Stefon Harris News

Wednesday night's Grammy Award nominations show put the focus on top nomination-getters Beyonce and Taylor Swift, but there's plenty more of interest to Capital Region residents in the Grammy's 109 categories.

Tenor saxophonist Tim Warfield will be appearing in Washington, for a very special performance at the Bohemian Caverns.

In Reith Recital Hall. Tickets are $5-$7. * Los Lobos, the Grammy Award-winning band that mixes Spanish, Mexican, R&B, folk and country sounds, performs as part of the 2009-20 GC Performing Arts Series at 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

Critics' Choices and other notable concerts: Vic Chesnutt, the Black Heart Procession, the Eccentric Soul Revue, Akira Sakata, Surfer Blood, and more By Peter Margasak , Miles Raymer , Kevin Warwick , Brian Costello and Bill Meyer Music Picks archives>> thursday5 VIC CHESNUTT If there's a more harrowing rock song than "Coward," the tune that opens ...

Until the late 90s, the history of the jazz vibraphone could be written in five names: Red Norvo, Lionel Hampton, Milt Jackson, Bobby Hutcherson, and Gary Burton.

Stefon Harris is like one of those small, wiry running backs that gets the job done through finesse and quickness rather than brute force.

On Saturday, November 21st at 6PM the UCPAC will launch its inaugural World Music Summit Series event with the World Jazz Summit.

Stefon Harris stood before a vibraphone and a marimba on Thursday night at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, the instruments positioned at right angles.

Clockwise from upper left: Gretchen Parlato, Jason Lindner, Stefon Harris. October 19, 2009 - On this edition of All Songs Considered , we spin some of the year's best new jazz recordings.

Dafnis Preito & Si o Si Quartet - Live at Jazz Standard NYC : This is truly extraordinary jazz music.

The man behind the drum kit on Neutral Milk Hotel's famed In The Aeroplane Over The Sea , Jeremy Barnes is now half of the core duo behind New Mexico's idiosyncratic A Hawk And A Hacksaw.

On his seventh album for Blue Note, Harris and his quintet Blackout loom over a cubist cityscape, masters of their musical domain.

Creative blocks can make anyone angry, but Stefon Harris found the inspiration for a composition after taking that anger out on an unsuspecting wooden box.

At first glance, the pairing of jazz vibraphonist Stefon Harris and woodwind quintet Imani Winds might seem a little odd.

R.J. DeLuke is an indefatigable jazz fan and arbiter elegantiarum who aspires to ultimate hipness; also an upstate NY freelance writer for various media.

Hank Jones / Corea, Clarke & White Sean Jones / Dave Brubeck Quartet / Brian Auger's Oblivion Express Alfredo Rodriguez / Dennis Coffey / Wayne Shorter Quartet Chuchito Valdes / Stefon Harris & Blackout 30th Annual Detroit International Jazz Festival Detroit, Michigan September 4-7, 2009 The Detroit International Jazz Festival celebrated its 30th ...

The finalday at the Detroit Jazz Festival at Hart Plaza, another lineup of great names.

Here's what I'm planning to play on the Jazz Connection tonight - Monday 7 September - on Radio Cardiff: Stefon Harris and Blackout a ' Gone Colosseum a ' Beware the Ides of March Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band a ' Buona Sera Tune in at 8pm on 98.7 FM or watch and listen live online at www.radiocardiff.org Name: Andy Roberts Location: ...

If you're the kind of fan who likes his music in little boxes - jazz in one, funk in another, hip-hop rhythms stashed somewhere else - "Double Booked" by Robert Glasper and 'Urbanus" by Stefon Harris and his band Blackout may not be for you.

August 25, 2009 from WBGO - Five years ago, vibraphonist and marimba player Stefon Harris started Blackout, a troupe of music mercenaries adept in the language of jazz, the strut of soul music and the raucous ruckus of breakbeats, go-go and new-jack rhythms.