Bobby Jackson, a longtime, award-winning jazz broadcaster and educator, died Dec. 9 in Cleveland. Jackson, who was 57, died suddenly of undetermined causes, said his wife of 10 years, Lisa-Jean Sylvia.
Read More…The DC Jazz Festival recently announced that it has been awarded a $40,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of its 2014 Festival, which will take place June 24-29, 2014.
Read More…Hankus Netsky, Chair of NEC’s Contemporary Improvisation Department, cited for being a “mentor (to) generations of Jewish musicians” and “a quiet but powerful force affecting nearly every corner of contemporary Jewish music.”
Read More…A total of 10 music teachers from ten cities across eight states have been announced as finalists for the first annual Music Educator Award(tm) presented by The Recording Academy® and the Grammy Foundation®
Read More…The Juilliard School and Jazz at Lincoln Center recently announced that Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Managing & Artistic Director and a Juilliard alumnus, will become Director of Jazz Studies at Juilliard beginning July 1, 2014.
Read More…The debut release on Jazz on Film Records, French New Wave, kicks off with the first ever film score written by a serious jazz composer: the pianist John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ) on an original recording known under its American cinema release title No Sun in Venice(Sait-on Jamais, 1957).
Read More…Influential saxophonist and flutist Frank Wess, who performed with the Count Basie Orchestra throughout the ’50s and ’60s, died last week in Manhattan at the age of 91.
Read More…The Hollywood Reporter recently released its ranking of “America’s 10 Best Music Schools,” which it builds using a survey of academic and entertainment professionals including composers, arrangers, music supervisors, editors, and engineers.
Read More…Friends of John Coltrane Memorial Concert will present “A Year of Jubilee: the 36th annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert,” with the New England Spiritual Ensemble and the John Coltrane Memorial Concert Ensemble on Saturday, November 23.
Read More…Legendary jazz bassist and Grammy Award-winner Eddie Gómez was awarded an honorary doctor of music degree by Berklee College of Music in Valencia.
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