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Swingadelic - Simply Jazz Talk
Opera fans might remember “The Three Tenors,” but in the jazz world, there are “The Three Louies”—Armstrong, Jordan, and Prima! On September 21, longtime Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon favorites Swingadelic will return to pay tribute to these three legendary artists with a program guaranteed to put attendees in a good mood. The afternoon will also feature the sensational vocals of Vanessa Perea, who will inhabit the role of Louis Prima’s wives, Keely Smith and Gia Maione.<br/><br/>Swingadelic is a jazz/blues ensemble founded in 1998 by bandleader and bassist Dave Post in Hoboken, NJ. Initially, the band played jump blues in the style of Louis Jordan, Big Joe Turner, and Louis Prima to ride the neo-swing craze, but by 2002, the band was maintaining a residency as an eleven-piece “little big band” at Maxwell’s in Hoboken. As the dance craze waned, the band kept busy with concerts, corporate and casual engagements, and recording. The band now holds down Monday nights at Swing 46 on New York City’s Restaurant Row in the theatre district and has performed at festivals from Maine to Atlanta, including Bele Chere in Asheville, MusikFest in Bethlehem, and Lincoln Center’s Mid-Summer Night Swing.<br/><br/>A few words from the bandleader: “Some years ago, Frank Mulvaney, ex-officio president of the New Jersey Jazz Society, called and asked if we could do a tribute to Louis Prima for the 2012 JazzFest. Since Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan were major influences on Prima, we gave it a bit of thought and got back to Frank saying why not include Armstrong and Jordan, and call it A Tribute to the Three Louie’s due to the current popularity of The Three Tenors. Popular is a key word here. Unlike many of today’s jazz artists, these three great performers produced much of the popular music of their day, and their hits were routinely charted in Billboard. We had a great time learning some of these tunes that were not in our repertoire, and we are sure that for those of a certain age, there will be an enjoyable nostalgia factor.”<br/><br/>Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon is made possible through funding from the Wintrode Family Foundation, the Ocean County College Foundation, and support from the New Jersey Jazz Society.
Cape May Music Festival: Bay Atlantic Symphony “Alpine Jazz Adventure” - Simply Jazz Talk
“Alpine Jazz Adventure”<br/>Celebrity cellist Amit Peled joins the Bay Atlantic Symphony and will play a work he has long championed, the eclectic concerto by Austrian pianist/composer/philosopher Friederich Gulda. The work is for cello and wind orchestra with a jazz rhythm section and bounces between swing and funk, to rustic Austrian folk melodies. It is tuneful and dramatic, with wildly expressive passages. The evening’s program begins with one of the greatest of all wind serenades, by Mozart. The audience will also have the joy of experiencing Mr. Peled’s intensely expressive artistry performing solo Bach.
Saxophonist, Michael Cates is releasing a new single, “77 Hours”, available on all streaming platforms June 2 - Simply Jazz Talk
Featuring, Rob Mullins, Grammy nominated pianist, and mixed by Greg Manning, also a Grammy nominee, “77 Hours”, bridges blues and jazz with exciting performances by Cates and Mullins’ musical interpretation interchanges. If you love the blues, but live for jazz, “77 Hours” is a must add to your playlist. Available on all streaming platforms.https://michaelcates.com Michael […]
Princeton Symphonic Brass Summer Concert with SPECIAL guest soloist - Trumpeter Liesl Whitaker - Simply Jazz Talk
The Princeton Symphonic Brass, under the baton of Lawrence Kursar, will hold its annual Summer Concert on Friday, June 13, 2025, 7:30 PM at the Community Middle School Auditorium, 95 Grovers Mill Road, Plainsboro, New Jersey. This summer's Eve concert features Americana, jazz, pop, and light classical in a beautiful, spacious, state-of-the-art performance space with ample, free parking. <br/><br/>For the first time, we will feature a SPECIAL guest artist - Trumpeter Liesl Whitaker.<br/><br/>Liesl Whitaker joined the Army Blues of The U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own” in 2000, becoming the first woman to win a lead position in a premier U.S. military jazz ensemble. She repeated this feat with the Jazz Ambassadors of The U.S. Army Field Band in 2012. We will feature her as a soloist on several brand-new arrangements crafted for her and the Princeton Symphonic Brass.<br/> <br/>Tickets at https://psbrass.square.site (Adults $20/ Seniors $15/ Kids 16 and under $5) and at the door 30 minutes prior to the event (Adults $22/ Seniors $17/ Kids 16 and under $5)<br/><br/>For further information about the Princeton Symphonic Brass and its members, visit psbrass.com or facebook.com/psbrass.<br/><br/>The Princeton Symphonic Brass is comprised of eleven brass players, two percussionists, and a conductor. This all-star group includes some of the finest musicians from the top musical ensembles near Princeton and has a repertoire spanning from the Renaissance to today.
