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10/14/2022

Detroit Jazz Festival

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03/23/2022

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01/30/2022

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08/24/2021

08/22/2021

Marcus Elliot's Quintet BROWNIE's TOWN (Marcus Belgrave)

WJZZ Detroit Jazz Radio Entertainment Presents
Detroit Legacy Jazz Series at the St. Regis Hotel Detroit

August 26, 2021, from 6pm to 8pm at the St. Regis Hotel, Presents Marcus Elliot. Purchase tickets NOW, seats are limited, live and live stream seating available. Click this link to purchase a ticket TODAY! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wjzz-detroit-radio-entertainment-jazz-legacy-series-tickets-167829746289

Click to listen to the AMAZING sounds of the Marcus Elliot Quintet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iUnxN-PiHI

BROWNIE's TOWN (Marcus Belgrave)TUE 10/11/2016 - Cliff Bells* Marcus Elliott Quintet * featuring Kasan Belgrave-asMichael Malis-p, Ben Rolsten-b Stephen Boeg...

08/20/2021

WJZZ Detroit Jazz Radio Entertainment Presents
Detroit Legacy Jazz Series at the St. Regis Hotel Detroit

Every Thursday from 6pm to 8pm at the St. Regis Hotel. WJZZ Detroit Jazz Radio: Detroit Legacy Jazz Series spotlights a new jazz artist. This Thursday, August 26, 2021, WJZZ Detroit Jazz Radio presents Marcus Elliot.

Marcus Elliot (Marcus Elliot Miller) is a saxophonist, composer, improviser, and educator based in Detroit, Michigan. Marcus is a 2020 Kresge Artist Fellow, awarded by Kresge Arts in Detroit. His compositions and improvisations have been described by the New York Times as "convincing and confident, evolved in touch and tone...", and the Detroit Free Press has said, "Marcus Elliot represents next generation of jazz".

Available Seating: Table for 2, General and Live Stream

Purchase Tickets at Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wjzz-detroit-radio-entertainment-jazz-legacy-series-tickets-167829746289

08/18/2021

Miles Davis Quintet, Teatro dell'Arte, Milan, Italy, October 11th, 1964 (Colorized)

WJZZ Presents Jazz Legends

Miles Davis 1926-91

The Miles I know is Miles Davis in the late 60s, the Bi***es Brew era. I'd heard of Miles via Herbie Hancock. I was 18, reading Jack Kerouac and beat writers who bang on about jazz all the time, and felt I needed to be challenged musically. That psychedelic inaccessible jazz works at an age when you are working stuff out for yourself. It was like a culture shock in my bedroom. I didn't understand the music, I didn't even like it that much , and yes, I knew there was he**in involved but I didn't know in what way. I just knew I should be listening. It mattered that I'd heard it. And that combined experience of sound and literature felt very exotic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBoHkB92SU0

Autumn Leaves 00:00My Funny Valentine 15:07All Blues 26:33All of You 40:13Joshua 50:47The band:Miles Davis (trumpet), Wayne Shorter (sax), Herbie Hancock (pi...

08/18/2021

THE JAZZ GREATS NAT KING COLE (It's Only a Paper Moon & Sweet Lorraine)

WJZZ Presents Jazz Legends

Nat King Cole 1919-65

By my late teens I was really getting into the singers. Nat King Cole was a household name and I adored his voice but wasn't into the big orchestral pieces. At a record shop this guy handed me a record of him doing Gershwin, Cole Porter, that style, with strings and a piano, and I realized this was the Cole I wanted to emulate. He was an immense talent in his own right as a jazz performer, not just with the big band stuff. I guess I was, by then, a music snob and geek and consciously rejecting obvious, accessible jazz. Listening to Cole's alternative side made me think I was right to be a snob.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RcoUfSAUWs

Nat King Cole (piano & vocals)It's Only a Paper MoonSweet Lorraine

08/18/2021

Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man

WJZZ Presents Jazz Legends

Herbie Hancock 1940-

Herbie Hancock is one of the few jazz pianists who progressed with the times. From fusion funk through to electronic music using synthesizers and toys, he's always been way ahead. It was Head Hunters, the record that fused funk and soul with pop, that I fell in love with. I grew up in the west country with little exposure to jazz and although I wasn't rejecting pop, I knew there was more to music. Through Herbie, electro and drum'n'bass, I developed an understanding of improvisation. I aim to operate somewhere between Herbie and Ben Folds at all times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzPZvKSdN7g

Herbie Hancock explains how he composed Watermelon Man and how Mongo Santamaria influenced it. He then performs both the original 1962 and the 1973 Headhunt...

