Jazz/Blues
David Bowie Premieres "Lazarus" Single From Upcoming Jazz Album 'Blackstar'
Charlie Parker's 'Yardbird' Opera to Sing Again at the Apollo in New York City
Charlie "Yardbird" Parker and the biographical opera about his life, "Yardbird," are set to sing again. It's been announced by Opera Philadelphia will take its jazz production across the way to New York's Apollo Theater on April 1 and 3. NRBQ's Terry Adams Gets His Band to `Talk Thelonious' on New Monk Tribute (REVIEW)
The first Thelonious Monk composition that NRBQ pianist/founder Terry Adams, 67, ever heard was "Off Minor." It was the early 1960s and it blew his mind. Adams had been figuring out that age-old I-IV-V blues progression. He had never heard anything like Monk! It started a lifelong fascination that has now culminated in 'Talk Thelonious' by Adams and his NRBQ band-mates on vinyl (Euclid Records) and CD (Clang! via Burnside Distribution).
