After six months of performances with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis, Sean Jones has announced that he has decided to accept the esteemed ensemble’s offer to become a permanent member as lead trumpet player. "It is a great honor and privilege to perform with musicians of this caliber and diversity. I have learned a great deal from Wynton as well as from the rest of the band and I look forward to performing and learning much more from them in the future," says Jones …

Songlines Recordings, home to such critically acclaimed cutting edge jazz/new music artists as Jerry Granelli, Michael Blake, James Carney, Benoît Delbecq and Ryan Blotnick, recently opened a store at HDTracks.com. Since 2001, Songlines has released almost all of its music as hybrid SACDs. Now, thanks to the innovative technology that powers HD Tracks, the same audiophile listeners who turned to Songlines SACDs for high quality sound and music will be able to downlo

While 2008 marked the "official" 50th anniversary of the bossa nova a style first recorded in Brazil by guitarist João Gilberto on the 1958 song "Chega de Saudade"(No More Blues) - 2009 marks yet another key anniversary: the 50th anniversary of the release of Gilberto’s genre defining debut LP, also titled Chega de Saudade, with which he widely popularized and in many ways epitomized the emerging bossa style with his distinctive guitar styling, soft, almost whispered voc

Motéma Music & Concertino Productions invite you to a very special evening of acoustic music on June 9th at the Concertino studio featuring the world premiere of the exciting new jazz/world music duo: Jana Herzen & Charnett Moffett Motéma founder, president and recording artist Jana Herzen and Motéma recording artist Charnett Moffett will proudly celebrate the completion of their new CD, Here With You, with their debut performance at one of New York City's most acoustically perfect ve

Seductive, lush and emotive, the music of Anders Holst has drawn accolades fromfellow musicians such as Quincy Jones, and has earned him such critical kudos as"Anders Holst is a regal contender to become the new crowned prince of contemporaryromantic music...." (Billboard magazine) and "The Sting of Stockholm is back and thistime he's singing about love. Holst sings like a man comfortable in his own skin." (All About Jazz) On July 2, the Swedish-born, New York City-based Ho