JAZZTIMES PREMIERES JOEY ALEXANDER’S STRAYHORN TRIBUTE, ‘LUSH LIFE…A LIFETIME LATER
Jazztimes.com has premiered the new video Lush Life…A Lifetime Later (Celebrating Billy Strayhorn’s 100th Birthday) today featuring an interview and in-studio performance by jazz pianist prodigy Joey Alexander. In the Reservoir-produced video, Alexander pays tribute to one of his idols, Billy Strayhorn, by performing one of Strayhorn’s most celebrated pieces (and one of Alexander’s favorites), […]
CONRAD SEWELL’S ‘START AGAIN’ WINS ARIA AWARD FOR ‘SONG OF THE YEAR’
Australian singer-songwriter Conrad Sewell’s hit single “Start Again” took home the top prize for Song Of The Year at the 2015 ARIA Awards, beating out nine other nominees including tracks performed by Iggy Azalea, Sia, and Vance Joy. The Song Of The Year category is only one of four ARIA categories in which winners are […]
BILLY STRAYHORN HONORED BY NYC MTA AND JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER
Photo Credit: Marc Hermann/NYC Transit. This weekend, tributes to famed late jazz composer Billy Strayhorn climaxed as the artist’s 100th birthday passed on the 29th. Of the tributes performed globally, one song was undoubtedly cued again and again: “Take The ‘A’ Train”. With its boisterous horn parts and playful topline melody, “Take The ‘A’ Train” […]