Don Was: Our Goal At Blue Note Is To Not Make Any Shitty Records

You’ll love Blue Note Records. I don’t need for you to believe me, because I already know that it’s true. Now, you’re probably asking yourself, “Who is this guy? He doesn’t know me.” And to that, I would have to agree. I don’t know you, personally. But, I do know …

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Dianne Reeves: My Beautiful Life and Music

Dianne Reeves is a four-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer whose critically acclaimed body of work has spanned across three decades. To date, Reeves has delivered nineteen albums, including the soon-to-be released, Beautiful Life. Beyond her solo endeavors, she has lent her talents to myriad projects, ranging from George Duke’s From …

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Dianne Reeves Set to Release Beautiful Life

One of the preeminent female jazz vocalists in the world, Dianne Reeves, is set to release her Concord Records debut, Beautiful Life, on February 11, 2014. The album showcases Reeves’ sublime gifts by melding elements of R&B, Latin and pop within the framework of 21st Century jazz. “At its essence,” …

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Jose James: The Evolution of Jazz

In the beginning there was jazz. A deviation from the conservative pathway of European musical tropes, jazz was America’s original counterculture. Largely defined by the ingenuity of its artist, it found structure in a lack thereof, improvisation its blueprint. With such an inherent flexibility, jazz engaged many a strange bedfellow, …

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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.

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iRock Jazz LIVE with Dr. Watkins, The Jazz & Democracy Project® Founder

The Jazz & Democracy Project® manifests a hypothesis that Wesley J. Watkins, IV, Ph.D. has been investigating since he was an undergraduate: a music-centered curriculum with genuine links to the other subject areas can increase student identification with school, impact academic engagement, and have a subsequent positive effect on overall academic …

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iRock LIVE! with Trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis

Delfeayo Marsalis is one of the top trombonists, composers and producers in jazz today. Known for his “technical excellence, inventive mind and frequent touches of humor…” (Leonard Feather, Los Angeles Times), he is “…one of the best, most imaginative and musical of the trombonists of his generation.” (Philip Elwood, San Francisco Examiner.) In …

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Gregory Porter: The Voice of a New Generation

Jazz is timeless, ageless, and limitless, yet there is a box people try to put the music, its musicians and singers in. Gregory Porter is like jazz, timeless and limitless however, his voice transcends what we hear today. It’s a classic – like Nat King Cole or Billy Eckstine. There …

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Gregory Porter Singing it With Understanding

Jazz vocalist, song writer and Broadway actor Gregory Porter’s voice is considered a major instrument in the art of jazz. He is a regular performer at Jazz at Lincoln Center. His debut album Water, received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Jazz Vocal and his sophomore album “Be Good” was …

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Gregory Porter Singing it With Understanding

Jazz vocalist, song writer and Broadway actor Gregory Porter’s voice is considered a major instrument in the art of jazz. He is a regular performer at Jazz at Lincoln Center. His debut album Water, received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Jazz Vocal and his sophomore album “Be Good” was …

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Gregory Porter: My Love of Jazz

Jazz vocalist, song writer and Broadway actor Gregory Porter’s voice is considered a major instrument in the art of jazz. He is a regular performer at Jazz at Lincoln Center. His debut album Water, received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Jazz Vocal and his sophomore album Be Good was …

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Live Review: Wynton Marsalis’ “Blood on the Fields” at Jazz at Lincoln Center

Wynton Marsalis conducts the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performing “Blood on the Fields” At its best and most pure, music is three dimensional. Vivaldi proved it with his piece “The Four Seasons.” George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” did as well, along with Curtis Mayfield’s Superfly and Quincy Jones’ Walking …

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