Jazz/Blues
Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra Remember 'All My Yesterdays' on Resonance Records [REVIEW]
Kamasi Washington Brings Buzz and Jazz to New York City
Coming or going, LA based saxophonist Kamasi Washington can do no wrong at the moment. One of the hottest names in jazz at the moment, Washington has put together quite a string of commercial and critical successes that have sent his career rocketing into overdrive. Washington brought the buzz .and the jazz recently back to New York City to showcase to the 1400 gathered what it is and, if it's not, why it should be. New Documentary to Tell Tragic Story of Talented Saxophonist Thomas Chapin
A new documentary, titled Night Bird Song, about the troubled life saxophonist/flutist Thomas Chapin will make its world premiere this month at the Real Art Ways in Hartford, Ct, on March 6 at 2 p.m. and at the SVA Theatre in Manhattan on March 13. Four years in the making, the documentary traces Chapin's ascendency to the top and his crash and the tragedy of his death due to leukemia at the age of 40.
