Photo by Jens Thekkeveettil/on Unsplash Six jazz clubs will host the first-ever East Coast Jazz Festival, a virtual event, on March 20.
Several jazz clubs on the East Coast, including Chris Jazz Cafe in Philadelphia, have worked together to create a virtual festival that will take place on Saturday, March 20, from 5 to 11 p.m.
In addition to the Philly club, which has been continuously operating for 32 years, Scullers Jazz Club in Boston, Smalls Jazz Club and Birdland Jazz Club in New York, Keystone Korner in Baltimore and Blues Alley in Washington, D.C. are participating.
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Surrounded by snow and ice, against the backdrop of the Manhattan skyline and the East River, members of a dance troupe launched into their ballet exercises using a hand rail as a makeshift barre.
With coronavirus still very much a threat in New York, and the city’s theatres and performance venues closed and no return date yet set, some musicians, dancers and actors are going to extreme lengths to continue rehearsing, training and performing outdoors, despite the wintry conditions.
At the Phoebe Berglund Dance Troupe (PBDT) class this week, dressed in hats, boots, double coats, matching ballet skirts and embroidered face masks, the professional dancers braved freezing temperatures to train and rehearse new work on the Williamsburg waterfront in Brooklyn.
Baltimore jazz club Keystone Korner launches fundraiser with support from artists like Carlos Santana bizjournals.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bizjournals.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Updated: 3:41 PM EST Dec 28, 2020 Amanda Yeager Baltimore Business Journal Some notable musical names are rallying around a Baltimore jazz club s effort to survive the coronavirus.Guitar legend Carlos Santana, renowned drummer Cindy Blackman Santana and veteran saxophonist Benny Golson are among the artists calling for donations to support Keystone Korner, a Harbor East jazz venue and restaurant. The club launched an online fundraising campaign in November, with a goal of raising $250,000 to tide over its staff and performing artists during the pandemic.In quotes posted to the campaign s GoFundMe page, the musicians said the year-and-a-half-old club is a vital gathering place, a creation portal and a beacon of great cultural significance. Read the full story from our media partners in the Baltimore Business Journal.
Stanley Cowell, versatile and innovative jazz pianist, dies at 79
Matt Schudel, The Washington Post
Dec. 20, 2020
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Stanley Cowell, a jazz pianist of remarkable virtuosity and range, whose music borrowed from his interest in African, classical and experimental styles while remaining in the mainstream tradition, died Dec. 17 at a hospital in Dover, Del. He was 79.
The cause was hypovolemic shock, a sudden loss of blood and other vital fluids, said his wife, Sylvia Cowell.
Cowell, who had homes in Upper Marlboro, Md., and Camden, Del., expanded the vocabulary of jazz with an approach that was simultaneously cerebral and earthy. He had more than 30 recordings as a leader and appeared on recordings and in performance with countless major jazz figures.