p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060; min-height: 14.0px} In the history of music, there have been many first ladies but only one is called "The First Lady of Song" and that's the great Ella Fitzgerald. The Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra featuring vocalist Adia Dobbins will celebrate Ella's repertoire at the Redmoor in Mt. Lookout on Nov. 15. Adia along with bassist Aaron Jacobs perform a sample. The Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra (CCJO) is a 17-member ensemble dedicated to performing, preserving, and teaching Jazz as a living art form. Founded by University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music professor Scott Belck, its members are some of the preeminent Jazz artists and educators in the nation, all of whom have deep ties to the greater Cincinnati music education community. The ensemble explores the works of contemporary composers as well as those of the masters of the Jazz heritage, including Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis and Gil Evans. ? The members of the CCJO have performed, toured and/or recorded with many of the top names in the jazz and commercial music industry. These include Ray Charles, the Woody Herman Orchestra, Manhattan Transfer, Wynton Marsalis, Michael Feinstein, Fred Hersch, Conrad Herwig, the Temptations, Arturo Sandoval, Tony Bennett, the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Bootsy Collins, Clark Terry, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. As educators, nearly all of the ensemble members serve on the music faculties of prominent university music schools, including: Miami University, Capital University, Northern Kentucky University, Butler University, Xavier University, the University of Dayton and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. The CCJO is led by artistic director Rob Parton, associate professor of trumpet at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Scott Belck serves as ensemble artistic director emeritus. The CCJO is the proud winner of the 2016 CityBeat Cincinnati Entertainment Award in the Jazz category. The CCJO believes in the power of music to transform lives for the better and seeks to bring the beauty and elegance of Jazz to students and audiences alike. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} WATCH THE LOCAL12 VIDEO

 

Silva Screen Records releases London Music Works's The Nativity: Cinematic Christmas Carols, an electrifying Christmas offering; bringing the sound of Hollywood blockbuster to well loved seasonal favourites. The album includes traditional Christmas Carols arranged in a dramatic, orchestral and cinematic style, using both electronic arrangements and a full size classical orchestra. Introducing a potent mix of film, TV and trailer soundtrack composers and arrangers this album gives the best-loved Christmas songs a sonic makeover... An essential Christmas album that no household should be without. READ THE FULL Review Graveyard ARTICLE p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060; min-height: 14.0px} p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060; min-height: 14.0px}

 

A little bit Celtic, a little bit rock and roll, a little bit classical, a little bit world music, and a lotta schmaltz and you get the idea behind 2Cellos, the duo of youthful, sexy Croatians Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser. who put their skillful playing behind revamps and remakes of a wide array of genres. Sony Classical got behind them following the pair's YouTube sensation updating Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal." The rest since 2010 is arena-filling history. This is the type of instrumental classical crossover music that could easily be the soundtrack for an Irish dancing show or the latest Cirque extravaganza. For Let There Be Cello, the classically trained cellists know their audience: Those adoring screaming, swooning fans who love a gorgeous melody but probably would never set foot in a concert hall. Just as they have done for their past four releases, 2Cellos gives us movie themes (Pirates of the Caribbean; Rocky), classic pop (Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"; John Lennon's "Imagine"), classical ("Vivaldi Storm"), and original compositions. They set their strings afire while the backgrounds sound as if Vangelis were the music arranger. Torrid and fervent, the boys aren't going for mere lush romanticism here - they dig in with tons of passion as if to ignite the ardor of tens of thousands of fans at a football stadium. Some of it works alright, some of it is way overblown. They may be out to reinvent music, but these David Copperfields of the cello world aren't even slightly interested in reinventing their own conventions. SEE THE STAGEANDCINEMA PAGE

 

Violinist Rachel Barton Pine, Cedille Records' best-selling artist and longtime advocate for music by Black composers, performs a program of blues-influenced classical works for solo violin and violin and piano by Black composers of the 20th and 21st centuries on Blues Dialogues: Music by Black Composers, her newest Cedille Records album. Pianist Matthew Hagle, Pine's longtime recital partner, joins her on their third album together on Cedille and Pine's 21st for the Chicago-based label. 'Blues Dialogues' features several world-premiere recordings: Noel Da Costa's A Set of Dance Tunes for Solo Violin, Dolores White's expanded, four-movement version of her Blues Dialogues for solo violin, and Billy Childs's Incident on Larpenteur Avenue, a single-movement violin sonata exploring the events and impact of the 2016 killing of Philando Castile by a Minnesota police officer. Rachel Barton Pine - Blues Dialogues is WUOL: Louisville 'Featured Album.' SEE THE PAGE

 

The 2019 edition of Knoxville, TN's unique Big Ears Festival has now announced its full lineup, which now includes This Is Not This Heat, Avey Tare, Béla Fleck, Mountain Man, Punch Brothers, serpentwithfeet, Gabriel Kahane, Moor Mother, and more. They join the previously announced lineup of Spiritualized, Richard Thompson, Bill Frisell, Jlin, Mercury Rev, The Messthetics, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sons of Kemet, Jlin, Vijay Iyer, Meredith Monk, Nils Frahm, Lonnie Holley, Yves Tumor, and more. Among this year's special programming: Bryce Dessner‘s Robert Mapplethorpe tribute, Triptych featuring A Roomful of Teeth; composer and ambient icon Harold Budd will present three concerts and three world premieres; Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi present the second-ever concert of "Lucy Negro Redux," a collaboration with the Nashville Ballet and poet Caroline Randall Williams; and there's a spotlight on groundbreaking women featuring Joan La Barbara, Kim Kashkashian, Rachel Grimes, Nicole Mitchell, Clarice Jensen, Kara-Lis Coverdale, plus "The Music Of Ashley Fure * Ellen Reid * Anna Thorvaldsdottir and more. SEE THE FULL LINEUP via BrooklynVegan

 

In this period of transition and re-assessment about race, culture, and gender in our social and political worlds, it is  critical to have a genuine appreciation for the nuanced complexity of the diverse currents in the artistic world as well. As the heading above my reviews indicates ("Jazz/Not Jazz"), I espouse the view that genre classification limits our understanding and appreciation of the peripatetic nature of  human experience. Rachel Barton Pine is a renowned classical violinist. She also plays covers of Metallica. She is a middle-aged white woman. Stop. Think about the picture in your head. Discard it. She is a  authentic musician dedicated to craft and to the exposition of the human condition. As a person who gives to the world, she is and for quite a while has been, a resolute champion of the under appreciated contributions of black composers. The Rachel Barton Pine Foundation devotes time and energy to research on their contributions. It also supports,in various ways, young musicians around the world. This is an essential document for our times. READ THE FULL KUCI: Irvine CA ARTICLE

 

JEFF Goldblum has made a jazz album. Yes, you've read that correctly. Before you dismiss it as another celebrity vanity project, the Jurassic Park star plays a mean jazz piano, having tinkled the keys since he was 10. Goldblum's suave personality also oozes all over The Capitol Studios Sessions, which was recorded live with his backing band The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra. It's there in his cheeky flirting with ex-American Idol contestant Haley Reinhart, who performs My Baby Cares For Me and with comedian Sarah Silverman, who Goldblum describes as "the most beautiful Amy Winehouse." Goldblum and Silverman's duet of Me And My Shadow might lack polish, but it's great fun. That's the story of Goldblum's album, riotous fun. SEE THE NEWCASTLE HERALD PAGE p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060; min-height: 14.0px}