08/18/2021

Mary Lou Williams at Les Mouches, NYC, 1978 Cabaret Show, Carline Ray

WJZZ Presents Jazz Legends

Mary Lou Williams 1910-81

Mary Lou spanned the entire history of jazz. She started out playing in a swing band and moved every decade into a new arena of music, doing modal stuff in the 70s, and later playing avant garde. I discovered her on a jazz compilation I found in Oxfam. The song was "Zodiac Suite" and I was staggered that she managed to straddle both jazz and classical music. She was one of the few jazz musicians to be accepted by the classical world, and even played in Carnegie Hall with an orchestra. She was a fantastic composer, pianist and mentor and the most important woman in jazz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcLwQn9PDE4

Legendary jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams performs a one-hour cabaret show at Les Mouches in NYC, 1978. Carline Ray, one of the original Sweethearts of Rhyth...

08/18/2021

John Coltrane - Naima (Take 1 / Audio)

WJZZ Presents Jazz Legends:

John Coltrane 1926-67

By 19, I was learning the mathematics of jazz, which is hard for someone with no grasp of math. Coltrane is the master of well-formulated, perfectly composed music. He also played a very spiritual style of jazz. It was almost religious. You could even say he channeled the divine through his sax. It was A Love Supreme from 1965 which I connected with. It took a while, for some reason getting into Coltrane felt like a slow process, but he taught me the basics, so it's no surprise I got into him when I was taking a year out after school to decide what to do with my life. He was my epiphany.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV7RkpFNxmQ

Music video by John Coltrane performing Naima (Take 1 / Audio). © 2019 UMG Recordings, Inc. Check out John Coltrane’s previously unreleased album “Blue World...

08/18/2021

WJZZ Detroit Legacy Jazz Series at the St. Regis Hotel.

Every Thursday from 6pm to 8pm at the St. Regis Hotel. WJZZ Detroit Legacy Jazz Series spotlights a new jazz artist. This Thursday, August 19, 2021 is the Vincent Chandler Quintet. Buy your tickets now seats are limited at Eventbrite, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wjzz-detroit-jazz-radio-ent-presents-detroit-legacy-jazz-series-tickets-163145870691?aff=eand

08/18/2021

WJZZ Presents Jazz Legends:

Charles Mingus 1922-79

Most people know Mingus as a pioneering bass player, but to me he's the most raucous and inventive composer of his era. His music has the energy of a revolution and, indeed, sound tracked many revolutions during the 50s and 60s. I was 15, aware of what was in the charts and flitting between dance music, indie rock and pop, and his particular style of free-form spoke to me as a rejection of the mainstream. There's nothing polite about it, but I responded to his style of dirty jazz tinged with violence in a positive way. It seemed to be the epitome of rebellion, yet educational.

08/09/2021

08/03/2021

Allen Dennard takes jazz into the future

This week's featured Artist at the 2021 Detroit Legacy Jazz Series is Allen Dennard. Right Here ... In Detroit ... at the fabulous, luxurious, historic Hotel Saint Regis Detroit.
https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/allen-dennard-takes-jazz-into-the-future/Content?oid=19038380

NOTE: Click the player at the bottom of the article to sample Allen Dennard.

Twenty-four-year-old trumpeter Allen Dennard has one foot firmly planted in the classic jazz canon. The 2016 graduate of the University of Michigan's School of Music,...

07/25/2021

The ONE Jazz series no “serious” jazz lover would miss. Get your tickets today! You do not want to miss the event premier THIS THURSDAY … August 5th at the completely reimagined Hotel Saint Regis Detroit. If you missed last week, you can make it up this week. Featuring Allen Dennard ... See post below.







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07/19/2021

Jazz and Soul Concerts Are Making Their Way To St. Peter and Paul Jesuit Church!

Jazz and Soul Concerts Are Making Their Way To St. Peter and Paul Jesuit Church!

Tickets 🎫 Ticket for 2 🎫 Ticket for 4 Highlights 🕯️ An intimate ambiance in a beautiful venue bathed in candlelight 🎷 Stunning Jazz music performance by the musicians of Soul Spectacular ✔️ A safe and socially-distanced event, ensuring you are comfortable and at ease General Info ....

07/14/2021

We're thrilled to bring back live, in-person audiences to the 2021 !

Here's the partial line-up of artists you'll see on our bandstands!

👉 https://bit.ly/DJF21Lineup

Dee Dee Bridgewater Herbie Hancock Omar Sosa Music

07/14/2021

Y’all got your outfits ready?!?!👀

I am SOOO geeked for this show!!! 9 ARTISTS!!! 9!!!! And I’m a fan of every single one!

Marcel Stewart and Ian Grant did an AMAZING job curating!‼️

It’s going to be a great show! 🌹

Make sure you register at www.UmojaFineArts.com today to secure your space. 🤗

07/14/2021

The Masonic Will Host Amazing Live Jazz Performances This Summer

The Masonic Will Host Amazing Live Jazz Performances This Summer

Tickets 🎫 Zone A ticket for 2: Main floor (great visibility) 🎫 Zone A ticket for 4: Main floor or Balcony (great visibility) 🎫 Zone B ticket for 2, 3, 4: Main floor (good visibility) Tickets sold by groups to ensure socially distant seating. These performances will have very limited capacit...