Results for "Philadelphia"

Inaugural Germantown Jazz Festival to Debut April 25–27, 2025

March 11, 2025

Jazz lovers, mark your calendars! The Germantown Jazz Festival (GJF) is set to make its highly anticipated debut from April 25–27, 2025. In partnership with its lead community partner, Artcinia, the GJF will bring a dynamic three-day celebration of music, art, and culture to the heart of Philadelphia. Festival Lineup Opening Night Concert- Friday, April 25, ...

Unforgettable Bob Perkins’ Backstory: How The Content of His Character Stamped Him In Our Memory

by Victor L. Schermer
February 19, 2025

On Sunday, January 19, 2025, WRTI Jazz Radio icon Bob Perkins passed away in the early hours of the morning, at age 91, at Jefferson Abington Hospital, near where he lived for many years with his wife, Dr. Sheila K. Perkins. He will always be remembered for his decades-long work as a radio broadcaster and as ...

Minas - 40th Anniversary Concert, Cake, and Dance Party in Philadelphia on April 11

February 13, 2025

Orlando and Patricia Haddad invite the public for a concert, cake, and dance party, celebrating 40 impressive years making music in jny: Philadelphia. Known for their Brazilian ensemble Minas, Orlando and Patricia moved to the Philadelphia area from jny: Rio de Janeiro in 1984, where they continued to perform and record while pursuing graduate studies at ...

Ten Terrific Sax Plus Organ Combinations

by Artur Moral
February 12, 2025

OK, maybe the electric guitar was its first and most celebrated love affair, but the organ's alliances with the saxophone's family members are undoubtedly among the richest musical combinations, both in terms of sound and the intense interrelationships that typically develop in such encounters. Whether it be a tenor with a Hammond, a soprano with an ...

Ashley Scott

Ashley Scott is a talented vocalist from Philadelphia, PA has entered 2024 with new single entitled “You Remind Me” with Steal Vybe. Known for international radio charting singles like the 2022 release "Together," the lush ballad "Words" (2016), the groovy "Thought of You" (2021) and "Dance The Night Away" (2020)and his international anthem “Don’t Throw Our Love Away” (2021). He began singing and discovering music at the tender age of 3 from listening and watching is aunt Helen Scott of The Three Degrees and The Delfonics. Ashley continues to release music across the Soul, Jazz, and Dance genres globally.

Kansas City vs Philadelphia: A Super Bowl for Jazz

by Michael Ricci
February 2, 2025

This article was first published on February 13, 2023. Aside from one of the Kelce brothers retiring, it still applies today. We're celebrating Super Bowl LVII with chili, wings, barbecue and... jazz! Two of the most notable jazz cities in the United States square off in this year's big game: jny: Kansas City vs. ...

Doug MacDonald: Santa Monica Session

by Richard J Salvucci
January 15, 2025

Does Doug MacDonald ever sleep? Take a day off? Make a bad recording? Somehow, a listener doubts it. Originally from jny:Philadelphia--home to a few good guitarists, right?--MacDonald moved to jny:Hawaii, jny:Las Vegas, and then to jny:Southern California. His current discography is nothing if not impressive, running to at least three dozen CDs, and MacDonald performs 300 ...

Küf Knotz & Christine Elise: When Hip-Hop Meets Harp

by Lawrence Peryer
December 28, 2024

Today, the Spotlight shines On the duo of songwriter, producer, and MC Küf Knotz and harpist, vocalist, and music therapist Christine Elise. Kuf Knotz & Christine Elise have turned the unlikely harp and hip-hop track combo into pure magic with their album Hypnagogia (Self Produced, 2024). The album explores the space between awake and ...

Deborah Silver

When a legend and icon like Quincy Jones raves about an artist by saying “her strong and sultry vocals are seductive and soul-soothing. Her talent and beauty are equally extraordinary. Whatever she sings she owns, making every note matter! One listen and you know…she is the real deal,” you can be sure music fans everywhere will take notice and wonder just who that artist is.  In this case that would be Mississippi-born, two-time #1 Billboard chart-topping vocalist Deborah Silver.

Deborah Silver has had a string of hit duets with celebrated artists including Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers, Jack Jones, Freddy Cole, Ann Hampton Callaway, and Ray Benson of Asleep At The Wheel. Her upcoming releases include duets with superstars Tony Orlando, Ronnie Millsap, Pam Tillis, Steve Tyrell and Jazz icon Diane Schuur. She is currently at work recording a full album with The Count Basie Orchestra.

Roy Haynes: Still Lighting It Up

by Chris M. Slawecki
November 15, 2024

This article was first published on All About Jazz in June 1997. Drummer Roy Haynes isn't just cool--he's cooooolllll. In conversation, Roy Haynes is languid and relaxed yet full of fire, yet playful, mysterious and serious. Similarly, his music--and he's played alongside the best--is simultaneously passionate and precise, free-swinging and loose, but ...