Cozy up to the fire with trumpeter Chris Botti in December. Putting a creative spin on your favorite tunes, Botti is backed up by a tight band that grooves. A…

Hank Roberts, Wiggy Dog Boy, in "The Truth and Reconciliation Show" is a mishmash of sounds and textures. Once I pushed past the first couple of songs, I did…

The presentation of your image is just as important as the quality of the music. One of the key ways in introducing your new CD to journalists and radio is through the use of a one-page. A one-page serves as a combination press release/bio for the new CD. It tells the world what the music is about and how to contact the artist. If you’re not mailing a one-page with every CD, you are missing a key component in your marketing plan. Journalists and radio stat …

Perhaps no two other artists have played with more jazz legends that pianists Monty Alexander and Les McCann. Born in Jamaica, Alexander would meld ska with traditional jazz to collaborate with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Ray Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Quincy Jones, Natalie Cole, John Pizzarelli, Freddy Cole, Kevin Mahogany and many others. While McCann’s associations with Ray Charles Count Basie, Zoot Sims, Charlie Byrd, Lou Rawls, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Duke Ellington and garnere …

Jazz guitarist Lage Lund, a Norwegian native, lives in NY and has just won first place, a $20,000 award at the 2005 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Guitar Competition, hosted by Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Jr. (Chairman of the Board of the Thelonious Monk Institute) and Billy Dee Williams at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on September 19th. The competition shines a spotlight on the jazz leaders of tomorrow. It has helped to launch the careers of such renown artists as vocalists …