Jazz FM’s Love Supreme Festival returned for a third triumphant year this weekend, and as a reveller at all three I’m bold enough to declare it just keeps getting bigger and better.
By Nicola Greenbrook
Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour |Ferguson Center
The Monterey Jazz Festival is the longest, continuously running jazz festival in the world (b. 1958).
Composer Terence Blanchard transformed anger, hurt and despair after Katrina into Grammy-winning album |The New Orleans Advocate
For Terence Blanchard, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans are not over.
Two weeks ago, Blanchard helped his mother move back into her restored home in Pontchartrain Park that she was forced to abandon for 10 years.
By Mark Guarino
Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective: Breathless |The Urban Music Scene
From a musician who did not take his musical chops seriously until high school, Terence Blanchard eventually fed off his surroundings of New Orleans, a city that breathes blues, Dixieland, funk and is home to The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. N.O.C.C.A. was the breeding ground for this thinking man’s musician whose film compositions for Spike Lee and flexible musical language (Latin jazz, swing, bop) has sparked his career since his early days with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and the (Donald) Harrison/Blanchard Group.
By Peggy Oliver
Heart of rock ‘n roll: Strange ways jazz slips into top 40 |AXS
New Orleans jazz-fusion trumpeter and composerTerence Blanchard and his new E-Collective released more than a social statement on May 26 with the 13-track Breathless. They also showed once again how jazz informs a breadth of musicality across genres.
The Movie Music of Spike Lee & Terence Blanchard | Jazz Roots
The 2015-2016 eighth anniversary JAZZ ROOTS season kicks off with a spectacular concert exploring the movies of director Spike Lee and the memorable scores of TERENCE BLANCHARD. BLANCHARD is an internationally renowned jazz trumpeter, has over 50 film scores to his credit and is the most prolific jazz musician to ever compose for movies.
Using Music to Underscore Three Words: I Can’t Breathe |Medium Cuepoint
Inspired by Miles, Coltrane and Hendrix, we offer a ‘Breathless’ effort towards truth in music
Preview: Joy of Jazz, South Africa |Jazz Journal
Jazz Journal’s South Africa correspondent Don Albert previews the jazz festival that has grown from local to international stature and this year includes the UK’s Matthew Halsall
By Mantwa Chinoamadi
Dr. John’s day trip to the new Saints stadium in St. Paul |Star Tribune
The famed Night Tripper christens St. Paul’s new ballpark after reworking Satchmo on record.
Entertainment Roundup & Coming Sunday in Community |Bristol Herald Courier
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