Kenny Barron News

If you missed it, there were some pleasant surprises amid the predictably indecipherable choices in this year's jazz Grammy nominations .

Traveling through thirty-two cities in seventeen states, the group features the nine-time Grammy-nominated and NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron on piano; Grammy-nominated violinist Regina Carter; Grammy-winning guitarist Russell Malone; seven-time Grammy-nominated vocalist Kurt Elling; bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa; and Grammy-nominated drummer Johnathan ...

Thanksgiving is gone. Leftovers might remain, but they're not on a music menu that features jazz, guitars and ska.

Chicago-based drummer and composer Dana Hall has been in demand as a sideman for nearly two decades, working with major names in jazz such as Joe Henderson, Branford Marsalis, Maria Schneider, Benny Golson, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, and Kenny Barron.

IF attentive ears could have heard a quiet splash on Sunday evening at the Royal Clifton Hotel, it may have been the sound of James Galway's golden flute being hurled into the Irish Sea! Andy Panayi delivered to a packed house, the most awesomely beautiful and expressive display of the jazz flautist's art, with the support of a world class rhythm ...

I was really looking forward to hearing this release as I'm a big fan of Irabagon's no holds barred playing with the collective group Mostly Other People Do the Killing and his freewheeling duet with drummer Mike Pride.

Gerald Clayton isn't like the average young jazz musician. He was immersed in music studies for a long time , while gaining experience playing duo piano concerts with Barron, Benny Green and Mulgrew Miller and also performing as a sideman with the legendary Clark Terry.

Kurt Elling performs with pianist Lawrence Hobgood at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home to Jazz at Lincoln Center.

In the late '40s, saxophonist/flutist James Moody staked his claim on the jazz landscape when he gained prominence as one of the key ingredients of Dizzy Gillespie 's orchestra.

Saturday night's doings at the Monterey Jazz Festival were a good reminder that you never know exactly what to expect with improvised music.

What a relief to be back: The Monterey Jazz Festival, its 52nd annual edition, got started Friday night and continues through the weekend.

There's been a fair amount of buzz on the Internet over the past year or so about a re-issue of jazz tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath's 1972 album 'The Gap Sealer.'' The work, which also features Kenny Barron on keyboards, Heath's brother Al "Tootie'' Heath on drums and Heath's son Mtume on percussion, is drawing praise from a new generation of ...

The Tanglewood Jazz Festival brings some of the genre's best-known and classiest musicians to Lenox at the end of every summer.

The Monterey Jazz Festival is a tonic, a seasonal pleasure - with the friendly crowds, the profusion of great music.

The most recent in IPO Recordings' series of releases by James Moody, this new disc features legendary pianist Kenny Barron in a beautifully relaxed, swinging, classic session.

BIRDLAND: Finished with his turn as Nicely Nicely Johnson in Broadway's "Guys and Dolls," R&B singer Tituss Burgess performs with his band on Monday at 7 p.m. 315 W. 44th St.; 212-581-3080. BLUE NOTE: Bass player Charlie Haden shares the stage with a few pianists -- Kenny Barron tonight at 8 and 10:30 p.m., Paul Bley tomorrow at 8 and 10:30 p.m.

From July 18 through August 2, 2009, in the Viterbo region of Italy , the countryside town of Soriano nel Cimino will host the 8th edition of the Tuscia in Jazz Festival.

After much anticipation, the new Gerald Clayton trio record, Two Shade has been released on ArtistShare.

Nothing against piano trios or drummers, but eliminating the latter can result in a far more elegant and interesting musical conversation.

The Queen Street club continues its expanded programming during the Toronto Jazz Festival, presenting two sets each by three bands a night.