Advice from the Classroom to the Bandstand
Victor Goines is a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist. Goines talks about performing with this former students, dressing for the bandstand and taking care of your music business.
iRock Jazz Partners with Concord Music Group on Jazz Discovery App for Spotify
iRock Jazz provides music recommendations for Stylus, the first jazz discovery application for Spotify Stylus™, a music application specially designed for leading music streaming service Spotify, premiered as a fun, easy and exciting way for listeners to explore and discover the best of classic and contemporary jazz from among an …
Hear Great Advice from Musicians for Musicians
Hear Roy Hargrove, Terence Blanchard, Poncho Sanchez, Wallace Roney, Gregory Porter and Kenny Barron talk about what it takes to make in the music business.
Derrick Hodge: My Church Roots to Career Sacrifices
Derrick Hodge fell in love with the electric bass when he was seven at Beulah Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and has never looked back. He continued developing his talent at Temple University, and while touring with Jill Scott. He has collaborated on over fifty albums with other artists such as …
Gary Bartz: Talks About Drug Use Among Jazz Greats
Grammy Award winning jazz saxophonist Gary Bartz first came to New York In 1958 to attend the Julliard Conservatory of Music. Just 17 years old, Gary couldn’t wait to come to the city to play and learn. “It was a very good time for the music in New York, at …
iRock Jazz LIVE! with Pianist Helen Sung
Winner of the Kennedy Center’s Mary Lou Williams Jazz Piano Competition and named by Wynton Marsalis as one of his 2011 “Who’s Got Next: Jazz Musicians to Watch,” pianist-composer Helen Sung is blazing her own path – as an Asian-American artist, she bridges diverse worlds with a singular vision and …
iRock Jazz LIVE! with Trumpeter Christian Scott
When trumpeter Christian Scott was growing up in New Orleans in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, his grandfather gave him and his brother Kiel extra reading assignments each week as a supplement to their assigned schoolwork. If the young students failed to finish their books within the week, their …
iRock Jazz Live! with Pianist Orrin Evans
Two time Grammy nominee and Pew Fellow, Orrin Evans has been recognized as one of the most distinctive and inventive pianists of his generation. In a short span of time Orrin has earned the titles of pianist, composer, bandleader, teacher, producer and arranger. The New York Times described the pianist …
iRock Jazz LIVE! with Afro Cuban Pianist Aruan Ortiz
Aruán Ortiz is a critically acclaimed Cuban pianist, an award-winning composer, and a solid producer and educator, not only on the New York City scene, but internationally as well. Named “the latest Cuban wunderkind to arrive in the United States” by BET Jazz, this classically trained violist and pianist from …
CD Review: Gerald Clayton’s Life Forum
Like a counterfeit copy of Sonny’s Crib (Sonny Clark) or Cornbread (Lee Morgan), jazz clubs are filled with performances that often times feel formulaic. The equation goes something like this: A+B+C+A= a diverse and dynamically/emotionally engaging performance A = A real swinger, something to show the audience how fast the …
Gerald Clayton – Keeping an Open Mind
iRockJazz caught Gerald Clayton in Chicago to discussed trends in Jazz, his early influences, the proper mindset for approaching Jazz today and being honest with the music by keeping an open mind.
Gerald Clayton: No Place like Home pt. 1
We have all at one time or the other heard the cliché “home is where the heart is”. The commonly used phrase as poignant as it is trite is a genius assertion because it invites us to search our heart to find our “home” and its open ended nature demands …