Berklee College of Music and the Monterey Jazz Festival have announced that award-winning violinist and Adventure Music recording artist Alex Hargreaves is the fourteenth recipient of the Jimmy Lyons Scholarship at Berklee, a major music education prize. The full-tuition scholarship is named in honor of the festival's late founder, James L. (Jimmy) Lyons,who began the festival 53 years ago with jazz education at its core. The Lyons Scholarship is awarded each year to on

CD Release Concerts, as well as Performances by Etkin's Group Kelenia, Scheduled Throughout 2010 Oran Etkin, an internationally acclaimed jazz/world artist and composer whose NYC based music classes for children are endorsed by Harvey Keitel, Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, will release Wake Up Clarinet! on his new Timbalooloo label (September 14, Motema Music/Allegro-NewSound distribution). Coinciding with this release is the launch of Oran Etk

This June, internationally acclaimed jazz group The October Trio will set out to promote their latest CD, (b>Looks Like it’s Going to Snow (Songlines), with the(no more snow) Tour 2010. The band's third release, Looks Like it's Going to Snow once again features the classic sounds of the bass-drums-saxophone combo, this time expanded to include one of Canada’s most honored jazz musicians, Brad Turner, on trumpet and flugelhorn. Reviews have been mo

Oran Etkin, the Israeli-born, New York-based clarinetist whose 2009 Motema Music release, Kelenia, was hailed by the New York Times as "ebullient," and by the All Music Guide as setting "a new standard for world music in the decade of the 2000's," has much to celebrate in the new year. Last week, his critically acclaimed debut recording, Kelenia, was awarded the Independent Music Award for "Best World Beat" CD. The IMA winners, culled fro

Expanding upon the explosive energy, compelling melodies, and stylistic diversity of his previous critically acclaimed album Traveler, Norwegian-born and now LA-based saxophonist Terje Lie ("Terry Lee") is taking a joyful Urban Vacation. Lie's second CD pairs him with contemporary jazz luminaries Jimmy Haslip and Jeff Lorber, and further defines his unique musical vibe best described as "groove jazz." The CD, which is being released on TCat Records, is slated for release on F