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The festival, organized by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center has been a fall gathering of musicians and audiences held at various Newark venues since 2012. [3] Jazz musician Christian McBride oversees and curates the event. [4] The festival is named for jazz saxophonist James Moody. [5]
Now Joy is following a 2024 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance with a sold-out festival kick-off event at this year’s Savannah Music Festival. Female jazz vocals and bygone-era standards are ...
Top Vocal Album, NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll 2014, WomanChild, Female Vocalist of the Year, 2015, Jazz Journalists Association; Top Vocal Album, NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll 2015, For One to Love; Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album 2016, For One to Love; Paul Acket Award 2016; Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album 2018, Dreams and Daggers
One nice spring day in May 2024, trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire and his band—a distinctive lineup of pianist Sam Harris, drummer Justin Brown, synthesizer player Chiquitamagic, rapper ...
April 14 – First day of Coachella 2023, a two weekend event, occurs.Jazz musicians in attendance are The Comet is Coming and Domi and JD Beck [4]; April 15 – After 8 years, British band GoGo Penguin's contract with Blue Note Records ends, and the band switches to XXIM Records, a record label more typically associated with neoclassical music and progressive electronic music.
Eastwood, best known for his legendary work in Hollywood as an actor, writer, director and producer with four Academy Award wins, sits on the Monterey Jazz Festival's board of directors, according ...
Nicole is the only person or female, as of 2024, to have ever won Best Jazz Vocal album for a recording completely written and arranged by the artist herself. [ 18 ] In 2020, Broadway World nominated Zuraitis for five Cabaret Awards.
Cassandra Wilson (born December 4, 1955) is an American jazz singer, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. [1] She is one of the most successful female jazz singers and has been described by critic Gary Giddins [2] as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating blues, country, and folk music into her work.