm sitting at The Chatterbox Lounge, listening to the post-fest music.

Working with mandolin wizard and longtime collaborator David Grisman , the work of flautist Matt Eakle naturally takes on a kind of rootsy tone.

This was jazza TMs return to modality, with a funky twist. By the time this performance took place in 1985, a Cantaloupe Islanda TM had been a jazz standard for over 20 years, having been released in 1964 on Hancocka s 4th album, a Empyrean Isles.a TM But it still sounded modern in 1985, as it does nearly 25 years after that.

When a cultural legacy is truly passed on, it takes the form of something like Friday's concert at the Madame Walker Theatre celebrating the music of Freddie Hubbard.

If there's conducting to be done, David Baker will do it. And he won't bring his cello, the instrument he's applied to his jazz performances for decades.

The artistry of Freddie Hubbard has been on my mind. No, I don't mean the recording - I mean the late jazzman, his overall skills as a trumpeter and composer, his musical wisdom, and his golden legacy.

The sound of jazz will fill Solvang's streets once again Sept. 25 and 26 when the annual Solvang Jazz Festival comes to town with a lineup of legends and fresh faces from the jazz world.

Concord Records caps a year in which it reissued many of Ray Charles' classic albums with the artist's only Christmas album of his entire career, The Spirit of Christmas .

Speaking of tenor saxophone legends who are still going strong, Jimmy Heath has just released Endurance, a CD co-led with his younger brother, drummer Albert 'Tootie" Heath.

Larry retired from teachng college journalism after over 20 years, coming to teaching from 15 years in the newspaper business working for Ridder-Johns Newspapers.

LAKESIDE -- Hoover Auditorium offers a variety of entertainment this week. A one-day gate pass costs $17 for adults, $12 for youth ages 12 to 18.

CADIZ, Ky. a ' The 1st Barkley Jazz Festival will be held on Saturday, Sept. 12, at the Lake Barkley State Resort Park Beach Area.

Carl Allen and Rodney Whitaker have just released their second CD for Mack Avenue Records, titled Work To Do .