Goodbye To 2003
Happy New Year! I wish you the best in 2004. Looking back on 2003 in modern jazz, one phrase sums is up: Trumpeters Gone Wild! It’s the year that Nicholas Payton went fusion with Sonic Trance Roy Hargrove presents Hard…
Celebrating 30 Years Online!
Celebrating 30 Years Online!
John Hilderbrand
Longtime contemporary jazz fan and founder of ContemporaryJazz.com.
New Yellowjackets CD
Though they’ve recorded holiday music for a compilation and with Take 6, the Yellowjackets have never released an album of Christmas music. Get into the spirit early with Peace Round: A Christmas Celebration which will only be available from the…
Ndegeocello Jazz Recording, Soulive and More News
Spike Lee will direct the first video by Lizz Wright from her debut CD Salt. It happens to be my favorite song on the recording too “Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly” Meshell Ndegeocello will release a jazz album on…
Dance to Metheny
This morning, I heard something familiar yet different. Nick Holder remixed Pat Metheny’s “Slip Away” classic into a danceable, electronica version called “Summer Daze”. The original single is out of print, but you can still get listen to the music without…
Jaco Pastorius Big Band Coming This Summer
There’s been no shortage of Jaco Pastorius mentions lately. There was Brian Bromberg’s Jaco, Weather Report’s Live and Unreleased, and this week’s two-disc Punk Jazz: The Jaco Pastorius Anthology. Coming in August is the Jaco Pastorius Big Band, produced and…