MATA Festival presents Wadada Leo Smith's The Capitol - Simply Jazz Talk
Night Two of the 27th Annual MATA Festival features the New York premiere of Wadada Leo Smith's String Quartet No. 17 (The Capitol, Washington D.C.: An Experiment With Democracy and Capitalism) which examines the U.S. Capitol building as both a symbol of democracy and insurrection, performed by FLUX Quartet. FLUX Quartet also performs the New York premiere of Roscoe Mitchell's 9/9/99 With CARDS, which Mitchell describes as a “scored improvisation,” in which each player is given six cards with musical notation on them that they can arrange, reshuffle, and perform in different “hands.” Night Two also includes six works by MATA Festival 2025 Early-Career Composers for varying instrumentation – from solo violin to an ensemble of viola, saxophone, and motors – performed by MATA Mavens, TROPOS, and RE:duo.<br/><br/>From June 11-14, 2025, MATA presents its 27th annual festival, featuring four concerts across four nights exploring the concept of INTERGALACTIC INFINITY: Music Between Spaces. Founded in 1996 by Philip Glass, Eleonor Sandresky, and Lisa Bielawa, MATA serves as an incubator for adventurous emerging artists experimenting with composition, multi-media, performance art, and every imaginable sound in between. Its annual MATA Festival has become one of the most sought-after opportunities for young and emerging composers.<br/><br/>Curated by Executive Director Pauline Kim Harris, the 2025 Festival features works by 18 composers in the early stages of their professional careers, selected by Harris and a panel of eight esteemed composers and artists – Titilayo Ayangade, Tom Chiu, Felix Fan, John Glover, Conrad Harris, Max Mandel, Paula Matthusen, and Kal Sugatski – from a free, global call resulting in over 300 submissions.
MATA Festival presents Enter the Impossible featuring Sun Ra Arkestra - Simply Jazz Talk
The 27th annual MATA Festival opens with Jessie Cox’s evening-length opus Enter the Impossible, written for and performed by the unparalleled Sun Ra Arkestra, with FLUX Quartet and Sam Yulsman. Enter the Impossible is imagined as a space flight, journeying through different musical spaces, including many pieces from Sun Ra Arkestra’s large collection of works, such as Say from their recent record Swirling, or the classic Space is the Place, among others. <br/><br/>The concert also includes the world premiere of Cox’s Sound Drape Painting, inspired by Sam Gilliam’s drape paintings and exploring new ways of hearing musical form and movement through the sonic. FLUX Quartet will also perform the New York premiere of jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist Oliver Lake’s One Move as well as the world premiere of MATA Festival 2025 Early-Career Composer Diallo Banks’ Sarmad for string quartet. Sarmad is structured around the concept of yati, a principle in South Indian music that shapes musical phrases through systematic variation.<br/><br/>From June 11-14, 2025, MATA presents its 27th annual festival, featuring four concerts across four nights exploring the concept of INTERGALACTIC INFINITY: Music Between Spaces. Founded in 1996 by Philip Glass, Eleonor Sandresky, and Lisa Bielawa, MATA serves as an incubator for adventurous emerging artists experimenting with composition, multi-media, performance art, and every imaginable sound in between. Its annual MATA Festival has become one of the most sought-after opportunities for young and emerging composers.<br/><br/>Curated by Executive Director Pauline Kim Harris, the 2025 Festival features works by 18 composers in the early stages of their professional careers, selected by Harris and a panel of eight esteemed composers and artists – Titilayo Ayangade, Tom Chiu, Felix Fan, John Glover, Conrad Harris, Max Mandel, Paula Matthusen, and Kal Sugatski – from a free, global call resulting in over 300 submissions.
Chamber Music & Blue Jersey Band - Simply Jazz Talk
Free classical and jazz at the beautiful UU Princeton Channing Hall:<br/><br/>Jason Gallagher, piano, playing pieces by Robert Schumann and Akira Yuyama.<br/><br/>Frank Ruck, guitar, Ellen Ruck, guitar - Blue Jersey Band Duet - playing "The Music and Style of Django Reinhardt".<br/><br/>David Millrod, clarinet, playing Krzysztof Penderecki; then with Nishan Aghababian, piano, playing Robert Schumann.<br/><br/>Nishan Aghababian, piano, playing Isaac Albéniz, Sergei Prokofiev and Frédéric Chopin.<br/><br/>Organized by the Belle Mead Friends of Music
Voices Chorale NJ: Requiem x 2 - Simply Jazz Talk
It will be two times the beauty and two times the excitement when Voices Chorale NJ presents “Requiem x 2”. The concert will showcase two powerful musical settings of the requiem mass: the monumental Mozart Requiem, left incomplete by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1791; and the Requiem by Brazilian composer José Maurício Nunes Garcia, completed in 1816 and inspired by familiarity with Mozart’s masterpiece. Both works will be accompanied by the 21-piece Berks Sinfonietta orchestra. Bonus: A pre-concert talk will be presented by Dr. David McConnell, Voices Chorale NJ Artistic Director, at 3:15pm.
New Music From Jane Handcock – ‘Stingy’ - Simply Jazz Talk
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